Editing Lugft Huron (section)

== History ==

Before becoming a Space Marine, he was originally a cheery [[Ratling|Hobbit]] named Lugfoot Hurkins on his home planet of Bree-VIII. A series of bureaucratic cockups led to his being inducted into the Astartes a few days before his eleventy-first birthday instead of being awarded an Imperial mushroom-farming concession (which was awarded to a confused Technobarbarian from Badab IV named Lurgt Hurkon).

=== Chapter Master ===
Lugft Huron is the textbook example of what happens when you let [[High Lords of Terra|damned bureaucrats]] [[derp|run things into the ground]]. When he became Chapter Master of the Astral Claws, he was an arrogant douchebag that had one job: defend the perimeter of the [[Maelstrom]] Warp storm and make sure nothing comes out of it to rape the shit out of the Imperium. But boy, did he ever do his job and did he do it well. After his predecessor got killed by an [[Ork]] [[Warboss]], he led his whole Chapter on a merry dance of purging worlds close to the Maëlstrom and generally stabilizing both the region and the situation. Everyone in the general vicinity lauded him as a man of daring action and there was much rejoicing.

Then civilian unrest broke out on his Chapter's homeworld for the umpteenth time. Huron was really tired of that shit, so he decided to take control and put his Marines in charge of things. Thus, the Astral Claws became the ''de jure'' rulers of the [[Badab]] Sector, with Huron himself as the Tyrant of Badab. This worked out decently well, and [[grimdark|while not always fair and just]] his methods made the Badab sector prosper under his rule. Spurred on by his success, he sent [[High Lords of Terra|aforementioned fuck-ups]] a nice petition requesting more troops to decisively take care of the Maelstrom and getting rid of that thorn in the side of the Imperium for good... [[Fail|It was dismissed without even being read!]]

And that's where everything went wrong forever. When his requests to the [[High Lords of Terra]] for increased resources to consolidate his gains were denied, he [[butthurt|decided]] that in the absence of help from the [[Imperium]] he would run things his own way. He refused to hand his [[gene-seed]] tithes to the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], and when the Imperium came calling he blocked trade to and from his Sector in order to keep the gathered resources for his military. Eventually, he attracted the attention of the [[Inquisition]] and when Huron blew them off, they decided that they needed to remind him who answered to whom [[Exterminatus|in the subtlest, softest way possible]]. Thus, the [[Badab War]] was launched.

In the end, Huron's rebellion was crushed by the forces of the [[Imperium]], as something like a dozen [[Space Marine]] Chapters responded. Of course, Huron wasn't just a rebel, he turned out to be a [[heretic]] too (although when exactly he turned to Chaos isn't entirely clear). In the final battle on Badab Primaris, Huron was horribly injured by a melta-blast from a dying Zhrukal Androcles (9th Captain of the [[Star Phantoms]]) while trying to escape his palace. Losing heart, the Astral Claws fled with their fallen Chapter Master. Lord Apothecary Garreon, Apothecary Secundus Variel, and Master of the Forge Armanneus Valthex (guys who had earned the charming nicknames of "the Corpse Master", "the Flayer", and "the Alchemancer", respectively) set to work trying to save the life of Huron and succeeded, after making him, functionally, Chaos' answer to [[Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken|this motherfucker]]. However, they had a little help. While comatose, Huron was visited by the [[Chaos Gods]], who offered him the power he craved and vengeance against the Imperium which rejected him. Huron agreed, and with his remaining forces fled to the [[Maelstrom]].

=== Chaos Lord ===
He is now known as '''Huron Blackheart''', and those forces remaining under his command are called the [[Red Corsairs]]. After several years as a powerful space pirate, Huron would go on to gain control of a [[Red Corsair's Domain|significant portion]] of the [[Maelstrom]] (the older, but smaller brother of the [[Eye of Terror]]) with his vast pirate fleet, made up of space marines who turned traitor, many other human reavers and some Xenos mercenaries.

One of his greatest achievements as a pirate lord was the capture of the ''Wolf of Fenris''; a Strike Cruiser, where according [[RAGE|to some sources]] ''(the [[Gav Thorpe|very skubtastic]] 4th edition Chaos Codex)'', some of the defenders turned on their brethren and surrendered to the Red Corsairs.

By the end of M41, Huron is the second most powerful [[Chaos Lord]] in the galaxy after [[Abaddon]] himself; a fact that annoys Abby to no end, not least because Huron has not been subtle in hiding his ambition to take Abaddon's place as Warmaster. Not only this but Huron did it FAST, as in, in the space of several decades, since the Badab War only ended in 912.M41 so he's a relative newcomer in the grand scheme of things, but he's accumulated more power faster than many more well established warlords.

He's also powerful enough that he can just give away warriors as well by hosting the '''Skull Harvest''' in the Maelstrom, he awarded over 17,000 warriors to [[Honsou|a sick fuck]].

One thing fans tend to miss, while those that are new to the setting get right away is that Huron, being ''space pirate captain'' has cybernetics equivalents of a peg leg, hook, eye patch and even captain's parrot in a form of his daemon familiar.

Huron once lost to Typhus, who allowed him to live. In-universe, Typhus reasoned that the humiliation and resentment from such humbling might just open Huron's soul to [[Nurgle|Grandaddy]]'s influence more. (And out-of-universe, it's evidently because named characters can't permakill one another, except rare circumstances.)

The Red Corsairs possess the second last remaining Blackstone Fortress given to them by Abaddon (why? He's openly planning to replace the guy, that doesn't exactly scream 'give me superweapons' it's surprisingly good tactics from Abby for once, post-Cadia having a Blackstone Fortress puts a target on Huron's back elevating him from pirate lord to potential conqueror of systems meaning the Imperium will divert resources to dealing with Huron that could have been used against Abby). The other one was discovered in M42 and was not in any records until then.

Supposedly he now has the power [[Wat|to be at two places at once.]]