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In '''241.[[M41]]''', [[Inquisitor]] [[Gregor Eisenhorn]] was despatched to Sameter by [[Lord Inquisitor]] [[Rorken]] with instructions to investigate a potential link between a trade federation based on Sameter with a secessionist organisation on [[Hesperus (Planet)|Hesperus]]. While investigating, Eisenhorn utilised a hotel in Urbitane as his base of operations.{{Fn|1}}
Although the connection turned out to be a dead end with regards to that particular case, unrelated seditious activity was uncovered in Urbitane: a series of murders and mutilations over the course of a month led Imperial authorities to believe that a [[Chaos Cult|heretic cult]] was active on Sameter. [[Eskeen Hansaard]], Minister of Security for Urbitane, requested the inquisitor's help in dealing with the problem, as he believed it beyond the scope of the city's [[Arbites]]. Eisenhorn discovered that the "cultists" were in fact shell-shocked [[Imperial Guard Veteran|veterans]], formerly of the [[Ninth Sameter Infantry]]. They had been psychologically scarred by [[Battle of Klodeshi Heights|scarred bya campaign]] a campaign against the forces of [[Chaos]] on [[Surealis Six]], to the point that they saw signs of "corruption" amongst Urbitane's civilians and sought to purge them. Many of the surviving veterans were rounded up by the Arbites, but some did not go quietly, forcing the Arbites and Eisenhorn to kill them in a number of struggles, and others escaped the authorities.{{Fn|1}}
Even years later, authorities were still finding the bodies of murder victims.{{Fn|1}}
