In general, hunting down the hive fleets themselves is considered a better use of the Navy's time and munitions.įinally, the necrons do use their tomb worlds, and the Imperium would probably love to blow them up, but the fact of the matter is that the necrons have their own fleets and the Navy doesn't relish engaging them. The stay-behind forces tend to be dug in deeply and are known to survive orbital bombardment or even Exterminatus. When the tyranids finish digesting biomass from the planet, they will return to their fleets, leaving only a small infiltration force behind, if that. Planets conquered by the tyranids offer little to either side. The upshot is that it can be difficult or impossible to actually perform Exterminatus on them, or even predict what the effects of trying will be. Caught partially inside the Warp, they may be subject to bizarre physical laws that bear little or no relation to what we'd expect. So why are these worlds only subjected to Exterminatus as they're falling from Imperial rule, and not after? It depends on the threat.ĭaemon Worlds don't really exist in real space any more. In contrast, an active necron presence or tyranid fleet is generally pretty obvious.) (The last one is especially common because it can be suspected of otherwise ordinary planets. The main threats that fall into this scope are tyranids, necrons, and the imminent creation of Daemon Worlds. Performing Exterminatus is a last resort for when a planet has no chance of being reclaimed in the foreseeable future, often because there will be nothing left to reclaim. Some, like the forge world Urdesh, have changed hands numerous times because of their strategic value.
Even planets that have fallen to Chaos may in theory be redeemed, though not one that has been corrupted into a Daemon World.įor instance, many of the planets of the Sabbat Worlds, as detailed in the Gaunt's Ghosts novels and supplementary works, are former Chaos-held planets that were reclaimed by the Imperial crusade and resettled. These planets represent a resource far more valuable than the Guard and Space Marine forces used to assault them. can be recaptured and returned to Imperial service. A planet seized by secessionist humans, eldar, orks, tau, etc. The Imperium does not like to waste planets that it could recover someday.
0 kommentar(er)
