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For over a decade, the war to retake Hive Secundus raged, transforming its once-beautiful landscape into a bloody battleground, while the surrounding wasteland became a desolate wasteland. Despite several breakout attempts by the xenos cult, Secundus remained contained, but it became clear that the hive could not be reclaimed. The [[Malstrain Patriarch]] grew stronger, infecting millions of hivers with its alien spawn.{{Fn|1e}} During this tumultuous time, as the hordes of cultists rampaged and on the verge of complete takover, many of the [[Gangs]] of the Underhive, unable to escape to the surface, would try and find other routes of escape ancient and forgotten city-sized tunnels buried beneath the hive known only to a handful of [[Ratskins]]{{Fn|13}} It's possible these tunnels might very well be the same, or connected to, the vast maze like network of tunnels dug by the [[Kin]] of the [[Ironhead Squat Prospector]]s, connecting their various which connect the various [[Holdfast]]s.{{Fn|14a}} Though it is also possible, if the rumors of these tunnels having been built when the hives were first constructed, that they are a human relic of the times of the [[Araneus Continuity]], predating the arrival of the kin who arrived following devastation during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy{{Fn|15}}{{EndnFn|14b}}.