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===Hive Fleet Azathoth===
"So these creatures feed upon flesh? Let them come, for they will find only stone under this armor."
-Captain Auron Augustus of the Caementium Centurions, 3rd Company, M.39

Coming from a separate direction entirely than the other hive fleets, Azathoth is as errant from normal tyranid biology as is physically possible. They resemble early encounters with the tyranids, in that they have more spindly appendages, hooves, spikes, and bulbous heads. They manage to use and harness all manner of energies in the form of weapons, such as psyke-rays, tesla-spines, plasma breath, atomic fire, and even stellar artillery. The biomorphs of Hive Fleet Azathoth are so incredibly divergent from known tyranid data, it is possible that they have even evolved into a seperate species. The Biomorphs of this Hive Fleet is almost entirely energy based. Plasma energy, usually reserved for artillery in normal hive fleets, is everywhere in Hive Fleet Azathoth. Even their methods of feeding are aberrant. They do not simply consume all edible materials on a planet, in fact many worlds they have ravaged have since regrown (albeit into mutant radioactive death worlds). The reason for this is unknown, perhaps some sort of allergy or intolerance as a side-effect of the heavy mutations? This should cause the tyranids to lose biomass and starve, however they seem to draw on some foreign energy source of a psychic/immaterial nature. Perhaps encounters with the unimaginable horrors beyond the stars have caused these harrowing mutations. It is possible that this Hive Fleet is a scouting fleet, much like the early encounters, but unlike the others this one has become unnaturally twisted and mutated in the vast abyss of deep space. A splinter of another Hive Fleet almost entered the ghoul stars; however, they encountered Azathothian tyranids and subsequently reversed direction and headed for the galaxy at large. In space, the hive fleets do not simply travel as a swarm of biomorphs, instead they fuse together to form colossal, horrific abominations similar in size to a space hulk. These monstrous forms are surrounded by orbiting biomorphs in similarly mutated fusions, and form what would appear to an observer like a giant, tentacled nucleus of flesh surrounded by swarms of billions upon billions of smaller monstrosities. The first tendril of hive fleet azathoth, nicknamed thsoggua, was encountered on the planet exodia, the first of the eldar exodite planets. The planet was ravaged, forcing the exodite inhabitants to seek refuge elsewhere. It was subsequently fought and defeated at the craftworld Sgathan-ra, albeit at the cost of the craftworld itself. The next tendril, once thought to be the main force of the fleet, was defeated on the planet Morghoul