Editing Xenos (section)

==''Warhammer 40,000''==
In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', the [[Imperium of Man]] uses "xenos" as a catch-all derogatory term for any non-human life forms. For example, the [[Ordo Xenos]] is the branch of the [[Inquisition]] which deals with aliens, and they have whole litanies about what happens to Xenos they get their hands on, like "Mark of the Xenos" (also the name of a [[Deathwatch]] [[Monster Manual|supplement]]).

Please note that "Xenos" is the plural AND singular spelling of the noun and adjective. This practise of using the unified form of this term for both singular and plural is inconsistent with the actual declension of 'xenos', which takes Greek inflections to reflect case and number as a noun, and case, number, and gender as an adjective. The technical plural form of 'xenos' in the nominative is 'xenoi' and accusative as 'xenon.' "xeno-" is a prefix used to denote the xenos origin of something, and Xeno is a character from [[Tau Quest]] whose name derives from "xeno-abomination".

If a scenario like that of ''Alien Nation'' or ''Men in Black'' happened in which extraterrestrials come to [[Earth]] in search of citizenship, the word Xenos would quickly become listed as Hate Speech due to the actions of [[/tg/]].