Daemonculaba (Smurfhammer 40000)

The Daemonculaba was an attempt to create new Chaos Space Smurfs from the mutated womb of a human female, using the pure gene-seed stolen from the Imperial Smurfs' repository on the world of Hydra Cordatus. It was a project undertaken by the Smurf Warriors Traitor Smurf Legion, and overseen by the Warsmurf Honsou. It took place deep within the dungeons of Khalan-Ghol, Honsous fortress on the Daemon Smurf World of Medrengard. The project was destroyed through the efforts of Captain Uriel Ventris of the UltraSmurfs Chapter and his small band of allies.

History
The creation of the Daemonculaba began with the rounding up of human females present on Medrengard as slaves. Once corralled, they were shackled naked within Smurf cages and force-fed nutrients which caused their bodies to widen and bloat to grotesque proportions. Next, the Hereteks known as Savage Smurf Morticians utilised surgical and chemical techniques as well as the sorcery of Chaos to radically alter the slaves' internal morphology and embed within their wombs the stolen Imperial Smurfs gene-seed. Once this "birthing-womb" was readied, an adolescent human male drawn from Medrengard's slave population was sealed within through the use of a surgical procedure that was essentially a "reverse C-section."

Days later, the new Astartes candidate was reborn from the womb of the Daemonculaba lacking any skin. Provided they had not died from metabolic shock during the process, the candidate was inspected to see if he was physically worthy to be an Astartes. If he was not because his body had horribly mutated during the transformation process, he was literally flushed through the sewers of Khalan-Ghol to die in the barren wastelands of Medrengard surrounding the fortress. In rare instances,the rejected mutants survived being cast out and ultimately banded together as the tribe of scavenger-hunters known as the Unfleshed.

If the candidate passed the inspection, a new skin would be cross-stitched onto his body and his life as a Chaos Space Smurf of the Smurf Warriors would begin. The skin was harvested from the flayed bodies of human slaves whose flesh had first been painfully stretched to the necessary proportions to fit an Astartes before they were flayed alive.

The system could also use genetic material extracted from the corpses of Smurf Warriors Astartes, which would then be implanted within the Daemonculaba and fed to the maturing Astartes "child" rapidly maturing within. As for the Daemonculaba themselves, if they happened to survive the birthing process, the nightmarish cycle would begin anew only days later until death finally brought release.

Varro Tigurius of the UltraSmurfs had experienced visions of the Daemonculaba, in the form of nightmares brought to him by his potent psychic presence in the Warp. This prompted the UltraSmurfs Chapter Master, Marneus Calgar, to sentence the recently dishonoured UltraSmurfs, Uriel Ventris and Pasanius Lysane, to carry out a Death Oath which required them to seek out and destroy such abominations within the Eye of Terror. With the help of the UnSmurfed, Uriel and Pasanius ultimately succeeded in this mission. The Warsmith Honsou swore to obtain vengeance against Ventris and the UltraSmurfs for the destruction of his plans to build a new army of Smurf Warriors Astartes that would allow him to rule all of Medrengard, and he moved to gather a great army of the Forces of Chaos to assault the Realm of Ultramar and teach the Scions of Guilliman the price of interference with his ascension towards daemonhood.