Sauracka Xenocide

The Sauracka Xenocide was an Imperial xenocidal purgation campaign fought by detachments of the Jonmarines Space Marine Chapter against the Sauracka, a minor xenos species. This conflict was a part of the much larger Reconstruction Wars in the Chapter's history.

History
Following a chance discovery of a distress beacon by the Lawsundan Dynasty’s Astropathic choir, the Sixth Company, alongside the Second as part of Taskforce Vyridissus, are soon thrust into a war of manoeuvre with the Sauracka as they make planetfall on the agri-world of Oppian V. The Sauracka, a devious, venomous, six limbed reptilian race apparently skilled at salvaging, modifying and using technology of both imperial and xenos origins, in the same manner like Orks, deploy both armoured vehicles such as chimeras, tauroxes and weaponised agricultural vehicles, supported by wings of heavily modified Aeldari Wave Serpents amongst other variants of the same grav-tank, the Sixth Company’s fast-moving tactics are tested to their limits, both in an attempt to combat the Sauracka, and to allow the Second to discern what the fate of Oppian V’s growing population was. Disturbing, however, is the number of human allies the Sauracka have, but these are cut down with equal hatred by the Jonmarines after the quick discovery that the Sauracka had, in the shadows of Oppian V’s final days as a loyal agri-world, spread the seeds of rebellion and heresy among the disgruntled proletarian majority of the world, soon after they crash-landed a captured Aeldari Corsair vessel on the world. Thus, the Sauracka, or at least this specific group of Sauracka, are exterminated, the dead of Oppian V avenged.