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Kroot are known throughout the stars as savage mercenaries, selling their
skills to the highest bidder. Others know them as steadfast allies to the
Tau Empire, their fierce close quarters ability combining with the long range
weaponry of the Tau to deadly effect. Outside of these two archetypes lie the
rebellious kindred known as the "Blood of the Ancestors".
Led by the Warlord Gar’Anon, "The Blood" once honored the pact made
by Angkor Prok. They fought alongside the Tau, liberating and reclaiming lost
Tau and Kroot worlds for "The Greater Good". It was during the
liberation of Kit’ot VI, one of the Ork occupied worlds, that this successful
relationship came to an end.
Meeting greater resistance than anticipated, the Tau and Kroot forces were
pushed back to the perimeter around their dropsites. With the Kroot making a
fighting withdrawal and guarding their retreat, the Tau commander ordered his
troops to lift offworld expecting the Kroot warspheres to follow. Gar’Anon,
unwilling to give up so easily, led his kindred into the jungles to fight a
guerilla war until the Tau returned, but the Tau commander did not return.
Believing the Kroot destroyed and the warspheres captured, he returned to the
Tau homeworld to rebuild his army.
Gar’Anon believed that he had been betrayed. He labeled the Tau as deceivers.
Eventually retaking the world on their own, Gar’Anon and his remaining kindred
began a campaign of aggression against all who they could find to oppose.
"The Blood of the Ancestors" Clan, or more commonly "The
Blood", are renegades in the Kroot social structure. Commonly thought
of as "pirates", The Blood reject the traditions of mercenary work,
seeing their fellow Kroot who subjugate themselves in such a way as weaklings
who have forsaken their ancestors. They raid planets and outposts gathering
supplies and materials of war to not only sustain themselves but to gather
greater strength and power. While their rampages may appear random, Warlord
Gar’Anon plans each raid and each attack with a purpose to strengthen
his kindred by adding specific genetic material to their "diet".
Condemned by the Kroot Homeworld, The Blood have become almost mythical
among their kind. Children are frightened by the admonition "The Blood
will get you if you do." and The Blood supplement their breedings with
"recruits" that search them out. Sometimes they are outcast Kroot
warriors, sometimes just an adolescent Kroot in search of adventure.
Some will fight alongside The Blood as warriors"some (the especially
talented or skilled) will become a meal and add their genetic material to
Gar’Anon’s kindred.
Gar’Anon’s warrior are fanatically devoted to him. His Shaper Council is
composed of 9 Master Shapers, each leading his own force of kindred and the
greatest and most loyal among them is Master Shaper G’rae "The One Eye".
While Kroot are masters of guerilla warfare against their enemies, The
Blood are fighting a guerilla war against their own Homeworld and their own
kind. Gar’Anon’s goal is to "liberate" Pech from the traitors who
would sign pacts with "the deceivers" and choose to subjugate
themselves to lesser races as mercenaries. Meticulously he selects his
targets, collects his materials (both equipment and genetic) and builds
the number and skill of his warriors for the day when he is strong enough
to launch an attack on Pech itself.
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