Editing Badab War (section)

=== 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.