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The Poison Saint, or 'Poison God', is a strange creature that was discovered only a few centuries ago.

According to the records of the Iron Hands, around the 769th year of the 39th millennium, a hive planet named 'Thetis' in the southwest of the Medusa sub-sector suddenly lost all contact with the Empire. The decree sent by the district government in Star Language received no response, and the imperial ships that went to the planet to collect tithes never returned.

Soon, Thetis' unilateral severance was declared by the Inquisition as an unforgivable act of treason, and a disciplinary fleet responsible for quelling the rebellion was organized. Since Thetis is a hive world with considerable industrial capabilities, the Iron Hands responded to the counter-insurgency operation, and approximately 50 Space Marines joined the punishment fleet against Thetis.

When the Punishment Fleet arrived at its destination, the Iron Hands discovered that the Inquisition had been wrong to hastily declare the planet a traitor.

The people of Thetis did not betray the Empire, they simply died.

When the punishment fleet arrived in Thetis, the hive world with an imperial population of 19.3 billion had been completely destroyed. The entire planet was flooded with deadly poisonous substances, the adamantine foundation was eroded and riddled with holes, and the hive spiers Collapsed in the ocean of poison, and the entire planet became a poisonous purgatory.

The Punishment Fleet remained in orbit around Thetis for some time, and the Inquisition worked with the Iron Hands to investigate the cause of the planet's destruction, but found no clues.

An inquisitor of the Order of the Holy Hammer once believed that the poison that polluted the entire planet into a Jedi purgatory might be the work of the evil god Nurgle, but after careful investigation, they did not find any large-scale subterranean poison on Thetis. Traces of space pollution, these deadly poisons still belong to the category of the physical universe, rather than the strange powers and chaos of the subspace.

During the investigation of Thetis, at least three Iron Hands warriors were contaminated by toxic substances, forcing them to remove their poisoned and necrotic limbs and replace them with mechanical prostheses. ——Mechanical prosthetics can resist the erosion of toxic substances to a certain extent, but the effect is not significant. The poison with strange composition can corrode even fine gold.

The Punishment Fleet's counter-insurgency trip failed, and Thetis's destruction was recorded by the Inquisition. The Iron Hands obtained some samples of toxic substances and brought them back to Medusa for further research.

But just a few decades later, in the 799th year of the 39th millennium, another planet lost contact.

It was an agricultural planet about 13.5 light-years southeast of Thetis. When the combined fleets of the Tribunal and the Iron Hands arrived there, they saw the same scene as Thetis: deadly toxic substances. It polluted the entire planet and killed all the Imperial population on it, leaving no one alive.

In the next nearly two centuries, similar events occurred frequently in the Medusa sub-sector. Planets continued to fall under the pollution of toxic substances and transformed into unsurvivable toxic purgatory. Hundreds of billions of people The Imperial population was brutally massacred, and the Iron Hands viewed this as a disgrace and sent even more forces to find the culprit.

Finally, in the 999th year of the 39th millennium, Iron Father Heracross calculated based on the coordinates of dozens of previously fallen planets and successfully predicted the location of the next pollution incident—Medusa.

The Iron Hands, together with the Tribunal and the Adeptus Mechanicus, concentrated their forces in the Medusa system and deployed layers of defenses. As a result, in Year 001 of the 40th Millennium, a total of 31 Imperial worlds were polluted, and the culprit responsible for causing massive tragedies appeared in Medusa, and crashed into the siege net laid by the Iron Hands.

"The scene at that time was beyond all of our expectations." Iron Hands Chapter Leader Dorkas said: "We originally thought that the cause of this series of tragedies would be an evil alien race, or someone who believed in Chaos. Cults, remnants of madmen from the Dark Ages, etc., but it turns out that we were all wrong. The 'thing' that appeared on Medusa was not any form of battleship or interstellar fortress, it was a living, self-aware creature. .”

"It was a giant space creature that resembled a void whale. It looked like an asteroid-sized... turtle with tentacles? Its carapace emitted toxic gas that was enough to corrode the hull of a battleship. The device emits a sickly light and carries a large range of toxic radiation wandering in space. Once our warship comes within a certain distance of its body, the mechanical structure of the hull will quickly rust and age, and the plasma engine will also decay. It becomes a highly toxic source of pollution.”

"The moment the 'Poison Saint' appeared in the Medusa galaxy, all the mortal soldiers in our fleet lost the ability to fight. They were either directly killed by the poisonous radiation emitted by the Poison Saint, or were killed by The pain of body ulcers is excruciating. Only the monks of the Iron Hands and the mechanical sages of the Adeptus Mechanicus, whose bodies are highly mechanical and prosthetic, can maintain a certain degree of combat effectiveness in such an extreme environment."

"But even a powerful machine cannot sustain for long in the face of the Poison Saint's powerful power."

What happened next is somewhat difficult to announce to the public. Captain Nabal of the Red Dragon Chapter finally only learned that the Iron Hands at that time were forced into a desperate situation by the poisonous god, and Medusa was about to be succumbed to the poisonous flow from the sky. submerged. At the critical moment, the Iron Hands reached a secret agreement with the Adeptus Mechanicus, activated some forbidden weapons left over from the dark technological age, and paid a huge price to finally kill the Poison Saint.

However, the Iron Hands refused to disclose more details to the 5th Expeditionary Fleet regarding the specific methods and weapons used.

Captain Nabar was too sensible and didn't ask any more questions. The founding war groups all had their own little secrets that they couldn't reveal to outsiders.

"After the death of the Poison Saint, its body structure quickly dissolved under the corrosion of the venom it secreted. Before it completely dissolved itself, we deployed a super giant stasis force field that was enough to freeze an entire planet to remove the remnants of the Poison Saint. The corpse was sealed in a device called the 'Crystal of Clarks', and this device is now hidden on Medusa, deep in the lava sea."

Dorkas, the Chapter Master of the Iron Hands, finally said: "The Chief Librarian of our Chapter dreamed of revelations from the Golden Throne during a deep sleep. He suspected that the remnants of Nurgle who were instigated by the followers of Tzeentch were... The reason for invading Medusa so crazily is to snatch the body of the Poison Saint."

Nabal was confused. Does the body of the Poison Saint have any important significance to the followers of Nurgle? Or is it actually the lackeys of the Lord of Change who want to get this poisonous god to carry out their so-called big plan?