Editing Gorgers (section)

===The Slaughtering Grounds===

In the cases of major battles against overwhelming force, once victory was achieved the Gorgers would start the preparations for the Ceremony of the Slaughter Grounds. The Gorgers were most of the time sent to worlds with quite strong resistance against Imperial forces. Whether physically or mentally, these people would not give up requiring the brutal hammer that was the XVIIth Legion. The Gorgers would come in a terrifying, non-stop display of violence would eliminate the resistance. The civilians would be mostly sparred but in order to gain their absolute loyalty and show them the cost of defying the Great Crusade and the Imperium, the Gorgers would create a Slaughtering Ground.

These were gigantic holes, surrounded with the iconography and symbols of the legion. Here the corpses of those the Gorgers just crushed would be amassed. Either the Legionnaires themselves or those human soldiers fighting alongside them would gather the leaders of the planet, along with a large following of civilians. The purpose of this was to show them the Ceremony of the Feast, which normally happened behind closed doors as a private enjoyment by the Legionnaires. There was to be no joy here, at the Slaughtering Ground. Those who witnessed that ritual learned the lesson remarkably fast. If you oppose us, you will be consumed. 

The Gorgers would then be free to leave the planet or system to the Imperial regiments, hurrying toward new battles. The planets without exception never made a problem for the Imperium again. The irony of this is during the Hektor Heresy these planets formed the backbone of Loyalist defiance against the Traitors.