Badab War - Debts of Honour (912.M41): With the Badab War drawing to its bloody conclusion, there remained a few major matters to settle. This was especially true in regards to the Executioners Chapter. It soon came to pass that the Sons of Medusa and Carcharodons Chapters began to coordinate their efforts to hunt down the elusive Chapter. They had discovered what they believed was their centre of operations in the Dene Stellar Drift, and they intended to prosecute a campaign of annihilation against them.As skirmish and clashes between them began to escalate, the Salamanders' Captain Pellas Mir'san was deeply troubled. The Executioners had acted with honour during the war, and moreover, he felt his own Chapter owed them a debt not easily repaid following the events of the "Red Hour." Renewed by the arrival of the Salamanders' vanguard cruiser Obsidia and a half-company of battle-brothers freshly returned from the Segmentum Solar, Mir'san took it upon himself to seek out the leader of the Executioners, Thulsa Kane, and attempt a parlay and a negotiated end to the Executioners' role in the war.Questing along the Maelstrom Zone's southern periphery for several solar months, the Obsidia rushed in response to reports of battle at the fringes of the Eridayn Cataract. There they found the Executioners battle barge Phaeton's Wrath and the infamous Night Hag hunting down two damaged Sons of Medusa strike cruisers in the dense asteroid fields and dust clouds of the turbulent star system.Without second thought to his own ship's safety, Captain Mir'san interposed his vessel between the two warring sides and deactivated his ship's weapons. He then demanded that an honourable discourse between brothers take place. The Loyalist forces faced a tense stand-off, coming to the brink of warring amongst themselves, but Mir'san was successful in forcing both sides to stand down.He then negotiated the Sons of Medusa's departure and the Executioners' ceasefire, bringing the Night Hag with Kane aboard, under the Salamanders' own personal flag of safety to formal parlay with the Loyalist command. Though shadowed with the Warp-echoes of prowling Carcharodons warships en route to Crow's World, they were not attacked.Many on the Loyalist side had a mind to arrest or even slay the Executioners on sight, but the voice of Pellas Mir'san, a respected representative of his First Founding Chapter was not so easily dismissed, nor were the likely consequences should blood be shed dishonourably at this time. Seeing the strategic wisdom of being able to remove a dangerous and unpredictable Chapter bloodlessly from the war, Lord High Commander Carab Culln acquiesced to Mir'san's proposals in regards to the Executioners.But the magister militum of the Adeptus Astartes forces added a few caveats of his own. The terms of honourable armistice stated that the Executioners would end all hostilities and quit the region of the Maelstrom Zone entirely, never to return. The bulk of their surviving forces were then to travel to their distant home system under oath to remain there until full judgement could later be passed on their actions by a full Consistorial Court of inquiry.The acting Executioners commander, Thulsa Kane, his chosen honour guard and crew, along with the Night Hag, voluntarily gave themselves over to the Salamanders' custody and were interned at the Salamanders' Chapter homeworld of Nocturne until the end of the war.From this point on the Salamanders Chapter stood as guarantor of the Executioners' compliance and conduct, although there remained those on the Loyalist side who, though bound to obedience in the matter, would never forget the bad blood between them.