Tyrant's Legion

The Tyrant's Legion was the human Auxilia planetary defence forces that the rogue Lufgt Huron of the Renegade Astral Claws Space Marine Chapter reforged under his command to his own specification when he first assumed the mantle of 'Tyrant of Badab' in 718.M41. The Tyrant's Legion were a highly effective force, allowing the Secessionist cause to defend the Maelstrom Zone territory to which they had laid claim, and provided the Tyrant with what was effectively a shadowy parallel to the Imperial Guard, loyal only to Huron and the Astral Claws who to the human conscripts in its ranks were no less than living gods touched by the Emperor. As the Badab War raged (901.M41-912.M41), the role of the Tyrant's Legion proved vital, enabling the Secessionists to hold ground, a task for which Space Marine were generally unsuited in temperament, not to mention number. But as mere mortal men and women forced to take the battlefield against the the superhuman warriors of the Adeptus Astartes, they were to pay a heavy price for their loyalties; their lives spent in the tens of thousands before the war's end in a cause both lost and damned.