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{{TyranidsPortal}}[[Image:Tyranid Rippers2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|a A Tyranid Ripper swarm devouring a Guardsman]]__TOC__'''Rippers''' are a small, slug-like [[species of Tyranid]] used in [[Tyranid]] planetary invasions to consume all the biological material they can. They are completely instinctual creatures, grouped into swarms which traverse the planet during the final stages of an invasion, ingesting all biological material on the planet as part of the whole Tyranid consumption process. In the final phases of a Tyranid invasion, billions of Rippers are released over the planet. They move across its surface multiplying and consuming every living thing, leaving an empty and desolate wasteland. They are highly ravenous and in great numbers they can pull down and consume creatures many times their own size.

Swarms can act independently'''Rippers''' are small, but within a maggot-like species of [[Synapse CreatureTyranid]]'s proximity which serve as the primary means of devouring bio-mass from a planet. They are the most numerous of control Tyranid creatures, and in great swarms they can pull down and consume creatures many times their own size. However they are under the completely mindless and will of perish if they lose a [[Synapse Creature|synaptic link]] with the Fleet's [[Hive Mind]] and can be used in battle.¹

They show surprising mutability. It is speculated that Rippers are During the final stages of a larval form planetary invasion, they scour the entirety of Tyranida planet ingesting all biological material on the planet and leaving only an empty and desolate wasteland. Eventually, the Rippers will become bloated full of biomass, unfit for combat. At this point, they simply crawl into the [[Reclamation Pool|reclamation pool]]s were they and the bio-mass they're fed upon are broken down and to their own demiseabsorbed by the [[Hive Fleet]].¹

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