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In [[2nd Edition]] Devourers were one of the most horrific weapons available to the Tyranids. It looks like a cone of flesh coming out of the jaws of another creature. The flesh is infested with worms-like creatures with shiny black heads, known as fleshworms. A bio-electrical shock launches hundreds of these worms towards the enemy and they will either shatter against the target and spread acid and poison over it or pierce the armour and burrow into the body of the target. The agony caused drives the victim insane and the worms devour its nervous system until they eventually devour its brain.<sup>2-p56</sup>
This weapon is more of a hive than a distinct organism. The weapon is meshed with the host in such a way as to provide food and incubation for a host of malformed Ripper larvae; it is these larvae which form the ammunition for the weapon. A large conical horn is perforated with multiple breathing tubes that also serve as avenues of egress in times of danger. Pheromone signals call the larvae to the breather tubes when the host senses the need to utilise the weapon. A bio-electric surge signals the brood to attack. When they encounter any object they immediately begin biting and burrowing in a frenzied attack while secreting highly corrosive bile. These creatures show a distinct taste for neurological tissues and move to the spinal column and brain with extreme haste causing an agonizing but mercifully quick death.
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