To those curious:
I couldn't find the link to the creature seen in the thumbnail to this video in the description.
The artist is "Mike Franchina" and the creature is called "The Mother of Beasts"
He makes cool shit

Jokaero sound like they should be prime targets for Tau Water Caste.

Seems like everything pierces ceramite

I think creepiest shits of them all were Rangdan xenos, they were such a threat to humanity that it's mentioned that Emperor had to speed up development of Astartes legions because he knew sooner or later Rangdan would show at the door. Their empire was so technically advanced, war with it almost wiped out two of early legions, and they got various other xeno mercs backing them up. Sadly, info about Rangdan themselves is kinda scarce and contradictory (or maybe GW plays "unreliable narrator" and writes from POW of someone who just conflates every enemy they fought as members of one race). Apparently some of rangdans (or their mercs, it's unknown) were taller than Astartes, somewhat "vulpine" in shape (space furries?) and could stand their ground against superhumans, while others were cowardly masterminds who controlled the army of drones. Also, name of Rangdan (they were called Cerabvores) implies that they ate people's brain... Or maybe not.

The lacromol are john carpenters "the thing".

" Retinue. Unleash... the trunk Jokaero. "

“Six major super powers”
Chaos: 😔

I think a deep dive is needed for the Zoats, the Enslavers, and the Cythor Fiends as minor races of significance.

5:28
That art is actually from another wargame called AT-43 (sadly it's discontinued). One of the races in that game is power-armoured sentient gorillas. In space.

The idea that Horus would have used xenos as minions and lackeys is a very interesting idea for the chaos-obsessed lore of 40k. It perfectly fits the paranoia and inform the origins of the rampant xenophobia within the Imperium of Man.

It would be so nice if GW paid more attention to these minor races, especially since some of them are said to have their own empires of unknown size and power. It's a bit sad when the whole galaxy seems to be populated by 5-6 major races, as if it is very small and non-misteriois.

Love the Stellaris portraits being used for the Bonedrinkers

Part 2 has to have the Yu'vath, Rak'Gol, Slaught, and especially the Q'orl, my pick for the most horrifying race in 40k

would love to see more of the Tau auxiliaries :)

0:45 Jokero - cyberninja monkee
6:44 Lackremorhl - space vampire doppelgänger
12:00 Frau - mindblade edgelords
15:19 Megarachnids  / Interex teaser - not your average spider waifus
21:28 Smelrats - cyborg scavenger rats
25:14 Bonedrinker - moopsy mushroom
29:12 Vespids - most original wasp aliens award

I didn’t hear it in the video but in the older lore the imperium tried to imprison some of the Jokero to use them to mass produce digi weapons but no prison the empire could build could hold them for longer than a day as any time they were given anything with the hope that they would build weapons they instantly made a device to escape from simple lock picks to short ranges teleportation devices that one worked once.

Megaarachnids sound like something ro keep away from the Tiranids to absorb...
Maybe the imperium could use their DNA for some extra Space Marine organs, like super hearing, or way harder bones

5:57 definitely seems like a chill dude

Really love these kind of video s about "unknown" xenos

should do a bit about the rak'gol in your next video on this subject