We returned to the Pax Behemoth. We were informed our next mission was to travel to the planet Vaxinide and take a shuttle to Ubertain and go to the excelsior hotel where there would be rooms booked. Eskin Hansard the Urbertain's minister of security would meet us there and explain our mission. Vaxinide is a frontier world with a declining agro chemical economy.

The journey took about a week. During the journey Drakar got the ships engineering team to repair his chainsword. The engineer was incompetent and broke it further. After an argument Severus went to fix it himself. We landed safely on the planet, though Drakar almost flew into a refinery on the way down.

The atmosphere was badly polluted and it was raining heavily with an acidic rain. We ran to the port authority admin building. The admin officer was obstructive until Severus identified ourselves as being inquisition, at which point he became very helpful. We got a car and Orday drove us to the hotel. Our rooms had been pre booked for a week.

We stayed overnight. In the morning Eskin arrived. He had with him several other people including Hurlie Wrex, head of the local Adaptus Arbities. The minister told us he suspected warp activity and there had been 4 deaths in the last month involving ritual mutilation. One of the victims, an evangalist called Mombril was still alive, but died shortly after being found. The other victims had had their brain and heart removed. All had had their eyes, hands and tongues removed.

We went to the tannery where Mombril had been found. We looked round. There was nothing on the roof, but there was a warehouse next door which overlooked it. The warehouse was owned by the Hundal Mass agricultural stowage, but was now disused. We entered the warehouse and found evidence of someone being dragged through the dirt. On the 3rd floor we found a room with a plastic sheet covered in blood and gore, and a cross drawn on the floor in yellow chalk. Footprints showed where someone appeared to have run across the floor and out a window. On the wall was a couple of hooks. I knew the cross had no occult significance. Drakar thought it was a way of worshiping the emperor.

Some movement alerted us to 2 people on the roof. Orday and Drakar tried climbing up a broken ladder. Severus shot one through the roof. As Orday climbed through the hatch he had to throw himself to the ground as a trap went off. A grenade then came through the hatch and Sangius was caught in the blast. After a brief fight Sangius and Drakar grappled the remaining person to the ground.

Severus interrogated him. He believed the people killed were tyrannids. When they came back from the war there was over 500 of them but now they were less than 70. Cauter Travis the master gunnery sergeant and Omin Lund, sniper first class were in chagre. Omin works as a bartender at the flir de lies and Cauter works as a superintendant at the hab block where one of the victims had been found glued to the ceiling. Severus slit his throat.

We went to the flir de lies bar. Orday questioned Omin. She admitted to killing them, saying they (the 9th infantry) were doing the emperors will. We arrested her and took her back to the Arbeties for further questioning. They were happy to continue rounding up the rest of them.