The Violent Haze

"We suspected they were named after the drug they spent years distributing, until we asked one of them. Know what he said?" "There's a storm brewing" Acolyte Tannic (Presumed Dead)

Background
The Violent Haze is a criminal organisation spanning the entirety of the Askellon Sector, with hands in virtually every form of heresy and corruption imaginable. They run slavery rings, identity theft, assassination, cold trading and narcotics to mention just a few and due to their incredibly covert nature, have managed to evade detection for almost four centuries.

Origin
The origin of The Violent Haze is one that is murky at best. The Inquisition as a whole believes that they are a collection of various mercantile interests and hive fanes who use their influence and great wealth to run a second operation in the shadows that allows them to control the politics of the sector as well making them an unbelievable profit on the side.

However Inquisitors within both the Calixis Sector and the Askellon Sector suspect that The Violent Haze and the dread Amaranthine Syndicate may have an alliance or, even worse, may possibly be working as or for the same organization. However little information exists for either group and the only piece linking the two together is the escape of Cardinal Lucius from the Calixis Sector, apparently by agents of The Violent Haze despite no evidence of The Violent Haze having operatives within the Calixis Sector.

Current History
At this moment it appears that The Violent Haze is heavily concentrated in the cold trade, specifically in the trafficking of Halo Artefacts which command a price beyond imagination.