Editing Hive Fleet Gorgon (section)

== Gorgon Returns ==

Within a few decades, Hive Fleet Gorgon had fully reconstituted itself. And it had learned well from its past defeats.

As evolving the individual bioforms had proven to be too slow when dealing with multiple disparate forces, the Hive Mind hit on the idea of evolving their toxin sacs instead. Now filled with a bizarre semi-sentient spore, these new toxin sacs could adapt to kill any life form they came into contact with and allowed different bioforms to "share" the most effective toxins instantaneously via the synaptic network. The first known use of these new poisons was able to bring down an entire Plague Hulk, with the famed resilience of the [[Death Guard]] proving worthless against spores that simply made their rotted flesh fall off their bodies. <s>Which actually contradicts one of the few things that can be considered genuine canon. Using toxins against the favored forces of the god of plagues (''including toxins'') should not work.</s> The forces of Nurgle are only immune to plagues and poisons because their bodies are not attacked by them. A semi-sentient, Tyranid-made toxin not under control of Nurgle, but of the Hive Mind has no such issue.

The Hive Fleet has also demonstrated a greater proficiency in using its poisons against its foes in general; in the case of one system composed mostly of agri-worlds, it appears that the Fleet never intended to consume it in the first place. Instead, it had attacked them as a distraction while the crops on said agri-worlds were laced with toxic spores. Millions of Imperial Guardsmen died to protect plantations which were already unfit for human consumption. The poisoning was never discovered until months later, when several worlds reported freak outbreaks of people drowning in their own foaming blood after consuming the contaminated food. This right here is why the Tyranids are so damn dangerous. They're not just freakishly powerful, psychic space locusts, they're freakishly powerful, psychic space locusts ''that are smarter than you''.

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