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Index Astartes: From The Imperial History Archive - The Badab War (by Rick Priestley, excerpted from WD 101)
THE BADAB WAR
In 901.M41, as a result of Lufgt Huron's apparent mental destabilisation, the Master of the Tiger Claws and Lord of Badab attacked and destroyed an Imperial investigation fleet as it entered orbit around Badab. Huron's action can be understood with the benefit of hindsight. The Adeptus Mechanicus had long complained of the Tiger Claws' tardiness in submitting gene-seed for routine analysis, whilst the chapter had amassed a huge debt in planetary tithes stretching back over a hundred and fifty years. And when the Imperium moved against its wayward chapter, a full scale rebellion was initiated, the most serious of its kind since the end of the Fourth Quadrant Rebellion in 780.M41.
The Tyrant of Badab, as Commander Huron is known in Imperial histories, was a power-hungry and ambitious individual who should never have risen to power within a Marine Chapter. He was plainly a dangerous individual, able in many respects but lacking the absolute dedication to humanity vital in a Lord of the Imperium. It will never be known for sure, but current hypotheses suggest that the Commander was either an alien shapechanger, or otherwise subject to alien domination of a most unnatural kind. A sudden and unexpected manifestation of psychic powers may lie at the heart of the matter.

By 903 three other chapters, the Mantis Warriors, Executioners and Lamenters had joined the rebellion. Imperial shipping was attacked, and a ship belonging to the Fire Hawks Chapter was captured by the Mantis Warriors in 904. The Fire Hawks immediately retaliated, and soon five whole chapters were involved in the fighting. The Emperor recalled the Marines Errant from the Eastern Fringes, but they quickly found themselves fully occupied protecting Imperial ships in transit.

In 906 two more loyal Marine units, the Red Scorpions and the Minotaurs, had been brought in, and the threat to Imperial shipping was more or less quashed. In 907 the Red Scorpions and Fire Hawks were recalled to their normal service duties in the galactic east, and two more chapters, the Novamarines and Howling Griffons were committed to space-lane duties.

Meanwhile, the Star Phantoms began the task of besieging Badab whilst two other chapters were drafted in to investigate the worlds occupied by the Mantis Warriors and Executioners. The Lamenters were caught in an ambush by the Minotaurs in 908 and eventually surrendered after bloody ship-to-ship fighting. This came as a great blow to the Tyrant, and the rest of the war consisted almost entirely of close sieges. The uprising came to an end in 912 with the fall of Badab and final defeat of the Tiger Claws. Before the war was over, The Exorcists, Fire Angels, Salamanders, Space Sharks and Sons of Medusa all became involved for short periods of time; chapters replacing other chapters as pressures elsewhere necessitated their re-deployment.

With the rebellion over, The Mantis Legion, Executioners and Lamenters were granted the Emperor's forgiveness, subject to undertaking a hundred year crusade. The homeworlds of the Mantis Legion and Executioners were forfeited to the Space Sharks and Star Phantoms for their part in the war. The other legions received salvage rights to spacecraft and a proportion of the booty. The Tiger Claws were all but destroyed. Only a contingent of about two hunded fought their way through the Exorcists' blockade and escaped into deep space. They have not been heard of since. Of the fate of Imperial Commander Lufgt Huron, Master of the Tiger Claws and Tyrant of Badab, nothing is known.

Badab is a system of worlds close to the galactic core, almost at the border between the Imperium and the areas claimed by the Squat Legions. While Badab is well positioned to protect the Imperium from the unlikely event of a Squat invasion it is actually occupied by Imperial Space Marines because of its proximity to a giant permanent warp storm called the Maelstrom.
The Maelstrom is marked in the material universe by a huge nebula of gas and dust and it has long been supposed that an area of warp/real space overlap causes the two features to coexist in this way. The insurmountable difficulties of patrolling or even navigating the Maelstrom mean it has become a refuge for deviants and heretics of all kinds. It is estimated that over 20 Ork empires and pirate kingdoms lurk within its sickly pall.

Huron Blackheart
Huron Blackheart, Master of the Red Corsairs. Lufgt Huron, Tyrant of Badab. Two insane and power hungry enemies of the Imperium at different times, one and the same individual. Huron was critically injured by a melta blast near to the end of the siege of Badab in the fighting inside the Palace of Thorns. The Astral Claws had sworn to fight to the death protecting their Chapter Master and their home world but when they saw that Badab was lost they took Huron and fought their way past the Imperial blockade in a handful of surviving ships. Once away from the Badab system they dived into the Maelstrom to evade the pursuing Imperial ships and so joined the horde of renegades and heretics that had sought refuge in the Maelstrom for millennia.
The Tyrant lived. One side of his body had to be almost entirely reconstructed with bionics, the Techmarines and Apothecaries standing long vigils over him while the Astral Claws' ships hung in the shifting dust and gas of the Maelstrom. On the eighth day the Tyrant could speak again and he ordered his tiny fleet to seek a new home world to conquer. By the twelfth day Huron could stand and donned his power armor once more. His fanatical followers hailed his recovery as a miracle, but if it was a miracle of any kind it was a black one.
Huron's limited forces were still great enough to overcome the first pirate stronghold he found within a matter hours. The defeated pirates became his slaves and soon learned to fear his fury. Huron Blackheart was born.
Huron's power spread quickly as he welded together a piratical empire of heretics and renegades. Huron's dreaded Space Marines became known as the Red Corsairs for the blood-red markings they used to obliterate their old Chapter symbols and the Imperial heraldry. The artifice pleased Huron greatly and all of the Renegade Space Marines who have joined him since have kept their old Chapter colors, but with parts of their armor repainted red to show their new allegiance.
The Red Corsairs have grown into a force to be reckoned with and their raids out of the Maelstrom have become more frequent and more bloody over the decades. Worst of all, the Inquisition has become increasingly disturbed by the number of individual Space Marines and occasionally whole squads that have disappeared only to reappear in the armies of Huron Blackheart.

The Sons of Medusa are a successor chapter to the Nova Marines. Due to the high level of gene selection and psycho-surgery embarked upon by the Nova Marines, while the Sons of Medusa are excellent fighters and unswervingly loyal, they bear one mark of the super-engineered genes malformed in their Genoarch** - the inability to see with unshielded eyes. Unknown to the Flesh Tearer geneticists, they had not completed the Zygote program in the Genoarch, which resulted in the genetic deviancy that was undetected until the thousand marine errants were far into the embryonic stages of development.

Extensive investigation by the Ordo Malleus and Ordo Xenos ruled the Sons of Medusa viable for service to the Emperor, their strange condition owing nothing to the Fallen Gods or to some alien menace.

The condition comes in the form of a catastrophic combination of the neuro-chemical mylenin recieving uncensored input from the ocular nerves, and the genetic disease "Septo-Optic Dysplasia", which causes in subject's pupil to dialate when exposed to light, instead of contract. Exposure results in immediate paralysis, which is curable through an injection of the biochemical "Perseus" in the short term, but teriary effects of exposure are instability, dementia and anxiety.

Because of this, many chapters shun contact with the Sons of Medusa, and they are forced to work alone in most campaigns (the most notable exception to this is the Badab War, where they assisted the Storm Sharks, Raptor Legion and their forefathers, the Novamarines in the subjugation of the Lufgt Huron and his traitor legions).

The most obvious way of alleviating this problem is for all Sons of Medusa to have their eyes removed - but that would negate the infravision and volume-sensing properties of the space marine's physiology. Thefore, many marines choose to wear specially adapted helmets which redirect visual signals directly into the brain stem, bypassing the ocular nerves altogether.

Some seasoned veterans shun even this, and wear nothing but a strap of cloth over their eyes, as a symbol of their bravery, and their faith that the Emperor will guide them no matter what.

Aside from this, the Sons of Medusa are as competent and complete as any other chapter.

Badab is a system of worlds close to the galactic core, almost at the border between the Imperium and the areas claimed by the Squat Legions. While Badab is well positioned to protect the Imperium from the unlikely event of a Squat invasion it is actually occupied by Imperial Space Marines because of its proximity to a giant permanent warp storm called the Maelstrom.
The Maelstrom is marked in the material universe by a huge nebula of gas and dust and it has long been supposed that an area of warp/real space overlap causes the two features to coexist in this way. The insurmountable difficulties of patrolling or even navigating the Maelstrom mean it has become a refuge for deviants and heretics of all kinds. It is estimated that over 20 Ork empires and pirate kingdoms lurk within its sickly pall.
The Astral Claws Space Marine Chapter had been stationed at Badab for over three centuries keeping the south and western fringes of the Maelstrom secure. In 901.M41, the Master of the Astral Claws and Lord of Badab, Lufgt Huron, ordered the destruction of an Imperial investigation fleet as it entered orbit around Badab. Over 23,000 loyal servants of the Imperium were killed in the one-sided battle which followed. Gripped by an apparent fit of insanity Huron went on to declare himself Tyrant of Badab and announced the system's secession from the Imperium.
Inquisitors quickly uncovered plentiful evidence of why Huron had attacked the fleet sent to Badab. The Adeptus Mechanicus had filed numerous complaints about the tardiness of the Astral Claws in submitting gene-seed for routine purity checks, the Chapter had amassed a huge debt of planetary tithes stretching over a century and a half, Huron's own evaluation reports betrayed ambition and a lust for power singularly inappropriate in the Master of a Space Marine Chapter. Worst of all he illustrated a lack of absolute devotion to mankind necessary in a lord of the Imperium.
The Tyrant of Badab, as Huron became known in Imperial history, staved off two punitive expiditionary forces in 902 and 903. After the second attack three other Chapters, the Mantis Warriors, Executioners and Lamenters, pledged their support to the Astral Claws and the rebellion escalated drastically. Imperial shipping, always at risk in the pirate-infested systems around the Maelstrom, came under attack and communication was lost with Squat worlds of the Kapellan League. In 904 a ship belonging to the Fire Hawks was attacked and captured by the Mantis Warriors. The Fire Hawks retaliated immediately and soon five whole Chapters were involved in the fighting. The Marines Errant were recalled from the Eastern Fringes but they quickly found themselves fully occupied protecting Imperial ships in transit.
By 906 more loyal Space Marine Chapters had been brought in to stabilize the situation and the threat to Imperial shipping was more or less squashed. Ork incursions in the Ultima Segmentum in 907 necessitated the recall of several of the loyalist Chapters but these were replaced by additional naval squadrons from Segmentum Solar which continued to protect the shipping routes. Imperial forces began the task of besieging the heavily fortified worlds of Badab while additional Space Marine Chapters were brought in to investigate worlds occupied by the Executioners and the Mantis Warriors.
The bulk of the Lamenters Chapter was caught in an ambush in 908 and surrendered after bloody ship to ship fighting. The loss of the Lamenters was a great blow to the Tyrant and the rest of the war devolved into a succession of close sieges as one renegade stronghold after another was battered into submission. The uprising came to an end in 912 with the fall of Badab and the final defeat of the Astral Claws.
With the rebellion over the Inquisition made an extensive investigation into the renegade Space Marine Chapters. They found slight evidence of heresy in the Chapter cults but these were not considered irredeemable. The Lamenters, the Mantis Legion and the Executioners were granted the Emperor's forgiveness subject to undertaking a hundred year crusade. The home worlds of the Executioners and the Mantis Legion were forfeited to the victorious loyalist Chapters, along with the salvage rights to spacecraft damaged in the conflict and a proportion of the stolen cargoes which were recovered.
The Astral Claws were reported to be all but destroyed. A contingent of around two hundred fought their way through the Imperial blockade and escaped into the Maelstrom. The most corrupt elements from the other Chapters which had joined forces with the Tyrant of Badab soon followed after them. Nothing more was heard of these renegade Space Marines for many years afterwards. Of the fate of Imperial commander Lufgt Huron, Master of the Astral Claws and Tyrant of Badab, nothing is known.

The Executioners Chapter was founded as part of the 598.M35 founding, created to help relieve the White Scars in monitering and countering the many threats that lie within the Warp storm known as the Maelstrom. The gene-seed of the Executioners is of a unknown origin however after investigations into their Chapter since the Badab War, it has been hypothesised that they are of Blood Angel descent. The main evidence of this is their Chapter organisation and unit markings which are the exact same as the Blood Angels Chapter and their successors.

Before the Badab War erupted, the Executioners along with the Mantis Warriors and the Lamenters, for some unknown reason had joined forces with the Astral Claws.

By 907.M41 all of the worlds that had been occupied by the Executioners and the Mantis Warriors had been recaptured by the Space Sharks and Star Phantoms Chapters.

In 912.M41, when the Badab War had ended, the Executioners were granted the Emperor's Forgiveness, and were sent on a hundred year crusade to atone for their sins.

The Homeworld of the Executioners like that of the Mantis Warrirors was forfeited to the Space Sharks and Star Phantoms Chapters. This was a reward for these 2 Chapters for liberating those worlds under the rebels occupation.