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:{| border<gallery mode="0packed" cellpaddingheights="3250" align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"!colspan=9 ||---->| [[Image:Trygon.jpg|thumb|center|225px|Trygon (5th edition), based on the Forge World sculpt but adapted by [[Aly Morrison]] and [[Tom Walton]] {{Fn|2}}]]| [[Image:Tyranid Trygon.jpg|thumb|center|Trygon from [[Forge World]], sculpted by [[Simon Egan]] {{Fn|2}}]]|}</gallery>
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A Trygon is a monstrous serpentine species of Tyranid capable of tunneling through just about any material - carving out underground tunnels that can be used by other Tyranid creatures to bypass enemy lines. For the enemies of a Trygon, an attack from below is incredibly hard to detect and even harder to defend against. The emergence of a Trygon will often herald a larger Tyranid attack as hordes of smaller creatures pour out after it using the freshly created tunnel.{{Fn|1}} It appears that Trygons use their bio-static charge to assist with tunnelling, as their tunnels have been found coated with a fused, glass-like silicate layer on the inside. This effect stabilises the tunnel walls and prevents them from collapsing behind a burrowing Trygon.{{Fn|4}}
Trygons have also been known to dig deadfall traps by leaving a thin crust over a deep conical hole. Sufficient weight in troops and armour will collapse the roof of the sinkhole and deposit the victims into the Trygon’s waiting claws. A Trygon’s greatest weakness is probably that it can be baited or misdirected while burrowing by the first tasty morsel to cross its path.{{Fn|4}}
A Trygon is also heavily armoured in shifting carapace plates that generate a bio-static charge as the creature moves. Known as a '''Bio-Electric Pulse'''{{Fn|1}}, this energy can be channeled into a sudden powerful arc that is strong enough to kill by exhaling an ionised spray from its gills.{{Fn|1}}
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|Tyranicus subterra-extremis
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==Related Articles==
*[[Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Project]]
{{Tyranid5E}}[[Category:Troops (Tyranids)]][[Category:Gargantuan Creatures]]
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