The I-Files

From The I-Files
by Inquisitor Emeline Smythe

Inquisitor Ordo Hereticus

125 M42

Most honored sirs and ladys, salutations. It is my conspicuous honour to have been charged by our esteemed Lord Inquisitor-General Victor deBourgogne Ray XVI  to render this account of the actions of the glorious Voidmire Crusade for your appraisal. This book is intended to perform one principal function. To describe and dissect in some detail the tactical specifics of the endeavor, so that the key phases might be available for study by the Inquisition.

## Enoch

**Enoch** is an Imperium Shrine World, that contains vast numbers of shrines devoted to the Emperor and is home to the Adepta Sororitas Order of the Sanctified Shield.

Enoch also contains the **St. Deploratus' Sanitarium**, which has the best healing facilitates located in the Gilead System. Sisters Hospitaller, who are peripherally associated with the Sanctified Shield, maintain the Sanitarium.

The region became contaminated by plague, when Chirurgeon Willem Konig who was in charge of the Exotic Diseases ward, where all patients suffering from the abacys syndrome are quarantined. He had managed the ward for more than ten years, but until the recent outbreak, it rarely had more than a handful of patients. In truth, Konig was responsible for the emergence of the abacys syndrome, obtained as a gift from his diseased patron, the Chaos God Nurgle. He used the disease as a means to gain access to other facilities on Enoch, hoping to spread the infection further.

The Battle Sisters of the Order of Our Martyred Lady (5th Commandery) would be ordered to conducted a purging of the area.

## Charybdion

   A storm has been brewing in Hive Aidon. The lights blaze

from all of the shining spires long into the cold
nights, and deep in the underhive the crowds are
whipped into a frothing fury by the coming winds
of change. Lord Ganthet Veneratio, the planetary
governor died. Worse, his line of succession was
not clear. Two candidates vied for his empty throne:
Mina, his dour, dutiful daughter, and Farsheed,
his boorish but charismatic son, returned from a
prodigal journey. The late governor’s councillors were
split evenly between them—the intervention
of Rogue Trader Jakel Varonius (and his agents) tried to break the tie and allow Charybdion
to move forward.

Every day more riots were being put down by the
overworked Enforcers, and they have spread to the
other hives of Charybdion. Political assassinations
and suspicious suicides skyrocket amongst the
spires of all the hives while the political powers
that be were distracted by this succession crisis. Secret societies
flourished, and gangs gather their forces to settle
old rivalries and grow their territories like algae
spreading across the ocean’s surface.

Something had be done, but like so often
during his tenure, Veneratio failed to live up
to expectations. His eldest child, Farsheed,
absconded with funds many years prior and lived
life amongst the hive gangs as a petty king ruling
his debauched corner of the underhive. Yet, the
prodigal son returned, as uncouth as ever,
but contrite and publicly wishing to reconcile
with his father. Veneratio even proclaimed that
his son would become his official heir, but before
he could make it official, he disappeared. After an
investigation by his councillors, the governor has
been officially declared dead. Farsheed declared
his father’s proclamation legally binding, and half
of the council fell in with him.

The other claimant to the governor’s position,
Mina, was ever the perfect child. When it was made
official many years ago that she was to be the
heir, she put aside her wild dreams of becoming
a Rogue Trader, and began studying in earnest to
be the best governor she could be. This left her
with little social time beyond the required state
functions, and she had grown into a stern, thinlipped
taskmaster. With her brother’s return, Mina had flown into a quiet rage. It is said that her grey
eyes glow the deep green of a brewing storm.
She argued before the council that she was still
technically the heir, and while not as charismatic
as her brother, she had the training necessary to
rule Charybdion in a way that won’t cause the
other important officials in the system to shun her
world—something her father risked on numerous
occasions.

    The governor’s councillors had requested that

the Rogue Trader Jakel Varonius use his authority to break the tie
and name a successor. Jakel was aware that a poor
choice for governor would set the planet on a course
for ruin, and potentially endanger the entire Gilead
System in the process.

Unfortunately Varonius's agents failed totally and both sibiling were killed doing an assassination attempt (showing why you don't send a rogue trader to do an inquisitors job). Unrest erupted throughout the hive as
word spread and the surviving dignitaries, ecclesiarchy and councillors retreat to the
relative safety of their spires. A daemonic incursion begin in earnest. Cults to the Prince of Pleasure, long hidden in the dark underbelly of the hives, spring into action, backed up by daemonic warriors, and within weeks the world fell into anarchy and corruption.