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[[Image:Kryptman.jpg|thumb|right|Inquisitor Kryptman by [[John Blanche]]]]

'''Fidus Kryptman'''{{Fn|6}} is an [[Inquisitor Lord]] of the [[Ordo Xenos]]{{Fn|2}}, also known as the '''Hero of the [[Macharian Heresy]]'''. He is best known for being the first to formally recognise the [[Tyranid]] threat to the [[Galaxy]] and has fought in all three major [[Tyrannic Wars]].{{Fn|1}}

{{Main|Behemoth }}

Upon coming across the recently ruined [[Dead World]] of [[Tyran]], Kryptman uncovered a protected data-codex and learnt about the unknown, cataclysmic alien race which had destroyed the world. After the planet Tyran, he gave the new alien threat the designation "Tyranids".{{Fn|4}}

After one of the two tendrils of [[Leviathan]] was destroyed on [[Tarsis Ultra]], contact was reestablished with the worlds between the two tendrils of Leviathan, which previously had been smothered by the [[Shadow in the Warp]]. This made Kryptman aware of the fall of numerous worlds within this region, each one swelling the ranks of the [[hive fleet]]. With a grim determination, Kryptman began exterminating worlds in Leviathan's path, creating a galactic cordon. Any world within this cordon would undergo [[Exterminatus]] as soon as the [[Tyranids]] invaded, the [[virus bombs]] destroying all life on the planet. This would cause the Hive Fleet to expend large amounts of resources to invade a planet, resources that would then be lost with the planet's destruction. Billions died, in the largest act of genocide the Imperium has faced since the [[Horus Heresy]]. As a result, Kryptman was declared a traitor, a fool and a radical, and a [[Carta Extremis]] was issued for him, stripping Kryptman of his title and condemning him to death, should he be apprehended. However, these harsh measures slowed Leviathan's advance to a crawl.{{Fn|3}}

{{Main|Octarius War}}

Kryptman observed the war between [[Tyranids]] and [[Orks]] on the world of [[Tesla Prime]], where these two enemies of the Imperium locked each other in a long and bloody conflict. Seeing this as a way to slow or halt Leviathan without further loss of human life, Kryptman and a [[Deathwatch]] team loyal to him embarked on a dangerous mission on the planet of [[Carpathia]] to capture a brood of live [[genestealer]]s. At the cost of many Deathwatch lives, the genestealers were placed in a [[stasis field]] and then unleashed in the [[space hulk]] ''Perdition's Flame.'' The Deathwatch and Kryptman then detonated a nearby moon, sending the hulk hurtling into the [[Ork Empire of Octarius]]. The genestealers quickly infected the Orks that attempted to raid the space hulk, causing the infection to flourish and quickly reach all corners of Octavius. Soon the psychic signature of the genestealers was strong enough to attract the second tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan, causing it to veer away from Imperial space. Leviathan is currently engaged in a protracted war with the Orks.{{Fn|3}}

However, Kryptman seems to have overlooked the fact that whichever side emerges victorious from the Octarius War will surely be far more powerful than they were before{{Fn|3}} — a fact which left the [[Ordo Xenos]] with ''"an unholy mess to clean up"'' well into [[M42]].{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|5}}

*[[Tyranid Quotes#K|Tyranid Quotes]]

==Sources==

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*{{Endn|1}}: [[The Inquisition (Background Book)]], {{Cite This}}

*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (4th Edition)]], {{Cite This}}

*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]], pgs. 8–9

*{{Endn|6}}: [[Fearful Symmetries (Short Story)]]

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