Hell's Iris is a Ramilles-class starfort that is owned by the Red Corsairs Chaos Space Marines and was formerly known as Canaan's Eye when it was still controlled by the Imperium. It resides within the great Warp rift known as the Maelstrom and serves as an outpost for the warband.
In the Era Indomitus, Garreon, the Renegade Chapter's Chief Apothecary, used Hell's Iris as his base of operations when he began implanting the Red Corsairs' remaining Astral Claws gene-seed into new aspirants. However, Garreon had voiced his concerns to the warband's Master of the Forge, Armanneus Valthex, that the gene-seed was rapidly degrading due to exposure to the energies of the Warp.
Despite his best efforts, this genetic corruption led to a rate of implantation failure in the Red Corsairs' aspirants that was far higher than either Garreon nor Valthex had ever seen. However, they were able to continue to replace their losses and even grow the Chapter because they also had access to healthy gene-seed that the warband had stolen from other, Loyalist Space Marine Chapters. However, this also meant that they were diluting what remained within the Renegade Chapter of the genetic lineage of the original Astral Claws.
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- Blood Reaver (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Ch. 11
- Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom (Novel) by Mike Brooks, Ch. 5