Editing Badab War (section)

==The Conflict== 
=== Phase One: Huron and the Maelstrom ===
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, so named for the [[Maelstrom|warp rift]] it contained. 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 hear his request out]], as attacking it would be suicidal. They also rejected some of his more reasonable requests, like founding a new Chapter to replace the [[Charnel Guard|fourth Warders Chapter]] they had taken away or sending a larger navy because most of the threats that the Maelstrom Zone faced were pirates, heretical pirates, or Xeno pirates.

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. He started laying down the exterminatus on planets that were uninhabited but had pirate caches on them. He also built a fleet out of captured (non-Chaotic) pirate ships 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]] 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. The [[Marines Errant]] jumped in to lend a hand to the Fire Hawks while a company of the [[Executioners]] came to help the Separatists (though the Executioners were loyal they owed the Astral Claws a favor for saving their asses a few hundred years ago). Wishing to end the conflict as fast as possible, the Trade Lords and Fire Hawks attemped to strike at the heart of the Separatist war effort [[Not as planned| which turned out to be a trap laid down by Huron]] and they both got their asses handed to them. 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 with their tail between their legs. The score was now Huron 2, loyalists 0.

=== 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 [[rip and tear|with extreme prejudice]]. The Marines Errant and Fire Hawks came back for round 2, this time aided by the newcomers of the [[Novamarines]]. The newly assembled loyalist force of six Chapters 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]], hope for the war ending dying with them. The Marines Errant were also too mauled by now, and had to retreat from the war, not that the loyalists cared cuz the [[Howling Griffons]], [[Sons of Medusa]] and [[Fire Angels]] arrived to replace them. Command of the Loyalist forces was given to [[Carab Culln]]. Under Culln's command, the loyalists would seize 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 [[rape|buttfucked]] 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. The score was now 0-3 in favor of the Tyrant.

It was during this period of the war that 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 ===
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, but the [[Inquisition]] kept arguing with them, knowing they were bros with the Executioners and the nicest chapter around. To fill the numbers left by the other chapters, the [[Exorcists]] were called in. The loyalists then launched an assault spearheaded by the [[Fire Angels]], [[Red Scorpions]] and Exorcists that managed to seize the lynchpin of the Maelstrom zone's warp routes, confining the Astral Claws to the Badab Sector and isolating them from their allies.

Then the [[Minotaurs]] arrived outta nowhere, and using their one and only advantage of numbers boarded the [[Lamenters]]' ships. They killed all but 300 Lamenters, who surrendered (their weapons were completely depleted) like the unlucky bad-asses they are. Nothing happened for a while until the [[Carcharodons]] showed up and defeated the [[Mantis Warriors]]. The [[Fire Angels]] withdrew due to heavy losses and hating having to serve with the sharky assholes. The Executioners learned 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 for having the Executioners undergo a penitent crusade, souring relations with the [[Sons of Medusa]] who had lost the [[Strike Cruiser]] ''Warspite'' with all hands and were demanding retribution. 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.

With these victories, the loyalists were now tied with Huron 3-3.

=== 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 Badab itself. With the help of the [[Exorcists]] and his own [[Red Scorpions]], he led an invasion into the gates of the system. 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 the station, 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 escaped. 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 when the dying Captain pulled the trigger on his Combi-Melta, blowing Huron's arm to a smoking ruin and tearing his side apart. In the chaos as the ships retreated from the dying planet, the Exorcists accidentally shot down a few loyalists, letting Huron and his followers escape, Huron barely alive in a coma. [[Not as planned|Oops]].