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Eye of Terror

2018-06-30T08:52:17Z

2001:8003:3895:3A00:FDD8:BDE1:7C4F:7F9F: /* Known worlds in the Eye of Terror */

[[Image:Warhammer40k_galaxy_map.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Eye of Terror is the swirling purple vortex of doom...?]]

The '''Eye of Terror''' is the light years-wide black hole of chaotic psychic energy that is also the largest dimensional vortex between the [[Warp]] to the [[Materium]] and the birthplace of [[Slaanesh]], created from the entire Eldar race's collective unconscious when they participated in a mass psychic resonance of galactic proportions. (In layman's terms: [[Anal Circumference|they fuck-orgied each other so much all their orgasms merged into a living God Of Rape that ripped open a massive asshole into the very fabric of spacetime itself.]] The Eldar race had become decadent, hedonistic, and indulgant in every possible sin and sexual vice imaginable. Yes it is as <s>hot</s> hot as it sounds.)

The creation of this galactic laceration killed off the mass majority of the species in its boundaries, with any planets that remain being utterly [[Rape|fucked beyond comprehension]] after the Birth of Slaanesh. As a result the rest of the Eldar are living on Craftworlds or faraway planets, save for the [[Dark Eldar|BDSM addicts]] who are living inside the [[Webway]]. Currently, the Eye of Terror is home to the [[Chaos Space Marines|legions of traitor astartes]], most of the surviving [[Primarchs]], the greatest concentration of [[heresy]] in the materium and some unlucky Eldar who still live despite the fall (but more often than not in eternal rape). According to the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] 8th Edition Daemons of Chaos army book, the Eye of Terror connects to the same Warp as Fantasy.

It seems in certain fluff, the Eye of Terror was named Cygnus x-1.

==[[What it's like]] in there==
Inside the Eye of Terror, nearly all is subject to the nutty whims of the Chaos Gods and their daemons. What this means is ANYTHING is possible inside this weird vortex. (And not possible, hey it's chaos after all!) So you have worlds in constant fluxes of change; worlds of decay where everything is kept horribly alive somehow; worlds of crystal lit from within by [[witchfire|witchfires]]; and worlds made entirely from the bodies of slaves all merged and molded together... and again, somehow kept alive! It is literally a living physical hell, and any normal person going in without [[Call of Cthulhu|sanity checks]] will have their brains imploded. There are no maps or regions in this place - just the constant shifting battle-lines as the gods, daemons and their mortal followers battle to claim the worlds for their own.

As mentioned above, a lot of the worlds in the Eye of Terror were the old Eldar homeworlds, now referred to as the Crone worlds. There are lots of goodies still stashed away on these worlds and up for grabs, if you don't mind risking your eternal soul. Despite this, the Eldar (and other individuals cough [[inquisitor|inquistors]] cough) make the risky journey into the eye to acquire some loot, but most end up being corrupted or [[Chaos Spawn|usually much worse]] .

Despite it being an endless tempest of raw Eldritch power in the very fabric of physical creation, home to some of the most powerful and brutal warriors in the [[41st millennium|setting]], it still does not deter or even frighten the [[Ollanius Pius|Balls-of-Steel]] [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Guardsmen]]. This is because of the [[Cadian Gate]].

The scariest part? The closer you get to the centre of the Eye (referred to as the [[Byysos]]) things get weird, even by Chaotic standards. Demons and Traitor Marines will avoid getting close to it as things going near it don't tend to come back.

==The Cadian Gate?==
Yes, the Cadian Gate.

Y'know how in those war movies, there's that one part where the soldiers are all hanging out partying before the shit hits the fan and they're pressed into service? That's kinda what the Cadian Gate is like to the Eye of Terror. Named after the [[Cadia|planet]] nearest to it, the Cadian Gate is the most stable region around the Eye of Terror owing to the fact that [[Necron|large, strange artifacts of ancient alien design]] are found all over Cadia and its neighbouring planets. Because of its location in the Eye and because it's the only place not constantly fucked with Warp storms, Cadia (and indeed the entire Cadian Gate) is an enormous flash wherein the Chaos Legions raid the Imperium from their Daemon worlds - [[Creed|only to be completely and utterly WTFPWN3D in an ambush by 100 Baneblades and 75 Imperator Titans hiding behind a lamppost]], the biggest of which happened during the Black Crusades.

===The Black Crusades===
There have been 13 of them in total led by a [[Abaddon|certain armless failure]]. Despite his title and the jeering of /tg/ or the retconning of GW, the last Black Crusade managed to really fuck things up - not just for the Imperium, but for EVERY SINGLE FACTION INVOLVED! Chaos Legions splintered and broke off, Guard regiments and Space Marine chapters turned renegade, Warp storms swept the area, Orks are WAAAAGH-ing all over the place (most often against themselves), Tyranids are <s>going on feeding frenzies</s> reeling from the Chaos fallout and [[Hive Fleet Kraken|other crazy shit]]. Serious! Check the numbers from the Eye of Terror campaign and the Disorder forces actually won it. Cadia itself got massively fucked up.

The Disorder forces, however, got creamed in the specialist games, resulting in the Imperial Navy (and the fucking OP Necrons and Eldar) shoving it's metal cock up Abaddon's ass.

==Known worlds in the Eye of Terror==

* Belial IV: An Eldar crone world, it was one of the capital worlds of the old Eldar empire. Now it is a ghostly shell but rumoured to still house countless Eldar treasures....which of course is the perfect line to have a constant string of the elf-y bastards trying to loot the place without getting their [[Anal Circumference|assholes ripped apart in 11 dimensions by Slaanesh]].

* Medrengard: The Iron Warriors homeworld in the Eye of Terror. It is basically one big city in constant industrial motion. It is here Perturabo sulks eternally, annoyed his playmate Rogal was silly enough to get himself killed.

* Bubonicus: A daemon world owned by a daemon prince of the same name in service to Nurgle. Visions of this place give psykers across the Imperium terrible <strike>taco-shits</strike> nightmares that probably have some sort of plague mixed in as a bonus.

* Sortiarius, the Planet of the Sorcerers: The world given by Tzeentch to Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons as their new homeworld after the end of the Horus Heresy. It is a world wrecked by warp storms and with towers thrusting out of the crust of the planet. Magnus mostly stays on the planet in his tower with a big eye on it, which is totally not ripping off Sauron, and plans his legion's campaigns <s>against the Imperium</s> for getting more books to nerd out. UPDATE: No longer in the Eye, because Magnus pulled it into real space. [[Just As Planned | JUST AS PLANNED!]]

* Plague Planet: The generically named world of Mortarion. Modeled after a dark reflection of his homeworld, [[Barbarus]], much to [[Typhus]]'s displeasure.

* Oliensis: Devoted to Slaanesh, the entire planet is actually a [[neckbeard|colossal, morbidly obese man curled into a fetal position]] ([[what|yes seriously]]). [[/d/|The planet itself will eat you like a Dorito (and corrupt and regurgitate you)]] if you try to start shit there, as an [[Judged|unfortunate Space Marine chapter]] found out during a [[Abyssal Crusade|totally fun company-sponsored vacation trip]]. Home of the [[Noise Marines]].

* Xana: the first and the biggest of the [[Dark Mechanicus]] Hellforges, and the primary place where traitors go to get new ships, tanks, daemon engines, armor, [[Dakka | guns and bolts to shoot]] at loyalist scum and each other. Unlike most other Hellforges that were normal daemon-worlds until DarkMechs colonized them Xana used to be a Forgeworld before the Heresy, and get teleported into the Eye after the Heresy failed in pretty much reverse of the ritual that Magnus used later to teleport Sortarius out.

* [[Fulgrim]]'s [[PROMOTIONS|Pleasure Planet]]: No one knows where it is and [[Emperor's Children|many]] have tried to find it, but since no one's succeeded yet it's safe to assume it's either located inaccessibly deep in the Eye or no one who actually located it bothered to leave and tell the others. Knowing the Emperor's Children, it's probably the later.

==Important Personages in the Eye of Terror==

* Chaos Gods - You can't get higher then the arch-dukes of evil themselves. They each claim the worlds of the Eye as their own and spend every second warring to gain control of them, like supervillains trying to outdo each other in world-conquering plots. Khorne's plots focus on [[Exterminatus|slaughtering everyone off each planet]]. Slaanesh tries to recreate his super dick move orgasm attack to take over worlds by [[Anal Circumference|overloading the inhabitants' very own metaphysical assholes into impossible geometries that would make Euclid's brain asplode]]. Tzeentch tries to use his [[Just As Planned|clever plots]] and [[Tomb of Horrors|elaborate deathtraps]] to take over, even if [[Abaddon|Failbaddon the Armless]] is the most frequent victim of such elaborate superdickery. Nurgle just prefers to wait patiently for everything to wear out and rot everything away - good for him, not for anyone else.

* Daemon Primarchs - Each a major or at least legendary player in the Eye, some of the traitor Primarchs have their own worlds while others head the efforts of the different Chaos Gods to claim more for themselves. Because each traitor Primarch is nuttier then a fruitcake by now, they each have different, diverse reasons for warring in the Eye for control.

* Angron - He just wants to kill and rage, as the nails in his daemon-brain make him ever crazier with each passing aeon and his only relief from the rage is MOAR RAGE. Giving worlds to Khorne is just a bonus.

* Fulgrim - No one knows where the fuck he OR his ultimate pleasure world/palace is, but it gives relentless [[Promotions|incentive]] for other traitors to find it. Abaddon met with him on a different planet, so he does get out sometimes, but it's probably pretty rare. After all, with a planet that's supposedly the ultimate pleasure planet, why would anyone want to leave it? Confirmed to have responding to Roboute getting back up by ''pouting''. Fucking '''weak''' man.

* Magnus the Red - He rarely leaves his private tower, but he theoretically constantly aids in Tzeentch's vast plans to conquer everything and sometimes comes out to beat up [[Space Wolves]]. /tg/ likes to joke that he spends most of the time screaming [[Just As Planned]] every time he manages to accomplish common household tasks like dusting the blinds or pouring hellmilk over his daemon-cereal, just to massage his fragile ego after the monumental fuckups his plans seem to keep running into.

* Mortarion - Has his own sweet planet, which he made into a home from home. Like most of the others, he rarely leaves his private quarters, in case his presence makes the plot edge forward. Oh, and the last time he left his planet, a [[Kaldor Draigo|certain someone]] graffiti'd his heart. Change, after all, is anathema to a Nurgalite. Plus, well... would ''you'' invite someone whose B.O. could devastate an entire world without him lifting a finger to your [[Black Crusade|little party]]? [[Typhus]] canonically despises Mortarion for just sitting in his planet and never doing anything.

* Konrad, Horus and Alpharius (maybe) - Too dead to bother with looting and conquering. Jury's still out on Omegon.

* Lorgar - He is meditating. Which he has done for thousands of years. Because Chaos likes to fuck around and give its enemies too many chances. Easily the laziest primarch, and the one with the least excuses for it.

* Perturabo - Mostly stays sulking on his private planet because his sore mood prevents him from getting down to the hard and heavy of fighting. Occasionally he gets off his couch to devastate a Forge World or two.

* Abaddon the Despoiler - Jokes about his incompetence aside, Abaddon didn't get to be the Warmaster of the Black Legion for nothing. If your force runs into his in the Eye, it's probably in your best interest to either submit to the Legion and be subsumed, or run for the hills and pray to your evil gods he's got [[Cadia|something better to do]].

* Fabius Bile - A key player in the Eye, as he produces clone warriors for the traitor legions to boost their ranks and seeks ways to further improve on their genes. Such biological evil pleases Slaanesh immensely.

==Gathering Storm==
During the events of the Gathering Storm, the Eye of Terror changed dramatically. The launch of the 13th Black Crusade coincided with [[Belisarius Cawl]] realizing what the [[Cadian Pylons]] actually did, rushing to Cadia to help. [[Trazyn the Infinite]] then rocked up, and helped Cawl try and close it, because he was bored and wanted to participate in some galactic historical event. The effords of both of these characters actually managed to succeed, and the Eye started to close, but Failbaddon decided to crash a [[Blackstone Fortress]] into Cadia, which destroyed the pylons and allowed the Eye to expand to the point that it enveloped Cadia and connected to the [[Maelstrom]].

The destruction of Cadia and the Pylons created a chain reaction that gave origin to the [[Great Rift]], a massive warpstorm/anomaly that cut the galaxy in half.

==See Also==
*[[Chaos]]
*[[Chaos Space Marines]]
*[[Pit of Raukos]]

[[Category:Chaos]] [[Category:Warhammer 40,000]]

Eye of Terror

2018-06-30T08:50:02Z

2001:8003:3895:3A00:FDD8:BDE1:7C4F:7F9F: /* Known worlds in the Eye of Terror */

[[Image:Warhammer40k_galaxy_map.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Eye of Terror is the swirling purple vortex of doom...?]]

The '''Eye of Terror''' is the light years-wide black hole of chaotic psychic energy that is also the largest dimensional vortex between the [[Warp]] to the [[Materium]] and the birthplace of [[Slaanesh]], created from the entire Eldar race's collective unconscious when they participated in a mass psychic resonance of galactic proportions. (In layman's terms: [[Anal Circumference|they fuck-orgied each other so much all their orgasms merged into a living God Of Rape that ripped open a massive asshole into the very fabric of spacetime itself.]] The Eldar race had become decadent, hedonistic, and indulgant in every possible sin and sexual vice imaginable. Yes it is as <s>hot</s> hot as it sounds.)

The creation of this galactic laceration killed off the mass majority of the species in its boundaries, with any planets that remain being utterly [[Rape|fucked beyond comprehension]] after the Birth of Slaanesh. As a result the rest of the Eldar are living on Craftworlds or faraway planets, save for the [[Dark Eldar|BDSM addicts]] who are living inside the [[Webway]]. Currently, the Eye of Terror is home to the [[Chaos Space Marines|legions of traitor astartes]], most of the surviving [[Primarchs]], the greatest concentration of [[heresy]] in the materium and some unlucky Eldar who still live despite the fall (but more often than not in eternal rape). According to the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] 8th Edition Daemons of Chaos army book, the Eye of Terror connects to the same Warp as Fantasy.

It seems in certain fluff, the Eye of Terror was named Cygnus x-1.

==[[What it's like]] in there==
Inside the Eye of Terror, nearly all is subject to the nutty whims of the Chaos Gods and their daemons. What this means is ANYTHING is possible inside this weird vortex. (And not possible, hey it's chaos after all!) So you have worlds in constant fluxes of change; worlds of decay where everything is kept horribly alive somehow; worlds of crystal lit from within by [[witchfire|witchfires]]; and worlds made entirely from the bodies of slaves all merged and molded together... and again, somehow kept alive! It is literally a living physical hell, and any normal person going in without [[Call of Cthulhu|sanity checks]] will have their brains imploded. There are no maps or regions in this place - just the constant shifting battle-lines as the gods, daemons and their mortal followers battle to claim the worlds for their own.

As mentioned above, a lot of the worlds in the Eye of Terror were the old Eldar homeworlds, now referred to as the Crone worlds. There are lots of goodies still stashed away on these worlds and up for grabs, if you don't mind risking your eternal soul. Despite this, the Eldar (and other individuals cough [[inquisitor|inquistors]] cough) make the risky journey into the eye to acquire some loot, but most end up being corrupted or [[Chaos Spawn|usually much worse]] .

Despite it being an endless tempest of raw Eldritch power in the very fabric of physical creation, home to some of the most powerful and brutal warriors in the [[41st millennium|setting]], it still does not deter or even frighten the [[Ollanius Pius|Balls-of-Steel]] [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Guardsmen]]. This is because of the [[Cadian Gate]].

The scariest part? The closer you get to the centre of the Eye (referred to as the [[Byysos]]) things get weird, even by Chaotic standards. Demons and Traitor Marines will avoid getting close to it as things going near it don't tend to come back.

==The Cadian Gate?==
Yes, the Cadian Gate.

Y'know how in those war movies, there's that one part where the soldiers are all hanging out partying before the shit hits the fan and they're pressed into service? That's kinda what the Cadian Gate is like to the Eye of Terror. Named after the [[Cadia|planet]] nearest to it, the Cadian Gate is the most stable region around the Eye of Terror owing to the fact that [[Necron|large, strange artifacts of ancient alien design]] are found all over Cadia and its neighbouring planets. Because of its location in the Eye and because it's the only place not constantly fucked with Warp storms, Cadia (and indeed the entire Cadian Gate) is an enormous flash wherein the Chaos Legions raid the Imperium from their Daemon worlds - [[Creed|only to be completely and utterly WTFPWN3D in an ambush by 100 Baneblades and 75 Imperator Titans hiding behind a lamppost]], the biggest of which happened during the Black Crusades.

===The Black Crusades===
There have been 13 of them in total led by a [[Abaddon|certain armless failure]]. Despite his title and the jeering of /tg/ or the retconning of GW, the last Black Crusade managed to really fuck things up - not just for the Imperium, but for EVERY SINGLE FACTION INVOLVED! Chaos Legions splintered and broke off, Guard regiments and Space Marine chapters turned renegade, Warp storms swept the area, Orks are WAAAAGH-ing all over the place (most often against themselves), Tyranids are <s>going on feeding frenzies</s> reeling from the Chaos fallout and [[Hive Fleet Kraken|other crazy shit]]. Serious! Check the numbers from the Eye of Terror campaign and the Disorder forces actually won it. Cadia itself got massively fucked up.

The Disorder forces, however, got creamed in the specialist games, resulting in the Imperial Navy (and the fucking OP Necrons and Eldar) shoving it's metal cock up Abaddon's ass.

==Known worlds in the Eye of Terror==

* Belial IV: An Eldar crone world, it was one of the capital worlds of the old Eldar empire. Now it is a ghostly shell but rumoured to still house countless Eldar treasures....which of course is the perfect line to have a constant string of the elf-y bastards trying to loot the place without getting their [[Anal Circumference|assholes ripped apart in 11 dimensions by Slaanesh]].

* Medrengard: The Iron Warriors homeworld in the Eye of Terror. It is basically one big city in constant industrial motion. It is here Perturabo sulks eternally, annoyed his playmate Rogal was silly enough to get himself killed.

* Bubonicus: A daemon world owned by a daemon prince of the same name in service to Nurgle. Visions of this place give psykers across the Imperium terrible <strike>taco-shits</strike> nightmares that probably have some sort of plague mixed in as a bonus.

* Sortiarius, the Planet of the Sorcerers: The world given by Tzeentch to Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons as their new homeworld after the end of the Horus Heresy. It is a world wrecked by warp storms and with towers thrusting out of the crust of the planet. Magnus mostly stays on the planet in his tower with a big eye on it, which is totally not ripping off Sauron, and plans his legion's campaigns <s>against the Imperium</s> for getting more books to nerd out. UPDATE: No longer in the Eye, because Magnus pulled it into real space. [[Just As Planned | JUST AS PLANNED!]]

* Plague Planet: The generically named world of Mortarion. Modeled after a dark reflection of his homeworld, [[Barbarus]], much to [[Typhus]]'s displeasure.

* Oliensis: Devoted to Slaanesh, the entire planet is actually a [[neckbeard|colossal, morbidly obese man curled into a fetal position]] ([[what|yes seriously]]). The planet itself will eat you like a Dorito (and corrupt and regurgitate you) if you try to start shit there, as an [[Judged|unfortunate Space Marine chapter]] found out during a [[Abyssal Crusade|totally fun company-sponsored vacation trip]]. Home of the [[Noise Marines]].

* Xana: the first and the biggest of the [[Dark Mechanicus]] Hellforges, and the primary place where traitors go to get new ships, tanks, daemon engines, armor, [[Dakka | guns and bolts to shoot]] at loyalist scum and each other. Unlike most other Hellforges that were normal daemon-worlds until DarkMechs colonized them Xana used to be a Forgeworld before the Heresy, and get teleported into the Eye after the Heresy failed in pretty much reverse of the ritual that Magnus used later to teleport Sortarius out.

* [[Fulgrim]]'s [[PROMOTIONS|Pleasure Planet]]: No one knows where it is and [[Emperor's Children|many]] have tried to find it, but since no one's succeeded yet it's safe to assume it's either located inaccessibly deep in the Eye or no one who actually located it bothered to leave and tell the others. Knowing the Emperor's Children, it's probably the later.

==Important Personages in the Eye of Terror==

* Chaos Gods - You can't get higher then the arch-dukes of evil themselves. They each claim the worlds of the Eye as their own and spend every second warring to gain control of them, like supervillains trying to outdo each other in world-conquering plots. Khorne's plots focus on [[Exterminatus|slaughtering everyone off each planet]]. Slaanesh tries to recreate his super dick move orgasm attack to take over worlds by [[Anal Circumference|overloading the inhabitants' very own metaphysical assholes into impossible geometries that would make Euclid's brain asplode]]. Tzeentch tries to use his [[Just As Planned|clever plots]] and [[Tomb of Horrors|elaborate deathtraps]] to take over, even if [[Abaddon|Failbaddon the Armless]] is the most frequent victim of such elaborate superdickery. Nurgle just prefers to wait patiently for everything to wear out and rot everything away - good for him, not for anyone else.

* Daemon Primarchs - Each a major or at least legendary player in the Eye, some of the traitor Primarchs have their own worlds while others head the efforts of the different Chaos Gods to claim more for themselves. Because each traitor Primarch is nuttier then a fruitcake by now, they each have different, diverse reasons for warring in the Eye for control.

* Angron - He just wants to kill and rage, as the nails in his daemon-brain make him ever crazier with each passing aeon and his only relief from the rage is MOAR RAGE. Giving worlds to Khorne is just a bonus.

* Fulgrim - No one knows where the fuck he OR his ultimate pleasure world/palace is, but it gives relentless [[Promotions|incentive]] for other traitors to find it. Abaddon met with him on a different planet, so he does get out sometimes, but it's probably pretty rare. After all, with a planet that's supposedly the ultimate pleasure planet, why would anyone want to leave it? Confirmed to have responding to Roboute getting back up by ''pouting''. Fucking '''weak''' man.

* Magnus the Red - He rarely leaves his private tower, but he theoretically constantly aids in Tzeentch's vast plans to conquer everything and sometimes comes out to beat up [[Space Wolves]]. /tg/ likes to joke that he spends most of the time screaming [[Just As Planned]] every time he manages to accomplish common household tasks like dusting the blinds or pouring hellmilk over his daemon-cereal, just to massage his fragile ego after the monumental fuckups his plans seem to keep running into.

* Mortarion - Has his own sweet planet, which he made into a home from home. Like most of the others, he rarely leaves his private quarters, in case his presence makes the plot edge forward. Oh, and the last time he left his planet, a [[Kaldor Draigo|certain someone]] graffiti'd his heart. Change, after all, is anathema to a Nurgalite. Plus, well... would ''you'' invite someone whose B.O. could devastate an entire world without him lifting a finger to your [[Black Crusade|little party]]? [[Typhus]] canonically despises Mortarion for just sitting in his planet and never doing anything.

* Konrad, Horus and Alpharius (maybe) - Too dead to bother with looting and conquering. Jury's still out on Omegon.

* Lorgar - He is meditating. Which he has done for thousands of years. Because Chaos likes to fuck around and give its enemies too many chances. Easily the laziest primarch, and the one with the least excuses for it.

* Perturabo - Mostly stays sulking on his private planet because his sore mood prevents him from getting down to the hard and heavy of fighting. Occasionally he gets off his couch to devastate a Forge World or two.

* Abaddon the Despoiler - Jokes about his incompetence aside, Abaddon didn't get to be the Warmaster of the Black Legion for nothing. If your force runs into his in the Eye, it's probably in your best interest to either submit to the Legion and be subsumed, or run for the hills and pray to your evil gods he's got [[Cadia|something better to do]].

* Fabius Bile - A key player in the Eye, as he produces clone warriors for the traitor legions to boost their ranks and seeks ways to further improve on their genes. Such biological evil pleases Slaanesh immensely.

==Gathering Storm==
During the events of the Gathering Storm, the Eye of Terror changed dramatically. The launch of the 13th Black Crusade coincided with [[Belisarius Cawl]] realizing what the [[Cadian Pylons]] actually did, rushing to Cadia to help. [[Trazyn the Infinite]] then rocked up, and helped Cawl try and close it, because he was bored and wanted to participate in some galactic historical event. The effords of both of these characters actually managed to succeed, and the Eye started to close, but Failbaddon decided to crash a [[Blackstone Fortress]] into Cadia, which destroyed the pylons and allowed the Eye to expand to the point that it enveloped Cadia and connected to the [[Maelstrom]].

The destruction of Cadia and the Pylons created a chain reaction that gave origin to the [[Great Rift]], a massive warpstorm/anomaly that cut the galaxy in half.

==See Also==
*[[Chaos]]
*[[Chaos Space Marines]]
*[[Pit of Raukos]]

[[Category:Chaos]] [[Category:Warhammer 40,000]]

Hell Talon

2018-06-30T08:38:03Z

2001:8003:3895:3A00:FDD8:BDE1:7C4F:7F9F:

[[File:Helltalon.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|And this thing turns into a [[Heldrake]] when it goes too Daemonic.]]
The '''Hell Talon''' is the [[Chaos Space Marines]]' heavy fighter-bomber. Like the [[Hell Blade]], it is made by the heretical [[Forge World]] of Xana from souls, flesh, metal, and [[daemon]]s (or so the [[Imperium]] surmises -- considering that they disintegrate on destruction, it's hard to be sure). You'd think the Imperium would send a Kill Ship to destroy Xana (and any other Chaos Forge World they know of). But no, that wouldn't be grimdark enough and, additionally, most Dark Mechanicum Forge Worlds are basically daemon worlds, which give zero fucks about Exterminatus.

Evidently, [[Chaos Space Marines]] never watched Top Gun and therefore never learned how glorious being a fighter pilot could be, so they hard-wire three [[servitors]] into the cockpit to fly the Hell Talon instead of "demeaning" themselves. They do have a good reason to do this though, daemonic vehicles will eventually eat their crews, and [[Helbrute|Chaos Space Marines don't like being locked in a machine for the rest of their lives.]]

For its role as a fighter, the Hell Talon mounts a twin-linked [[lascannon]] and an [[autocannon]], while also carrying eight firebombs. It can be specialized for anti-infantry by swapping the autocannon for a [[havoc launcher]]. The Hell Talon is extremely daemonic -- it's not a full [[Daemon Engine]] like the [[Heldrake]], but it tears rips in the [[warp]] as it flies and has a tendency to cause vox distortions and hallucinations for forces below. When enough of them fly together, they often seed storms in their wake.

== History ==
Like its little brother, the [[Hell Blade]], the Hell Talon was made by [[Forge World]] around 2006 and given rules in the Imperial Armour Update volume of that year. It was a Heavy Support choice for Chaos Space Marines and the [[Lost and the Damned]]. Forge World also included it in the Chaos army list in [[Aeronautica Imperialis]].

It was updated in [[Imperial Armour Volume Six]] as a heavy-support choice for the "Servants of Decay" and "Servants of Slaughter" variants of the Renegades and Heretics army list as well (they only showed up when the leadership of [[Vraks]] went full Chaos). [[Imperial Armour Aeronautica]] made it fast with the new flyer rules of [[Warhammer 40,000 6th edition|6th edition]], made it beefy (4 HP is more than most transports, and more than any non-super-heavy flyer), increased its price, and moved it into Fast Attack.

{{Chaos Space Marines}}
{{Lost-and-Damned}}
[[Category:Vehicles]]

Hell Talon

2018-06-30T08:37:38Z

2001:8003:3895:3A00:FDD8:BDE1:7C4F:7F9F:

[[File:Helltalon.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|And this thing turns into a [[Heldrake]] when it goes too Daemonic.]]
The '''Hell Talon''' is the [[Chaos Space Marines]]' heavy fighter-bomber. Like the [[Hell Blade]], it is made by the heretical [[Forge World]] of Xana from souls, flesh, metal, and [[daemon]]s (or so the [[Imperium]] surmises -- considering that they disintegrate on destruction, it's hard to be sure). You'd think the Imperium would send a Kill Ship to destroy Xana (and any other Chaos Forge World they know of). But no, that wouldn't be grimdark enough. Most Dark Mechanicum Forge Worlds are basically daemon worlds, and daemon worlds give zero fucks about Exterminatus.

Evidently, [[Chaos Space Marines]] never watched Top Gun and therefore never learned how glorious being a fighter pilot could be, so they hard-wire three [[servitors]] into the cockpit to fly the Hell Talon instead of "demeaning" themselves. They do have a good reason to do this though, daemonic vehicles will eventually eat their crews, and [[Helbrute|Chaos Space Marines don't like being locked in a machine for the rest of their lives.]]

For its role as a fighter, the Hell Talon mounts a twin-linked [[lascannon]] and an [[autocannon]], while also carrying eight firebombs. It can be specialized for anti-infantry by swapping the autocannon for a [[havoc launcher]]. The Hell Talon is extremely daemonic -- it's not a full [[Daemon Engine]] like the [[Heldrake]], but it tears rips in the [[warp]] as it flies and has a tendency to cause vox distortions and hallucinations for forces below. When enough of them fly together, they often seed storms in their wake.

== History ==
Like its little brother, the [[Hell Blade]], the Hell Talon was made by [[Forge World]] around 2006 and given rules in the Imperial Armour Update volume of that year. It was a Heavy Support choice for Chaos Space Marines and the [[Lost and the Damned]]. Forge World also included it in the Chaos army list in [[Aeronautica Imperialis]].

It was updated in [[Imperial Armour Volume Six]] as a heavy-support choice for the "Servants of Decay" and "Servants of Slaughter" variants of the Renegades and Heretics army list as well (they only showed up when the leadership of [[Vraks]] went full Chaos). [[Imperial Armour Aeronautica]] made it fast with the new flyer rules of [[Warhammer 40,000 6th edition|6th edition]], made it beefy (4 HP is more than most transports, and more than any non-super-heavy flyer), increased its price, and moved it into Fast Attack.

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