"Hiss!"
The Transport Aircraft's massive thrusters spat furious ion exhaust as it plunged headlong into the planet's atmosphere much like a Drop Pod.
According to the records, this planet had once teemed with forests and strange animals, with a vast human settlement living alongside the planet's natives. Together, they had developed a peculiar form of magic technology.
It was a technological path born from the fusion of primitive psychic runes and human technology.
Most of its creations were spectacular when put to use.
During the Great Crusade, the natives and the local human settlement had resisted the Imperium and rejected the Emperor's goodwill.
In the end, Ferrus Manus had led the Iron Hands Legion of that era to wipe them out completely.
Amid their "fierce" resistance, the entire planet had unfortunately been burned to a blackened wasteland by several experimental weapons Ferrus Manus had newly created.
After clearing out the planet's resistance and exterminating all the xenos creatures, Ferrus Manus had recovered some of the xenos rune-tech creations.
But the Emperor had felt that Ferrus Manus's experimental weapons were too powerful and inhumane to use, and had counseled him against them.
Ultimately, Ferrus Manus had decided to build a secret storehouse on the now-dead planet, storing the experimental weapons he had used there together. He had warned his Progeny that the weapons stored on this planet were what had brought about its fate.
Throughout the subsequent Great Crusade, Ferrus Manus had continued to create all manner of new weapons, establishing storehouses on these devastated planets to hold the instruments responsible for their destruction.
Some of those instruments were Ferrus Manus's own creations, while others were strange technological artifacts manufactured or unearthed by Native Xenos or rebels.
Now, ten thousand years later, the once-blackened planet had become a barren world with