The Night of a Thousand Horrors.
It is propably this Night, this single Night who spelled the Downfall of the Species known as Homo Reptilis or in the Common Tongue "Xenos". A genocide of yet unprecedented cruelty had been perpetrated on these isolationist Humanoids on the night of the 12.October 103AE.
What remains of the Xenos to this day recounts that Night as one of the worst terrors one can imagine. Even back in the Army Camps of House Nova the earth shook it was told, when the Bioweapons struck.
In reality nobody slept that night. Neither in the Crusaders Beachhead, where the Archon drank with his closest Commanders nor in the Camps of Nova where only the tremble of the Earth and distant lights indicated that a Terror beyond comprehension had be unleashed. Human Imagination is cruel and when the 80 Bombs struck in a mere hour, 2.8 Billion Xenos recieved some of the worst Human Imagination could conjure up. 2.8 Billion Lifes winked out in the Initial Outbreak. What would follow, was worse. The Horrific Machinations Archon Luthias (at this time he wasn't known by the epitheth "Harbringer") unleashed upon Si'kar quickly spread on Nova Babaricum and turned the Continent from a serene untamed Forest Wilderness into a apocalyptic Wasteland of Eldritch proportions.
-A Symphony of Death and Horror:a History on the Subjugation of Nova Babaricum, Imperial Historian Yorrin 300 AE
Archon Luthias uses 80 Biological Warheads on the Xenos of Nova Babaricum
50 Parcels are turned into Chemical Wastelands
89 Parcels are Infected
4 Parcels are turned into Haunted Forests
the Xeno Population has been reduced to around 287 Million Survivors.
Trent
[5] Your luck is unbelievable even while the Alien begin to hang you on a Pole outside the Crusader Camps, they run when they see,hear and feel the bombs falling. In panic they leave you bound to that Pole where the next morning you are found by the Pickets.
Azthor
[?]You find a group of Irregulars at the Edge of the Camp like most of the hundreds and thousands of other standing there they watch the spectacle in the night sky.