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== History =={{spoiler|source=Horus Rising (Novel)}}In the local legends of Sixty-Three-Nineteen, the [[Whisperhead ]] mountain range was an area where the barriers between reality and the spirit world were most permeable. According to their mythic history, one of the first "Emperors " of the planet had combated and restrained a very malignant spirit, called '''Samus''', in the area. Over time, that spirit had become come to be seen as the local equivalent of '"the devil'Devil, " who was nevertheless prayed to by some of the rebellious natives in the face of the [[Imperium|Imperium's]] annexation of the world.

Several fanes and shrines were dedicated to Samus throughout the Whisperhead region, the majority of them in the caverns of the highest peak. The Imperial forces destroyed these as they advanced through the territory. While the Imperium later conjectured that Samus was somehow deliberately unleashed upon them, it is also possible that these fanes were part of the restraint placed upon Samus (if the old legend is believed) as his attack came soon after around thirty of them were destroyed, Samus directly attacked the invaders.

He did this by possessing Samus possessed the body of [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] '''[[Xayver Jubal''' ]] of the [[Luna Wolves]] [[Space Marine Legion]]. In this form, Samus was able to eliminate over a dozen [[Marines]] before being defeated. He also killed several [[remembrancer]]s accompanying the Wolves' deployment. Samus was defeated when [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Garviel Loken]] and Sergeant [[Nero Vipus]] fired over ninety [[Bolt Weapons|bolt rounds]] into his body, bursting it apart beyond capacity to operate, and then incinerated the remains with a [[flamer]]. It is probable that Samus's spirt was banished back to the freedom of the [[Warp]] by this action, no longer restrained to the one location. The entire "Samus incident" was hushed up by order of the [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]], to hide both the knowledge that an [[Astartes]] had turned on his fellows, and that it was possible for malignant warp-entities to corrupt them. == Powers ==In addition to his ability to possess mortals, which made the bodies in question look significantly aged, Samus had enhanced strength, enough to crack open [[power armour]] with a directed strike. Samus was also able to interrupt and even wash out vox-channels of the Imperial forces with an unnerving, repeated chant: