"Now if you kindly pay head and attention, I will take questions later."<br/><br/>As Sand speaks, the skull bob in and out of your range of view, displaying various sample jars and comparative specimens.<br/><br/>"The body has been positively identified as one Saul Arbest, male, 23 years of age, hive dweller, unskilled labourer certified. Formerly of the Tantalus Indenture, registered habitation: 6/23 stack 717# Coscarla division, southern zone, Hive Sibelius."<br/><br/>"Subject found dead on the midhive transport rail three days ago as the car returned to the main depot. Preliminary examination of the scene suggested a massive drug overdose. Post mortem preformed by the biologis forensics, however, found certain anomalies that necessitated our involvement."<br/><br/>"The cause of death was in fact a total systemic failure grout about by the rejection of. A synthetic graft organ. Said organ destroyed the central nervous system while attempting to overcome the immune response. In short, this..."<br/><br/>One of the wizzing skulls displays a sample jar containing a ten centimetre long whitish cord of waving glassy tendrils, still in motion, still alive.<br/><br/>"...crushed the life out of him from the inside."<br/><br/>"What's it for? We remain unsure, although if I were to hazard a guess, I'd say control - total synaptic override, or worse."<br/><br/>"There were other grafts of a less singular kind also, the left lung replaced with a storage cavity, possibly for his use as a courier. Also, one optic nerve was removed and skin flayed from his stomach, I have no idea why. His system's awash with alchemical traces, clotting agents, panimmune and the like."<br/><br/>"The surgery was expert, but by the lesions and the tissue stress, I doubt any care was given to making it painless. In fact, by the damage to his vocal chords, I'd say that he screamed as long as he could."<br/><br/>"But this little monster is what concerns us. Oh, you don't need to know the genelore of the Ommnisian edict, just that this is not only illegal, it is forbidden, it is heresy. Merely tampering with this kind of dark tech is enough for a death warrant from the Inquisition, the Arbites or the Mechanicus."<br/><br/>"And I'm sure that you, as well as I, are wondering how such a rare and vile thing ended up wrapped around the spinal column of some dusty habprole from the low end of the stacks."<br/><br/>"The man has no prior criminal record, and was rendered invalid by indenture - laid off if you will - sixty days ago. His sister, one Lili Arbest, resident of the same habstack, reported him missing thirty two days ago. More than enough time to get himself into all sorts of trouble, I'm sure you'll agree. These grafts are no older than eight or ten days old at the most. We have nothing else on him."<br/><br/>"This is to be a shadow investigation, no open official presence and no notification of the local authorities, and no one knows he's here either. Coscarla's down hive, so a covert approach is more likely to draw out information than a boot through the door and it's much less likely to kill any leads to our heretic."<br/><br/>"Find out why and where if you can, or better yet, find out how. Best of all find out who's responsible. Go with the grace of the God Emperor... Oh and additional samples would be a blessing if you can procure them."<br/><br/>"The Emperor Protects."