The Xenarch are an intelligent, starfaring alien species who worship the Immaterium and are believed to maintain an isolationist stellar empire somewhere in the galactic north.
History[]
It is rumoured that the Xenarch are able to generate electro-plasma from the biological processes of their own bodies and are known to have created devices of an unknown alloy known as "Xenarch Conduction Spines" that are able to focus as well as generate this electro-plasma by drawing directly on the Xenarch's own physiologies. These bioelectrical weapons became highly prized by the Imperium because they utilised charge cells and capacitators that were beyond the capabilities of the Adeptus Mechanicus to manufacture.
One of the Xenarch's most notable weapons is the Xenarch death-arc, a rifle-sized weapon that unleashes a series of arcing bolts of lightning and then one massive current of electrical energy to finish off the target once they have already been struck.
There was overall very little contact between the Imperium and the Xenarch empire located somewhere out on the rim of the galactic north.
In 989.M41, Marshal Helbrecht of the Black Templars Chapter was responsible for the final subjugation of the Xenarch present in the Sigilare Nebula.
Sources[]
- Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), pg. 43
- Dark Heresy: Radical's Handbook (RPG), pg. 200
- Inquisitor Rulebook (Specialty Game), pg. 74
- Xenology (Background Book), "Artefact Studies"