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The '''Obliterator Virus''' is what makes an [[Chaos Obliterator]] from a [[Chaos Space Marine]]. It origins lie in the reknown [[Eye of Terror]]. After the [[Horus Heresy]], the traitors fled to the Eye of Terror, and there met with several virulent plagues that they had not encountered before. One of these is [[Nurgles Rot]], famed within the Death Guard. Also, the Chief Apothecary of the [[Emperor's Children]] [[Fabius Bile]] was experimenting with various pathogins, viruses and plagues and measuring the effect of the warp upon them. Whether it was from here that the Obliterator Virus comes is unknown, and will likely stay that way.
It effects a carrier in 9 stages, ranging from simple carriage to total absorbtion. The carrier may not even know they have the virus until it is too late to stop. Due to the mutating nature of the virus, it tends to take time for the Obliterator to fully grow, and as such their numbers are quite limited, although in the Iron Warriors they are much more prolific. Why this is so is unknown, although rumours possibly mention the Iron Warrior's infecting their own warriors in order to increase their numbers. There is also some evidence that the virus has been left in the wake of [[Abaddon the Despoiler]]'s [[13th Black Crusade]] and is now spreading rampantly throughout the [[Imperium]]. With this revelation came the possibility of the existance of [[Obliterator Cult]]s spreading through the worlds of the Imperium.
===Stage 6===
The victims ' very flesh is now made into a deamonic daemonic melding of metal and skin which adds to their armour and allows the absorbtion of many more complex weapons. They no longer look like humans as their body has bulged in places where weapons have been absorbed.
===Stage 7===
