Badab War - Huron's Sins Uncovered (907.M41): Inquisitorial interrogation of an Astral Claws Apothecary captured during the battle for Surngraad's polar fortress revealed to the general shock of the interrogators that the prisoner was not in fact an Astral Claw by origin at all, but was in fact a former member of the Tiger Claws, a Chapter long thought lost.The Astral Claws' hubris resulted in their Chapter secretly absorbing the remnants of their long-lost Successor Chapter into their ranks and ultimately led to Lufgt Huron's dreams of expanding his Chapter into a force with the strength of one of the Space Marine Legions of antiquity, in order to pacify the Maelstrom permanently and crush Mankind's enemies.Some Imperial scholars contend that when the last remaining Tiger Claws survivors were taken into the Astral Claws midst, these once-loyal brothers grasped a poisonous viper to their hearts, thus causing them to eventually fall from grace.Further dire and extreme interrogative methods were then unleashed in utter secrecy as a planned series of stalk-and-capture raids were engaged upon by covert Astartes and Inquisition forces operating within the Maelstrom Zone. Evidence was quickly amassed of an unforeseen and terrible heresy that had been pursued by the Astral Claws and Lufgt Huron for more than a standard century.The Tyrant of Badab had ordered the withholding of his Chapter's gene-seed tithes to the Magos Invigila, not to replenish the Chapter's own losses, but at first in order to help save the remnants of the decimated ranks of their near-extinct kin, the Tiger Claws Chapter, which had sought sanctuary with them in secret.Lufgt Huron and his fellows hid them within the Astral Claws' own ranks. He then further compounded this sin by seeking to expand his own forces far past the levels mandated by the Codex Astartes. For at least a hundred standard years before the outbreak of the conflict, the Astral Claws secretly attempted to transform their Chapter slowly into a force equal to a Space Marine Legion of old.In his monumental arrogance and pride, Huron sought at first not to rebel against the Imperium, but to prove his case by scourging the Maelstrom clean, and establishing a new realm carved out for Mankind in the name of the Emperor.To outside scrutiny, the Tyrant of Badab placed Astral Claws detachments within the Tyrant's Legion's ranks before the outbreak of the war as trainers -- tasked with the purging and improvement of the mediocre and often corrupt PDF armies of the Badab Sector. But in reality, the Legion's Astartes tribunes were in all cases passed off as the force's commanders. This perfidy succeeded in concealing the true numbers of the Tyrant's growing Chapter from prying eyes and enabled the Astral Claws to disperse these hidden forces all across Huron's domain, hidden within the Tyrant's Legion.The perfidy of the Tyrant of Badab and the Astral Claws rapidly became apparent when the Badab War engulfed the Maelstrom Zone, as did the identity of the true commanders of the Tyrant's Legion who willingly followed their master without falter, taking up arms against any who would challenge the Tyrant's domains.Further covert investigation uncovered that the Astral Claws Apothecaries had also been conducting heretical experiments in rapid gene-seed zygote cultivation and while largely unsuccessful, thanks to the use of its un-tithed gene-seed, the Astral Claws Chapter stood at around an estimated 3,500 battle-brothers strong.