Editing The War of The Beast (section)

==The Destruction of Prax (aka "So that thing about Chaos? Orks are Way Worse.")==
Chaos were also getting their asses kicked by Orks. The [[Iron Warriors]] were getting their ass beat while also being hunted by some Black Templars with a grudge. Realizing that the fight wouldn’t end well, they decided to join forces temporarily (yes, out of ALL the Marine chapters, the ones headed by [[Rogal Dorn|Dorn]] and [[Perturabo]]), but even with this ultimate show of desperation they still couldn’t overcome the Orks and just barely managed to survive. When a relief force of Fists Exemplar showed up to pull them out, the Orks used their gravity based weapons to SPAWN A FREAKIN' BLACK HOLE, destroying nearly the entire star system. The Imperial fleet escaped by scattering into the warp, with one ship turning up on '''Prax''' along with the Iron Warriors.

Prax, as it turns out, was a key world in the new "Ork Empire" and the unlikely allies soon discovered that the Orks had been evolving much faster than anticipated. Where previously they were considered to be little more than savages who could hammer bits of technology together and make it work, they now had their own society and specialists: [[Blood Axes|“Bloody Axes"]], [[Bad Moons|"Leering Moons"]] and so forth. They actively conquered and enslaved humans, feeding them steroids and farming them like cattle while some "lucky ones" got their [[Teef|teeth]] punched out and were shaved, branded, and pushed into battle as [[Grimdark|auxilia cannon fodder]]. The combined Fists and Iron Warriors destroyed the planet rather than let the Orks keep it.

Back on Terra, Vangorich manoeuvred Koorland into taking the top job of Lord Guilliman from Udo, who seemed to think it business as usual despite the Ork threat still signalling imminent doom. The Imperial Fists marched right into the Senatorium and denounced him. Udo tried to order their arrest but failed to notice that ''everyone'' bar the Ecclesiarch (who was experiencing ''serious'' sanity slippage) and the Fabricator-General (who was pretty much a walking stereotype of the "Knowledge at any cost" tech-priest) had switched sides and actually wanted someone competent to take command.