Necrons were beginning to awaken on the planet Demerium, a moon of the planet Avarax in the Recidious system, revealing it as a Greater Fringe Tomb World. The Fourth Company of the Covenant of Fire Space Marine Chapter was sent to defend the evacuation of the planet's Ecclesiarch personnel, as well as its interred Salamanders, before the Inquisition committed Exterminatus on the burial world. Dreekyre Maximilian, a Lexicanum Librarian, was sent with a group of Space Marines to rescue psychic relics under Demerium's Cathedrium of the Living Saint Lancae. In the mission's darkest hour, Maximilian would receive divine intervention from the Living Saint. His Warp powers enhanced, he barely saved himself and two allies, finishing the mission. Suspecting that Maximilian's increased Warp powers stemmed from Chaos, one of the Lexicanum's allies accused him of heresy. After a thorough investigation, Maximilian was allowed to keep his Warp power, but was sentenced to spend a thousand penitent years under suspicion as a Codicier.
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