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After their exile, they started a ritual of returning to their former capital ship, the ''Labyrinth'', every 100 years. Here, a ritual of cannibalistic feasting would take place using 1,000 humans and xenos captured across the galaxy. A volunteer team of Sons of Malice Astartes would then be tasked with surviving an expedition through the ship's long abandoned interior, using only what they can scavenge to fight off hordes of warp-mutants (secretly former Astartes who had failed this trial previously). The survivors would be deemed worthy to join the ranks of their elite "Doomed Ones". In this ritual, the Astarting, . However, no matter how many of the team survived, once the first of them walked through the teleportarium gate at the end of the ship, the gate would shut down leaving the rest of the team to become more of the horde for future rituals. The single survivor would then be sacrificed as a "Doomed One" as part of a ritual to summon Malice to the Materium. Once 11 Doomed Ones were sacrificed, Malice could be summoned.{{Fn|3}}