Astrid Xeneca
From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
Astrid Xeneca is a Genestealer Sanctus of the Cult of the Twisted Helix.
The first Sanctus of her cult, she is famed for infiltrating a crowd of pilgrims on Immortis IX. She then managed to plant a dart from her Serum Needler in the neck of Cardinal Vidderminster just as he was giving a speech from his balcony. The needle was so thin that it bypassed the Cardinal's Refractor Field and delivered a potent cocktail of hypertrophic enzaymes which caused the religious leader to swell up and burst. The assassination was a blow to the stability of the world that saw Vidderminster's successor appointed from off-world. After a series of new trade deals, compulsory medicae visits, and Wars of Faith Immortis IX ultimately fell.[1]
