Rak'gol

The Rak'gol are a race of space fairing pirate/psychopathic-murder-lizard/insect/cyborg...things. These guys are literally what happens when the Dark Eldar has all their kinkiness and faggotry replaced by badassary and awesomeness with a slight hint of Rip and Tear! But Games Workshop being Games Workshop, for some reason, didn't seem to create a Codex for these guys, the majority of /tg/ was slightly disappointed by this outcome however, and pray that they would one day receive some added fluff and crunch on this Pirate-Cyborg Lizard Insects. Luckily, FFG was willing to oblige.

The Rak'gol from what we have learned, are a species of aliens that like to scavenge and loot other things from other aliens, often their would-be hostages are either killed, tortured then horribly killed, or are sent to areas best not talked about...they are the only race whose origins has not been that much explored by, due to their first contact in the out-most reaches of the Koronus Expense and that trying to negotiate and talk to them often ends with the interrogator being ripped apart and shat upon, because of this the Imperium have trouble difficulty trying to know what the hell these guys are up to. The only time the Imperium actually get a specimen to study is a dead specimen, and the results are often at best, messy...Being described as reptilian with a hint of Insectoid features, they are infamous for their apparent hard-on for cybernetic surgery turning their already deadly natural designs into even more fiercesome individuals.

A face only a mother would love.

Fortunately for the Imperium (Or so they say...) the Rak'gol is easily identified by their apparent ram-shackled designs of their starships as well as being the only race whose technology is worse then the Orks. Humorously despite having shitty tech such as piss-poor Stubbers which are already in piss-poor condition and ray-guns which are literally Nuclear power-plants with a mirror-scope like a Laser, they still manage to be a threat to Imperial ships, which is saying a lot for Imperium general tech-incompetence and tech-degration; and where the Imperium should stand in turns of durability. Furthermore the Rak'gol are the only race where the Imperium has classified them as dumber then the Orks, this is mainly because of their apparent lack of any social skills, and instead replaced them with rasping roars and gibberish, how the hell they manage to even build a gun let alone a god damn star ship is beyond anybodies idea (But then again, Blood Ravens...). They are also known to be pants-on-head hideous, even for the Chaos Gods and the Nids. So congratulations to the Imperium, you have met what counts as the mentally retarded and more socially awkward version of the Ork Freebooterz.

However if Games Workshop really decided to create a Codex for them, I decided in order to balance the crunch, they should be a race that hits hard and cause Fear, they should also all come with a unique attribute that makes them evade one or two hits per turn as well as being immensely powerful in close-range, but is balanced for being slow and awkward to use. with their main weakness of being low in squad numbers (Not in population) and having weak psykers, but those are for another time...

Caste

Like all things from WH40K, there must be a Unit rank for every military personal. Like the other races, the Rak'Gol at least show some sign of intelligence (HINT: Some...), in that they have a clear and specific rank (Which is surprising given their nature), and thus knows whose boss of the Pirate Games.

Rak'gol Carvers: Your typical mooks, look like a triple bastard love-child of Slendermen, a Mantis and a Velociraptor. Completely naked (But that doesn't stop them for being tough enough to shrug Bolters like pea-shooters) but all viscous. They are only allowed to be gifted Cybernetics if they survive their first raiding party, and prove to their superiors that they have their quintessential rip and tear blood in them. Are usually armed with their basic stubber or autogun, but if they lost them, they can still use their claws, teeth and tail to rip apart Guardsmen like candy-floss.

These Humans and a particular Elfdar seem they could actually make it out alive...

Rak'gol Marauders: These guys are your most common and most noticeable Rok'gol during their raids. Their a upgrade of the Carvers (Quite literally), and all of them possess a Cybernetic feature of some kind. They carry the Razor Gun or Howler Rifle, and sometimes very rarely carry a Rad-beam Cannon. Often classified as the "Spacemarine" of the Rak'gol, while their Carvers counterpart are the "Guardsmen" of the species.

Rak'gol Broodmasters: The captains and leaders of the Rak'gol. These aliens wear so much bling and Cybernetics that you could actually confuse them as an actual machine. They often tell their inferiors on where to hunt and which place boast great raiding parties, similar to you and your friends forming a raiding party in WoW. They also have a lieutenant versions called Rak'gol Clutchmasters: which are literally Broodmasters on diet.

Rak'gol Abominations: As their name suggests these are one of the highest in position, but also one of the most hideous. They are in fact so hideous that not even Papa Nurgle could look at their faces longer then five seconds before vomiting his entire pestilence-ridden vomit, poisoning half of the Galaxy in the process.

...Oh God!

They literally fuse their Cybernetics with the tech of the Yu'vath. And trust me they look like the abominated fetus of a Rak'gol Broodmaster and the Transvestite guy from the Rocky's Horror Picture Show.

Rak'gol Renders: Basically Abominations with extra RAEG and Rip And Tear!

Techno-Shamans: You ever wonder, what would happen if a Rak'gol stole some psykic powers from the Imperium, and due to some plot devices, infused said psykic powers into their Cybernetics, have you ever wonder what they would look like? While rest assured for the Techno-Shamans are here! They look like their wearing a Xenomorph helmet by the way, and are known to make low-level psykers shit themselves.

Technology

The technology of the Rak'gol is so ramshackle, primitive, and generally poor in quality that it makes Ork designs look ingenious. Yeah, seriously. Their ships are among the few still using nuclear fission reactors in the 41st millennium, as compared to the Imperium's plasma fusion generators. In fact, these aren't even good fission reactors; they regularly leak such massive amounts of radiation that any normal human would be killed almost instantly. This has led the Imperium to wonder just how durable these fuckers are.

The Rak'gol also tend to steal and use technology from other races, including the Imperium. This means that, essentially, they are the xenos equivalent of the Blood Ravens. On at least one occasion, a Xenobiologist misidentified them, because they had stolen so much.

Such creativity, such beauty and finance...

In fact, the only original thing these guys have (and their most famous trait) is their love of cybernetics. After every raid, surviving Rak'gol are implanted with cybernetics, both to improve their bodies and as a sign of status. Most of these are the typical, cliche implants, like arms or legs, but higher-status Rak'gol are gifted with fancy-schmancy rad-weapons or power claws. Despite the primitive look of these implants, they are highly effective, being made to get shit done.

Weapons

It should be noted that most of the time, Rak'gol weapons are stolen Imperium Stubbers and Autoguns, however here are a few lists of weapons considered as original by Ral'gol standards, even though they look like they can only fire five bullets before using them as make-shift clubs (Which they are meant to).

Rak'gol Razor Gun: Think of these as an Orkified version of a Eldar Needle gun, they are usually regular, plain old Autoguns that fire barb-wire in a bullet shape, and are usually seen to rip and tear apart Guardsmen like wet-tissue paper thrown into a wood chipper.

Howler Rifle: Imagine these guns as triple-barreled machine guns that has been built by the Haitians from Haiti...expect carnage, pain and the collateral damage of "Woopsies, it seems my gun kind of broke apart and hit Jimmy on the eye!". Are noted to vomit out so much bullets that the gouts of flame from the end of the barrels could be re-purposed as a flamethrower.

Rad-beam Cannon: They are essentially Masers that shoots out beams of Nuclear energy that somehow can "voraciously breaks down armour and materials" like a friggin Tyranid...hmm, must be those Warp-induced radiation I heard existed.

Rak'gol Rad Axe: Their literally power-axes that emits and contaminates the atmosphere with freaking radiation. The people of /tg/ often imagine them as normal pole-axes with a red light or tinge at the tip of the blade. Damages usually include turning anybody it touches into those victims you see from Nuclear Blasts, nasty stuff.

Rak'gol Intimidator:Nobody knows what they look like, not even the Ad-mech knows what the hell their meant to be, other then be "Torture Devices" to any poor chap. We like to envision them as those needle gloves like that of Scarecrow from Batman: Arkum Asylum, but those sick bastards from /d/ like to imagine them like electro-whips used to "torture" captured Eldar women...