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==Aleksandros Half-Lifers / Aleksandros Furies==
When the Golden Age came crashing down, some worlds fell too far to ever picked up again, even the Great Crusade of the Emperor choosing to simply pass them by. Aleksandros is one such world. 

Gutted by nuclear fires and swathed in radiation, Aleksandros is an arid, rocky hellscape, water and nourishment in severely short supply. There is no civilization worth mentioning on the planet's surface, its people having long ago degenerated into warring tribes of gene-scarred mutants. Adapted fully to their environment, the battle-tribesmen of Aleksandros are strong and hardy, boasting severely overactive adrenal glands. They do not last long, however, the eldest among them generally living to be fifty at very most, the strain of their own enhanced metabolism eventually burning them out. The culture of Aleksandros reflects this - its inhabitants live short, brutal, energetic lives, prizing legacy over life. It was this trait that eventually attracted the attention of the Negators Legion to Aleksandros, the Traitor Astartes periodically drawing from the planet's population to staff their auxiliary forces. Over time, these visitors from the stars have become entrenched in the folklore of Aleksandros, and the Marines have been deified as heavenly messengers, arriving to escort the chosen to the greatest and most glorious of battlefields.

The dominant battle-clans of Aleksandros are divided upon gender lines, communities raiding one another for courtship purposes. The males, referred to as Half-Lifers, are valued for their boundless energy and fearless natures, and often move in great convoys of ramshackle, looted war machines, charging straight toward enemy lines, praising their armoured gods with bloodied lips. The females of Aleksandros are known as Furies, notable for their extreme savagery and innate quietness. Units of Furies are most often employed as scouts or infiltrators, making use of brutal, close-range weaponry.