Editing Marines Immaculate (section)

==Report to Archmagos==

Ave Omnissiah.

Magos, I am sending you this report without the usual formalities because I have just borne witness to the terrible tech-heresies of the so-called Marines Immaculate. These traitorous Chaos-worshippers have been cutting a swatch through most of the Segmentum, although they have been kept away from most major Imperial worlds. Until now. Bubos IX has fallen. I was assigned to Bubos IX.I, a minor moon which the worshippers of the 'Great Clean One' apparently decided to take via conventional means. While we were able to repel the invaders with the help of the Reasonable Marines, we nonetheless saw heavy combat with an Immaculate armoured spearhead.

Magos, they have gone far beyond the corruptions of usual Chaos marines. They have taken from us one of the greatest of the Omnissiah's holy designs- the Chimera. I was fortunate to be able to inspect the ruins of one of these corrupted vehicles after it was destroyed by our Skitarii, and what I found concerns me greatly. The outer shell of the machine is mostly untainted- it is normally scrubbed to a blinding polish, apparently fitted with dirt-dissolving powerfield technology as we use for maintaining Titans. All holy symbols have been replaced with the foul iconography of the Great Clean One. The exhaust ports have been brutally removed.

It is the inside... Omnissiah protect me from the horrors I have seen. They gutted it, replacing the engine with some sort of clean-burning Chaos engine. Thankfully, the Skitarii prudently annihilated this first. The rest of the vehicle is simply one gigantic tank of boiling water and caustic cleaning products, in which the Marine pilot sits, floating in his own corruption. All the external weapons ports have been replaced by high-pressure pumps, which spray this heretically pure liquid over prodigious distances. The vehicle proved capable of scrubbing away even the most stalwart of the Inductors. I have given this technological abortion the tentative name of 'Hydrojet Chimera', although the one I discovered bore the legend "Fist of Ly-S.ol"

Magos, I have also heard rumors that the Marines Immaculate have been seen using Dreadnoughts and Terminator armour. I fear for us all.