Editing Corvus Corax (section)

==Great Crusade==
[[File:Deliverance_Lost_cropped.jpg|450px|thumb|right|Corvus "Edgar Allan Pun" Corax, the Deliverer. He is black ops BraveStarr.]]

Little is spoken (sensing a pattern here?) of Corax's role in the Great Crusade, though his contributions were many. A firm proponent of mobile strikes, tactical planning, and careful sabotage, the Raven Guard excelled at lightning fast strikes and covert operations, but several of the Primarchs were not quite so sold on it. [[Rogal Dorn]] disliked the combat style of the Raven Guard, though the two purportedly respected one another. Corax would have likely gotten along swimmingly with [[Alpharius]] and [[Konrad Curze]], due to similar tactical doctrines, but the three Primarchs would be deployed to opposite sides of the Imperium during the great crusade, and would never really manage to hook up. Then again, it's implied pretty strongly that Corvus always hated what Kurze stood for, no matter how similar their tactics (and schticks and weird psykerness and overall personas) were (actually maybe it's not that hard to see why the emo bird hated the goth edgelord). We don't know of any collabs with the [[Alpha Legion]], but really, we wouldn't, would we? (One wonders what Corvus and [[Alpharius]] would've done if their positions were switched. While Kurze distances himself from his kind-of similar brother by being a total psychopath, Alpharius does more so by virtue of being much more mysterious and much emotionally present or relatable.) As of ''Massacre'', it is shown that both the [[Raven Guard]] and [[Night Lords]] worked together during the Farinatus Extermination. But judging from Corvus's disdain for Konrad, it did not end well.

One person who Corax flat-out didn't get along with was [[Horus]] (with him being one of the few Primarchs who didn't get along swimmingly with the golden boy. What wasn't pessimism or jealousy, maybe it was foresight, and vice-versa.) The pair never saw eye-to-eye, with Corax being too humanitarian for Horus' tastes and Horus being too much of a [[Creed|cockmongler]] for Corax's liking. The two also disliked one another's tactical choices, and on at least one occasion, the two nearly came to blows after Horus ordered Corvus' Legion into a frontal assault on a heavily defended fortress. A little strange, given that the Iron Warriors and Space Wolves were present and much better-suited to these tactics, but it basically boiled down to Horus being a prick. The pre-Corvus legion served under Horus, and rolled more like the Night Lords than the emo ninjas we know and love today. Corvus, who saw some uncomfortable parallels with the slavers of his homeworld, promptly set about changing this, which undoubtedly pissed off Horus. Big brother decided to flex his Warmaster muscles, and when Corvus proposed a sensible alternative Perturabo called him a big pussy. The result was a pile of dead ravens, millions of civilian corpses (who hadn't rebelled willingly, but were under the control of alien parasites), and ''Leman Russ of all people'' breaking up a fight between Corvus and Perturabo. It's suspected that Perturabo played a major role in giving the Ravens the job of trialing the [[Mark VI: Corvus Armour|Mark VI "Beakie" armour]], [[Derp|believing it to be inferior]].

Being the bigger man, Corax said "fuck this" and left Horus' command, hooking up with some kindred spirits in the form of [[Ferrus Manus]] and [[Vulkan]]; the three hit it off pretty well and found their forces worked really, ''really'' well together. They then went and continued the Great Crusade without having to deal with Horus' acting like a [[furry|shit]]. The one upside from the Gate 42 debacle was that the Terran marines in the Legion had been largely wiped out in the assault, taking the warrior lodges with them. In fact, when he learned of what Horus had planned for the Raven Guard during Gate 42, it was said that Corax deliberately assigned the majority of his Terran marines to the assault. Nobody is sure whether he did this because the Terran marines were more used to frontal assault operations, or because he knew the battle was going to be a clusterfuck and wanted to kill off as many of them as possible. Probably both. At any rate, Corax got what he wanted and by the time the battle was over, most of the Terran marines were dead. The survivors became a [[Blackshield]] force known as [[Ashen Claws]], after being sent off on their own towards the Ghoul Stars.