Editing Honsou (section)

==A Bad Enough Dude to Serve Chaos==
Being a grade-[[Slaanesh|S]] [[/d/|sick fuck]], Honsou oversaw the Daemonculaba after [[Blood Ravens|acquiring]] some [[Geneseed|geneseed]]. The Daemonculaba process produced new Chaos Space Marines, entailing a shocking myriad of cruelties whose peak was [[Night Lords|flaying people alive]] and forcibly impregnating women via reverse c-sections. It's probably Tuesday tea break on your average Slaaneshi daemon world, but it is one of the few examples that actually pops up in 40k lore and is given some fleshing out.

He also killed a few billion people at Tarsis Ultra and rendered the entire planet a lifeless rock with some well applied [[Exterminatus|virus bombs]] for the sole purpose of maliciously spiting [[Uriel Ventris]]. In other words, an action on par with the pedigree of 99% of chaos lords, whose only difference is occasionally making planetfall and actually [[World Eaters|fighting like men]] or [[Word Bearers|building temples on everything]].

While he did give the [[Ultramarines]] a rather [[Squad broken|good pounding]], the fact that he had to ally with [[M'kar]] to do so significantly drops his cool factor. Still, at least he loses to one of the only [[Captain Titus|two]] cool Ultramarines, rather than the faggots under [[Cato Sicarius]].

Some might argue that destroying one planet, engaging in pretty tame Slaaneshi-style experiments, stealing a box of geneseed, while being an otherwise relatively ordinary Astartes who doesn't personally draw on the Chaos Gods for help, makes him the most evil villain in 40k. This overlooks those [[Araghast the Pillager|who did the first thing a thousand times more]], those [[Fabius Bile|who did the second]] [[Lucius the Eternal|and probably first a lot more]], those who [[Blood Ravens|probably did the third at least once]], [[Dark Eldar|and let's not forget certain non-humans who've done all of the above]]. On the other hand, he did manage to maintain a good fortress with a [[Bloodthirster]] stuck inside, on Medrengard, which ended up getting broken only thanks to the chisel-pulling skills of the Ultramarines, so his tactical competence still exceeds that of [[Bale|some]] [[Firaeveus Carron|other]] [[Abaddon|(armless) failures]]. Also, what makes the destruction of Tarsis Ultra noteworthy from all the other Chaos Lords that destroyed worlds is ''precisely'' because Honsou did ''not'' do it for glory, conquest, pillaging, or even just for the lulz. It was all just to send a spiteful message, and then there's ''how'' he did it. Again, let's reiterate, he sneaked into the heart of Ultramar with just a handful of warriors, sent the planet to hell in just a handful of hours using the Ultra's own defenses, and left to get back onto his schedule before the Ultramarines even knew what was going on. The [[Alpha Legion]] would give that a standing ovation. Tl;dr For other Chaos lords a planet's destruction would be the whole point of a campaign, for Honsou it's just a quick side-stop.