Stalinvast

The Hydra

The millions of deaths on Stalinvast also served as energy to generate the Hydra, a bizarre Chaos manifestation supposedly designed to help mankind in their battle with Chaos. Obispal was unknowingly being watched by the Ordo Malleus Inquisitor Jac Draco, who subsequently ordered an exterminatus on Stalinvast, but then rescinded the order upon learning that the Hydra had withdrawn from the world. However, the astropath Moma Parsheen secretly sent the message for destruction as vengeance for the suffering she had undergone as a consequence of her profession, and Draco himself was later considered a heretic by his order for the unsanctioned action. The Eldar later used the dead world as the site for an alien ritual due to the calamity which had befallen it.