[HISTORIQUE] Xenos Barghesi

[Alistair]

Je viens de retrouver une note sur mon portable qui date de la rencontre avec Galeos chez Elgilloo (je vais me faire engueuler ), Galeos souhaiterais avoir des infos sur cette race "xenos Barghesi", alors si certains en ont n'hésité pas à les poster ici, merci !

[Heavygear]

C'est en anglais mais voilà ce que j'ai en officiel

The Barghesi, also spelt Bhargesi, are an alien race known for being 'hyper-violent' that inhabits the Grendl Stars constellation in the Eastern Fringe.

According to Imperial records, the Iron Lords Space Marine Chapter proved instrumental in confining the Barghesi to the Grendl Stars, and also in preventing the destructive biological potential of the species from being harvested by Hive Fleet Kraken.

Barghesi, captured by Dark Eldar Beastmasters, are occasionally used for bloody hunts and displays in the gladiatorial Wych arenas of Commorragh.

Sources en version anglaise (j'ai pas les versions françaises)
   1: Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition pg.117
   2: Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg.29
   3: Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition), pg.30
   4: Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition pg.139

En officieux d'un membre du forum FFG
http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/25640-index-xenos-alternate-aliens/

The Barghesi

By Lachlan Abrahams

My Pack will destroy all the Humans – then you will give us something new to destroy.

Pack Leader Ghervis

Physical characteristics

Described in the official Xenos records as ‘Hyper Violent’, this species would be hard to classify as sentient were it not for their annoying ability to pre-plan and utilise technology for their violent needs. The Barghesi are a degenerate species, wracked by mutations. Autopsies conducted many millennia ago show the species to have been genetically manipulated and multiple redundancies created amongst their organs. These redundancies, which include a decentralised nervous system and hyper-efficient healing processes, allow the Barghesi to swiftly recover from even the most hideous of wounds. The Barghesi often mutilate their own bodies in order to attempt to feel concept only vaguely know to them… pain. Additionally oversized organs have been found, capable of producing literally litres of adrenalin which increase their combat abilities. Who modified the Barghesi’s biology remains unknown.

Social Structure

The Barghesi are divided into packs which can range from a mere handful of troops to a hoard of hundreds of thousands. A Barghesi pack will go where the fighting is – under any commander. The Barghesi records indicate that they long ago eradicated their second sex, so Barghesi are no longer born, but rather produced, fully formed and functional, from the Pack’s Clone factories. In a species where violence is ever present, battles to the death are surprisingly few and far between. The Barghesi save the privilege of death for their enemies. Barghesi will often take prisoners in combat – only to pit them against their champions, one by one, until they are all dead. Other civilians are taken as slaves.

A very few Barghesi emerge from the cloning tubes with technical or mechanical knowledge. These Pack Leaders, who still retain a semblance of sanity, are given control over a war pack of Barghesi warriors. The role of Pack leader is not highly coveted – rather a position of responsibility to be avoided – after all how can a warrior focus on the glory of battle if it has to worry about everyone else? If a pack leader is challenged by a junior pack leader, the junior will likely be promoted to a strike position with the pack. If the pack is large enough, or has access to cloning facilities, the challenger may be given a cadre of newly produced warriors and given the old leader’s blessing to become a new pack. If the old pack leader is nearing death, then they will often hand over the role (often to an unwilling recipient), to indulge in one last glorious charge at a foe – any foe.

Pack leaders are protected by their packs – as it seems few others want their worries. Pack leaders are not only responsible for leading the pack, but also the use and maintenance of the Pack’s technology. Thus the pack leaders are usually augmented with advanced bionics and trained in the art of cloning allowing their pack to grow.

The Barghesi make bad workers, they have learnt however that other species are capable of working for them – given the proper incentives, such as not killing them. This concept – not killing the workers – is hard to teach the newly produced clones as they experience their first blissful moment of berserk. Every year the Barghesi ship millions of slaves back to their manufacturing centres – where they are worked to death and their biological remains used as material to create more Barghesi clones.

Magos Biologus Hein Njarlson, sanctioned by the Ordo Xenos, has interviewed many thousands of liberated Human slaves of the Barghesi before processing and remains the greatest source of information on the foul species. He speculates that the Barghesi have a religious code, many fearing it to be a reverence of Chaos – however none of the race’s iconography seems to provide any clear evidence. Part of this code involves a ‘priest cast’ often referred to only as the ‘inspired’. Magos Biologus Hein Njarlson has shown evidence that the ‘inspired’ are the operators of the cloning technology, he also speculates that the ‘inspired’ are merely the most insane of an insane species. Sometimes ‘inspired’ will cause a variation in the Barghesi cloning technique, leading to a batch of devolved warriors. Many of these Devolved are mindless husks and do not survive, but those that do are hulking primitive beasts.

If they were not the most despicable of Xenos, one might feel sorry for them – they destroy everything they touch in a pathetic attempt to feel the merest of sensations which might justify their pointless existence.

Magos Biologus Hein Njarlson (Sanctioned)

Technology & Combat Capabilities

Barghesi technology is simple, brutal and directly tied to their combat capabilities. Most advanced technology used by the Barghesi is invariably crafted by human slaves – usually in captured human factories. The Warriors utilise unstable and static weapons, which cause disease and illness amongst the slave workers who make them. These electrically based weapons case lightning fields or wild arcs of electricity which, though highly unstable, is highly effective on the battlefield. The knowledge of how to make their own technology is handed down by the pack leaders. It is thought that the Barghesi can no longer create much of their own technology, using a process similar to Humanities STC templates in order to direct their slave populations to manufacture the required weapons – no Barghesi STC has even been recovered however.

The Barghesi’s war machines are of an ancient – yet still effective – design. Piloting Barghesi craft often involves painful and invasive surgery for the pilots, a job that is eagerly sought after. The ‘War Spites’ and ‘War Furies’ are lethal designs of rocket engines which burn out regularly; causing hideous injuries to the pilots. These rockets create static fields around them which can be earthed amongst their enemies with terrifying results. The Barghesi also make extensive use of walkers from the ‘War Bringer’, a dreadnaught scale vehicle which has its entire canopy electrified, to the massive ‘War Monger’ walker tank festooned with lightning weapons and revered by the Barghesi for the damage and mayhem it leaves in its wake.

Home World

The Hyper Violent Barghesi inhabit the Grendle Stars (originally called the wings on Sanguinius) located in the Grendle stars in the Ultima Segmentum. Despite the Barghesi home world being virus bombed in M37 there continue to be thousands of reports of Barghesi incursions into the Imperium every year of varying sizes. It is suspected that the race has received sizable assistance by rebel forces & mercenary organisations to expand their bases through the galaxy. Barghesi have also been reported using Space Hulks to transport their forces – however it is suspected that the original intention was the battle against the original inhabitants of the space hunk, rather than the destination. Currently the designated Barghesi quarantine zone is undergoing an invasion by a Tyranid Hive Fleet designated Colossus – Reports conclude that the Barghesi have been able to hold against the Tyranids so far. Truly the Barghesi’s endless copies serve as an antithesis to the ever dynamic Tyranids. Imperial shipping is forbidden to encroach on the Barghesi quarantine zone lest they draw the attention of either the Barghesi or the Tyranids.

Threat Index and Imperial Policy

Barghesi are considered a threat to the Imperium, however one which can – given sufficient resources – be dealt with. Though over five thousand packs have been catalogued, a mere three hundred of these have been identified as having cloning facilities. Since evidence exists that the Barghesi are unable to construct further cloning facilities, if resources could be dedicated to these three hundred facilities it is believed that the Barghesi Xenos threat would decrease dramatically – and given time, permanently. Fortunately it is estimated over 90% of the cloning facilities lay in the path of Hive Fleet Colossus. Unfortunately to destroy the remaining 10% of facilities, tech-logos have factored in the increasing spread of the Barghesi War Packs throughout the galaxy and have indicated that any comprehensive action against them would require several cooperating sector commands.

My pack destroyed and my war machines in smoking ruin… I’ve waited my whole life for this!

Pack Leader Hr’Hrall

[Alistair]

Merci Heavygear !
Je sais pas pourquoi mais je me doutais que tu répondrais présent pour cela
je transmet déjà ça, merci encore.

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