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[[Image:40k-315-Mountain.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Mountainous capillary tower alongside bioships feeding from low orbit.{{Fn|7c}}]]

[[Image:Tyranid-CapillaryTowers1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Tyranid feeding system; capillary towers and bioship feeding tubes.{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|8}}{{Fn|7a}}]]

These stationary Tyranid 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}}

Capillary towers can grow to reach the upper atmosphere (and beyond). Where they grow, [[Reclamation Pool]]s then start to appear. The towers are linked to them via underground roots. Later, the towers link up with the sucking proboscis feeding tubes of hive ships in low orbit, which then pump the biomass upwards and distribute it to the waiting [[bioship|biovessels]].{{Fn|1}}

===Consumption Process===

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}}

HiveShip-CapillaryTower.jpg|Bio-ship feeding from a capillary tower.{{Fn|2c}}

Tyranid Ships Feeding.jpg|Consumption ships tethered to larger bio-ships consume biomass from enormous capillary towers jutting from a world's surface.{{Fn|10}}

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*{{Endn|9}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20250614181100/https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/kill-team-typhon-2025-eng Warhammer Webstore: Kill Team: Typhon] ''(archived from [https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/kill-team-typhon-2025-eng the original] 15 June 2025, last accessed 15 July 2025)''

*{{Endn|10}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20190709123112/https://regimental-standard.com/2017/11/01/the-stage-by-stage-guide-to-tyranid-infestation/|Warhammer Community Post: The Regimental Standard: The Stage-By-Stage Guide to Tyranid Infestation] (archive page, saved 9 July 2019, last accessed July 14th 2024, original link:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/11/01/the-regimental-standard-the-stage-by-stage-guide-to-tyranid-infestation-nov-1/)

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