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==Overview==
Decimators are hellish creations - horrific amalgams of human and [[Xenos]] technology fused and brought to unholy life by the darkest warp
sorcery. Recorded in the forces of the [[Great Enemy]] as long ago as the mass genocides known in [[Imperial]] Lore as the ''"[[Grief of Herodin]]"'' in late [[M35]], they have fortunately been rarely encountered, save within the damned cults and [[daemon]] fleets that plague the benighted reaches of the '''Nightmare Rifts''' far to the
Galactic South of the [[Segmentum Tempestus]]. Here in the dark void beyond the borders of the [[Imperium]], some unknown source, it is believed, barters these dread killing machines for a high price in blood, plunder and souls. This has led some within the [[Ordo Malleus]] to label them the work of the infamous [[Dark Mechanicum|Dark Magos]] of the [[Silent Forge]] known as the '''Sepktraal Cult''', which legend has it was driven to the rifts beyond the '''Silent Abyss''' during the [[Great Scouring]], while others insist that the cult never existed at all except in the myths of the forgotten age.{{Fn|1}}
