A meteor slipped quietly onto the planet.
It plunged into a lake like an ordinary little meteorite, except it had not burned away in the sky. It entered the water with its shape intact.
The Imperium's astronomical observation unit detected the anomaly. How had it survived the atmosphere without burning up? They dispatched an Exploration Team to retrieve it.
It might be something rare and exceptionally tough!
A group of Exploration Team members headed to the lakeside in an official capacity. On their way out of the Hive City, they also extorted a mountain off-road "vehicle" from the department that controlled entry and exit.
After putting on professional diving equipment, several divers entered the lake. Their specialized instruments had more or less pinpointed the meteorite, but someone still had to go down and determine whether it was worth bringing in machinery to recover it.
This was not a technical issue. It was a question of cost.
The divers descended to the lakebed, with no need to worry about dangerous aquatic creatures. Those had all been cleared out.
The team leader swam ahead with a scanner. Aquatic plants flourished amid jagged rocks in the ecologically remodeled lake, while fish of every color swam around them. It looked like an underwater world from a fairy tale.
A discordant patch of black entered their sight. A meteorite the size of an Ogryn's fist had crashed down, breaking the underwater tranquility and smashing several unusually shaped rocks.
The leader swam over and switched on his scanner. A faint blue glow emerged from the device. What he failed to notice was the strange light within the signals reflected back from the ore.
The Tzeentch Daemon would not lightly possess a human. That would consume too much of its scant remaining strength. Although the psychic runes