Badab War - Trial and Punishment (913.M41): In the aftermath of the death of Badab Primaris, the remaining Secessionists from the Astral Claws, Executioners, Mantis Warriors and Lamenters Chapters were put on trial before a specially convened Consistorial Court of their peers with their very existence at stake. Despite the attempts of the Inquisitor-Legate Jarndyce Frain to have the matter placed fully under Inquisitorial remit, a conclave of five Space Marine Chapter Masters whose forces were not part of the conflict were convened in judgement in accordance with Adeptus Astartes tradition.Representatives of those that fought on both sides went on to give evidence to the court. Particularly noteworthy was the testimony of Captain Mir'san of the Salamanders, speaking out in eloquent and moving defence of the Executioners Chapter's honour, if not their actions.Also heard at great length was the now near-dead master of the Fire Hawks, Stibor Lazaerek, and his bitter calls to eradicate the vanquished foe without exception garnered some sympathy from the tribunal. The last to testify was the Inquisitor-Legate Frain himself, whose impassioned and wise words called on the assembled Chapter Masters to weigh both the deeds of men and the will of the Emperor, and heed the judgement of history on them.A unanimous verdict was reached by the tribunal that the Astral Claws were judged to be Traitors most foul and that they were to be declared Excommunicate Traitoris. They were guilty of taking up arms against the Imperium and the Emperor and deceitfully causing their brethren to do likewise. The Consistorial Court also found that all of those Chapters who had taken part in the Badab Secession was guilty in breaking with both the Codex Astartes and the ancient covenant with the Emperor that it represented.In punishment, all the Astral Claws in Imperial custody were blindfolded and shackled in dishonour and then put to the sword. It was further judged that the other surviving Secessionist Chapters would have to each undertake a 100-standard-year-long penitent crusade to atone for their transgressions, and would have to do so without the right to recruit new brethren to replace their losses during this time of punishment. Their future survival would therefore be left in their own hands and by the grace and benevolence of the Holy Emperor.In addition, the Mantis Warriors would henceforth lose all rights to their ancient domains in the Endymion Cluster, with their goods and chattels given over to the Fire Hawks in perpetuity, and likewise the Lamenters Chapter were condemned to surrender reparations in starships and wargear to the Minotaurs Chapter (this in essence being no more than a rubber-stamp approval of actions that had already taken place).The Executioners Chapter in contrast were granted a measure of comparable clemency, and their twin Chapter worlds were given over in trust to the Salamanders Chapter and their own successors rather than forfeited entirely, to be returned to them should they endure their hundred-year act of contrition and survive.As to the mortal men and women of the Maelstrom Zone, caught up in a solar decade of calamity and bloodshed, their lives now belonged to the Administratum. Alongside them were the Adeptus Mechanicus and Inquisition, both of which had their own interests to serve and all would have their due.