Biel-Tan - Biel-Tan Forces: When the Asuryani of Biel-Tan go to war they assemble the Bahzhakhain. In the Aeldari Lexicon this term defines their assembled warhost. Translated literally the term could be construed to mean "Swordwind," "Tempest of Blades" or even "Frozen Leaves" and "Falling to Cut." Regardless, the term Swordwind is also the name given to the manner in which the Biel-Tan wage war -- a single attack that relies on the immense fighting skills and overwhelming firepower of its Aspect Warriors to annihilate the enemy in one swift blow. This tactic works considerably well with the elite fighting skills of the many Biel-Tan Aspect Warriors, who can eliminate the enemy's main body of resistance before they can respond. The Biel-Tan therefore make expert use of the speed and manoeuvrability of their craftworld's complement of Wave Serpents and Falcon Grav Tanks to move its units into position, from which the Aspect Warriors then launch a devastating all-out attack, smashing into the enemy and giving them no chance to recover. The Swordwind Court's battle colours are green and white, often with flowing vines painted on Biel-Tan vehicles. Each thorn of these vines represents the death of a hated enemy at the hands of the vehicle's pilot.This kind of attack has proved particularly devastating against the Swordwind's favoured type of target -- enemy colonies. The Biel-Tan see any colonisation by other races as a threat to the future growth of the Aeldari Empire. It is their philosophy that it is better to eradicate any usurpers as soon as possible before the enemy becomes well established. To this end, there have been countless conflicts between Imperial forces and the Biel-Tan craftworld. Often the Explorators of the Adeptus Mechanicus colonise worlds near to Biel-Tan's course, only for the Aeldari to launch an attack and wipe out the settlers. This forces the Imperium to provide heavy garrisons for newly settled worlds on the southern rim to protect colonists from these sorties by the Aeldari, draining valuable resources for battles elsewhere. While Biel-Tan certainly doesn't possess the power to restore the Aeldari Empire alone, this penchant for attacking Imperial colonies certainly makes the craftworld one of the greatest threats to the Imperium on the southern rim.The main targets of Biel-Tan aggression are non-Aeldari colonists -- particularly non-Aeldari occupying Maiden Worlds. Maiden Worlds are the lush paradise planets originally terraformed into existence by the Aeldari before the Fall of their race. The creation involved seeding barren, dead planets with life, gradually leading to their transformation into lush, life-supporting worlds perfect for the settlement of Aeldari colonies. This terraforming of worlds was part of a program of colonisation which was intended to take many thousands of Terran years to reach fruition, and the result would only be seen by later generations of Aeldari. It is especially galling to the Aeldari who created these paradise worlds that they are often overrun by the settlements of the "lesser" starfaring species of the galaxy. The Asuryani of Biel-Tan believe the success of other alien races like Humanity is a threat to the future progression of the Aeldari Empire reborn.The Swordwind has fallen upon other alien races as well. The Orks in particular are hated by the Biel-Tan, as they can rapidly spread across a colonised world (with a prolification which even the Imperium finds hard to forestall). The starships of Biel-Tan hunt across the stars to destroy Ork spacecraft, such as Ork Roks, before they can find a world to engulf with a tide of green warriors.There have been many accounts through the millennia of the Biel-Tan Aeldari arriving to help a beleaguered Imperial garrison fighting against the Orks, only for the Aspect Warriors to turn on their erstwhile Human allies once the Orks have been destroyed.The leaders of the Swordwind see it as their duty to protect the Exodite worlds from alien invasion. As the Asuryani of Biel-Tan see it, when the time comes for the Aeldari to emerge from the shadows and reclaim what is rightfully theirs, the Exodite worlds will be the first staging points for conquering the worlds of other intelligent species that have spread across the galaxy. Many an incautious Imperial expeditionary force has made planetfall on a world not knowing that the Exodites inhabit it, only to find themselves swept away by the ferocious attack of the Swordwind.The Swordwind possesses a vehicle that is unique to the Asuryani of Biel-Tan. It is a super-heavy gravity tank called a Void Spinner which is armed solely with a huge monofilament cannon which works just like any other Aeldari monofilament weapon, except that it incorporates a techno-virus that sterilises the ground that it touches.This makes it extremely useful against the Orks due to the Orkoid physiology's spore-based method of reproduction, preventing further reinfestation of a world by greenskins.