Editing Exterminatus

[[Image:Exterminatus Retribution.jpg|right|600px|"I didn't expect that kind of Imperial [[Inquisition]]-" '''*BLAM*'''|thumb]] 

'''Exterminatus''' is the [[Imperium of Man|Imperium]]'s biggest middle finger they can give to xenos and [[Chaos]] infestation on their own planets. It basically involves them UTTERLY DESTROYING THE PLANET via heavy orbital bombardment if they see that it would be impossible to re-take the planet by drowning their enemies in corpses, like they always do.

Before you go onto some sort of moral tirade about the morality of blowing the fuck out of a planet, understand the motherfucking context. A world deemed worthy of Exterminatus is one considered past the point where anything can be salvaged from it - whether because it's about to be lost to [[Tyranids|countless ravening giant insects that will zerg-rush and eat fucking everything]] or because it will be turned into a fucking [[Chaos|daemon-and-tentacle-rape-infested shit-pit where neither sanity nor time has any meaning]]. The alternative is fucking glassing a planet and trying to deny it to the enemy or ensure SOMETHING can be fucking saved. It's the last-ditch measure and it's there because the alternative sucks even fucking worse. Well that's the theory, but the [[Grimdark | over the top villainy of Warhammer 40k]] means that the Imperium does sometimes get trigger happy with this, using an Exterminatus on worlds over things like a few of its people coming into contact with alien technology, or a small hint of [[heresy]] that would probably not require killing everything.

[[Deal with it]]. Bitching any further will rile the [[Commissar|Commissariat]]. You have been warned.

==Ways of Exterminatus==
The Imperium has several means for dealing with infestations:

'''Just Shoot the Shit Out of It'''

Saturating planets with oversized lazor cannons larger than apartment buildings is the stereotypical way of nuking the fuck out of something you don't like. Space marine battlebarge bombardment cannons, Nova cannons, Lance batteries and any type of HUEG lazor is often used. An example of this being used is when the [[Dark Angels]] <s>destroyed their homeworld, Caliban, after it was lost to heretics within their chapter</s> AFTER SOMEONE THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO HUNT FOR DINNER FOR OUR NON-HERETICAL AND OBVIOUSLY LOYAL BROTHERS USING THE ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT CANNONS, the [[Night Lords]]' purge of Nostramo, and during the purging of Typhon.

'''Virus Bombs'''

Virus Bombs are biological warheads loaded with the Life Eater virus, a biological payload that causes living tissue (plant or animal) to rot and decompose The general gist is that they spread a virus that spreads by contact that causes necrosis of tissues and rapid decay of plant and animal tissues. This immediate rot causes a buildup of flammable gases, which in turn, can be ignited by one of the lazors above, sweeping the area in firestorms. A relentless bombing of these fucking things is what reduced [[Tallarn]] from a verdant forest world to the desert hellhole it is now. They were also used by [[Horus|Warmaster Horus]] to kill off loyalists in the Traitor Legions during the Istvaan Campaign of the [[Horus Heresy]]. According to [[Amberley Vail]], Virus Bombs are only rarely used now because every time they're used, they feed the fucking [[Nurgle|Plaguefather]].

'''Atmospheric Incinerator Torpedo'''

Atmospheric Incinerator Torpedoes are [[Plasma]] torpedoes that bursts in low planetary orbit and super-heats the atmosphere of a planet until all combustible material ignites. This method of Exterminatus was used on Medusa IV. Pretty much like the Virus Bomb but it skips right to the firestorm and directly turns the planet's surface into hellfire.

'''Cyclonic Torpedoes'''

The primary method of Exterminatus in the 41st millennium, these are basically nukes OD'd on steroids. These capital ship-fired warheads each generate a series of massive self-sustaining reactions, which, when fired in bulk, fuels a much larger reaction that causes the devastation to spread and multiply, eventually glassing the entire world with a thermonuclear holocaust given a sufficient barrage. If you fire enough in the same spot it will break through the crust of a planet causing part of the mantle to erupt out, royally butt fucking the planet in the process (See Fire Warrior End Cinematic). [[Krieg]] is an example of a radioactive perpetual-winter World that survived multiple cyclonic torpedo strikes, though in this case it was on a much smaller scale. This was the method that probably killed Typhon in combination with the above shoot the shit out of it method. (Another theory holds that the bombardment is used to remove anything that might prevent the torpedo from reaching the surface). Only the [[Inquisition]] and the [[Space Marines]] are authorized to carry cyclonic torpedoes, the former because the Inquisition has the authority to do anything, the later because the Imperium believes that if the Space Marines can't beat it, nothing else will.

'''Two-Stage Cyclonic Torpedoes'''

In the two-stage torpedo, they use a [[melta]] charge to burrow into the planet's crust and down to the core. A second thermonuclear charge then goes off causing the planet to break apart Death Star style. Really the only way to deal with Necron Tomb Worlds since due to their undergroundness they aren't overly bothered by the other methods which devastate the surface but leave the planet as a whole mostly intact.

'''Smashing It with a Fucking Moon'''

This method requires radically changing the orbit of the moon in question to a collision course with the planet, and therefore requires the use of several Mechanicus voidships. This method was used to destroy Phaenon Prime when the Virus Bomb failed to wipe out the planet's corruptive influence.

'''[[The World Engine]]'''
A necron planet sized vessel equipped with the largest [[Gauss|gauss weapon]] known to man. Looks like the combination of the Death-Star, Unicron and a Forerunner Shield-World all roled into one. A [[Rape|flying rape-machine of ungodly proportions,]] and needed an entire fleet of several space-marine chapters and a whole Imperial Navy to destroy it. For some reason, it has shields that could withstand the [[Awesome|bombardment of an ''entire navy'',]] [[What|yet it is vulnerable to a ship]] [[Meme|impacting at sufficient velocity.]]

'''[[Samus]]'''

Deployment of a single [[Female Space Marines|female space marine]] on a xenos or chaos infested world. Though surprisingly effective, the [[High Lords of Terra]] and even the Inquisition have yet to formally sanction Samus's use as a method of Exterminatus.  Mainly as she steadfastly claims that while she does leave the enemies of man as smouldering corpses, the planets, star ships, and space hulks blowing up afterwards usually isn't intentional.


'''[[Star Trek|General order 24]]'''

Despite being a bunch of NobleBright space hippies The United Federation of Planets do have their own Exterminatus and call it something really boring because they don't like the  "kill everything on a planet" part.  It's in the "sterilize its surface"  type and each of the USS Enterprise and their respective ship class can solo the job.  And since all of their starships are basically just cruise lines who go have wacky NobleBright High Adventures with their families, in space it really speaks volumes about Teddy Roosevelt's "speak softly and carry a big stick".  Or they would if the writers didn't fuck with the firepower with the setting constantly, so the theory is that their guns for whatever reason loses a lot of punch when not used on planets and not at specific settings (Then Again 40k ships can shurp off Exterminatus-grade weapons just as well, and all it takes to kill everything on a planet is dropping an four mile rock going 12 mps on it something a photon torpedo, which travels at warp 1, can replica).

'''[[Marathon|Trih Xeem]]

One of the things that the Pfhor found in the Jjaro tech cache is a weapon that roughly translates as "Early Nova". As the name suggests, it makes suns go supernova, consuming the nearest planets and burning those just outside of its reach. The Pfhor usually only use it on very serious slave revolts, and don't use often on pure military matters.

'''[[Halo|NOVA!]]'''

Yes even the UNSC have it, being ripped strait out of Starship Troopers, these are literally the Death Star in a can, no kidding. When the UNSC finally realised that all shit is lost and NUKE IT FROM ORBIT! is all but useless, the UNSC high command issue to drop the NOVA bomb that blows apart the planet or moon and all unfortunate bastards to kingdom-come. Made of literally nine-nukes strap together, these bombs are the size of a child (I am not shitting you!) and can have a Slipspace drive attached to it, meaning that it could ''[[Rape|hit anywhere and anyone without difficulty.]]'' Oh! before you mock the UNSC of being retarded, at least they have a pretty kick-ass speech unlike a certain "[[Roboute Guilliman|Girlyman.]]"

The Speech itself-"''“This is the prototype NOVA Bomb, nine fusion warheads encased in lithium triteride armor. When detonated, it compresses its fissionable material to neutron-star density, boosting the thermonuclear yield a hundredfold. I am Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb, temporarily in command of the UNSC military base Reach. To the Covenant uglies that might be listening, you have a few seconds to pray to your damned heathen gods. You all have a nice day in hell...”''-it just reeks of [[Awesome|awesome.]]

'''[[Codex - The Covenant|Glassing]]'''

Another planet killer from Halo, the Covenant are known to "Glass" an entire planet when they are feeling bored or being dicks about it. Similar to "Just Shoot the Shit Out of It", Glassing takes longer then the other Exterminatus weapons but the results are still roughly the same. Glassing is when Covenant ships uses their Energy Projector to literally burn the planets surface until it is but molten rock and ignite the atmosphere Cyclonic Torpedo style. But due to the amount of contradictions prominent in Halo, Glassing can go from being barely lighting a birthday candle to turning an entire planet into a giant crystal ball. This is really more due to the one leading the covenant fleet and how long they fired on the planet. But alas besides what the majority of /tg/ should classified as a "Dead Planet", the [[What|UNSC somehow manage to turn a planet similar to Venus into something similar to the Garden of Eden in a few decades...]] If you want to see REAL Glassing in action, go and read Halo: The Fall of Reach, seriously the planet Reach was so f*cked-up that after a fleet of over ''750 Covenant ships'' finished their daily dicking, the planet looked like a ''[[FATAL|miniature Star.]]''

'''[[Halo|Anything from the Forerunners]]'''

When a single Forerunner criminal-scum blew up a planet, Death Star style, for petty revenge...and nobody practically gave a shit about it...then you know the amount of unholy rape they can bring in to the table. But to be fair, you are looking at guys who shit out stars and planets like a popcorn machine, tilt the axis of an entire Galaxy for shits and giggles, destroy entire proto-universes with their engines for fun and are sitting comfortably in the same power-level as their Culture bros.

'''Star Wars shenanigans'''

It is of no surprise that WH40K's equal, Star Wars have their own Exterminatus. However Star Wars is a little more elaborate on how they would screw someones day, infact Star Wars have ''way too much Superweapons in their disposal''. It can go from the traditional Base Delta Zero, to the most iconic Death Star. One of the weirder/cooler ones includes the Sun Crusher which is essentially the lovechild of an Old One's Blackstone Fortress and a UNSC NOVA bomb. [[Dakka|This shit right there can destroy Stars from another end of the Galaxy, and fire it once every minute or so...]][[Rape|rape ensures.]] And to let you guys know, those are only a fraction of the amount of [[Rape|rape]] Star Wars can bring.

'''[[Starcraft|Protoss "Glassing"]]'''

Think of them as the more powerful version of the Covenant Glassing, while the Covenant only Glass the crust of the planet, the Protoss Glass ''right down to the mantel.'' Very overpowered in their universe, and the main reason why the Protoss can beat both Tau and Covenant in a versus match...until the Covenant decide to [[Meme|Zerg-rush them with numbers]] or the Tau use their big guns and aim it at their mothership, then god help the Protoss. They are still the only race in Starcraft powerful enough to survive and thrive in WH40K however, and in most cases ''are actually stronger then the Imperium of Man.'' Hilariously outside of [[Primarchs|high-tier WH40K units,]] [[Titans 40k|apocalypse-units]] [[Psyker|and psykers,]] [[What|Protoss units are actually more overpowered then their Eldar or Covenant counterparts, contrary to popular beliefs.]]

'''Drej mothership beam'''

From a forgotten anime movie called "Titan A.E.". Drej, a race of alien made out of pure energy, realize the "project Titan" humans are making might lead to their doom, so they exterminatus the humans planet BEFORE humans could do anything against Drej their ass. This leads the rest of surviving human to become space-faring and living in grimdark life with the aliens. But as always, the humans still manage to make a great comeback in the end (not gonna spoiler or anything) and exterminatus Drej's mothership with Titan's very own deathstar beam. Oh and did I mentioned Drej's mothership looked kinda like starcraft 2's void ray?

==IRL Exterminatus==

'''SAGE Bombing'''

The electronic equivalent of Exterminatus, a Sagebomb is achieved by repeatedly using the SAGE tag on a thread, ergo reducing its priority. When fired in bulk by multiple users simultaneously, such barrages of SAGE are capable of dragging almost any thread screaming down to the depths of a given imageboard, where they will eventually be purged. The ultimate fate for all threads containing [[Furry]] and similar [[Heresy]].

...Or at least that's how many fa/tg/uys think it works. 

SAGE is supposed to add a "negative" response to a given thread, ergo reducing its apparent post-count. Because such a system would be easy to [[troll]] others, however, SAGE instead is used simply to reply without bumping a given thread. In [[Dungeons and Dragons|olden times]], SAGE ''did'' work that way supposedly, however, and was a tool of righteous wrath. Sagebombing still has an effect to the extent that once a thread passes the "autosage" limit it can no longer be bumped even by normal posts, and so even if it is still active it will still sink to the bottom of the board and into the depths of deletion; hence a large number of zero-content SAGEs will hasten the demise of the thread without bumping it in the process, although they do not actively cause the thread's departure.

'''An asteroid'''

Really, at it takes to kill everything on a planet is a big enough rock travelling fast enough.  Normally its the cloud of dusk that is kicked up into the atmosphere and blocks out the sun does most of the work.  Of course this doesn't really work too well on a forge or hiveworld which is already like that.


'''William Tecumseh Sherman'''
[[File:Tree creed.JPG|200px|thumb|right|The only tree Khorne will ever decorated with bloody corpses on Christmas.]]
William, an Union commander and a [[Creed|tactical genius]], is known for nuking a lot of pretty places like Atlanta and pwning every [[Chaos Space Marine|Confederates]] and [[Tau|Native American]] he faced. He invented the total war strategy, which it is basically the earliest form of exterminatus, <s>rape, pillage, plunder</s> Sherman didn't do any of these things and went out of his way in preventing civilian deaths and harshly punished any of his solders he fond doing them meaning he's old-school Khrone, then [[Sisters of Battle|burns every fucking thing down to ashes]]. Because of his hatred for everything, he becomes the [[Spiritual liege|spiritual forefather]] of [[/b/|anonymous]], [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|for the fact he has shown those basement dweller the true meaning to be humans]]. He probably ascended to daemonhood of Khorne after his death, like pretty much all extremely badass warlords.

'''Nine familial exterminations'''
To put it simply, you and your family, grandmother, ancestor, cats and children are going to fucking hell!!! It is the most serious punishment created in the ancient [[Imperium|imperial china]] in order to erase heresy stains at that time period.

==The Fall of Typhon==
''Good to know there's a ceremony for blowing up a planet.''

We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge.<br>
In fealty to the God-Emperor (our ''undying'' Lord) and by the Grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial World of Typhon Primaris.<br>
I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world and consign a million souls to oblivion.<br>
May Imperial Justice account in all balance.<br>
The Emperor Protects.

==The Words of Gabriel Angelos==
It is human nature to seek culpability in a time of tragedy. It is a sign of strength to cry out against fate, rather than to bow one's head and succumb. Inevitably many will fault the hands upon the sword which felled Typhon, the Ordo Malleus. But the Inquisition merely performs the duty of its office. To further fear them is redundant; to hate them, heretical. Those more sensible will place responsibility with those who forced the hands of the Inquisition. With some fortune, they may foster this hatred into purpose, and further rule their own fate by coming to the Emperor's service.

Yet ultimately, it was I who set these events into motion, with a single blow from my hammer, God Splitter.

-End-


Fuck, that's deep. The use of a properly modified version of this quote from Dawn of War Retribution has proved highly effective in saging furfag troll threads and thus has been sanctioned by the holy /tg/ Inquisition for public use (keep it on /tg/).

==Exterminatus on the Tabletop==
Though not the most effective of lists, it is particularly hilarious and surprisingly fluffy to declare Exterminatus on large table games of 40k. The general gist is to simply stock up on as many large blast templates fired from off table as possible, whether via army list or stratagems. One relatively simple list is to simply take a [[Grey Knights]] army, field a single Bro-Capt. or Grand Master with an orbital Strike Relay, [[Witch Hunters|Karamazov]] (who also has one) and two troop choices (if you're playing a regular game -- if you're playing [[Apocalypse]], you can skip the troops) Then cram in as many Techmarines as you can, give them all Orbital Strike Relays and watch the bombs drop. For the average 3000 point game, you can get Krazypants off and 20 bare-bones techies with the relays. that's 21 Strength 10 AP1 pie-plates smashing down on your opponents Baneblades, Warhounds and other special hard-as-balls to kill shit your opponents have! Also great for swarm-busting (the relays can fire D3 pieplates each per guy but at Strength 6). Picture Krazypantsoff standing on a hilltop, pointing at buildings and going "Bang.", then watching them all blow up. Of course, if the Inquisitor dies, you're fucked. So maybe just camp him in cover. But that's only if you're lame.

For those of you with enough money to field the Horus Heresy army list from Forge World, Horus can call down an orbital strike with infinite range and S10 AP1 from anywhere on the map. Now you can reenact the Istvaan III atrocities yourself!

For an Apocalypse game you can also field an exterminatus guard force.
All you need is:
n * 6 guardsmen (one with a vox).
The list is fairly simple - Just field as many Company Command Squads with nothing but Master of Ordinance and fire away (for a 3k game its almost 38 s9 ap3 blasts a turn)
Don't forget to field some epic(troll) music to laugh at your opponents face, and after the battle proceed with knocking the table down to finish with a speech gritty nuff to make Sturnn himself proud.

==TL;DR==
You fuckers just backed Chaos and now you have a daemon infestation? Your planet 'gon git [[FATAL|raaaaaaaaaaaaaaped]].

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File:Red nuke button turned into EXTERMINATUS.png|Suffer not the Furry to live
File:Exterminatusthread.jpg|The E-quisition vigilantly purges the Emperor's internets of chaos taint.
File:Foxy Lady.jpg|If the inhabitants of a planet remotely resembles this creature, it's guaranteed to be exterminatused upon discovery. If pictures like this are found on a thread in /tg/, it's guaranteed to be saged and trolled upon discovery
File:Halo-reach-condemened-defiant-map-pack.png|If said inhabitants started space-faring like a certain [[Chakat|Chakat]], then you could call your local Inquisition or any Xeno manly enough to [[Get shit done|get shit done, just like the Covenant shown in the image.]]
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File:Rocks are not free citizen.jpg|Don't suggest bolides as a method of exterminatus.
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Vidya:
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNc242mbiUs&feature=channel_video_title
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYXj9xOUFIM

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