Editing Desert Fangs (section)

===Homeworld===

''"Go back to your homeworld, brother. Go back to [[Voralia]]. Take your Legion with you. Protect your people. We can handle these traitors on our own – you need not be present for this blood-feud."'' - [[Alpharius]] (or [[Omegon]]) to Rachnus Rageous

Voralia was a relatively large world (~2.5 Terran masses) which orbited very close to its star with a low axial tilt, and was consequently covered in a desert which remained more-or-less constant all year round. Voralia's harsh environment left human settlers with few choices. By digging deep enough, a village could obtain water; in practice, this was only possible where the land was already very low, like in canyons, caves, and craters (for example, Rachnus's adoptive tribe dwelled inside the crater of a long-extinct volcano). The lack of environmental diversity and scarcity of natural resources meant that the ecosystem was rather simple; in general, the only large native animals were lizards and Sandlegs, spider-like creatures the size of Terran wolves. The latter proved mildly domesticatable, and were extensively used as mounts, hunting animals, and companions of a sort. Indeed, the Desert Fangs made extensive use of specially augmented Sandlegs as an all-purpose cavalry; the first and most famous of these was Rachnus's own companion and mount, named Fire Strider.

Voralia was not on any major trade routes and had relatively primitive technology, but they were not spared during the Horus Heresy; Horus was aware of the Desert Fangs' skill as an anti-Chaos force, and in the lead-up to the Drop Site Massacre, he was worried that the Desert Fangs would somehow sabotage his plan. To remove them from the equation, he convinced Primarch [[Tialoc]] and his [[Sky Serpents]], Legion XI, that the Desert Fangs were traitors, and ordered them to go to Voralia and capture Rachnus, or destroy the Second Legion. Alpharius warned Rachnus about this plan, and so the Desert Fangs' fleet fled Isstvan for Voralia, where they found that the Sky Serpents had established a blockade. Rachnus ordered a few shots fired and then a retreat to Isstvan, hoping to lure Tialoc away from Voralia and into a trap filled with seven loyal Space Marine Legions. When they exited the Warp, they found the remains of a terrible battle, and when the Sky Serpents failed to arrive for many hours, they realized that their gambit had failed: the Sky Serpents hadn't taken the bait, but had instead chosen to stay around Voralia and destroy it. Such was the Desert Fangs' fury at Horus's deception and the loss of their homeworld that the Sky Serpents were all but annihilated when they did give chase.

After the Horus Heresy, the Desert Fangs returned to what was left of Voralia to pay their respects to the dead, when they discovered a [[Necron]] tomb (although they did not recognize it as such at the time) which had been unearthed by the orbital bombardment. It seems that the Second Legion's abnormally high number of Silencers was not entirely coincidental. Alpharius advised Rachnus to destroy the tomb, having found that they seemed to bring misfortune wherever they appeared; reasoning that Voralia should rest in peace, and not be troubled by the undead machines, the Desert Fangs turned their fleet's guns on the tomb.

Since then, the Desert Fangs split.  The majority of their number became the fleet-based [[Angry Marines]], recruiting the angriest hive-dwelling youth from the worlds from which they resupply, and channeling their rage to fight for the [[Imperium]].  Rachnus Rageous himself took his Legion's Silencers and established a foothold in the depths of the Eye of Terror on a stable world, periodically emerging to gather any untouchables they can find and bring back with them. Almost the entire population of the planet is composed of untouchables, and they provide a steady, stable stock of aspirants.