Editing Laer (section)

==History==
During the Great Crusade, an expeditionary fleet of the Emperor's Children discovered the Laer species on the planet of Laeran. And just one planet. Apparently, even though the xenos were highly technologically advanced and quite capable of space travel, they didn't have more than a single planet, their homeworld. It was a world of one giant ocean, with all of the Laer living on giant artificial floating islands suspended by hover-tech that the Mechanicum really wanted. Assuming they would be easy targets, imperial forces attacked the world, and were immediately curbstomped. In fact, the fight against the Laer was so difficult that many imperial authorities considered offering the Laer the possibility of becoming a protectorate, [[heresy|so that they could learn from their tech]] (though, in all honesty, it was mostly to gain some time before consolidating their forces and exterminating them). The Primarch Fulgrim, hearing this, became offended and swore to kill the xenos vermin himself, and so he launched his legion against the aliens. He was told it would take decades to do, and so shot back that he'd have them all dead within a month. After a short but brutal war with horrendous losses on both sides, the Laer were all killed within those 30 days, [[awesome|the last of the species fighting to the last snake defending their temples]]. However, Fulgrim observed the motion of their islands and determined which one was the "central" one that all the others moved around, making sure to save that one for a final ground assault led by himself. During this assault, Fulgrim charged into a strange yonic temple...