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	Repulsive on the outside as well as on the inside, the inscrutable Slaugth are uninvited guests from the dark times that are better left forgotten. Arrogant to the point of a severe egomania, they consider themselves to be the true heirs to the Old Ones and the ~~Galaxy~~ their lawful inheritance, squatted by savage races and infested by vermin during their unwilling absence. Consequently, they see themselves as the only creatures worthy of free will and intellectual work, viewing every other race as either potential slaves or an obstacle on their way to absolute power. A crushing defeat at the hands of the Imperium of Man during the early stages of the Great Crusade forced them to form the [[Xenos Compact of Free Galactic Interchange\|Compact of Free Galactic Interchange]] with four other races that they otherwise wouldn't consider worthy of kissing the ground they slither on, but few within its ruling council have any doubts that the Slaugth will betray their allies as soon as the right time comes. And may the Emperor be with us when it does.		Repulsive on the outside as well as on the inside, the inscrutable '''Slaugth''' are uninvited guests from the dark times that are better left forgotten. Arrogant to the point of a severe egomania, they consider themselves to be the true heirs to the Old Ones and the galaxy to be their lawful inheritance, squatted by savage races and infested by vermin during their unwilling absence. Consequently, they see themselves as the only creatures worthy of free will and intellectual work, viewing every other race as either potential slaves or an obstacle on their way to absolute power. A crushing defeat at the hands of the Imperium of Man during the early stages of the Great Crusade forced them to form the [[Xenos Compact of Free Galactic Interchange\|Compact of Free Galactic Interchange]] with four other races that they otherwise wouldn't consider worthy of kissing the ground they slither on, but few within its ruling council have any doubts that the Slaugth will betray their allies as soon as the right time comes. And may the Emperor be with us when it does.

	==History==		==History==
			To most Inquisitors and Magi of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the origin of the Slaugth is one of the greatest mysteries the Galaxy can offer. They clearly display a baroque and sophisticated culture and a level of technology that must have taken countless millennia to develop, yet there are absolutely no records of their presence anywhere in the Galaxy prior to the Great Crusade. Likewise, there are no relics of their presence to be found anywhere from Ultima Macharia to the Eastern Fringe. It's almost like the abominable worm people just suddenly materialized in Segmentum Pacificus out of nowhere.
	To most Inquisitors and Magi of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the origin of the Slaugth is one of the greatest mysteries the Galaxy can offer. They clearly display a baroque and sophisticated culture and a level of technology that must have taken countless millennia to develop, yet there are absolutely no records of their presence anywhere in the Galaxy prior to the Great Crusade. Likewise, there are no relics of their presence to be found anywhere from Ultima Macharia to the Eastern Fringe. It's almost like the abominable worm people just suddenly ~~materialised~~ in Segmentum Pacificus out of nowhere.

	Only the great Craftworld libraries of the Eldar hold the answer to this enigma. And yet, the tomes describing the rise and fall of the Slaugth are covered with centuries-thick layers of dust and locked behind impenetrable wrathbone contraptions that only the Farseers can unlock, should the need arise. For the Eldar do not remember the time of the worms fondly, and wish they could erase this grim page from the annals of history. But nothing is ever that simple. The Slaugth live, and the traces of their evil will forever permeate the Galaxy even if their vile kind is exterminated.		Only the great Craftworld libraries of the Eldar hold the answer to this enigma. And yet, the tomes describing the rise and fall of the Slaugth are covered with centuries-thick layers of dust and locked behind impenetrable wrathbone contraptions that only the Farseers can unlock, should the need arise. For the Eldar do not remember the time of the worms fondly, and wish they could erase this grim page from the annals of history. But nothing is ever that simple. The Slaugth live, and the traces of their evil will forever permeate the Galaxy even if their vile kind is exterminated.

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	==Notable Sons and Daughters==		==Notable Sons and Daughters==

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	The Ethereals and the Vespid Foremen were surprised when they received an invitation by the Board of Principals. Much to their puzzlement, they were treated as equals aboard the Vermidrome housing the ruling council of the maggot men. And, of course, they could hardly believed their ears when Principal Txont himself asked them to accept the Slaugth into their alliance. Instead of a Tau-Vespid pact, he proposed a much grander structure - the Compact of Free Galactic Interchange, a pan-Galactic organisation focused on trade and self-defence, open to any race that would like to join it. Within the Compact, any Xenos race could strive for prosperity and enrichment without its bare existence being threatened by the darker forces of the Galaxy, such as the ~~Forces of Chaos~~ or the Imperium of Man. While the Tau were greatly suspicious of their former masters and rushed to decline the proposal, the Vespid Foremen got extremely agitated on mentioning of the Imperium - it seemed that the speech of Principal Txont hit a nerve with them. They immediately agreed to the creation of the Compact and put an ultimatum to their Tau allies - either they join together, or they abandon their alliance. Ultimata were, after all, the only form of diplomacy the Vespid recognised. The Tau realised that without the Vespid ~~support~~ they would have to face the brutal vengeance of their overlords, and so they begrudgingly agreed to join the new Galactic alliance.		The Ethereals and the Vespid Foremen were surprised when they received an invitation by the Board of Principals. Much to their puzzlement, they were treated as equals aboard the Vermidrome housing the ruling council of the maggot men. And, of course, they could hardly believed their ears when Principal Txont himself asked them to accept the Slaugth into their alliance. Instead of a Tau-Vespid pact, he proposed a much grander structure - the Compact of Free Galactic Interchange, a pan-Galactic organisation focused on trade and self-defence, open to any race that would like to join it. Within the Compact, any Xenos race could strive for prosperity and enrichment without its bare existence being threatened by the darker forces of the Galaxy, such as the Ruinous Powers or the Imperium of Man. While the Tau were greatly suspicious of their former masters and rushed to decline the proposal, the Vespid Foremen got extremely agitated on mentioning of the Imperium - it seemed that the speech of Principal Txont hit a nerve with them. They immediately agreed to the creation of the Compact and put an ultimatum to their Tau allies - either they join together, or they abandon their alliance. Ultimata were, after all, the only form of diplomacy the Vespid recognised. The Tau realised that without support from the Vespid they would have to face the brutal vengeance of their former overlords, and so they begrudgingly agreed to join the new Galactic alliance.

	"If you can't defeat them, lead them" - so says an ancient Slaugth proverb. After realising that they stood no chance in an open confrontation with the Tau-Vespid alliance, the Slaugth opted to pull the same trick on them as they did on the Eldar millions of years ago - become their trusted allies and slowly usurp the real power in the alliance through a combination of shrewd politicking, intrigue and a liberal usage of mind control. Once in the familiar position of the shadowy mastermind, they could easily manipulate both the Tau and the Vespid into doing their bidding, without ever realising they're being used. Of course, posing as equals to ~~galactic savages~~ was extremely humiliating to the ancient Slaugth, but at this point they were willing to sacrifice their pride to achieve their goals.		"If you can't defeat them, lead them" - so says an ancient Slaugth proverb. After realising that they stood no chance in an open confrontation with the Tau-Vespid alliance, the Slaugth opted to pull the same trick on them as they did on the Eldar millions of years ago - become their trusted allies and slowly usurp the real power in the alliance through a combination of shrewd politicking, intrigue and a liberal usage of mind control. Once in the familiar position of the shadowy mastermind, they could easily manipulate both the Tau and the Vespid into doing their bidding without ever realising they're being used. Of course, posing as equals to savage primitives was extremely humiliating to the ancient Slaugth, but at this point they were willing to sacrifice their pride to achieve their goals.

	Several decades after the founding of the Compact, its armed forces were put to test for the first time. The enemy came from the Galactic North East, carried by ships that used advanced Abominable Intelligence rather than Navigators to plot a safe course through the Warp. After the first skirmishes with the mysterious foe's relentless robotic hordes, the Slaugth started suspecting that the Necrons had awoken to reclaim the Galaxy as their own. But the truth was much more bizarre than that: the Compact was attacked by the forces of the Grand Reconquista, a large scale campaign of conquest conducted by the humans from the world of Terra. ~~That~~ may sound familiar, but there is a catch to it: this Terra was located in the Scutum–Centaurus Arm of the Galaxy rather than in the Orion Arm. Although these humans abhorred genetic modification and relied on robogogy instead, they were every bit as belligerent and well-versed in the art of war as their namesakes from Segmentum Solar. Even the combined forces of the Compact found this foe too strong for them, and, for a time, many Principals believed the Compact had outlived its usefulness and needed to be abandoned. However this war was eventually interrupted by a well-timed invasion from the Imperium of Man. The Xenos and the Humans of the galactic East were forced to band together to stand a chance against the might of the Imperium. When the Imperial forces were repelled, the Compact had one more member: the Empire of Humanity.		Several decades after the founding of the Compact, its armed forces were put to test for the first time. The enemy came from the Galactic North East, carried by ships that used advanced Abominable Intelligence rather than Navigators to plot a safe course through the Warp. After the first skirmishes with the mysterious foe's relentless robotic hordes, the Slaugth started suspecting that the Necrons had awoken to reclaim the Galaxy as their own. But the truth was much more bizarre than that: the Compact was attacked by the forces of the Grand Reconquista, a large scale campaign of conquest conducted by the humans from the world of Terra. This may sound familiar, but there is a catch to it: this Terra was located in the Scutum–Centaurus Arm of the Galaxy rather than in the Orion Arm. Although these humans abhorred genetic modification and relied on robogogy instead, they were every bit as belligerent and well-versed in the art of war as their namesakes from Segmentum Solar. Even the combined forces of the Compact found this foe too strong for them, and, for a time, many Principals believed the Compact had outlived its usefulness and needed to be abandoned. However this war was eventually interrupted by a well-timed invasion from the Imperium of Man. The Xenos and the Humans of the galactic East were forced to band together to stand a chance against the might of the Imperium. When the Imperial forces were repelled, the Compact had one more member: the Empire of Humanity.

	The expansion of the Compact continued when the enigmatic Saharduin decided to join the organisation. The Slaugth were appalled by their blatant worship of the C'tan, which they still hated and considered the greatest threat to the Galaxy even sixty million years after the War in Heavens. However, the Tau and the Humans insisted on accepting the Saharduin into the Compact, not least of all to weaken the Slaugth influence. Their calculations proved correct, and the accession of the Saharduin ended the era of Slaugth dominance. The Principals realised, much to their annoyance, that the Compact was slowly turning from an asset into a hindrance. Perhaps it was finally the time to leave this ridiculous spectacle behind and move on; time to pit the other Compact members against each other and enslave those who would manage to survive in this conflict. The age of subtle manipulation was nearing its end; the dawn of the Neo-Slaugt Empire was about to break...		The expansion of the Compact continued when the enigmatic Saharduin decided to join the organisation. The Slaugth were appalled by their blatant worship of the C'tan, which they still hated and considered the greatest threat to the Galaxy even sixty million years after the War in Heavens. However, the Tau and the Humans insisted on accepting the Saharduin into the Compact, not least of all in order to weaken the Slaugth influence. Their calculations proved correct, and the accession of the Saharduin ended the era of Slaugth dominance. The Principals realised, much to their annoyance, that the Compact was slowly turning from an asset into a hindrance. Perhaps it was finally the time to leave this ridiculous spectacle behind and move on; time to pit the other Compact members against each other and enslave those who would manage to survive in this conflict. The age of subtle manipulation was nearing its end; the dawn of the Neo-Slaugt Empire was about to break...

	==Biology==		==Biology==

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	The masters of the yellow ships turned out to be similar to their creations - unsightly, monstrous humanoids combining the ugliest features of crustaceans, chiropterans and insects. They behaved in the Vermidrome like if they owned the place, scratching the interiors with the numerous spikes of their chitinous armour and leaving stains on everything they touched with their dirty hands. The Vespid could even pass for bipedal animals, were it not for the heavy arms they carried, which were as brutal and hard-featured as their spaceships. Although the Slaugth were aghast with the complete lack of manners their uninvited guests displayed, they agreed to their demands of meeting the Board of Principals. Disregarding any diplomatic courtesy, the apparent leader of the Vespid plainly ordered the Slaugth lords to leave their Tau allies alone and immediately withdraw all Intendants from T'au. Otherwise, he threatened to exterminate all Slaugth, and, from what little the Principals had seen of the Vespid, they suspected the insectoids were incapable of lying or bluffing.		The masters of the yellow ships turned out to be similar to their creations - unsightly, monstrous humanoids combining the ugliest features of crustaceans, chiropterans and insects. They behaved in the Vermidrome like if they owned the place, scratching the interiors with the numerous spikes of their chitinous armour and leaving stains on everything they touched with their dirty hands. The Vespid could even pass for bipedal animals, were it not for the heavy arms they carried, which were as brutal and hard-featured as their spaceships. Although the Slaugth were aghast with the complete lack of manners their uninvited guests displayed, they agreed to their demands of meeting the Board of Principals. Disregarding any diplomatic courtesy, the apparent leader of the Vespid plainly ordered the Slaugth lords to leave their Tau allies alone and immediately withdraw all Intendants from T'au. Otherwise, he threatened to exterminate all Slaugth, and, from what little the Principals had seen of the Vespid, they suspected the insectoids were incapable of lying or bluffing.

	And so, with thousands of Vespid strangelet projectors aimed at the last cities of their race, the Slaugth had no choice but to abandon the Tau project. The Intendants were told to return to the Vermidromes, and the Ethereals were formally given complete freedom to rule their race as they see fit. With their ingenious plan foiled by their own rebellious creations, the Board of Principals descended into raving fury not seen since the War of Sword and Tentacle. But an ancient and devious race such as theirs ~~would~~ never allow emotions to cloud their judgement. The Slaugth were used to looking for opportunities even in the direst of circumstances, and so they quickly came up with a plan to turn this horrible fiasco to their advantage. Instead of one slave race to pit against the Imperium, they would now get two!		And so, with thousands of Vespid strangelet projectors aimed at the last cities of their race, the Slaugth had no choice but to abandon the Tau project. The Intendants were told to return to the Vermidromes, and the Ethereals were formally given complete freedom to rule their race as they see fit. With their ingenious plan foiled by their own rebellious creations, the Board of Principals descended into raving fury not seen since the War of Sword and Tentacle. But an ancient and devious race such as theirs could never allow emotions to cloud their judgement. The Slaugth were used to looking for opportunities even in the direst of circumstances, and so they quickly came up with a plan to turn this horrible fiasco to their advantage. Instead of one slave race to pit against the Imperium, they would now get two!

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 Fio'Taun was the first documented occasion when the Ethereals made their presence known, but many others soon followed all across the globe. Some showed up in the mountain cities of the Celestial Utopia and explained to their racist citizens that making business with the lowland dwellers is much more profitable than exterminating them. Some visited gatherings of the Wet Shroud monks and offered them to drop all pretence and embrace their role as information brokers. Wherever they went, their preachings achieved great success. Was the Diocetic Gland responsible for it, or did their teachings simply appeal to the nature of the Tau? Nobody can say for sure, not even Principal Txont. Regardless, in several years the cult of the Bottom Line managed to unite the entire planet for the first time in history. The four nations of T'au became four castes, grand empires were replaced with megacorporations led by the Ethereals. And the Ethereals secretly answered to their Slaugth Lords.
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	It was clear to the Slaugth that in order to turn the Tau into a formidable spacefaring civilisation that could effectively oppose the Imperium, they first needed to unite them as a race, give them a common purpose. The opinions of the Principals divided on how this needed to be done. The more straightforward of them proposed to conquer the Tau, those with more subtlety suggested to use mind control to steer the race into the right direction. But Principal Txont had a much better plan. One that involved remaking the Tau society from scratch.		It was clear to the Slaugth that in order to turn the Tau into a formidable spacefaring civilisation that could effectively oppose the Imperium, they first needed to unite them as a race, give them a common purpose. The opinions of the Principals divided on how this needed to be done. The more straightforward of them proposed to conquer the Tau, those with more subtlety suggested to use mind control to steer the race into the right direction. But Principal Txont had a much better plan. One that involved remaking the Tau society from scratch.

			===Enter the Ethereals===

			The first stage of his plan involved kidnapping thousands of Tau. This wasn't particularly hard to accomplish, since by this point all four major nations of the planet were infiltrated by Slaugth Intendants using their psychic powers to pass as ordinary Tau. Slaves, prisoners, vagrants, everybody who wouldn't be missed was tranquillised, shoved into slimy galleys and brought to Principal Txont's nightmarish biomanteion. No one save for the Slaugth lord himself can tell what sadistic experiments these unfortunates were subjected to, and probably for the better. He turned innumerous innocents into slobbering freaks of nature, and those who escaped this fate learned the true meaning of pain. Rumours were abound that the Principal could have finished his project in a couple of months if he didn't enjoy toying with a brand new slave race so much. Regardless, after several years of research and experiments, Txont was ready to present his creation - a new subspecies of Tau.

			His children looked surprisingly seemly for creations of a Slaugth biomancer. Not too different from the four main Tau races, they were marked with unnatural beauty, unattainable for beings born of copulation rather than grown in a vat. But what really set them apart from the normal Tau was the diamond-shaped bone crest in the middle of their foreheads. This crest served to protect the weapon with which Txont aimed to conquer T'au without a single shot, his diabolical masterpiece - the Diocetic Gland. This small organ exuded a powerful pheromone which made all Tau and, to an extent, most other sentient species docile and obedient by suppressing their individuality and critical thinking. A small band of such mutant Tau could easily take over the entire planet by simply ordering everybody to surrender and submit to their rule. But such crude interventionism went against the Principal's love for subtle manipulation. And so, instead of arming his minions and sending them to the planet below, he began training and instructing them for their upcoming mission.

			The Siege of Fio'Taun marked a pivotal point in the history of Tau. This battle was the final stage of a dastardly scheme concocted by the city's despot Fio'El Shes'kra. Months ago, he had set the events that led to the siege in motion by selling lots of rifles and even some cannons from the city arsenal to the marauding tribes of the western steppes. To make sure that Fio'Taun would come under siege, he tipped off a Wet Shroud bishop to encourage the nomads to attack the wealthy city. The despot planned to wait until the city walls are inevitably breached and use the ensuing chaos to steal the contents of the city treasury, only to blame the raiders for it. Better still, he could then ask the central government for some gold to pay the workers for rebuilding the walls - most of which would, of course, end up in his own pocket. His plan was nearly perfect and it definitely would have worked, were it not for a most unexpected intervention.

			In the middle of the siege, when it seemed like the megalithic walls of the city were finally beginning to crumble, two figures clad in expensive robes walked leisurely onto the battlefield. Bullets and shurikens pierced the air around them, explosions raised fountains of dirt mere paces away from the two, heat rays focused by parabolic mirrors melted the very ground they walked on, and yet the mysterious strangers were completely unharmed, as if protected by some strange power beyond comprehension. Eventually they started drawing gazes of soldiers on both sides of the walls; even the despot found himself strangely drawn to the spectacle in front of the city gates. Meanwhile, the strangers walked up to one of the helepolises used by the besiegers and ascended to the platform on its top. None of the soldiers guarding it dared to stop them.

			Once they had the full attention of every soldier on the battlefield, the two began to preach. Not in a stern, profound voice expected of a prophet; instead, they talked fast and smooth, like a pair of seasoned advertisers pitching a new project. Their words were not particularly wise or enlightening, but they were brimming with common sense and harsh materialism. The strangers said that violence was unnecessary, unless it was profitable; that in the long term, commerce was much more lucrative than war. They pointed out that by hiring the nomads to guard their settlements, the city dwellers would avoid much greater costs of constantly rebuilding ruined fortifications, and the nomads would get a steady inflow of income that would eventually exceed the sporadic spoils from their infrequent and dangerous raids. Several times they mentioned the great Bottom Line, a philosophical concept that was central to their teachings. It stated that the value of any action depended only on the profit gained as a result, and nothing else. Ideals, principles, dreams and aspirations were all illusionary and insignificant, serving only to lead astray from the path to wealth and success.

			Everybody present found the extremely materialistic philosophy of the twin preachers much to his liking. The warlike nomads were seduced by the promises of a guaranteed income, while the city dwellers enjoyed the prospects of using nomad mercenaries to do their bidding. Before the day was over, both the defenders of the city and its besiegers became the first followers of the mysterious strangers. The despot quickly calculated how much money he could make by getting close to the leaders of a promising new cult early on, so he proposed to personally help them travel across the Stoneheart Tyranny and spread their word. The next morning a caravan departed from the Fio'Taun with the two preachers at its head. When asked by their guards where they came from, the two just laughed, called themselves Ethereals and left it at that.

			Fio'Taun was the first documented occasion when the Ethereals made their presence known, but many others soon followed all across the globe. Some showed up in the mountain cities of the Celestial Utopia and explained to their racist citizens that making business with the lowland dwellers is much more profitable than exterminating them. Some visited gatherings of the Wet Shroud monks and offered them to drop all pretence and embrace their role as information brokers. Wherever they went, their preachings achieved great success. Was the Diocetic Gland responsible for it, or did their teachings simply appeal to the nature of the Tau? Nobody can say for sure, not even Principal Txont. Regardless, in several years the cult of the Bottom Line managed to unite the entire planet for the first time in history. The four nations of T'au became four castes, grand empires were replaced with megacorporations led by the Ethereals. And the Ethereals secretly answered to their Slaugth Lords.

	===The Master and the Student===		===The Master and the Student===

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			{{Infobox HH Faction
			\|Name = Slaugth
			\|Image = [[File:Slaugth_lord.png\|200px]]
			\|M31 Status = Forced to establish the Compact of Free Galactic Interchange with four other races
			\|Heresy = Stay in the shadows, helping both sides and making sure that both of them emerge from the conflict as weakened as possible
			\|Region = Eastern Fringe
			\|Allies = [[Xenos Compact of Free Galactic Interchange\|The Compact]], Tau Plutocracy, Vespid Collective, The Empire of Humanity, Saharduin Shadowbringers
			\|bgcolor = #8385a6
			\|fgcolor = white
			}}

	Repulsive on the outside as well as on the inside, the inscrutable Slaugth are uninvited guests from the dark times that are better left forgotten. Arrogant to the point of a severe egomania, they consider themselves to be the true heirs to the Old Ones and the Galaxy their lawful inheritance, squatted by savage races and infested by vermin during their unwilling absence. Consequently, they see themselves as the only creatures worthy of free will and intellectual work, viewing every other race as either potential slaves or an obstacle on their way to absolute power. A crushing defeat at the hands of the Imperium of Man during the early stages of the Great Crusade forced them to form the [[Xenos Compact of Free Galactic Interchange\|Compact of Free Galactic Interchange]] with four other races that they otherwise wouldn't consider worthy of kissing the ground they slither on, but few within its ruling council have any doubts that the Slaugth will betray their allies as soon as the right time comes. And may the Emperor be with us when it does.		Repulsive on the outside as well as on the inside, the inscrutable Slaugth are uninvited guests from the dark times that are better left forgotten. Arrogant to the point of a severe egomania, they consider themselves to be the true heirs to the Old Ones and the Galaxy their lawful inheritance, squatted by savage races and infested by vermin during their unwilling absence. Consequently, they see themselves as the only creatures worthy of free will and intellectual work, viewing every other race as either potential slaves or an obstacle on their way to absolute power. A crushing defeat at the hands of the Imperium of Man during the early stages of the Great Crusade forced them to form the [[Xenos Compact of Free Galactic Interchange\|Compact of Free Galactic Interchange]] with four other races that they otherwise wouldn't consider worthy of kissing the ground they slither on, but few within its ruling council have any doubts that the Slaugth will betray their allies as soon as the right time comes. And may the Emperor be with us when it does.