Admonition - Origins: The exact origin of the Nurglish Chaos Cult later known as the Admonition are unknown, but the organisation grew covertly among the population of the lower levels of Hive Tertium, its leaders and members always keen to remain hidden amongst the population. The cult, like most such organisations dedicated to the Ruinous Powers in the Imperium, operated using a cell structure intended to protect the larger organisation from the infiltration of its constituent parts. Multiple cult cells soon operated throughout the lower and mid-levels of the great hive city, passing messages to other cult cells through obscure, heretical Dark Tongue symbols and markings, all while practicing dark rituals and feeding their twisted faith.The cult allied itself with one faction of the hive's criminal Water Cartel, and assisted its leaders in culling their rivals among the Water Cartel's other factions. These factions had once fought, often violently, for control over the lower hive's water recycling refineries in the district known as The Torrent. But with the aid of the Admonition, their allied faction of the Water Cartel, led by a figure known as the "Ragged King," managed to secure control over the facilities and bring an end to the cartel's infighting.These changes in the lower levels went unnoticed by the hive's Enforcers, the local planetary law enforcement agency, due to the Water Cartel having gained control of all the Enforcers within their district standard centuries before through the persistent provision of large bribes. The cartel's new leadership soon became complacent with their new-found power and were betrayed by the Admonition, which launched a coup against the new Water Cartel leadership that resulted in the slaughter of their former allies in a swift and brutal massacre.The citizens of the Water Cartel's district of The Torrent initially hoped this change in the leadership of the Water Cartel would be a positive one. The Water Cartel had long been little more than an oppressive and uncaring alliance of brutal underhive gangers who had let the heavily populated hab blocks of the district decay into barely livable slums. However, the Admonition had little interest in using its newfound power to aid the people of the surrounding district, as they sought only to gain control over the hive's water supply so that they could more effectively spread the diseases and other "gifts" of Nurgle throughout the hive city.What began as an uprising among a group of minor gangs in the hive's lower levels grew into something more with the outbreak of an unnatural pestilence throughout the lower and middle levels of the hive. Several hive levels were soon locked down to prevent the further spread of the infection and the initial quarantine was maintained by the Enforcers and the troops of Atoma Prime's Planetary Defence Force.In addition, Atoman Astra Militarum troops scheduled for deployment to the frontlines of the Fringe War, the elite Moebian 6th Regiment, was rerouted back to Hive Tertium to assist the world's security forces in quelling the growing Chaos threat. Unfortunately, once the Moebian 6th had arrived planetside and were well-positioned within the hive city, they revealed themselves as Traitors who had turned to the service of Nurgle and allied themselves with the cult they had been intended to fight against.