Xenos: Other

Xenos (pronounced ZEE-nahs or zehn-AHS) is a High Gothic term used by the people and adepta of the Imperium of Man that means “stranger” and “alien.” It is often used by the Adeptus Terra to signify intelligent enemy aliens or off-world, non-Human forces. The main starfaring, intelligent xenos species in the Milky Way Galaxy are the Drukhari, Craftworld Aeldari, Necrons, Orks, T’au and Tyranids, though there are countless other intelligent alien species, most of them hostile, that Mankind has encountered over the long millennia of its expansion across the stars. It is not recorded exactly when the Human race learned that it was not alone in the galaxy, or which intelligent alien species it first made contact with, but what is known in early Imperial records.