Corvus Corax

Poor guy got fucked nearly as hard as the Lamenters.

Corvus Corax, the Common Raven, also known as the Northern Raven, is a large, all-black passerine bird was the Primarch of the Raven Guard. Corax was big on fast assaults and is notorious both for being the head of one of the hardest-hit chapters during the Horus Heresy and for the steps Corax took to try to help the Imperium, as well as the self-imposed exile he put himself to in an attempt to atone for what he had caused. Whilst /tg/ often jokes that he's emo, he's also a complete badass, like a lot of the Primarchs, and unlike this fucker actually got shit done.

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The Horus Heresy

When the Horus Heresy occurred, the Raven Guard, Iron Hands, and Salamanders were all on the front lines on Istvaan V. Each faction was well-suited to lead the vanguard of the attack, but they would wind up getting trapped and pinned down in the worst part of the fighting; when 4 more Legions turned traitor and joined Horus' rebellion, the three chapters already in the thick of it wound up in a bitter fight which cost the three legions scores of men - as well as the Iron Hands' Primarch, Ferrus Manus. Corax's forces, primarily designed for quick insertion and covert-ops duty and not sticking around in a meat-grinder caused the Raven Guard to take the heaviest casualties - and though they fought desperately alongside the Salamanders and Iron Hands, killing countless traitor marines in turn, the three legions were still slaughtered wholesale, forcing all three to withdraw, and leaving all three legions largely unable to stop Horus' advance.

Vulkan and Corax realized how dire the situation was, and returned to their homeworlds to rally additional troops and pursue the renegades. Corax fell back to Deliverance and sought to rebuild his forces in order to help the Imperium ASAP - and he was desperate. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listened to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. The Imperium was collapsing, with the loyalists outnumbered and Guilliman chasing Alpharius halfway across the galaxy in the universe's biggest version of hunt the last webway gate, further thinning their forces. The Emperor needed warriors, and Deliverance had none to spare. Searching for a solution, Corax beseeched the Emperor for a way to quickly restore his legion to strength. Voracious was sent to the original complex that Empy made the Primarchs and Astartes and through ancient books discovered some of the research notes the Emperor had left behind when making the first batches of Space Marines. Using techniques gleaned from these books, Corax began essentially cloning marines at an alarming rate.

He did not heed the book's warnings, however, and he quickly learned why the book advised against this - most of the warriors that emerged from the tubes were malformed and physically and mentally retarded to the point where C.S.Goto looked stable in contrast. Only about 1 in 5 were viable enough to be proper warriors; the rest were fielded as meat shields. With a warped army of screaming clones feeling that the urgency of his mission was of more import. After a fair amount of fuck ups, a solution was found and Corax had discovered a way to make stronger, faster, and more quickly maturing(physically) Astartes out of toddlers. There were those that opposed this amongst the legion stating that if it were right to give a 5 yr old that much power and produce them that quickly, then the Emperor would have done so, but Corax held that they were in dire straights and it called for an exception. Then the Alpha Legion laid the FUCK down on that entire plan, and corrupted the gene-seed that the entire project was and ever would be using. Corax led attacks against the Traitors and penetrated the rear area of the Chaos forces' supply lines before destroying them, which slowed their advance considerably.

After the Horus Heresy, Guilliman came back and had a sudden surprising outbreak of common-sense(this is a source of hot debate, many view this decision as the highest degree of fucktarded), recommending demanding that the legions subdivide so that no one man could ever hold the kind of power that led to Horus butt-fucking the entire Imperium. Corax hesitantly agreed, and split his forces, but he remained wracked with guilt; he could not forget what he had done to help save the Imperium, and was left with the horrid choice of what to do about the shambling abominations he had created. After pondering for hours as to what should be done he decided to mercifully put the screaming abominations down, praying for their souls - and for his. He then locked himself in Ravenspire, and for nearly a year, did not came out, having spent most of that time in Lamentation and the rest playing Dwarf Fortress. When he did emerge, Corax left Deliverance and made a bee-line for the Eye of Terror, heading there, finally, to settle the score.

Quoth the Corax: "Nevermore."

It is believed that like Leman Russ and Vulkan, Corax will return in the final apocalyptic battle versus Chaos, when the Emperor returns - and that then, and only then, will he have the absolution he sought. /tg/ often jokes that on that same day, Indrick Boreale will talk normally, and Macha will get laid.

Gallery

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  Corax model. Won a Golden Demon award.

The Primarchs of the Space Marine Legions
Loyalist Corvus Corax - Ferrus Manus - Jaghatai Khan Leman Russ - Lion El'Jonson - Roboute Guilliman Rogal Dorn - Sanguinius - Vulkan
Traitor Alpharius/Omegon - Angron - Fulgrim Horus - Konrad Curze/Night Haunter - Lorgar Magnus the Red - Mortarion - Perturabo