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'''Capillary towers''', also called '''feeding towers'''{{Fn|6}} or '''intestinal towers''', are a key part of a [[Tyranid]] [[Hive Fleet]]'s consumption cycle.{{Fn|5}}

These plant-like growths are often seen sprouting across the landscape in the wake of a Tyranid invasion, often in the Tyranid's backlines. The nascent towers will eventually grow to monumental heights in the latter stages of a world's consumption,{{Fn|2c}} like gigantic jagged fangs erupting from a world's crust.{{Fn|2a}} Their fleshy, musclular bulk is held upright by durable mineral structures and flesh tethers.{{Fn|6}} The feeding tower's ultimate role is to serve as a connection point for a bioship's feeding tubes that will then gorge on the consolidated biomass.{{Fn|2c}}{{Fn|5}} The feeding tubes are a multi-pronged system of proboscises twisted together that descend from consumption ships that themselves are tethered to larger bio-ships in orbit.{{Fn|5}}

The biomass consolidated at these towers is collected by various Tyranid [[Ripper|feeder beast]]s who, alongside their larger combat bioforms, throw bloated bodies into the [[Reclamation Pool|reclamation pool]]s at the base of a towers, being dissolved in digestive acids alongside their harvest of biomass. The towers can also spawn additional bioforms planetside, bolstering the invasion of a world.{{Fn|2a}}

These stationary bioforms may appear like plant-analogues, but they are just as aggressive as their more mobile bioforms. The towers extend tendrils that will absorb any flora or fauna that lack the ability to quickly exit the capillary tower's vicinity. They simultaneously filter the world's atmosphere, absorbing any microbes, flying fauna, or other organic matter to be gathered.{{Fn|2b}}