Editing Ghoul Stars (section)

===The Ashen Claws Empire===
The renegade Space Marine chapter known as the [[Ashen Claws]] originated from a group of Terran [[Raven Guard]] who were more or less banished from the XIX Legion after the Battle of Gate 42 during the [[Great Crusade]]. Corax wasn't fond of the Terrans in his legion, as they were too ruthless and brutal for his tastes. He therefore volunteered the survivors of Gate 42 to join a crusade fleet that was dispatched into the Ghoul Stars to bring the region into Imperial compliance. These survivors were still out there when the Horus Heresy erupted. While they remained nominally loyal to the Imperium, they eventually deteriorated into a chapter of renegades, attacking loyalists and traitors alike in order to secure their own survival. They are now based on the world of Atargatis Prime, and almost no one except for the [[Carcharodons]] knows that they still exist, where they remain nominal loyalists who are de facto independent due to obscurity. They are tenuously allied with the Carcharadons and exchange gear and gene seed. Astropathic fragments intercepted indicates that as late as 062.M31 the Ashen Claws was still bringing worlds into compliance according to edicts of their 'Second Crusade'.