Deaths of Worlds

The Death of Worlds is one of the first recorded campaigns conducted by the then newly incepted Destroyers of Worlds Space Marine Chapter against an Imperial world that made the fatal mistake of attempting to secede from the rightful rule of the Imperium.

Background
The Destroyers of Worlds quickly cemented their reputation as savage killers when their first action was the crushing of a system wide rebellion when a governor allowed power to rush to his head. The Destroyers of Worlds, or the Kshatriya as they began to call themselves, descended upon the system and razed each world to the ground, leaving billions dead and the planets almost uninhabitable while the governor had his skull taken as a trophy by the Maharajah. When called to explain their extreme brutality, the Kshatriya merely replied that they were "doing their duty".

Since then, the Kshatriya laid waste to any world they fought on regardless of it being a rebel or xenos held planet. They would slaughter all in their path, burn the cities to the ground and salt the earth so that crops may never be farmed again. The heads of champions and leaders were taken as trophies or offered as sacrifices to the Emperor in return for His sanction on the duty they had to do. What shocked those who knew of the Chapter's extreme violence was that the Kshatriya took no joy in the wanton slaughter they engaged in and merely saw it as their duty. Of course there was always personal glory and honour to be gained but only in the deaths of worthy combatants or through noble actions, not through killing civilians. To the Kshatriya, the destruction of worlds was seen as a necessity; rebel worlds must be taught never to rebel again, xenos and heretic worlds needed to be completely purged their filth might never spread. If the Kshatriya needed to be seen as bloodthirsty savages then so be it, nothing must get in their way of doing their duty, or Dharma.