Editing Sauristoni (section)

== Planetary History == 

An unpopulated virgin planet, Sauristoni was discovered by the Rogue Trader Tameron Diyixo as he made a dangerous warp jump in his Conquest Class Star Galleon in order to escape attack from Dark Eldar pirates.

Heavily damaged and in desperate need of repairs, Diyixo's ship appeared within dropship landing distance of the planet. Torn between staying with his ship in case anything happened or exploring this strange new world, Diyixo eventually settled on the latter - leaving his most trusted command staff to look after his ship and attempt to make contact with the Imperium as he embarked planet-side with his personal regiment of mercenaries.

As they touched ground, they immediately noted two things - the first was the immense heat, and the second was the awe-strikingly huge sauropod-like creatures feasting on the jungle canopies. Diyixo deduced that they would provide enough meat to top up their rations when they began to run short, and so he began attempting to contact the nearest allied presence, hopeful that an Imperial ship would pass in the sector within a few months.

He did not predict the Horus Heresy, nor the fact that it would actually take three thousand years for the next Imperial ship to grace Sauristoni's soil.

After four days, an unforeseen malfunction resulted in massive explosions and the complete shutdown of all habitation systems on board the ship. Diyixo's command staff managed to jettison as much as they could out of the ship and towards the planet with their final moments, but much of this would not be found for hundreds or thousands of years. The ship would eventually drift off into space, no doubt becoming a space hulk.

Stranded without his advisers and with only mercenaries to support him, the Rogue Trader now began to realise how delicate his situation truly was. He attempted to stall for time, which fortunately for a number of months, despite growing resentment among his employees. When a warp storm broke out above the planet's surface, tensions boiled over. Schisms that had begun to form between the groups escalated into full-blown conflict, the mercenaries using what weapons they had brought to full effect on one another. Diyixo's story ended here, as he was shot in the side of the head as an old man, still desperately attempting to contact the wider universe for rescue. 

Between all of this, dinosaur-like creatures much more maleficent than their herbivorous cousins began to appear around the settlement, testing the waters. Occasionally, whole conflicts would be squashed by the appearance of massive naturally-armoured killing machines, ripping into all sides of the skirmish with indiscriminate hunger. More commonly, settlements would be raided in the night by smaller, velociraptor-like creatures looking for easy game. 

All parties now resigned that they would more than likely be stuck on the planet - perhaps for their entire lives. They were tired from years of fighting in the extreme heat and the threat of predators simply devouring any possible victor that may result from any conflict they may have. So, the factions decided to leave the ship completely, taking as many supplies as they could and sealing it, then going their separate ways.

Some of the groups became lost to the jungle; others, who had found the supplies jettisoned years earlier, eventually managed to get to habitable regions and thrived; others still lived the life of nomads, becoming fierce warriors and hunters, even managing to tame the ferocious creatures that roamed the jungles and use them as mounts. Even as this went on and continued for hundreds of years, tribes-folk eventually began to start going missing. At first, this was blamed on the local wildlife. Then the kidnappers began to become more brazen.

Having activated an ancient webway gate that lay dormant on the planet, Dark Eldar raiders had entered the environment of loose bands of tribesmen and found that they liked what they saw. A constant stream of under-equipped humans with which they could milk like cattle for an extended period fit well within their objective of raising their status within the city, and so for an extended portion of Sauristoni's history they were subject to screaming jetbikes screaming through the jungle trees and raiding their settlements.

Eventually, an Eldar contingency - intrigued by the activation of an ancient and strategically-unimportant webway gate - investigated the planet under cover of night for several weeks. They began dropping markers and signs for the huntsmen to follow, letting them set up killzones and strike back against their harassers, even with their limited weaponry. The tribesmen who caught glimpses of the Eldar began treating them as "good spirits", with the Dark Eldar as "bad spirits" - or the "Obe" and the "Eah". Psykers, who became community leaders and healers, would be able to sense when the Eldar were close due to their psychic signatures, but not their cousins, causing all form of superstitious malcontent.

During these seemingly endless skirmishes, the warp storm began to wane, pockets of open space opening between the warp energies. While unstable at first, it took only days after the first opening for it to almost completely clear. The rest of the sector had been long-claimed by the Imperium by this point and had been awaiting whatever dangers lay behind Sauristoni's skies with baited breath. Fifteen regiments of the People's Army of Hu'lan dropped straight down and began mapping out the planet, surprising all inhabitants. The tribes-people were awestruck by the task force, swearing fealty to the Emperor once again as the huge amount of infantrymen cleared vast amount of jungle to make way for their armoured columns. General Jyung thought them nothing more than savages, but used the knowledge they had been ironically given by the Eldar to track down and obliterate the webway gate while all of the forces were scattered by this sudden development. All Eldar - regardless of their affiliation were soon trapped on the planet - were ruthlessly hunted down, though rumours abound that some roam its jungles to this day.

The planet was soon cracked down upon by missionaries from the Ecclesiarchy, many of its superstitions squashed in barely any time at all as the only things close to gods that they had ever known were thoroughly routed by the soldiers of the Imperium. 

The Hu'lan were commended on their quick work, which incidentally involved destroying several hundred miles of jungle (including several heavily-populated settlements) in order to finally eliminate their targets.