Void Whale[2]
Void Whales are gargantuan warp-spawned entities nearly twelve thousand miles long which swim across the blackness of space, sometimes also navigating the unnatural tides of the Warp. Void Whales are large enough to maintain ecosystems of parasitic creatures including the bipedal piscene Remora and the wormlike Cruevar.[1] Void Whales corpses are valued by the Leagues of Votann as mining sites, and can maintain multi-year digs.[3a]
Notable Examples
- The Farmarket, a marketplace of exchange from many Xenos species, was maintained by the Trans-Hyperian Alliance above the dig-site of a Void Whale corpse.[3a] The Void Whale corpse upon which the Farmarket was situated was plagued by parasites known as Cruevar, which would occasionally emerge and destabilize the structure before a Kin force could remove them.[3b]
- In 877.M41, a hideously mutated Void Whale emerged from the Warp Gate of Sloth and was destroyed by a boarding party of Space Wolves led by Engir Krakendoom before it could devour the astral stronghold of Perillia. Battling their way through the frond-forests and gill-chasms of bipedal vampiric Remora, Engir and his Wolves planted thermal charges deep within the creature's vital organs and escaped before it exploded. The Perillian Gas Belt was born from its remains.[1]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition), pg. 19
- 2: Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook, pg. 162
- 3: Voidscarred (Novel)