| rdfs:comment | - Early attempts to duplicate these implants were far from successful, and resulted in high rates of mortality and irrecoverable homicidal frenzy on test recruits. However, as time progressed, a viable form of the cortical implant technology was replicated and steadily improved, although it was never fully stable or its effects constant between subjects, and entire newly-formed companies of World Eaters Neophytes were implanted, as well as large numbers of existing World Eaters Astartes who volunteered for the dangerous operation. The majority of these Astartes were absorbed back into the XIIth Legion's line units, while those deemed perhaps too unstable for such tasks joined a growing number of near-berserker assault units known as Rampager Squads. The pain engine implanted in the skulls of
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| abstract | - Early attempts to duplicate these implants were far from successful, and resulted in high rates of mortality and irrecoverable homicidal frenzy on test recruits. However, as time progressed, a viable form of the cortical implant technology was replicated and steadily improved, although it was never fully stable or its effects constant between subjects, and entire newly-formed companies of World Eaters Neophytes were implanted, as well as large numbers of existing World Eaters Astartes who volunteered for the dangerous operation. The majority of these Astartes were absorbed back into the XIIth Legion's line units, while those deemed perhaps too unstable for such tasks joined a growing number of near-berserker assault units known as Rampager Squads. The pain engine implanted in the skulls of these World Eaters forced them to enjoy killing above everything else. Even the comfort of brotherhood paled -- one of life’s few remaining pleasures for the World Eaters outside of battle. Other World Eaters focused their desire for berserk slaughter into martial discipline, mastering a variety of macabre and savage weapons patterned from those used by Angron's fellow arena gladiators and found on the Feral Worlds from which the XII Legion primarily drew its recruits during the Great Crusade. Even within these units, those too far gone to be anything but restrained as savages between battles became known as the Caedereor the "Butchers," a frightening portent of what was soon to come for the entirety of the XIIth Legion. The pain engine in their skulls forced the "Butchers" to enjoy killing above everything else, and all the calm-voiced hypothesising about the whys and wherefores changed exactly nothing. The World Eaters, once known for their brotherhood, became known first and foremost for their savagery. Reports began filtering back of excessive civilian casualties caused by the XIIth Legion when they assaulted the foe in berserk mass assaults heedless of friend or foe, and Imperial Army forces pleading for assistance from other Legions when the World Eaters were the ones to answer their call. Planets surrendered rather than face the XIIth Legion in battle, but not all who surrendered were spared the war. The Nails dulled all other pleasures, until the heady bite of adrenaline was the only certain way to experience anything but the dimmest memory of emotion. The rewired minds of the "Butchers" allowed no other pleasure beyond battle. When their Primarch Angron became a Daemon Prince of Khorne and the World Eaters willingly fell into the bloody worship of their new patron god, the Caedere became the first Khornate Berzerkers, and were at the forefront of battle to accumulate skulls for Khorne's throne.
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