Editing Guardians Exemplar (section)

===The Wrath of Angels===

The Guardians Exemplar have proven to be fairly unique among the Adeptus Astartes in that since first contact with the Sacranussians, they have gone out of their way to keep the feral population of their home world from ever civilizing, often going to extreme measures to keep the population as backward as possible, seeing it as a sign of purity. These cataclysmic events often enter the primitive folklore of the tribes, sometimes even becoming part of their religious beliefs. 

One example of this is the Tale of the Sky Tower, an ancient story that dates back to the 37th Millennium. In the story, the Sacranussians are united under a charismatic, young king. The king grew overconfident and believed that he could build a tower large enough to see the top of the mountain; to glimpse this realm in which the angels dwelled. A foolish attempt. When the angels heard of this endeavor, their attacks was swift and terrifying. A blast of unimaginable power fell from the heavens. The tower was obliterated in an instance, taking the young king with it. But this blast was not the extent of their wrath.

Flowing down like a waterfall of hate, the angels descended. Dispensing justice by fire, they slaughtered the Sacranussians with bullets and poisonous gases. Decimating the population in one fell swoop, the Guardians Exemplar made it very clear that the Emperor's chosen sons are not to be meddled with. Then as quickly as they appeared, they vanished once more to their heavenly abode. 

Another example would be the Golden City of Ubaarl, the first permanent settlement established by the Tribesmen since the death of the king almost a thousand years before. Ubaarl quickly became a rich and successful settlement, where merchants from each tribe would descend to trade materials they had retrieved from the sands of Sacranus. However, this again proved to be too much for the Guardians Exemplar. 

Unaware to the Sacranussians, Ubaarl was constructed above a vast system of caverns and caves. Using their knowledge of these caves a small team of Guardians Exemplar marines entered the caverns, planting a chain of melta bombs directly beneath the city. When the bombs were activated an intense thermal heat was unleashed, melting the very ground upon which the city sat. With the ground rapidly vanishing, the city soon collapsed through the ground and fell into the chasm beneath, taking the unfortunate Sacranussians with it. 

Those few Sacranussians unfortunate enough to not only survive the extreme heat and fall, but then to also avoid the crushing debris soon found themselves in a horrifying predicament. They were trapped, lost and doomed to die somewhere within those caverns. As a result, “Ubaarl” has come to mean decadence within the languages of the Sacranussians. 

As a result of these acts, the Sacranussians do not worship the Guardians Exemplar, but instead choose to warily respect them from a distance. It is seen as a blessing to have one's son taken by the chapter, but also as a day of mourning, since the family will never see their beloved child again. 

The Sacranussians never truly seem to learn their lessons and it is only a matter of time before another Ubaarl is built, or another king begins to consider himself above the “white giants of the mountains”.