Tallarn Desert Raiders
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Tallarn An Imperial planet that is pretty much entirely desert. Used to be a lush forest before having the shit virus-bombed out of it. Home to a sizable number of Imperial Guard regiments, whose soldiers tend to be more Empra-revering than average.
They're basically a mixture of historical desert-based cultures (such as that of the 1910 Arab Revolt and the WW2 Desert Rats, while the entire planet is broken into tribes like much of the Middle East).
They love mechanised warfare: the Battle for Tallarn was the largest tank battle in the history of the Imperium of Man. As suggested by their name however, they also love raiding. The Tallarn are infamous for their ability to strike from the desert and then be well back within the sand dunes before the enemy can react.
The Tallarn did the Dorfs proud by digging too deep, finding something black and shiny. As it turns out, this shiny thing was wanted by the Iron Warriors, as it was a Chaos relic would let them accessories. The Eldar then appeared (specifically those of the Biel-Tan craftworld), and after a few months of fighting they decided to ally against their common enemy. And so, holding the hands of the lesser Mon-Keighs and pinching their asses, they cleansed the world together with the power of friendship(Lay of the MLP for godsake). They promised to be super best friends forever, before the Tallarn did the only responsible thing they could with the artifact - cake it in rockcrete and forget about it.
The Tallarn Desert Raiders are grimdark Drikies, for when a raider dies, his body has the water sucked out of it and put in a storage tank (yet another thing stolen from Dune, in this case the Fremen culture).