Kalypsia
Inquisitor Kalypsia was in charge of the Deathwatch kill-team detailed to deal with the Tyranid outbreak on Herodian IV.
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The following paragraphs contain spoilers for: | Warrior Brood (Novel) |
The team's objective was to eliminate the Hive Tyrant, but during the first drop, two members of her team were killed in a Lictor ambush and a third was killed by Zoanthropes. Having escaped that fate, she interviewed an Adeptus Mechanicus survivor from the planet and supposedly killed him after discovering the existence of a secret weapon.
Her team was reinforced with Space Marines from the Mantis Warriors Chapter, who had taken heavy losses from an earlier engagement with the Tyranids. With their help, she and the remaining members of her Deathwatch squad discovered and retrieved the weapon, which turned out to be a mix of Imperial and Eldar technology and Tyranid bio-morphs, fused to the body of Inquisitor Grendal.
Librarian Shaiden and Chaplain Broec stayed behind to kill the Hive Tyrant, supposedly dying in the process. They succeeded and the swarm was confused long enough for the rest to be extracted from the surface. Kalypsia was knocked out when she examined the machine back in the Thunderhawk: it turned out Grendal was possessed by the machine. He tried to kill Kalypsia, but died instantly when he left the chair, since it was the only thing keeping him alive.
When no one was around, she attached herself to the machine, which had the same effect on her. The Captain of the team, Octavius, opened the bay airlock and threw a plasma grenade onto the possessed Kalypsia's lap before was sucked out into space; she and the machine were destroyed in the plasma blast.
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