Hive Fleet Kronos

"There are few defences more extreme than that of the bombardier beetles. These insects deliberately engineer explosive chemical reactions inside their own bodies, so they can spray burning, caustic liquid from their backsides. The liquid can reach up to 22 miles per hour, at temperatures of around 100 degrees Celsius. It’s painful to humans [...] and potentially lethal to smaller predators like ants. Phenomena, a science discussion. National Geographic"

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" STAY STILL AND FACE ME, YOU LITTLE...!! A servant of Khorne trying to fight Hive Fleet Kronos, moments before being blown away by massive termagant firepower."

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Hive Fleet Kronus is one of the latest Tyranid Hive Fleets to threat the galaxy. Appearing not as another tyranid fleet coming from outside of the galaxy, but as the the concentration and evolution of multiple splinter fleets (mostly Leviathan ones after its destruction caused by the disasters of Octarius and Baal), this relatively small Hive Fleet has evolved to better fight the creatures of the Warp.

After the Cicatrix Maledictum started blocking the psyckic wi-fi of the galaxy, dozens of splinter fleets were lost, either fighting against daemons, being lost in the Warp or just by starving after not being able to find food. Hive Fleet Kronus developed a natural strategy to counter the mostly meele-based hordes of the Immaterium: the classic hit and run. Hordes of termagaunts assault the battlefield from afar, while keeping stronger units in reserve for the final blow. Speed is a vital factor for them, as their armies focus on ranged units and not as many close quarters fighers. It also possesses an impressive amount of psykic sensitive units, like maleceptors and neurothropes, able to hurt daemons right where it hurts the most: its link with the warp.

This strategy has worked wonders for this Hive Fleet, having had multiple great victories against the forces of Chaos. They now travel around the regions of space most affected by the Great Rift, taking advantage of the low defensive capabilities of both the Imperium (they are busy everywhere else) and Chaos (the Shadow in the Warp is quite a thorne for them). In fact, the fleet's growth rate has been so fast that its psykic impint has being able to close small warp rifts entirely, leaving the affected planets bereft of live after that, of course.