The Imperium of Man
This is the largest coherent fighting force in the galaxy. They serve as the Imperium of Man's primary combat force and first line of defense from the myriad threats which endanger the existence of the Human race in the 41st Millennium.
Who are the Imperial Guard or the Astra Militarum?
The colloquial term used amongst the Adeptus Astartes for the genetic material that allows for the creation of the superhuman Space Marines.
What is a Gene-seed?
This is the currency the Orks use. It is also a currency system with a natural solution to inflation as this currency degrades over time, so it is impossible to hoard them.
What are Ork teeth?
A mysterious xenos species that have lain dormant in their stasis-tombs for more than 60 million Terran years. They are the soulless creations and former servants of the ancient C'tan, the terrible Star Gods of Aeldari myth.
Who are the Necrons?
This is the largest and most well-known Warp rift in the Milky Way Galaxy at nearly twenty thousand light years across, it is a nexus of psychic energy and physical space-time where the Immaterium co-exists with realspace. It is located at the rimward edge of the galaxy, to the galactic northwest of Terra.
What is the Eye of Terror?
This Ranked officer within the Imperial Guard is empowered to use any means necessary to ensure the loyalty and moral purity of his or her charges, including overriding or even executing a regiment's commanding officer if necessary.
What is a Commissar?
There are an elite sisterhood of warriors raised from infancy to adore and worship the Emperor of Mankind. Their fanatical devotion and unwavering spiritual purity is a bulwark against corruption, heresy and alien attack, and once battle has been joined they will stop at nothing until their enemies are utterly crushed.
Who are the Sisters of Battle?
This is form of exotic energy weapon used exclusively by the ancient and extremely powerful Xenos species called Necrons. These weapons destroy the enemy by firing a green-tinged blast of lightning-like energy that shears apart the target's atomic bonds, literally stripping their bodies apart atom by atom and molecule by molecule.
What are Gauss weapons?
This Xenos Race believe that the galaxy and all of its peoples are but cattle to be enslaved at will. These alien pirates strike hard and fast from the shadows of the Webway, vanishing again before the foe can fight back.
Who are the Drukhari or Dark Eldar?
The youngest of the four major Chaos Gods, having come to full sentience within the Immaterium only during the 30th Millennium. While generally referred to as a "he" by Humans and as a female by the Aeldari, They are actually neither gender, combining characteristics of both and perfecting them.
Who is Slaanesh?
A. The planetary system within the Imperium of Man wherein the largest bulk of their standardized military might is trained/manufactured.
B. The planetary system within the Imperium of Man comprised of highly dangerous planets where specialized Imperial guard are sent to train in jungle warfare.
(300 points per question, You can opt to only answer one.)
A. What is the Cadian system?
B. What is The Catachan system?
This was a galaxy-spanning civil war that consumed the worlds of Mankind for 9 Terran years. Its outbreak marked the end of the Emperor of Mankind's Great Crusade to reunite the scattered colony worlds of humanity under a single government and the beginning of the current Age of the Imperium.
What is The Horus heresy?
(100 points per Fleet, bonus 100 points if you can order them in terms of first to latest contact.)
Who are the Hive fleets Behemoth, Kraken and Leviathan?
Originally known as screamer-killers There are huge, hulking, living battering rams, armed with a variety of biomechanical, symbiotic weaponry, often used for assaulting fortified positions and as armor formations. These monstrous creatures can be mutated into a multitude of different sub-species, some designed for tank hunting, others built to produce acid and toxins ideal for anti-infantry combat.
What are Carnifexes?
This was the event the chaos gods did in an attempt to hinder the growing strength of the Imperium of Man and trick the Emperor of Mankind to fall into despair and rage but inadvertently only strengthened his resolve and directly caused the 1st Great Crusade.
What is The Scattering?
Sometimes colloquially called a "god-engine" or "god-machine", these machines are any one of several classes of massive, crewed, robotic bipedal combat walkers often outfitted with enough firepower to exterminate all life on a planet.
(Bonus 100 points per extra size classification you give.)
What is a Titan?
An action ordered by the highest authorities of the Imperium of Man to destroy an planetary threat's entire planetary biosphere and all life upon a world. Usually via, Orbital bombardment, Virus bombs or Ionic Vaporization of the atmosphere.
What is an Exterminatus?
The Orkish term for the violent migration of Orks after a planet population of Orks hit critical mass, it can also refer to a crusade of pure aggression that crashes through multiple star systems in an absolute orgy of fury and violence.
What is a "WAAAGH!"?
This was the only Xenos race to successfully defend against a crusade launched Imperium of Man in order to recapture their lost territories from their Xenos influence. This is also the only stalemate in the military history of the Imperium of mankind.
(Bonus 100 points if you can name the Crusade)
Who are the Tau?
He is the Warmaster of Chaos, the greatest Champion of Chaos Undivided in the galaxy. Said to be the clone-progeny of the Warmaster Horus, the greatest Traitor in Imperial history, and at one time his most favoured son amongst the Space Marines of the Sons of Horus Legion. It is said that He alone has the power to unite the Traitor Legions and finish the treachery begun ten thousand years ago, ripping the Emperor from His place on the Golden Throne and claiming the galaxy for the Ruinous Powers.
Who is Abaddon the Despoiler?
This regiment is the most successful siege specialist of the the Imperium of man, in addition they seek to repent for their former treachery against the Emperor by displaying a disturbing disregard for their own lives in combat.
What is the The Death Korps of Krieg?
These are the 9 Primarchs who succumbed to the demonic influences of the warp and eventually betrayed the Emperor of Mankind and their fellow brothers.
(100 points per name)
Who are Horus, Magnus the Red, Angron, Mortarion, Fulgrim, Lorgar, Perturabo, Konrad Curze and Alpharius
The two primary T'au tactics, One is a carefully planned attack designed to wipe out critical enemy defenses or units in a single well-placed strike. Once the strongest points of enemy resistance are crushed, the remainder of the force can generally be finished off easily. The Other is essentially an ambush, where the enemy is drawn by use of a "lure" into a carefully prepared killing zone.
(Bonus 200 points if you can say it in both languages)
What are the Mont'ka (Killing Blow) and Kauyon (Patient Hunter).
These enigmatic warriors are often credited with supernatural powers, and many amongst Aeldari society believe that they know most, if not all, of the secret paths through the endless maze of the Webway. Additionally, They are the keepers of the Black Library and serve the enigmatic Aeldari deity called the Laughing God.
Who are the Harlequins?
These are the four great powers of Chaos and their titles.
(100 points per name or title)
Who are Khorne the Blood God, Slaanesh the Prince of Pleasures, Nurgle the Lord of Decay, and Tzeentch the Changer of the Ways?