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According to the record-keeping of the Hrud, they were an ancient race that predated the time when [[Human|Mankind]] became the masters of space and their tribes have been living a parasitic existence for longer than what was known to humans.^1-p80 The [[Imperium]] of Man are known to had encountered the Hrud as far back as the era of the [[Great Crusade]] and during the early era the noisome warrens of these aliens were cleansed by the [[Emperor]] according to the [[Liber Historica Vangelia]].^5-p4 During this time, the [[Iron Warriors]] [[Adeptus Astartes]] were in the midst of a cleansing of Hrud warrens on Gugann.^12-p34 After the formation of the [[Inquisition]], it became an institution that became the first to become aware of emergent menaces to the Imperium which they have proven with [[Necron]] awakenings, the arrival of the [[Tyranid]] hive fleets and the advent of Hrud Migrations along with other similar events.^14-p26 Numerous Hrud infestations are known to had plagued the region of the [[Maelstrom]] alongside more than twenty [[Ork]] empires and countless human pirate strongholds.^5-p7 At some point, the Hrud are known to had infested [[Mortenken's World]] until they were driven from the holy city by the hands of [[Daenyathos]] who was a legendary philosopher soldier of the [[Soul Drinkers]].²² Around seven hundred and thirty years ago, the Ultramarines battled the Hrud in the Battle of Ortecha IX which saw Battle Brother Olfric perish though he would be avenged by his comrades that ate the heart of his killer.³

Though little was known about this reclusive and dangerous species, it was known that they dwelled only in darkness and possessed strange, warp-based technology that allowed them to walk between worlds. This even allowed them to corrupt the flow of time with their simple presence.^19-p74 This mysterious nocturnal species were also the creators of '''Hrud fusils''' that were a warp-plasma based weapon.^7-p64 Fusils remain one of the few scant artefacts of the Hrud that occassionaly come up for sale in the Imperium and were also in high demand. In functionality, they worked as a form of ''"plasma musket"'' that uses an unfathomable mechanism to phase a plasma bolt between realspace and the warp. Thus, any shot from a Hrud fussil bypassed by defences of the target though they were unpredictable. Despite this being the case, they are favoured by [[Assassin|assassins]] and even Inquisitorial agents. Those weapons that find themselves on the black market are modified to accept Imperial plasma cells though if the mechanism itself is badly damaged then it cannot be repaired by human hands.^19-p74 According to Inquisitor Kryptman, Hrud fusils are a simple symbiosis between melta and plasma technology that are able to fire columns of fire hotter than a star when the mechanism was activated.³