Castigation of Huoxon IV

The Castigation of Huoxon IV was an Imperial castigation campaign conducted by the Ebon Knights Space Marine Chapter upon the Imperial world of Huoxon IV, to put down a Chaos cultist uprising led by the heretic prophetess Elavix. In the end, the Ebon Knights proved victorious and burned the heretic leader as justified retribution for her crimes against the Imperium.

History
In the early centuries of the 41st Millennium, something rotten was brewing within the bowels of the Hive World of Huoxon IV. For several generations, a large coven of Chaos cultists had infiltrated the hive slums of the underhive, manipulating the dominant sects and hiver gangs, sowing the seeds of insurrection. Almost two centuries passed, and the cult's moment finally came. Sabotaging several water sources and agricultural habs, soon the entire hive population faced a planet-wide famine. The cult's leader - the heretic prophetess Elavix - stirred up dissent amongst the hive's population, fomenting rebellion and anti-Imperial sentiment. With tensions running high amongst the population of Huoxon IV, it was all too easy to ignite the fires of open insurrection. Soon, most of the planet erupted into open rebellion, with the Chaos cultists leading the charge.

The heretic prophetess personally tortured and ritually sacrificed the Planetary Governor in a horrific ritual to the Dark Gods, intilling herself as a pitiless tyrant and subjecting the millions of Imperial citizens to a bloody regime of inexplicable cruelty. At length, Elavix's reign of terror was brought to an abrupt end as a strike force of Ebon Knights launched a devastating surgical strike on her governor's palace where the prophetess and her most loyal cultists resided. The Ebon Knights ruthlessly slaughter their way through the ranks of Chaos worshippers, until they finally reach the prophetess' makeship throne room. Elavix is dragged in chains to the center square of the planet's capital and is burned at the stake for her crimes against the people of the Imperium. Her charred corpse is then hung from the tallest spire within the capital to serve as a dire warning those who would dare turn from the Emperor's light.