#rangda xenocides

[bispectral-poltergayst]

OC Posting Time!

I’ve been brainwormed over the Rangdan Xenocides for a while, so this is my OC for that era, Sareth. She’s a young psyker who was formerly one of the Rangda’s human slaves, being rescued by one of the few living 2nd Legion Astartes, Osian, after the loss of the 2nd Primarch and the Legion’s splintering during the first Rangdan Xenocide war. Sareth was able to hold back the infection of one of the mind control parasites inside Osian, allowing the duo to get from Torrash (the Rangda’s closest thing to a capital city) to Imperial territory so Osian could deliver the news of just how screwed the 2nd Legion had gotten before he finally dropped dead. Sareth was taken into Imperial custody, growing up to become a sanctioned psyker who was able to help create the best methods to remove Rangda mind control from their human slaves.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

No one told me the Rangda used something strong enough that whole chapters or companies have to be involved in handling them, and they were called Macrobeests. Literally Big Beests. God Rangda books when when when

The xenocides were a wonderfully bad time for the Emperor and his marines. The Rangda did not fuck around in the slightest

[tlatia-the-radiant]

The Sunset

In 893.M30, the Third Rangdan Xenocide was conducted by the combined forces of the Dark Angels, Space Wolves, and two Legions that have since been lost to history. Many assume that these Legions were simply killed to the last, and their failure was covered up for purposes of morale.

This is not what happened.

The Second and Eleventh Legions rejected the Xenocides. Turning coat, they chose to fight in the defense of the Rangda, and defend the by-now-defenseless xenos from the Imperium's wrath. They failed, and subsequently, they fled.

This is the story of the Eleventh Legion--the Dawn Legion, and their Primarch, Tlatia the Radiant.

Part I - CHOICE

Part II - STEP

Part III - SYMPATHY

Part IV - HERETIC

[ethanarang]

DAILY FACT #64: The Randan Xenocides were a series of three military campaigns during the Great Crusade that are largely unknown to most records and even elites of the Imperium of Man. It is theorised that it resulted in the complete destructoon of the Rangda Xeno race but as reports are often conflicting there is no way to be sure.

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[adeptvsastartes]

You parse through the many Imperial Archives, some dating as far back as prior to the Horus Heresy, some to the present day of the 41st Millennium.

These records looked to have once been deleted. How they were restored was a mystery. You look through these once-lost records, and note that it did not seem to be written by any Imperial or Inquisitorial official.

AURELIUS AUGUSTUS.

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Aurelius Augustus was the Primarch of the now-forgotten Second Legion dubbed the Stars Repentant, considered one of the lost Primarchs alongside the Eleventh Primarch and their Legion, as well as the unofficial Warmaster prior to what it would eventually become with Horus. A powerful psyker similar to some of his kin, Aurelius specialized in divination and used the very stars to peer into the future.

Considered a god by his very own Legion, his Astartes worshipped him as a merciful saint due to how he would assist them in 'redemption' (in truth, simply treating them with kindness and decency) in secret. However, despite this worship going against the very ideals of the God-Emperor and His desire for no religion within His Imperium, these Astartes were fiercely loyal to Him and His Imperium, determined to assist Mankind by any means necessary and make up for the sins of their predecessors, the warlords that dared to go against the God-Emperor.

While many details and records of Aurelius have long since been removed from Imperial Archives, some have been restored.

One such remaining archive involves how the God-Emperor found His son upon the planet of Iskaarre III on the empire-continent of Valero and brought him to meet his Legion, originally dubbed the Repentant at the time. Made up of His enemies' kin, it was once a penal legion meant to punish those who would dare oppose Him-- however, the psycho-indoctrination often meant to have them forget their pasts was ineffective, leading to hysteria amongst the penal Astartes. It was not until Aurelius arrived that they finally calmed. Aurelius had looked upon his sons with pity and sympathy. He knelt before them, he embraced them, and asked the God-Emperor to allow them to be pardoned as his first action as Primarch. The God-Emperor, despite the reason for this penal legion existing, agreed to His son's request as His gift for being able to reunite with His second son.

Another archive details the Rangdan Xenocides, and the possibility that the once-Warmaster had used his power to attempt to make trade deals with the Rangda. This, as well as many other ideals deemed against the Imperium (some rumors being that he may have supported abominable intelligence), would lead to the excommunication of Aurelius and his Legion, as well as the complete eradication of his galaxy-spanning empire of Valero at the hands of the Space Wolves and Leman Russ.

While many deemed him missing and long forgotten, as his statues and archives were all erased, in truth he operated quite a bit during the Horus Heresy. He operated on behalf of the Imperium, striking at Chaos from within the shadows. However, with the pain from the eradication of their home, the abandonment from their cousin-legions and the excommunication from the Imperium they were so loyal to, Astartes began to succumb to Chaos. Aurelius, seeing the pain his sons were in, believed that the last act of mercy he could do for his sons was to lead one more battle against Chaos. This would lead to the disappearance of many of his officers within his Legion, the deaths of almost all of them, and Aurelius himself supposedly dead.

However, there are rumors that the Primarch may still survive to this very day, left as a battery for his own mobile star-fortress-- the Ursa Major-- within its depths. However, these rumors come from adventurers and smugglers. Certainly, the Primarch could not be alive after ten thousand standard years... right?

icon from "The Emperor Awakens" by Mootslol.

[lolipop1920art]

there a species mentioned a couple of times in Horus Hersey books.

They fought with the imperium a couple of times. The Rangda xenocides are a big theory talking point.

They have a connection to the slaugth (the worm people we don't what it was fully though.

The vulpine tibit i had to find through a man posting the tibit on reddit because the black Horus Heresy books are rare and hard to find and somehow the wikis don't have that tibit so I had to search for it. They got the slave collars and ship detail but not this detail.

Somehow fanon made them have a connection with lovecratian stuff I have no idea how.

I made a nephilhilm figure when I first got into 40k

No way! may i see it please 🥺

[theironwarsmith]

+++The Rangda and Slaugth Murder-minds+++

+++My Lords,

These two xenos species once posed one the gravest threats to the Imperium during the Great Crusade. Three nigh-apocalyptic wars were fought against these creatures, with II and XI Legions potentially meeting their ends here, with I, VI, XII and XIV Legions also suffering tremendous losses during these dark times. It is also potentially the first entry into the annals of Imperial History of the XX Legion.

The Imperium used its most devastating weaponry at its disposal to utterly annihilate the Rangdan. The Dreadwing were unleashed, the alchemical weaponry of the Death Guard and, ultimately, the Emperor opened the 'Labyrinth of Night' to break the Rangdan forces.

Entire sectors were devoid of life in the aftermath, but the Rangdan were defeated, the homeworld of Rangda scoured. It was this event that made the Ultramarine Legion one of the largest legions, whether through depletion of the other legions or the absorption of the survivors of the II and/or XI Legions.

However, the Slaugth murder-minds still exist on the edges of Imperial space and in the dark places beyond. Whilst it appears that this xenos species will never pose the same horrific threat again, they still pose a threat to an almost unaware Imperium.

It is to this end that I, Lord Inquisitor Decimus Tiberius Byzant of the Ordo Xenos, have created a task force that will hunt down any Slaugth activity, recover the knowledge of how the Rangdan were defeated and investigate what the 'Labyrinth of Night was.

To clarify on the last aim, the 'Labyrinth of Night' seems to have been a weapon that the Emperor used to defeat the Rangdan, as after this event their forces were broken. I have heard that this is the Noctis Labyrinth that is found on Mars, so for this to be somehow moved to the galactic north-east so it can be unleashed doesn't make sense to me so I believe that this is something that shares the name but is unrelated. However, I shall attempt an investigation of the Noctis Labyrinth to assuage these doubts.

Furthermore, I am aware that the best sources of information on this event, the Adeptus Astartes chapters of the Dark Angels and Space Wolves, will be hard to obtain information from. With the Dark Angels being notoriously secretive and the Space Wolves bearing a strong dislike of the Inquisition, my request for information may fall on deaf ears.

I shall requisition a squad of Astartes from the chamber militant; the Deathwatch, as well as acquiring some veteran mercenaries from a PMC. I have also come into possession of a rare transport, a Kharon pattern Acquisitor, which will help subdue any unfortunate civilians in the vicinity of the Slaugth maggot men.

The threat of the Slaugth cannot be allowed to even reappear. If they find another species like the Rangda, then the Imperium will be destroyed. I cannot allow this to happen. Emperor knows what will happen should the Tyranids absorb these abominations.

Regards,

Lord Inquisitor Decimus Tiberius Byzant+++

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

What was the most difficult conquest or victory of the Great Crusade?

The Rangdan Xenocides, easily. It was a series of absolute meat grinder campaigns versus the Rangda species that went for half a century. The Rangda were so technologically adept and martially vicious that it took the presence of over a dozen titan legions and the Emperor to actually win. Their soldiery were able to match and kill space marines, and they countered the Imperium's masses of infantry with their own extensive slave armies. Easily the Crusade's biggest "fuck around and find out" moment when it was doing the whole expansion thing.

The Ullanor Crusade versus the Ork super Waaagh was definitely bigger in terms of the number of forces involved, but it also much more of a straight up slugfest, with lots of "Hoorah Imperium" stuff. The Xenocides were just bad. The Imperium almost lost, and it didn't gain a whole lot out of it save for the absence of Rangda, because the conflicts destroyed a shitload of planets. A lot of the accounts of the Xenocides were straight up destroyed for... reasons. Something something aliens/heresy/Imperium got the shit kicked out of it, etc.