Ag'ni
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Name | Ag'ni | 
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| Expansion: | Second/Third | |||
| Location: | Eastern Fringe |
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| Markings: | Unknown | |||
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Ag'ni is a Death World and a weapons testing site of the Velk'Han Sept.[1]
History
The Tau discovered Ag'ni very soon after they arrived in the Jericho Reach, long range sensor scans suggesting the world would prove ideal for early settlement. In fact, the world appeared so ideally suited for colonisation that a Water Caste contact cadre was assembled in order to bring the word of the Greater Good to whatever natives lived there. The Tau envoys were greatly surprised to discover that the world was entirely untouched by intelligent life, though its continents and island chains teemed with plant and animal life.[1]
It was only when the first of the Water Caste envoys removed the helmet of his sealed environmental suit and took a deep breath of the seemingly pristine air that the Tau discovered why no higher life forms had settled Ag'Ni. The instant the envoy breathed the air, his system was flooded with airborne microbes so voracious that he was dead before his body hit the ground. Within seconds, his horrified companions bore witness to his body being broken down before their very eyes by the most aggressive microbial life forms the Tau had ever encountered. Contact doctrine dictated that the surviving members of the envoy team should be quarantined on Ag'Ni, and supplies were dropped to them from orbit. Yet, within a day the remainder of the team was dead, the microbes having breached their suits and overrun their systems.[1]
The leadership of the Velk'Han Sept has since declared that Ag’Ni should be purged of all life so that it can be re-seeded by Earth Caste geo-engineering cadres. This process is still underway, and the planet has come to be used as a weapons testing ground by the Fire Caste, who have been given free reign to test the most destructive of devices without fear of unleashing unwanted levels of destruction. Every form of weapons technology has been tested on Ag’Ni, from planetary defoliant to ionospheric inversion. Mass Yield Pulse Plasma Warheads have levelled entire mountain ranges and the detonation of a Seismic Discontinuity Charge brought about the creation of an entire chain of super-volcanoes at the world’s southern pole.[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: Deathwatch: The Jericho Reach, pg. 114
