Come signs, come figures, all hell dance before me in bloody light,
From the proscribed play ‘The Banquet of Malfi’
Come woe, come pleasure, drown me in infernal night.
In the Cellebos warzone, there exists twin aspects of one malefic phenomena: the Hadex Anomaly. Although unclassified, it is similar to a Class III Warp disturbance, an overlapping vortex of turbulence in the Æther that spills over into Realspace, distorting and twisting its fabric and making navigation and observation almost impossible within its baleful influence. While considerably smaller than the great and legendary reality-lesions such as the dreaded Eye of Terror or the Maelstrom, it is no less dangerous. The Charon Stars, in turn, is the name of those stellar bodies trapped within the warp-breach’s grasp, stars that now cast a murderous and unclean radiance wherever their light falls. Resembling a “red hole” in space, the Hadex Anomaly rarely stays in the same place for long, having been reported in different regions of space on numerous occasions. The Anomaly’s mobility suggests that it may have some malign sentience. One theory amongst the Adeptus Mechanicus forces in the Achilus Crusade is that the Anomaly spews time from other dimensions into our own, distorting all attempts to monitor it more closely. The outer rim of the Anomaly contains a debris-strewn ring of ghostships,starfaring vesselsthat have become trapped in some kind of stasis from which there is no release.