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*[[Theft of Lethidia]]
*[[Arks of Omen Campaign]]
*[[Devastation of Baal]]
*[[Fall of Shadowbrink]]
*[[Octarius War]]
Pared the see also section down - most of these have no connection to Kronos at all.
Due to its strong connection to the Hive Mind, when Hive Fleet Kronos travels the [[Shadow in the Warp]] is at its most suffocatingly powerful and drifts ahead of its invasion swarms. This null power is agonising to psychically active foes and drains their spirit energy to bolster Kronos' own hosts, while throwing enemy forces into fearful confusion. This greatly aids the Hive Fleet's war modus operandi, as the Tyranids of Kronos avoid engaging the forces of Chaos at close range; due to their revelment of brutal melee combat. Thus a ranged kill is a more efficient method of extermination and the Hive Fleet's warrior-forms achieve this by unleashing a storm of organic missiles in battle to destroy their foes. Currently Hive Fleet Kronos is tracing a coreward path along the line of the Great Rift and is consuming worlds that have been left purposefully defenseless by tendrils of [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]]. Kronos has used such offerings well and the growing Hive Fleet appears to be now zeroing in on areas of intense psychic activity that threaten to tear the breach between realities wider. Scores of these worlds have been conquered by [[Chaos Cultist]]s and Warp-spawned abominations, but the Tyranids of Kronos have obliterated them all. Much like a maggot eating the corruption from an infected wound.{{Fn|1a}}
The Hive Fleet Kronos famous for its distinctive kind of weaponsweaponry. For example, their [[Balethorn Cannon]] - so great that it can penetrate every any kind of armour or energy shields of used by their enemies.{{Fn|1b}}
Unable to replenish itself from Daemons, Hive Fleet Kronos relies upon a symbiotic relationship with [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]], which recently has begun to not wholly devour worlds since the creation of the [[Great Rift]]. Elements of Kronos follow in its larger cousins cousin's wake, replenishing its numbers from whatever remains. In this way it has moved across the fringes of the Great Rift, giving it a taste for psychic prey as a whole. This has led it to recently target [[Eldar]] [[Craftworld]]s, sorecerous sorcerous cults, or [[Human]] systems in the midst of the [[Psychic Awakening]].{{Fn|4}}
==History==
===Battle of the Wolf's Head===
An [[Imperial]] fleet under the command of [[Admiral]] [[Groesson]] is engaging a massive [[Chaos]] fleet at the [[Wolf’s Head Nebula]] when scores of bio-ships enter the battle. Ignoring the Imperial ships, the Tyranids smash their way into the Chaos formation, swarming over the colossal [[Despoiler Class battleship]] at its centercentre. Not questioning his good fortune, Groesson unleashes a final salvo and orders the retreat.{{Fn|1a}}
===Second Battle of Shadowbrink===
==See also==
*[[Ouroboris (Hive Fleet)]]*[[Lotan]]*[[Grobula]] - It is a titanic [[List of Warp Entities|warp beastHive Fleets]] that Imperial scientists theorize is a Tyranid bio-experiment gone out of control.
*[[True Death]]
*[[Doom of Malan'tai]]
*[[Neurothrope]]
==Sources==
*1: [[Codex: Tyranids (8th Edition)]]
**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 37 — ''Hive Fleet Kronos''
**{{Endn|1b}}: ''Bio-Artefacts of the Tyranids''
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Thousand Sons (8th Edition)]], pg. 25 — ''Conflagration of War: Cult of Manipulation – Burnt Offerings''
