Editing Hive Ship (section)

===Basic===

====Base====

[[File:HiveShipBFGA2.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The biggest mouth you're gonna see.]]

The most basic and generic of Hive Ship. A 'Base' Hive Ship are the most common and adaptable breed of these superorganisms.

Rumours abound regarding Hive Ships. Some believe that though most swarms have multiple Hive Ships, there is still just one ship that maintains a central control of the entire swarm, allowing it to coordinate its fleet's assault, though this can not be confirmed. There are also unsubstantiated reports of indescribably huge Hive Ships that arrive in the final stages of a world's consumption, which would explain how the Hive Fleets can consume the vast quantities of material represented by a planet's life, air, and oceans.

The base Hive Ship is the only one of the Battleships in the Tyranid fleet that fields entirely standard weaponry, however, it actually comes in second place for raw dps due to the amount of lance based [[Bio-Plasma Battery|Bio-Plasma weapons]] it has. The Hive Ship does take the lead when it comes to critical hits per minute, being well above and beyond any other ship in the Tyranid arsenal.

One other point to mention about the Hive Ship is that of the two top damage number Battleships, it has significantly closer ranges for all of its weaponry due to the damage type choice. The Bio Acid Hive Ship, on the other hand, has higher dps, includes launch bays and can maintain a much longer range, longer than any other Tyranid ship by default.

It is armed with 2 Heavy [[Bio-Plasma Battery|Bio-Plasma Discharge Artillery]], 2 [[Bio-Plasma Battery]] Weapons, 4 [[Pyro-Acid Battery]] Weapons and a [[Tyranid_Bio-Weapons#Great Claws|Spur.]]

*'''Length:''' 10-15km; approx
*'''Mass:''' 35.5 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' Millions to billions of organisms
*'''Acceleration:''' 1.2 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx