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Image:T5EHiveTyrant.jpg|A '''Hive Tyrant''' battling [[Orks]]{{Fn|1a}}
Image:HiveTyrant2nd.jpg|2nd Edition Hive Tyrant with Venom Cannon
Image:Tyranid Hive Tyrant Forgeworld 1.jpg|Winged Hive Tyrant from Forge World
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Hive Tyrants appear to be either a more complex and highly evolved form of [[Tyranid Warrior]], or else they evolved from a completely different and higher genus. Some [[Imperial]] techno-magi believe that Hive Tyrants are the consort-minds of the [[Norn-Queen]] that forms the repository of the [[Hive Fleet]]'s own collective consciousness, which would mean they completely embody the Hive Mind, but their destruction would not diminish it in any way.{{Fn|5}}
==Variants==
===Neurotyrant===
The Neurotyrant is a support-focused creature. It hovers across terrain much like a [[Zoanthrope]], though unlike their smaller cousins they sport a multitude of thrashing tendrils to whip at anything within reach. Its giant brain exists to focus the mental powers of the Tyranids, increasing the psychic pressure exerted by the Shadow in the Warp while simultaneously relaying the critical synapse network to less developed creatures. {{Fn|9}}
==Basic Info==
==Images==
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Image:Tyranid Hive Tyrant 2nd Edition 1.jpg|2nd Edition Hive Tyrant with Barbed Strangler
Image:Tyranid Hive Tyrant 3rd Edition.jpg|3rd Edition Hive Tyrant from Hive Fleet Kraken
Image:Tyranid Hive Tyrant Forgeworld 2.jpg|Hive Tyrant with Scything Talons from Forge World
Image:Tyranid Hive Tyrant 4th Edition 1.jpg|4th Edition Hive Tyrant from Hive Fleet [[Leviathan]]
Image:TyranidHiveTyrant04 873x627.jpg|Winged 4th Edition Hive Tyrant
Neurotyrant2023.jpg|a Neurotyrant{{Fn|8}}
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*{{Endn|6}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Four - Second Edition: The Anphelion Project]], pg. 69
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Dawn of War II]]
*{{Endn|8}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/04/29/warhammer-40000-leviathan-whats-in-the-box/ Warhammer Community : Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan – What’s In The Box? (29/04/23)] (last accessed 29/04/23)*{{Endn|9}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/04/29/the-tyranids-of-leviathan-shred-the-galaxy-with-claws-spines-and-really-big-brains/ Warhammer Community : The Tyranids of Leviathan: Shred the Galaxy With Claws, Spines, and Really Big Brains (29/04/23)] (last accessed 29/04/23)
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