Autek Mor

Autek Mor, known as "The Maimed" and the "Blood-Wrought," was both Iron Lord and Iron Father to the infamous Morragul Clan of the Iron Hands Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. He was known for his fearsome mien and bitter anima, and ruled over his Clan Company with an iron fist. Though he and his Primarch Ferrus Manus did not see eye-to-eye, when the Loyalist Legions were callously betrayed during the Dropsite Massacre of Istvaan V, it was Autek Mor and his flagship, the Red Talon, that was one of the first Iron Hands vessels that arrived in the Istvaan System amid the titanic space battle that had erupted between the Loyalist and Traitor fleets. Mor ordered his vessel to attempt to breach through the firestorm to reach the planet's surface in order to extract their Primarch, and the infamously powerful grand cruiser succeeded in punching through the battle, but took such heavy damage it was forced to bypass Istvaan V and flee, managing to escape, unlike many of the Iron Hands ships that would later arrive. During this desperate void battle, the Red Talon repelled dozens of separate boarding attacks from all sides.

Even as the Imperium reeled, Autek Mor would begin his own war, one fought beyond the sight and the staying hand of the War Council on Terra. It cannot be said for certain when Autek Mor launched the first strike of his campaign, yet certainly the fate met by Gethsamaine Colonus in the Cyclops Cluster must rank as one of the very first such instances. In the wake of the Horus Heresy, and the restructuring of the Imperial armed forces established by Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman and his Codex Astartes, the Space Marine Legions were broken up into smaller existing military formations known as Chapters. In 021.M31, the Second Founding occurred, and the sinister Iron Lord Autek Mor was given command of the newly created Iron Hands Successor Chapter, the Red Talons, becoming its first Chapter Master.

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