Editing Gorgers (section)

==After the Hunt==

After a Hunt, the solemn ritual of the Feast begins. The mightiest of the enemy dead would be picked and chosen as the Gorgers closed themselves off from the rest of their allies. These corpses were kept to the side, sometimes cooked over mighty roasting hearths. The flesh of dead comrades took precedence over these, however , as small bits barely the size of a human's thumb would be passed out. Every Gorger received a small handful of these small chunks of skin or muscle, each chip came from a different brother who had fallen. The Gorgers were expected to eat each of the small parts they had been given, to commemorate their sacrifice and consume their strength.

After this, the Gorgers would set themselves loose on the either raw or grilled flesh of those they had beaten. This is the more jovial half of the Feast, where the dead are now remembered and the Hunger can now be properly satisfied. Many toasts are had for those who showed their mettle during the Hunt, leading to much cheering and chanting of songs.

===The Slaughtering Grounds===

In the cases of major battles against overwhelming force, once victory was achieved the Gorgers would start the preparations for the Ceremony of the Slaughter Grounds. The Gorgers were most of the time sent to worlds with quite strong resistance against Imperial forces. Whether physically or mentally, these people would not give up requiring the brutal hammer that was the XVIIth Legion. The Gorgers would come in a terrifying, non-stop display of violence would eliminate the resistance. The civilians would be mostly sparred but in order to gain their absolute loyalty and show them the cost of defying the Great Crusade and the Imperium, the Gorgers would create a Slaughtering Ground.

These were gigantic holes, surrounded with the iconography and symbols of the legion. Here the corpses of those the Gorgers just crushed would be amassed. Either the Legionnaires themselves or those human soldiers fighting alongside them would gather the leaders of the planet, along with a large following of civilians. The purpose of this was to show them the Ceremony of the Feast, which normally happened behind closed doors as a private enjoyment by the Legionnaires. There was to be no joy here, at the Slaughtering Ground. Those who witnessed that ritual learned the lesson remarkably fast. If you oppose us, you will be consumed. 

The Gorgers would then be free to leave the planet or system to the Imperial regiments, hurrying toward new battles. The planets without exception never made a problem for the Imperium again. The irony of this is during the Hektor Heresy these planets formed the backbone of Loyalist defiance against the Traitors.