"Not many can say they've faced down a Genestealer. Most that have get killed by a different one seconds later. But I can. I've done it more than once. There's something worse about these ones though, the ones that look part-Human. They hate you almost as much as you hate them. It's not just animal instinct. You can see it in their eyes, even as they're bleeding out with your bayonet in their throat, their claws still reaching out to slash you up. I pray to the Emperor that I get to kill more. Only extinction's good enough for them."
The icon of the Indigan Praefects
The Indigan Praefects are a Militarum Regimentum of the Astra Militarum who specialise in combating large alien beasts, particularly Tyranids. They are primarily deployed in the Segmentum Tempestus and the Segmentum Ultima, and are considered especially skilled at killing megamorphic lifeforms and hunting xenos.
Regimental History[]
Veteran Guardsman Garadux, Indigan 47th, "Lictor Killers", wearing his regiment's specialised Carapace Armour.
On the former Menagerie World of Indiga that is their home planet, the 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.
Notable Indigan Praefects Regiments[]
- Indigan 47th Regiment, "Lictor Killers" - The Indigan 47th has become so skilled at slaying the Tyranid monstrosities known as Lictors that it has taken the nickname "Lictor Killers" for its own.
Sources[]
- Codex: Astra Militarum (8th Edition), pg. 28
- Codex: Astra Militarum (9th Edition), pg. 20
- Psychic Awakening: The Greater Good (8th Edition), pg. 59 (Quote)