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This Hive Fleet is known to make use of assimilated [[human]]s known as [[Mind Slaves]].{{Fn|5}}
==Known Actionsactions==
Known losses to the Hive Fleet are the [[Kiltor Sector]] and the [[Tarellian]] Civilisation.{{Fn|1}} They were also responsible for the [[Battle of Ghodba|invasion]] of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] test world of [[Ghodba]].{{Fn|4}}
===Jollov===
A vanguard tendril of Moloch threatened to consume the [[Agri-World]] of [[Jollov]] in 932.M41 (though this date is inconsistent with the date of Moloch invading the galaxy given in other sources) just as [[Magos|Techno Magus]] [[Stannum Vir]] discovered fragments of an [[STC]] on the planet. The world's spaceport is defended by elements of [[Catachan]], [[Mordian]], [[Kanak]], [[Molov]] and [[Agathon]] regiments [[regiment]]s in order to buy enough time for the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] to flee with the STC.{{Fn|3b}}
===Karak Prime===
A splinter fleet of Moloch was stopped from consuming a [[Hive]] city on [[Karak Prime]] by the veteran [[Vostroyan 9th]] regiment (the "Old Irascibles"). For eighteen months a Tyranid swarm that stretched from the base of the city walls to the distant horizon was held back by the Vostroyans. Realising they were doomed if they ran out of ammunition, the Vostroyans opened the city's gates and drew the horde inside. When the bulk of the Tyranids had entered the city, the Vostroyans detonated the hive's nucleonic stack and incinerated the hive, along with all its defenders and an estimated eighty-five percent of the Tyranid swarm. As the city entered midwinter, the surviving Tyranids starved to death and the splinter fleet was destroyed.{{Fn|3a}}
===Calidan===
A Moloch [[Lictor]] was encountered by the natives on the primitive [[Imperial]] world of [[Calidan]] on the [[Eastern Fringe]] of the galaxy. The Lictor was killed, but a sub-fleet of Moloch was diverted towards the planet. The knoweldge of the Tyranid threat reached the [[Imperial Navy]] operating in the Fringe, but the commanding officer decided not to intervene as monitoring the overall threat was deemed more important than protecting a single world.{{Fn|6}}
==Colour Scheme==
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Legion of the Damned]] (E-Book) — ''A Legion Lost''
*{{Endn|5}}: [[White Dwarf 278 (UK)]], pgs. 62-63 — ''Hive Fleet Moloch''
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Predator & Prey (Comic)]] - [[Flames of Damnation (Comic Anthology)]]
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