Editing Badab War (section)

=== 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]].