Badab War

2021-02-19T00:16:26Z

2601:154:C103:F5D0:749B:9635:1373:9569: /* Phase Four: The Tyrant stands alone */

{{Infobox 40k Campaign
|title= Badab War
|image=[[File:Tyberos_pwning_Matnis.jpeg|300px]]
|attacker= Loyalist Astartes Chapters
|defender= The Maelstrum Wardens (composed by Renegade and misguided loyalist Astartes Chapters)
|commander1= The Inquisition, multiple Astartes Chapter Masters
|commander2= [[Lugft Huron]], multiple Astartes Chapter Masters
|date= from 901.M41 to 913.M41
|scale= Multiple planets
|theatre= Badab Sector, Segmentum Ultima
|strength1= [[Carcharodons]], [[Exorcists]], [[Fire Angels]], [[Fire Hawks]], [[Howling Griffons]], [[Marines Errant]], [[Minotaurs]], [[Novamarines]], [[Raptors]], [[Red Scorpions]], [[Salamanders]], [[Sons of Medusa]], [[Star Phantoms]], [[Witch_Hunters|Ordo Hereticuls]] and [[Inquisition|Inquisitorial]] Allies, [[Imperial Guard]] reinforcements.
|strength2= [[Astral Claws]], [[Lamenters]], [[Mantis Warriors]], [[Executioners]], Human auxiliaries and [[Planetary Defense Force]] troops.
|casualties1= Considerable astartes losses
|casualties2= Massive astartes losses, some chapters are almost wiped out, millions of human deaths due to the major destruction of the planetary structure.
|status= Loyalist victory, renegade chapters are chased away or sentenced to penitence crusades.
|outcome= Considerable damage to the planets. Astral Claws chapter turned to Chaos and becomes the [[Red Corsairs]]. Lugft Huron presumed slain, and later reemerges as Huron Blackheart. Multiple Loyalist chapters suffer heavy losses. Badab Primaris is sentenced to Exterminatus.
}}

The '''Badab War''' was a major rebellion in the [[Imperium]]'s history, led by [[Lugft Huron]] and the [[Astral Claws]]. He first conquered the [[Badab]] Sector and decided he should rule all of it, like the [[Ultramarines]] ruling Ultramar. Then Imperial forces demanded the tithes. He refused. And three other chapters were honour-bound to fight with him. And thus began the most bloody rebellion in the 41st Millennium. And also the most famous appearances of a shit-ton of minor chapters that most people haven't heard of, who will probably never appear again outside a few novel cameos and the [[Imperial Armour]] books. Pretty unique among wars in that almost all fights were between [[Space Marines]], with few Guardsmen (traitor or otherwise) in sight.

==The Conflict==
=== Phase One: Huron and the Malestorm ===
Many years ago, there was an <s>asshole</s> actually quite decent fellow at first called [[Lugft Huron]], who controlled the [[Astral Claws]] and a sector called Badab. With the aid of the [[Lamenters]] and [[Mantis Warriors]] (Collectively known as the Maelstrom Warders), he ruled the Maelstrom Zone, named because it contained the warp rift known as the [[Maelstrom]]. He had one job, namely making sure whatever came out of that hellhole got booted back into it posthaste, and he did it well. So well that at one point, Huron asked the [[High Lords of Terra]] to start a crusade into the Maelstrom. They <s>laughed at him</s> [[FAIL|didn't even deign hear his request out]], as attacking it would be suicidal.

So Huron got [[rage|mad]]. Disgruntled, he decided he'd do the job all by himself and withheld his [[geneseed]] and planetary tithes, and blockaded the trade routes of other worlds. After 150 years, the High Lords had enough and set a fleet to take the Tithe, which Huron fired upon, claiming they threatened him. The local trade lords attempted to send fleets because he was fucking over the economy with his blockades, but they vanished. Due to these events, Huron (now self-proclaimed as "The Tyrant of Badab") cut off all ties between the Maelstrom Zone and the outside galaxy, further pissing off the Trade Lords. The Trade Lords then asked the [[Fire Hawks]] chapter to sort this mess out, secretly hoping that their fiery temperament would result in them clashing with Huron's forces. They agreed, seeing an opportunity to settle an old grudge with the Astral Claws.

=== Phase Two: The civil war begins ===
The [[Fire Hawks]] entered the Endymion Cluster, the home of the [[Mantis Warriors]]. Problem was, the Mantis warriors were bestest bros with the Astral Claws (kicking deviant asses for hundred of years together tends to do that), and they saw the intervention of the Fire Hawks as nothing but a crude ploy by the Adeptus Terra to bully their pals so they promptly shot them down. Thus the Badab War truly began. After some more fighting, the [[Marines Errant]] and a company of the [[Executioners]] came to help the Fire Hawks and Astral Claws respectively. Though the Executioners were loyal, they owed the Astral Claws a favor for saving their asses a few 100 years ago. The Trade Lords and Fire Hawks attemped to strike at the heart of the Separatists war effort, [[Not as planned|but it turned out to be a trap laid down by Huron]] and they both got their asses handed over. To make things worse, the Mantis Warriors managed to lure the Marines Errant into [[FAIL|yet another trap]] and they too got their asses kicked and ran off like little bitches.

=== Phase Three: The conflict escalates ===
The High Lords noticed this and asked everyone to stop for a moment, but the [[Astral Claws]] & Co refused. [[butthurt|Slightly miffed]], the [[High Lords]] sent the [[Red Scorpions]], [[Raptors]] and [[Salamanders]] to sort the the Secessionists out once and for all [[rip and tear|with extreme prejudice]]. The Marines Errant and Fire Hawks came back from their asskicking to fight again, aided by the newcomers of the [[Novamarines]]. The newly assembled loyalist force scored a few wins against the Tyrant, and gained enough of a foothold to stop the fighting for some negotiations. [[Meme|But the negotiations were short]]: some Chaos dudes jumped out of the huge warp-rift everyone forgot to defend, and exploded the Chapter Masters of the [[Red Scorpions]] and [[Mantis Warriors]]. Thus the hope for the war ending died. The [[Howling Griffons]], [[Sons of Medusa]] and [[Fire Angels]] appeared, replacing the Marines Errant who retreated again due to losses, and the command of the Loyalist frorces was given to [[Carab Culln]]. Under Culln's command, the loyalists would sieze the momentum and strike against the rebellious Malestorm Warders. But relief would soon come the Tyrant's way, as the rest of the [[Executioners]] Chapter arrived from the Loyalist's rear and attacked the bulk of the [[Howling Griffons]] chapter which was stationed there. The resulting [[Rape|slaughter]] would leave the Griffons unable to keep fighting the war, even after the [[Novamarines]] timely arrival saved their sorry asses.

An Astral Claws Apothecary was captured and interrogated, revealing precious secrets. He was actually a part of the Tiger Claws chapter, who nearly died out and merged with the Astral Claws. It turned out the Geneseed tithes were withheld for greater reasons than defiance: Huron was expanding the Astral Claws to beyond Codex Astartes norms and dreamed of creating a force equal to the ancient [[First Founding|Space Marine Legions]]. Further investigation revealed that the Astral Claws Apothecarion had also been [[Heresy|conducting gene-seed experiments]].

=== Phase Four: The Tyrant stands alone ===
Fresh forces from the [[Exorcists]] and [[Sons of Medusa]] arrive, while the Novamarines, [[Raptors]] and Howling Griffons were dismissed, officially to combat an Ork invasion, but the truth was that the High Lords thought they were too nice to be trusted to kill off the Secessionists. The [[Salamanders]] refused, while the [[Inquisition]] kept arguing with them, knowing they were bros with the Executioners and the nicest chapter around. Eventually they gave up trying to talk them into reassigning themselves. The loyalists then launched assault spearheaded by the [[Fire Angels]], [[Red Scorpions]] and [[Exorcists]] that managed to seize the lynchpin of the Malestorm zone's warp routes, confining the [[Astral Claws]] to the Badab Sector and isolating them from their allies.

The [[Minotaurs]] arrived in system, and using their one and only advantage of numbers boarded the [[Lamenters]]' ships. They killed all but 300 [[Lamenters]], who surrendered (really they ran out of bullets, chainswords snapped from over use, and their combat knives dulled to the point of uselessness) like the unlucky bad-asses they are. Nothing really happened for a while, until the Carcharadons/[[Space Sharks]] showed up and defeated the [[Mantis Warriors]]. The [[Fire Angels]] withdrew, due to their heavy losses and hating having to serve with the assholes of the [[Space Sharks]]. The Executioners learnt that the Astral Claws were stealing the geneseed of the chapters they killed [[Red Corsairs|regardless of the source]], and became a rogue element, fighting both loyalist and secessionist. Eventually, they found themselves in a standoff with the [[Salamanders]], who convinced them to surrender and bargained a pardon from the High Lords in exchange of having the Executioners undergo a penitent crusade. Huron, having fallen deeper into madness over the years, fully seceded from the Imperium, and made the Imperial Cult illegal, as well as all Imperial iconography.

=== Phase Five: The fall of Badab ===
Now that the [[Astral Claws]] themselves were the only renegades remaining, Carab Culln decided it was time to take the fight to the [[Badab]] itself. With the help of the [[Exorcists]] and his own [[Red Scorpions]], he led an invasion into the gates of the system. But since the place was obviously a vital strategic point for the campaign, Huron was awaiting them and the ensuing battle caused heavy losses on both sides. In the end the Tyrant's forces managed to repel the Loyalists, but in doing so they lost what remained of their fleet and were left with no choice but to go on the defense and await the inevitable Loyalist attack.

The [[Star Phantoms]] appeared, presumably because the author wanted to insert as many chapters as he can into this clusterfuck (or maybe because their planet got sucked into the warp and they were looking for somewhere to crash). The loyalists tore out a part of a sun and threw it at the planet's orbital defense system known as the Ring of Steel, exploding a hole in it that exposed the space station that controlled it. The [[Exorcists]] and [[Sons of Medusa]] conquered it, turning the defenses against the Astral Claws in the system and the Siege of Badab Primaris began. The Exorcists went out to blockade the system, ensuring that no Astral Claws shall escape. The Carcharadons decided to sabotage the planet's reactors, destroying all life on it, while the Star Phantoms, supported by Titans of the Legio Crucius assaulted the Palace of Thorns, the [[Fortress-Monastery]] of the Astral Claws and Huron's seat of power. Huron killed a captain of the Star Phantoms, but had half of his body destroyed. In the chaos as all the ships retreated from the dying planet, the Exorcists accidentally shot down a few loyalists, letting Huron escape. [[Not as planned|Oops]].

==Aftermath==
In the aftermath, the [[Star Phantoms]] became the new rulers of the Badab Sector. The planets and goods of the Mantis Warriors, [[Lamenters]] and Executioners were given to the [[Fire Hawks]], [[Minotaurs]] and [[Salamanders]] respectively, as the [[grimdark|secessionists were forced into 100 year penitent crusades]]. The surviving Astral Claws were [[Blam|executed]]. The [[Fire Hawks]] let the Carcharadons pillage the geneseed and worlds of the Endymion Cluster. The [[Space Sharks]] [[grimdark|forced the youth to fight to the death and recruited the winners]].

Huron was dying, the shattered remains of the [[Astral Claws]] that weren't caught and executed retreating into the Maelstrom. He prayed for survival for him and his chapter, and [[Chaos Gods|four nice fellows]] heard him. Years later, a Chaos Space Marine warband known as the [[Red Corsairs]] appeared. Their leader's name was Huron Blackheart.

THE END, OR IS IT? (protip: IT'S FAR FROM OVER)

==Traitor Forces==
*[[Astral Claws]] (Went renegade after they lost and became the [[Red Corsairs]])
*Tiger Claws (Technically, as they were absorbed back into the Astral Claws chapter which they descended from)
*[[Mantis Warriors]] (Got anally raped by the [[Space Sharks]])
*[[Lamenters]] (Figures that they'd join the losing side. And give much better than they got)
*[[Executioners]] (Later went rogue and fucked up both sides shit)

==Loyalist Forces==
*[[Fire Hawks]] (Before they became the [[Legion of the Damned]])
*[[Marines Errant]]
*[[Space Sharks|Carcharodons]] (Lead by Tyberos the Red Wake, only known wielder of [[awesome|LIGHTNING CHAINCLAWS]])
*[[Red Scorpions]] (Forge World's personal favorite chapter)
*[[Exorcists]]
*[[Salamanders]] (The only Chapter in the war that most people would recognise)
*[[Fire Angels]]
*[[Raptors (Chapter)|Raptors]] (Mostly notable for their appearance in [[Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior]].)
*[[Minotaurs]] (Personal favourites of the [[High Lords of Terra]]. One of their Captains publicly insulted [[Marneus Calgar]] and [[Matt Ward|those who "slavishly fawned" over him]]. Thus they are awesome.)
*[[Sons of Medusa]]
*[[Howling Griffons]]
*[[Novamarines]]
*[[Star Phantoms]]
*Titan Legio Crucius (Warmongers)
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