Hadex Anomaly - Lord Captain Emanuel Hadex: What little the forces of the Achilus Crusade know of the Hadex Anomaly comes from the journals of Lord Captain Emanuel Hadex, one of the few Rogue Traders to venture into the Jericho Reach during that region's "Age of Shadow." Born into a moderately successful dynasty operating in the vicinity of Charadon, Emanuel fled the realm of his birth during the invasion of the first Ork Arch-Arsonist.Seeking a new territory to exploit, Emanuel took advantage of a break in the Warp storms surrounding the lost Jericho Sector to venture into the worlds beyond. When Emanuel's flagship, the Aletris, translated from the Warp, the lord captain was awestruck by a sight he described as "like a rose suspended in the firmament!" In his hubris, the lord captain named his discovery the Hadex Nebula.Soon after the Anomaly's discovery, the journal of Emanuel Hadex begins to reflect the emerging madness of its author. Day-to-day accounts of shipboard life give way to imagined conversations between the Rogue Trader and the red hole bearing his name. Hadex claimed that the celestial phenomenon responded to his thoughts and somehow began communicating with him in his dreams.However, as the fleet drew closer it became clear to Emanuel's crew that the Hadex Nebula was something to be avoided and feared. The journals of Emanuel Hadex and his officers record countless preternatural phenomena now commonly associated with the Anomaly -- odd "jumps" in time, entire solar days missing from a ship's log-recorder, and signals received before they had even been sent from other ships in the fleet.Still, the lord captain pressed on, driving his fleet ever closer to the Anomaly's heart. The lord captain's negligence, combined with the steady erosion of morale caused by time distortions and Warp phantoms, weakened the discipline and courage of the crew.When the Hippaestrum, a decommissioned Lunar-class Cruiser under the command of one Lieutenant Argord Pym, attempted to turn back from the foolhardy journey, the lord captain ordered the macrobatteries of his flagship turned against the fleeing vessel. The lieutenants in command of the remainder of the Hadex fleet, torn between loyalty to a maddened lord captain and a desire to flee to safety while there was still a chance, mutinied.The Navis Imperialis' Oberon-class Battleship Messier Ascendant discovered the derelict Aletris in 779.M41. Found drifting on the outer edge of a vast circle of similarly adrift and abandoned vessels orbiting the Anomaly, her crew's final moments preserved in a vacuum-frozen tableaux of violence, the Aletris was nevertheless intact.Lord Captain Emanuel Hadex was found barricaded within the bridge, seated upon his command throne, the red flicker of the Hadex Anomaly reflected in his frozen eyes. Lord Militant Solomon Tetrarchus, commander of the Achilus Crusade, issued an edict setting the Hadex Anomaly off-limits to all but the most highly-authorised vessels (which naturally included all Inquisition and Deathwatch ships), and its presence is considered a celestial hazard of the utmost danger.A few foolhardy souls (and a Rogue Trader or two) have tried their luck in salvaging or reclaiming some of the vessels in the temporal stasis ring surrounding the Hadex Anomaly, but none of those expeditions has so far returned.