Inquisitional record 747b-39e
Inquisitional record 747b-39e by Sir Alastir Gwydion of the Ordo Obsuletus formerly Ordo Xenos
Roughly sixty years ago, the Melsuine sector was discovered by the Mythril Lords Space Marines chapter eighth company along with an Astra Militarium regiment of the 23rd Ailonos' knight guard. The sector was named for the sector's primary and largest world of Melusine, a world slightly larger than the Terran standard. The other worlds of the sector claimed it was cursed, this, however, did not stop the Astartes from making planetfall. The perpetual cloud cover forced them to rely on dropships, something that saved the chapter in the end once it was discovered the world's forest is not unlike those of a death world. The first thing that they captured was the world's orbital elevators, the primary of which was located around the city of Vânători. From then on the Astartes brought the world into complices within a few months. Their proclivity for fire turned out to be far from productive given the inhabitants of the world's forests being quite temperamental to such things.
The imperial bureaucracy was almost uninterested in the world, it barely rated above a death world and it made extracting resources more trouble than it was worth. That was however until the Mechanicus and Nobilite were able to inspect the world. Along with a temple built of dark age technologies, the world's biosphere and ecosystem were ripe for the growth of the Rejuvenet herb. This key ingredient in keeping the upper echelons of the Imperium alive, liters the world. The locals thought it nothing more than a medicinal herb, never knowing the true potential of what grew around them with proper processing. This sealed the fate of the world, it would become a bastion of the Imperium.
Imperial compliancy forced arrived a few years later to begin to integrate these lost scions of mankind back into the loving arms of the Emperor. Issues arose immediately, the world fought it being brought into compliance at every turn. Local authorities kept disappearing, only to be found later dead and ripped apart in gruesome ways. Warp anomlies making long-range communication nearly impossible. Defiant people fighting the imperial church. The great temple of dark age technology awakening and activating security that the mechanicus could not fight. The issues were numerous to the extreme, with the Macharian Crusade going on a solution that would not draw away resources from the Segmentium Pacificus would be needed. Member of The Inquisition was requested, in total I and twenty-six of my bothers would respond.
I had my doubts they were mostly young inquisitors those whose titles were new, they might have made good acolytes but few of them I was certain of. It was a fierce gathering however, every Ordo Majoris and many Ordo Minoris were represented. We went down to purify the world and the world would cull us.
A beast, a local spirit, a devil, would cull us. A Ana'kyrie, by the name of Erin Von Holts the First, hunted us with the creatures of that world. I only survived with the help of a local noble, Henric Bolgov, who found me dying beyond the extent of my regerative abilities.




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