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Thawed out on an industrializing Imperial world, a Hive Fleet erupts from the glaciers of a thought-dead world to wreak havoc on the galaxy. Frozen for untold eons, the Imperium could not have predicted the strangeness of this fledgling army. While other tendrils of the Tyranids are cohesive and violently aggressive toward non-Tyrannic life, the stoic pace of Abominable's creeping advance through Imperial space is oddly passive, only feasting on civilized worlds if absolutely necessary. However, Abominable crashes onto other Hive Fleets with malicious zeal, like T-cells upon a virus, or a cancer within the body.

Imperial scholars of the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos have deduced through several trials that Hive Fleet Abominable takes a special interest in attacking, and consuming, other Hive Fleets, sometimes outright ignoring Imperial worlds with insufficient defenses to protect themselves from the pariah tendril. In addition, the dreaded "Shadow in the Warp" does not seem to manifest from Abominable, as though its psychic radiance is detached from the Hive Mind entirely.

Though it cannot be argued that Abominable is anything less than a scourge on the Milky Way in need of extermination, the tendril has been allowed to exist, if only for the opportunity to guide and manipulate it toward greater Tyranid threats in the area.