Indiga is an Imperial Death World known for being home to various species of deadly macrofauna and as the source of the famed Indigan Praefects regiments of the Astra Militarum. Because of the history of their homeworld, the Indigan Praefects are considered especially skilled at killing megamorphic lifeforms and hunting xenos.
History[]
On the former Menagerie World of Indiga, the Astra Militarum regiments of the Indigan Praefects have the unenviable task of protecting the planet's natives from the megafauna that prowl their verdant realm.
The giant predators had once been the pride and joy of the pompous planetary governor, Constantine Principa Argoy, who spent the planet's copious mineral wealth on the purchase of breeding pairs of every dangerous creature he could acquire from planets across the segmentum. Unfortunately, after a catastrophic earthquake shattered the governor's zoos, the giant animals escaped into the wilds to breed and hybridise.
Now a man-made Death World, Indigans are ever on the move across their planet in vast mobile settlements, trying to stay one step ahead of the giant monstrosities gifted with advantages both natural and unnatural.
As a formal and highly ritualised part of their training, the Indigan Praefect regiments must become experts at slaying large and dangerous beasts; failure at basic training on Indiga is a terminal experience.
The Praefects' reputation is now such they have been requested as reinforcements in multiple Imperial war zones assailed by Tyranids, Greyva and other unknown beasts. Where these requests have been honoured, the Praefects set about eradicating the xenos fiends with practised efficiency.
Veterans who have faced the Tyranid swarms help to drill new recruits, instructing them on how to bring down a Carnifex using Lascannon fire and how to bait Mawlocs with tightly-packed infantry formations.
Despite the dangers that now beset the world, the planet established the Indigan Xeno-Safari Tourist Board to promote safaris on the Death World to the Imperium. However, the board's most recent astropathic message was filled with garbled screaming and visions of broken cages.
Sources[]
- Codex: Astra Militarum (8th Edition), pg. 28
- Codex: Astra Militarum (9th Edition), pg. 20
- Warhammer Community - The Rumour Engine – 31st January 2023