"What the..." William is lost for words as he was just standing by the window enjoying the scenery of the magnificent hive-city he's on when something caught his eye.
From his spire on the hive-city, he saw a bunch of what seems to be feudals riding on top of flying reptiles flying around the lower hive.
'Seems like that bump did more than I thought as now I'm clearly seeing things' he thought as he places his on his forehead to check and see if he's bleeding or anything.
(Author's note I heard that somewhere that in the old lore that people riding on top of flying lizards seems to be a thing in the past)
He then tried to recall everything that has happened.
He is William Alexander of the rogue trader house Lancelot.
Unfortunately, while he is part of a rogue trader house his is only a branch family and is delighted on the most boring and menial tasks, such as administrative tasks.
Saying that being a planetary governor of a planet is still not a bad position.
Unfortunately, William doesn't quite agree as since he was young he has heard stories of the adventures his cousins from the main branch and he has since yearns to go on such adventures.
At last, fate seems to be quite cruel to him as he's born only in a branch family whose primary duty is to manage the house's various holdings.
He has been scolded by his father, the current planetary governor, to give up such idiotic ideas.
Faced with such harsh cruel reality of the 41st millennium William is forced to be a measly planetary governor, far from all the wonderful adventures.
Commanding fleets of ships, conquering worlds, discovering ancient secrets and contending with Xeno foes. That's what William think about when meeting with his cousins from the main branch.
Instead of that he's stuck on an... agri-world... well... soon to be as this world is... still realistically speaking newly conquered world being only 500 years since falling into Imperial hands.
Much of the world is still underdevelop and is still infested with the planets, original Xeno inhabitants.
The original Xeno inhabitants of this planet are just a bunch of randomly scattered Stone Age tribals, nothing to be worried about. They're pretty much just an afterthought, more of a nuisance than anything else.
In fact William pretty much hunts them for sport, riding on top of his kriegan horse and trampling these primitive tribals, bring quite a bit of fun especially when you see them running and panicking.
(To help people imagine it's like that scene from the 1968 Planets of the Apes movie where the apes hunted the humans with guns and rifles while riding on top of horses.
Now that I think of it, it kinda makes me want to write a short crossover between 40k and 1968 planet of the apes where the Imperium shows up and starts slaughtering, enslaving and experimenting on these apes. Let's try lobotomizing them into mindless servitors)
William loves going in these hunting trips as he can pretend to be a rogue trader conquering an unknown planet.
On his last trip as he was messing around with the natives i.e. he got irritated by one particular Xeno primitive and decided to torture to death it's... family... friends... tribesman... fellow species member?
Now that he thinks about it he has no idea what it's relation with the others, William just found this guy as they were randomly... I mean strategically scouting and not far from where he is, William found a settlement of them.
William just assumes that there must be some relations between it and the settlement.
As what it did to that made William want to torture its entire tribe in front of it, well the bastard almost killed him louring him near a Canyon where large boulders are strategically positioned to fall from above with the slightest push.
Thinking back William should have heeded his men's word that it could be a trap but unfortunately, he just shrugs it off saying that "these are just a bunch of tribal Xeno, there's no way they could be that smart"
He went like "you guys step back as this is a duel between me and him" as he proceeded to head in the canyon alone confident of his high technology and the fact that he was sure that the enemy was not intelligent enough to make such a trap.
(It's like in the movie Predator, the Predator letting the human go cuz spirit of the hunt or something like that)
Needless to say, he fell for the trap if not for the fact that he was carrying a displacement field gifted to him by his cousin then he would probably be dead by now.
William cursed himself for his carelessness and it's quite humiliating for him to be outsmarted by a filthy tribal Xeno.
Now to add insult to injury that Xeno taunted him by shaking it's dumb on top of a cliff.
William of course enraged by this tried to shoot the nasty little but all his shot missed and the Xeno ran off.
But a strange twist of fate happened. When the ambush happened his men quickly rushes to where he was to protect him, on the way there they captured a Xeno native trying to flee the place.
At that time William was laughing maniacally as he imagines what he shall do to it.
Fast forward to a few days later
William got the native held down by his men facing a settlement worth captured Xeno natives staring back at it.
William then wave his hand and gave the order to "Begin!"
His men looked at him for a bit before they proceeded to do what they did.
Screams of pain could be heard for miles around and it continued until for a few hours.
'The look of utter rage on the Xeno's face is oh so delightful' William thought as he recalls the expression that Xeno was making and the convulsions he has on his body as he was trying to move but was helplessly held down by William's men.
Unfortunately, it somehow manages to break free and charges William.
It jumps up and tackles William from his horse causing him to fall head first backwards to the hard floor.
Moments later William's men rushes in and Xeno was quickly retrained again but the damage is already done. As William suffered a head injury and bleeding profusely.
Suffering such grave injury drove William mad as he kicked the Xeno while his men held it down.
Eventually, he has had enough of playing rouge trader for a while, as he ordered his men to finish things up here and ordered them to eliminate all surrounding settlements that is any shape or form related to this settlement.
He made sure to emphasise the "not to let a single one alive" meanwhile he ordered a Valkyrie to pick him up and transported back to the hivecity.
He is now back to in his hive spire taking it easy as his wounds heal.
As he's healing his wound William decided to look out the Window and gases at the hive City his family has been tasked to build up.
Which brings us here to the present.