En route to Terra, Decius and a number of his fellow Loyalist Death Guard fought a battle against the reanimated corpses of their former traitorous comrades,who had become the first Plague Marines of Nurgle when the Plague God's influence had insinuated itself through the damaged Eisenstein's Gellar Field while the vessel was travelling through the Empyrean. Decius was grievously injured when he was stabbed by one of the Plague Marine's Plague Knives, and in a vain attempt to halt the vile corruption caused by that Chaotic artefact, he bravely cut off his own arm. The severely wounded Astartes was then taken to the Apothecarion and put under the care of Apothecary Voyen, but alas, there was no cure available in the entire corpus of Imperial medical science that could ease young Decius' suf