Editing Rachnus Rageous (section)

==[[Great Crusade]]==

Thanks to their [[gene-seed]], all [[Desert Fangs]] possessed an innate resistance to the powers of [[Chaos]], while Blanks' abilities were dramatically enhanced.  As such, the Desert Fangs were extremely effective at liberating Chaos-held worlds.

The Desert Fangs became close allies with the [[Alpha Legion]] when they cooperated to liberate the world of Zeol.  [[Alpharius]] (or [[Omegon]]) quickly realized the tactical potential of the Desert Fangs.  First, he used the Legion's Silencers to mask strategic planning sessions from daemonic scrying, while loudly discussing false plans when the Silencers weren't around, in order to misdirect the enemy.  He then suggested that the Desert Fangs use their Sandlegs to burrow directly into the main ritual sites, where a Silencer task force could decapitate the Chaotic occupiers in one strike.  The plan worked flawlessly; Rachnus himself, along with his Sandleg Fire Strider, [[not as planned|annihilated a Lord of Change in single-combat]], and after the ritual site was destroyed, the resistance collapsed, and Zeol was held by the Imperium within a week.

The Desert Fangs cooperated extensively with the [[Alpha Legion]] after that, and were on good terms with the [[Space Wolves]], with healthy (and distant) respect for the [[Thousand Sons]], but their tactical unorthodoxy led to friction with [[Roboute Guilliman]] and the [[Ultramarines]].  This tension came to a head at the meeting at Ullanor, when Rachnus threw a gravyboat at Guilliman's head, starting a food fight among the Primarchs. Needless to say, this makes him [[awesome]].