Adeptus Ridiculous - BADAB WAR PRELUDE: DEATH AND TAXES | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamante's, his name is Bricky and, oh boy, grim dark. But before we get into that, if you enjoy today's episode and you maybe want to support us, heading over to patreon.com slash Adeptus Ridiculous, where you can get access to the Discord, bloopers if they happen. The $15 tier gets you access to all of our posters in digital format. And Shai said there's a new poster today, Bricky. the silence is deafening shy show the poster

show the poster where's the poster show the poster shy where's the poster poster poster poster poster poster where's the poster she says it's loading and lying she's loading embed failure oh right I remember this yes oh this is so good I forgot all about this

tell them tell them how you feel about it bricky tell them how you feel about it I say one statement about the venom crawler's dumpy, and next thing you know, there's a poster maids. Oh, and what a dumpy it is. Oh, brilliant. Is this a post... Is it supposed to look like the spider chick from that one anime that has the monsters? Oh, Monster Musume?

I don't think so. Okay. Maybe it's just because the venom crawler looks like a spider then. Yeah, I think it's just Venom crawler does give off very spider vibes, and obviously Monster Masumi does have a spider wifu that wants to, you know, implant eggs in your stomach and watch you explode into a nest of baby spiders. But yeah, probably. I did not need to know that. I don't know if that's actually how it goes, because unironically, I've never seen Monster Musume. That is more shocking than the poster. Yeah, probably. Coming from me, a man of true

culture and intellect. Yeah, that probably is more surprising. And taste. Indeed. Well, you know what? That poster is currently. available. It is available at Orchidate.com. Link in the description. You can snag this poster. And hopefully we will have the final poster of the year relatively soon.

And then the final of the year will be complete. And all the posters will be around. I am entering my credit card information as we speak. And the three digits on the back. The three wacky digits on the back. Yep. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

That's going on the wall. guaranteed. All right. So. What do you think today is going to be on? So there's a part of me that when you say that I want to just be a meme douchebag and just say the bad ab war because I've been beating that dead horse every chance I get with you.

So is it the bad app war? I don't know. Why? I don't know. You said the bad ab war. I don't know. I just, man, I don't. It's, yeah, it's an intrusive thought that just won't go away. It was like, I think it was two episodes ago where you were just like, oh, yeah, we're

going to do a big event. And in my head, the first thing, like a, like a siren was just badab war. And I've just been beating that horse to death. And it's just, it won't go away. So I had to. Especially when you said it so, like, dejectedly, like, you knew. You knew exactly what I was going to say. And I was like, well, I can't.

I can't disappoint Brickian. I can't disappoint the people. Well, I mean, I do, but. Shire, did you spoil him? No. Is it actually? Who spoiled him? Because it's like genuinely.

Is it actually? Because, like, I refuse to accept that it's just some epiphany of him. It was. It was just an epiphany I have. I'm ignoring you, D.K. This is a conversation between me and shy right now. What happened? Because it's like unfair.

We give him the most like milk bread fucking quotes and he can't get them. And just like through the realms of Zich, he knows the next damn topic. Through the warp spoke to me. What sorceress power has caused this? Finally, let's... I just... Also, did you said we give you the most milk bread quotes? Isn't it milk?

Isn't it like milk toast? It's milk toast, but I watched the video of like people making those Japanese milk bread. It's really squishy. And I was like, oh, those look so good too. I've seen those milk. Oh, my God. They're really good. Yeah, it's the bad ab war.

Fuck you. There was a part of me that thought it might be just because I was like, man, Bricky seems really kind of like, why are you, why do you keep saying? I was like, hmm, it's like I hit a nerve or something. Like, what's going on? I think just because I, I think maybe I myself assumed that I maybe accidentally spoiled you and I didn't want to do that. But now that I know I never did, and it's just some, it was nothing you said. Yeah, we're doing the bad app war.

Yay! Let's go. This is part one of a part one through seven possible parts. I have no idea how long it'll be. my guess is like three to four. Parts of the bad ab war. And, you know, the siege of Vrax was a pretty fun. Pretty fun one, despite the enormous human toll of violence.

This one, the bad ab war definitely spans larger than the siege of Rax. Rax takes place on a planet for the most part. Whereas the bad ab war takes place in a significantly larger amount. of space. This is a lovely story about administration, bureaucracy, political tension, and the greatest example that the Imperium survives, not thanks to the horrible things it does, but in spite of them. In spite of them. I was going to say, this sounds like just classic ecclesiartial.

administrativeum failures. Ironically, very little ecclesiarchal failures. Ridiculous amounts of piety actually takes less of a factor, at least in the beginning of this, than you would expect. Okay, okay. Or C.S. goes. So, anyway, the Bad Dab War takes place out in an area of space known as the Maelstrom. This is not the eye of terror.

Oh. This is a smaller eye of terror. A tinier one far closer to the galactic core of the galaxy. Also, do any of those names remind you of anything? Um, in that picture? The great lesion sounds like something that Nergo would be a big fan of. Not quite. Um, that's 20% chance so far.

Helix beta just because, um... Okay, so it's Hell's Iris. Oh, I wasn't even thinking about that. Okay, Hells Iris. That just sounded like a normal, like, thing in 40K. Hells Iris is the Chaos Port City that the night lords go to in the second book in which... Oh, is it? Okay. It's where Septimus and Maruk find a pregnant lady and they capture her.

to make her into a night lord because or make her kid into a night lord because this is chaos and they're awful people all right cool cool i'm terrible with names in 40k it is so so bad how often i forget like names and places but once you tell me what event happened there it's like oh gotcha and it all just dawns on me again so yes that that is that is hell's iris they go there to refuel and recharge and repair after all the shenanigans of the beginning of the second book but right So the Maelstrom is another rip in reality, like the Eye of Terror, but just not as substantial and a little closer to the galactic core where the other one is by Acadia, which is like the south-west, if you look at like the general map. Oh, yeah. The Maelstrom has recently had a lot more attacks coming from it.

More and more keep coming from the Maelstrom area, whether it's Ork raids, Dukari, slave-taking, or just classic chaos shenanigans. The Maelstrom is, the Maelstrom zone is getting kind of hit a lot. Okay. But before we move on, was the Maelstrom, did that pop open because of what happened at the Eye of Terror? or is this just another, another little blip, another little just rip? It's just its own thing, or did the crack across the galaxy cause this? It's independent. It's its own little thing.

Okay, cool, cool. But near the Maelstrom, and this is a map I would like to present because it'll be the easiest to understand. For the most part, you can see there is something known as the Maelstrom zone. and this is a general map of the Maelstrom zone. You have the Malmstrom border in the top right, and then heading back into the general galactic arm and interstellar drift on the bottom left. And then everything in the center is generally known as the Maelstrom zone.

You can see the Badab sector in the center. Yeah, I was going to see there's the Baddab. This is, oh no, this is going to be an awful war, isn't it? This is going to be terrible. The Chimarian drift, the Edmund Cluster, etc. And if you, if you zoom in to the top right, you'll see a lot more of these specifics going on there. You see death world, death world, orc, like, orc infestation. Yeah, feral world, lost, frontier world, sure.

Things get worse, the closer you get to the actual Maelstrom zone. Yeah, I was going to say, that is not a happy, fun place to be that Maelstrom border. Yeah, no, the Maelstrom Zone is a terrible place. The Warp is already bad, but the, um, the, there it's specifically a violent and turbulent warp storm meaning it's very difficult to traverse

and it's so in a sense like hundreds and hundreds of systems all in that area that have either been unexplored outside of a couple of imperial worlds you see dotted there on the map. Yeah. Oh, Angstrom is a forge world that's really close to that border.

Like, yeesh. Like, they must get a lot of attention. Uh, most of my, yeah, access restricted, it says. Yeah, like that, that thing must be a target all the time. There's also like, uh, sacristan on the top, uh, which is a frontier world. Oh, yeah. I think there should be a, um, oh, there it is, uh, Zverengad is a fortress world, uh, up, uh, below the endymian cluster.

And, uh, you know, so on and so forth. Yeah, yeah. So, plenty That's a great map. That's a great picture. Yeah, it really kind of shows off where you're trying to, all the specific stuff you're trying to look at. Anyway, so this whole zone is just awful.

It's terrible to traverse because the warp is constantly roiling and all kinds of problems. A lot of the worlds here have actually been expelled from the galactic core itself through some interstellar means. And therefore are extremely valuable. As we know, the Voton spent a lot of... This is also pre-votons,

so they're not going to be in our story. Right. Despite them mostly taking place in the galactic core. Yeah, right where the squat should be. But, oh, hey, they got wiped out. Ha-ha. Orcs and elves killed them.

Yeah, the pre-votan resurgence. But a lot of these planets that have been expelled are extraordinarily valuable because they have got rich minerals and all kinds of stuff. Yeah. So it is a port

for a all manner of horrible things. Like I said, orcs pirate, orcs, Droucari, chaos especially. So there was a imperial key world here known as Cignax, C-Y-G-N-A-X. I actually can't seem to find it on the map, though. Yeah, I was just loading the map back up because I had closed it. I was like, where is it? Where is it? Where is it?

I actually, yeah. Oh, there it is. Top left. Way top left. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. A dead world? Don't read that part.

Hive world? Okay, hey. So, like, I was figuring if this was, like, the one that they were going to go after, it would be, like, right in the middle. Because then it'd be like, oh, wow, all that chaos stuff would be like, oh, we're coming down to get you. And it's like, no, not our fortress and frontier world, too, along with Synax. And then it would be like they would just meet in the middle because also bad dabs in the middle.

So at some point, you know, everybody's probably going to meet there and just, well, that's why I shouldn't have pointed out because it's a dead world. that kind of spoils us a little bit. A little bit, but I'm dumb enough that we'll war with it. Basically, it was an imperial key world and a general safe port through the Maelstrom sector, this Maelstrom zone. And it unfortunately had a massive chaos cultist insurrection. Ooh.

Huge chaos crap all happened on the world. And eventually, with a suicidal charge, they ended up taking over and raining atomic and plasma warheads all over their own planet. So exterminatus light. Yeah, themselves. So soon after that came permanent winter, radioactive fallout, changes in tectonic plates,

and eventually all life on Cignax was killed. Just another day at the office in Warhammer 40K. And, you know, naturally, this did not reach the Adeptus Terra very quickly, as administration down there has often been known to be quite slow. I was going to say Administratum is quite slow in general

with like, you know, millions of planets all feeding information. It probably takes forever to get that news. Total side note. You played the new Dark Tide mission where you need to protect the auto scroller server when he's like riding on the parchment?

I don't think I have actually. It's pretty great. It's literally just a server with a bunch of quills writing like really fast on a long string of parchment. You got to protect him. It's great. Fair. All right. But with Cygnax's death, the throws of everything around Cygnax kind of began to die out.

In about a year, but yeah, in one year about, the amount of space equal to a full month and a half journey was removed from the Imperium's grasp. So slowly with the death of that world, more orcs, more Dracari, more chaos raids. vital supply chains were threatened, and that then, once the taxman realized that there was an issue, is when Terra began to act. Right, of course. It's only when you mess with their money, do they start to understand. So, the several Space Marine chapters were then posted in the area to protect the Imperium's interests. The Astral Clause chapter were senior in the role of commanding the new M.

Maelstrom Worders. That's what a new thing is the Maelstrom Worders, as well as a few other chapters known as the Charnell Guard, Mantis Warriors, and the Lamenters. Oh no, the Lamenters are here? You betcha. Oh, yeah, things are going to go south real quickly. Also, you say warders?

Is that like the war borders? Is that what they're going for? Warters? More like a warding. a warden, they're warding off. They're maelstrom warders. Okay, warders. I was like, is that like a border for a war they're planning?

Like, oh, here's the no war past the warder. You know, I don't know. I don't know what I thought. No, it's a weird way to say. Malesstrom wardens would have been a lot cooler sounding. Yeah, it would have. Yeah. It's because I was staring at the Maelstrom border picture, like in the top right where it says

Mailstrom border. I was like, border, warder. Hmm. Yeah. So immediately after deployment, Astral Clause being the main commanding chapter as well as the other three, they surrounded a lot of the areas in the Milstrom zone, gained a position, and slowly with pretty great work, wealth started to go back to Terra. The imperial tithe continue. Because, you know, the imperial tithe, right? Sure.

You got to give. Yeah, you got to give resources. sources people to holy terror, right? You got to make sure they're well-stocked and they got troops and because, boy, do the guard sure die a lot because we just throw them at people. Generally, every single planet in the Imperium is required to give to the imperial tithe. If they cannot make it with money, they make it in resources. They can't make it in resources.

They make it in tech. And if they can't make it in tech, most likely they will make it in human life. In fact, I believe every world has a requirement of human life, with the exception of the fortress worlds of Mars. And I guess like a night world, but even then you're like still getting knights, so it's kind of the same. Yeah, it's true. I guess Mars wouldn't have that because they probably pay their tie than many other great ways with all the crazy shenanigans that they give to Terra and all the technology and all the, yeah. That's why, yeah, Shai makes a great point. it's the only request made of a planetary governor.

Being a planetary governor is a lot like being a rogue traitor where you actually have like a kind of unfathable amount of freedom. You stay on your planet, of course, but like, you know, living on an entire planet, you won't get bored. At least not easily, unless your planet just sucks. And a lot of times planetary governors, especially those in the kimer. Drift area will get fat on luxuries and resources because they're, you know, a planetary

governor is more than a political position. It's very often in, like, it's an aristocracy. It's a familial, you know, it's like, it's a lineage. Oh, my God. Look at that. Oh, yeah. I love John Blanche. Yeah, well, as, as soon as you said that, and as soon as Shai posted that picture, I was like, yeah, it's probably like a lot of these planetary governors have got to be just corrupt and awful and terrible because it's like nobody cares. Hey, we're delivering our ties. So what does it matter that I'm literally a tyrant to my people? It doesn't. I still give you ties.

Everything's still cool. GGs and they're just left of their own devices. And that's probably generational corruption because the kid that takes over is like, oh yeah, I'll just do it like. Dad did because, hey, he was fat and greedy on power. Why not me too? Seems to work. Nobody cares. La-di-da. The only, I mean, you're basically hitting it perfectly on the head. The only main thing you have to fear is the Imperium itself. And so long as you give them enough men, give them enough resources, old uncle taxman, the Terra will not come taking your dues. I mean, I guess the only thing you could also fear, as we know. with the Eisenhorn book. You can fear the Inquisition

if they think you're being a little too suss with your dealings. Yeah, if you're maybe being heretical, that's a different story. I'm sure the Imperium will look aside some tyrannical behavior because you're giving them tithes, but heresy, no.

There is thousands of stories of planetary governors who were some of the worst and most awful people ever over like five centuries of rule but they constantly met quotas and so the Imperium was like, cool you know, keep your concubines

keep whipping slaves, do whatever the fuck you want. Thanks for the 50,000 men every 10 years and massive stockpiles of adamantium. Bye. Bye. I was like, yeah, there's probably so many like planetary governors that literally have just turned the planet into a slave world.

And the Imperium's just like, eh, but they give good resources, so let them do it. And also it comes to the point why so many worlds can end up going under. Signax was destroyed by a chaos cult within.

I am reading the same kind of like Imperial Armory version of the Badd I should have mentioned this earlier. I'm reading the Imperial Armory version of the Bad Ab War. So much like the Siege of Rax, this is the condensed

and by condensed, I mean extraordinarily condensed version. So I will not have the like five books worth of the Badab War of information that some of our viewers probably have read. So I will not have it perfect. That being said, it would not surprise me if Cygnax was killed by the chaos insurrection because of massive heretical dealings via the ruling class. Well, now that you say that, it's like, well, it's got to be a rather common thing for one of these planets to fall to chaos just because, like, when your planetary governor is that corrupt, they're treating you as, you know, essentially they're treating you like a slave and they're just constantly beating you and they probably don't feed you enough. But, oh, the Imperium doesn't care about us because, you know, they're getting the tithe. it's probably really easy to fall to that little whisper of chaos in your ear that's like, hey, we can help you take this guy out, the Imperium doesn't care about you, humans don't

care about you, what have you got to lose? It's probably really easy to fall to chaos and be like, sure, uprising of chaos. It's way better than what I've got to deal with now because now I'm basically a slave. Very minor, light middle of the book spoilers for Eisenhorn. One of the ruling families on the planet dealt with. with alien artifacts because they increased their agricultural produce. They were fined with alien artifacts because it served them and their money. Yep.

And that right there is a big no-no. Yeah, a big no-no. That is a heretical no-no. But, yeah, I mean, for the most part, unless you're doing something that the Inquisition takes notice of, you are, at the end of the day, allowed to do whatever you want so long as you meet the imperial tithe. And even like a plant like Cynax, when it died, it took forever to reach the Department of Holy Terra, much like in the Leviathan sequence when slowly various worlds were being destroyed by the Tyrannage, just going silent.

It was probably filed away in the wrong hall with the wrong scroll of parchment and nobody noticed. Because a million worlds and they don't have Microsoft Excel. Yeah, they probably only noticed us like, hey, we didn't get any tithes. They're less ties today. What happened? Cynax. And then someone investigated and I'm like, why is Cynax a smoldering crater? Very much exactly that.

So anyway, to get us back on track, eventually the Astral Clause and all of the maelstrom warders were able to get the wealth to flow back. Get the tiths back. get the money back. But immediately after this, their momentum was stopped dead in its tracks when the Charnell Guard chapter was removed and requisitioned

by the Adeptus Terra and the High Lords needed them somewhere else. So took them and sent them somewhere else, having them lose a quarter of their troops. When reinforcements were requested from Terra, they were subsequently denied. Oh, boy, that's, that's, that's, That's brutal.

Eish. Then, to make matters worse, a spacehulk decided to appear somewhere in the space called the Unhollowed Heart, which I'm not going to lie, sounds exactly like the name of a Space Hulk that was in the Arks of Omen books. Well, I don't know about that, because I haven't read the Arks of Omen and I don't remember. But I was going to say, unhollowed heart, I was like, if that's all you told me, like, yeah, that's something from 40K, I would immediately be like, yeah, that's a Space Hulk. That has to be, because that's exactly how you get a spacehulk, is the warp just kind of hollows it out and puts a bunch of in it. That or just some, like, flagship chaos vessel.

Yeah, definitely. Probably not an Imperium ship, the unhollowed heart. Probably not a loyalist ship. God, that image shy posted. It's just, it's so insane the scale of these space hulks. Okay, I thought that was a debris field when I first looked at the thumbnail. I thought it was a ship looking at like an asteroid field or something. No, no.

Yikes, that's the ship. Space hooks are literally just a, you turned on no clip and then you just shoved cities and ships together into one mass. That's core. That picture is insane. Literally thought that was an asteroid field. But anyway, the unhollowed Heart Space Hulk arrived after they lost the quarter of their troops and decide to completely lay waste to all of these outposts and planets around here. It was a demon-infested ship, and it was literally pushing out mental paranoia and causing mass suicides, riots, and hysteria on all planets at orbited.

Finally, though... Just from orbiting a planet? Just from being near it. The entire populace would either just start killing themselves. or committing mass hysteria to riots and awful stuff. And that's before the demons actually make landfall. Great, great. Good stuff.

Good stuff. Finally, and let me make this clear, I am underselling this massively. But the lamenters were able to destroy the Space Hulk with the loss of 300 of their space marines and four of their strike vessels. is one of the first major, like, death blows dealt to the Lamenters chapter. I was going to say that sounds so lamenters where it's like, hooray, we, we beat the Space Hulk, but all of our forces are dead too. So lament us, please.

And then the Inquisition, the Ordomalius, then began to berate them for not killing it faster. Oh, my God. Why are you? Why can't the lamenters ever have anything nice? I mean, I get it. That's their thing. They're lamenters. But, oh, for not killing it fast enough, huh?

When they took away the reinforcements. Yep. You love to hear it. Did you ever watch Get Smart? Like the old one? No, I didn't. There's a particular episode where the main guy kills or saves the taxman's life multiple times. And he's like, well, sorry, you could have killed this man with only one bullets.

And yet you spent five. Yeah, it's going to come out of your paycheck. The guy, like, gets back up and he shoots him twice more. And he's like, seven bullets. Seven bullets out of the paycheck, buddy. You're going to pay for those bullets. That's basically how this feels like. Oh, man, should have strangled him.

So with this, the Astrocloths then went against their original kind of space marine doctrine. And it was like, okay, we're low on people. we're going to take the fight to them and try to like stifle this problem before it's too bad by attacking orc raids pretty deep in maelstrom space. This did deal a pretty solid blow to the orcs, but the Astral Clause chapter master was killed and they were forced to retreat after dealing with the orcs. That is a heavy blow. Losing your chapter master? Yikes.

So they needed to appoint a new. new one. And they appointed one of by popular demand and popular decision by their peers, a very strong and up-and-coming space marine known as Luft Huron. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I know that name. That's not, oh no. Yeah, you do. This, this does not end well, does it? This is, oh boy. You know a Huron, don't you? Yeah. So, oh no. Oh, no. Oh, no. I think it's click. Okay. All right. No, I don't want to say what I'm thinking, but yeah. Okay. All right. I mean, knowing the outcome is almost more exciting because it's the question of how did we get here. Yeah, because when you said, oh, yeah, hell's iris. That's where in the book, that's where, you know, they stopped off to get the stuff. And I was like, oh, yeah. Wasn't there a group there too? Wasn't there a group that they were

getting helped by? And I was like, uh-oh. It like the light just clicked and a, uh-oh. A Huron something or another. Yeah, something about a, I don't know if like his heart was a little shaded, there was a little dark color to it. You know, I don't know, I can't remember. I'm so bad with names. So, uh, though once elected as the new chapter master, he began to rebuild the fleet. using Corsair prizes and rays. And he would then start to take out large portions of the raiding Xenos around the way, start rebuilding and actually would begin to stockpile a pretty large amount of exterminatus weaponry as well in order to destroy renegade ships and other planets.

Let's make this very clear right now. Huron is fully devoted to the emperor. this guy Now he is Yes Not chaos tainted Nothing he is He is straight up

A model space marine Right now Okay But he's stockpiling Exterminus Which I guess like If you're a space marine And you are

Well a chapter master And you are in this situation On the maelstrom border It probably does behoove You to have exterminatus level weapons So that you can just be like Oh yeah that It's an orc world

blow it off the fucking map. So I guess that's fair actually to have those kind of weapons here and if you're Huron. Yeah. He's Huron. He's hereon. So now we move over to the badab sector. Badab Primaris, the main planet in Badab, obviously.

Decided that it was going to have a palace coup. This failed when the Astro Clause arrived. to destroy the conflict. And they found out all of these kinds of crazy things going on with the Q. We're talking, the Q, uh, coup, sorry. We're talking off-world Raiders, smuggling rings, all kinds of crazy corrupt individuals. And hereon, not the happiest man with this kind of stuff, as riots continue to flare up on the planet and cause all kinds of issues.

So he remembers Cygnacs. And he was like, I, we can't have that happen again. And so he decided to take it into his own hands to crush these issues, executing a massive majority of the ruling class and anyone who even really just appeared like a recidivist. Oh, boy. All right. Okay. I mean, he doesn't want Synax happening again because Synax was a big blow.

So I guess, I guess you just go in with Hellfire and Brimstone. to anything that looks like it might cause that again. Ooh, that's yikes. He put it upon himself to make it Adeptus Astardi's martial law. He took the mantle of planetary ruler, styling himself as, quote, the tyrant of badab. Oh, boy. It begins, huh? It begins.

Hey, he claimed that the sector and his chapter was there to, quote, better protect these worlds and those souls that dwell upon them in the glory of the emperor. Kind of like a little bit of a Gilliman thing. He kind of wanted to style himself as that kind of planetary leader like Gilliman did. Sure. So how did the Imperium take that? Well, I guess the Imperium probably didn't know about this because it probably take forever to actually get through the administrarum that he had done anything.

And I guess as long as he's still sending the tie, they probably don't care. that a space marine took over, so I guess it's kosher. Oh, the Imperium said jack shit because they got their tithe back. Well, yeah, I guess they pat on the back, send him a medal. Yeah, sure. Oh, yeah. And I mean like he ruled this place. After this whole thing, he put a whole bunch of political allies into power

and made the entire Badaab sector, basically his empire, ran by the Astral Clause and the tyrant of Badaab. He even had his own army of Imperial Guard, he called the Tyrants the Legion, and would constantly go on the offensive and destroy other alien raiders. The Maelstrom zone? Highest productivity ever seen.

Most ties, most resources, he turned the place into a truly golden example. example of a functioning imperium. Nothing quite beats Ultramar, but he was doing his damnedest. Wow. So this was a very, very good thing. Like, I don't know why, but a part of me was like, oh, yeah, he just went in and killed a bunch of people and took over a planet. Oh, this sounds like the, you know, first inkling of chaos, but actually, that's a great thing. He just, he turned this place around. Good for him. Oh, yeah. This lasted 150 years. Sheesh. Well, I guess, In 40K, that's actually not that long.

I mean, it's still a little bit long for him to be tasked on this specific task for a century and a half. It's a while. Yeah. Okay. So, you know, there was like kind of fame here, you know. The fame of the Astro Clause tyrant grew reputation when higher productivity went higher. Pirate activity was curtailed. You know, this massive defensive stance with all these watchbacks.

He even made something called, like, I think it was the ring of iron or something, ring of steel, circling the inner spheres of the Badaab primarison region to just be an unpenetrable system. Things were going hot. Now, was life on Badaab great? I don't really know. I mean, having a space marine lead shoe might be better than a planetary governor, but it depends on the space marine and depends on the governor.

I mean, it sounds like the place marine. was pretty much a shithole before. So having a space marine there, I mean, you know you're well protected and you know he's probably, I mean, from the way Huron sounds, at least you know it's going to be fair, if nothing else. So. More than anything, it was productive. Yeah.

More than anything, the tithe remained and all of that stayed well. Okay. So, spurred on by his major success, Huron, took some servants to undertake a pilgrimage to deliver a formal petition to Terra. This was a massively detailed case about subduing the maelstrom and the surrounding area, as well as the great benefits that the Imperium would get from it by actually taking maelstrom space. So in order to get this, it was a case for a huge deployment of space marine chapters to increase

their ranks, suggesting even a brand new founding might need to be merited to meet the plan's needs. Okay. He was subsequently denied, as the Imperium requirements would be better spent elsewhere. He then asked for two other variants of this plan, both of which denied. Yikes. Okay. It really do be beginning.

And so, because of this, we... We now lead into the badams, badab schism, in which Huron, enraged by this decision by Terra, withheld all planetary tithes to the administratum and blocked passage of trade through his realms. Oh, yep. In a protest. D.K., this is a protest, I tell you. His right to protest against the failure of Adeptus Terra. Yeah, I mean, and hey, you got the right to protest, but you got to realize who you're protesting against here.

pal because uh that's let's see the the might of the imperium is greater than uh your little area i think oh boy yep it yeah okay this is this is going to hell in a handbasket well it also had a double effect because now that badab had completely uh cut off all forms of travel through it it also meant that for the most part a lot of the ore and refinement that came from other areas like the Pale Stars region in the southeast couldn't make it to other

areas such as the, I always can perhaps this sort of Cameroon drift on the west. So with this sector not only did he cut it off but he took it for himself. Oh boy. All right. That's not great.

At, hey, he needed it, quote unquote, to fully maintain his army. That's when he created that extra, I got it wrong, the Ring of Steel was created from now, encircling the spheres of just space system defenses, hugely fortified palaces. He even made his legendary palace, the palace of thorns on Badaab Primaris, in order to have his ruling, you know, spot there and all that chance. Yeah. Okay. All right.

So this is when we get into a significant amount of political controversy. Because on one hand, on one hand, the adeptist terror was, to put it lightly, fucking pissed. I was going to say, they have to be so mad because this is a super profitable area. I mean, he made it super profitable. the most productive it's ever been, and then to just be like, nope, cutting it all off. And not only my bad absector that's productive, the chimering drift can't get you, the pale stars can't get you, the whole area is just cut off. And it's like, brother, I imagine they are sending the full might of the emperor. Well, that's the issue, though, is that on one hand, they're pissed about this.

The administratum and all of them and the imperial tide is needed. But on the other hand, this is millennia, millennia of a precedent being set that adeptus astardi commanders have the right to defend the Imperium by any means necessary. This was the bad abschism, was the determination of them taking whatever they need to defend the Imperium and both. to their defenses versus what the adeptus taro is supposed to be getting. Because on one hand, space marines can do what they need. But on the other hand, like, it's this weird political drama. Oh.

And you know what's crazy? They could have prevented all this from happening by just sending some reinforcements. That's all they had to do. Well, you say that, but those reinforcements were taken because they were saving a planet from like a tyrannid infestation.

It's taken from somewhere else. You've got plenty of space marines hanging around. It's fine. Don't worry about it. Yeah. So, Huron, kind of given a shit job or a shit deal. He did a great job with everything. Asked for more resources and he said

absolutely no. And he's like, well, fine, then I'm going to use these resources instead and then they're angry about it. So it became this big, annoying back and forth. Yeah, I mean, I get why he's so pissed and why he would do all this. But boy, I mean, and that takes balls to do when you know what you're up against. But, you know, you got to do what you got to do. So this particularly had this very difficult back and forth.

And also, at the same time, despite this being a problem, It was also, ironically, not super high on Adeptus Terra's list of priorities because they're just, you know, high fleet behemoth is over there. Yeah. Like, as soon as you said that, I was like, yeah, that makes sense. Because, like, not that this isn't a problem and not that this isn't something that needs their attention, but when you've got chaos looming, when you've got the tyrannids looming, when you have just all these other, like, like galactic problems. This is an issue, but it's probably not like the highest. Yeah, I get that.

This political thing took a long ass time. Wow. Because of this, those in the Cathargo... The names. They're the Cathargo sector, is basically what it's called. You see the Chimaran drift? Yeah. Left of that, top left.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a little like Carthago, yeah. Yeah, so the Cathargo sector has been there for 11 centuries. And those people that Shai posted earlier, those planetary governors, that's basically them. They are big, big, like, decadent fat. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they're pretty much just corrupt. Yep.

Yeah, grown fat on the backs of their people, both physically and literally or in metaphors. That could never happen in the real world, right? That would never. It could never happen in our world? Never. What a parody. I love irony. They have been cut off from all of their, well, the stuff from the pale stars and the things because of the bad-ab sectors, like ring of steel, you know, like cutting off all the warp transit.

Yeah. And so these big planetary governors are extremely upset that their ties of money and women have dried up. Oh, no. What are they going to do? So they wrote strongly worded leather. Letters. I'm all tongue-time today. They wrote it on leather. They probably wrote it on parchment. Oh, wow. But they were very upset with all this, while the Astro-Clegged. Clause, after taking all these resources for 150 years, got to a pretty hefty fighting strength

and were freed from the weight of garrison duty, moving into dealing with all kinds of other stuff. There is a ton of uprisings and random crap going on in the Maelstrom sector, Maelstrom zone, not even related to them. And they're heading their way out and they are taking it all. is mine, mine, mine, crush a chaos rebellion here, destroying Norfolk war boss here. Really like, he's making his own Ultramar. Oh, good for him.

Good for him. Hey, if the Imperium won't help me, I'll just, damn it, I'll do it myself, sure. It's good. And I mean, at this point, with the gathering of imperial forces, Huron had the Astral Clause Firehawks White Scars, Celestian Guard, along with Krieg and Colsec, Imperial Guard regiments and a Titan legion. He was a extremely powerful commander.

But there's a gentleman named Stibor Lazarich, the Chapter Master of the Firehawks. I know, it's a pretty crazy one. Chapter Master of the Firehawks. And he was not given command of this campaign over Huron during this period of time, which made him a little pissy. because there are a few things that make a space marine more pissy than someone else getting to do all the glory. Oh, that's fair. Yeah, that, yeah, okay.

This kind of started to create a little bit of a grudge. As time went on, we're now in like 869 M41, there was a Black Templar crusade also occurring in the Maelstrom because the Black Templar is just really like that shit. Of course, of course. Oh, Firehawk armor is real cool. Yeah, it's not bad. I think we covered the firehawks in the Legion of the Damned episode.

Okay. That was like the retcon lore thing about the ghost writer space marines and all that chance. Oh, right, right. Okay. There might be them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the fire and, yeah, yeah, got you. So this, like, Huron's pushing.

We're talking, taken out, like, side Zenos. And they call it, like, there are these things called the subhuman flesh haunters of the howling gyr. Just like, whoa. All the crazy like sides, you know, so that we just don't ever know about, you know? Yeah, yeah. There's all kinds of crazy abominations back there attacking the Imperium since before the age of apostasy. Great victories. Like, hereon, I need to make this clear.

This guy is crusading. He is hitting it. He is making this place like a real fortress. Wow. And again, all under the worship of the emperor. Even though they refuse to give him any support and he's kind of cut off a lot of their supply lines, he's still just like, oh yeah, for the emperor. Let's make this place a little galactic fortress for us, even though screw the administratum, I guess. Calling the administratum corrupt is heresy if you're a human.

Calling it corrupt is a daily ritual if you're a space marine. It's fair because they probably denied your request for whatever you needed. Yeah, also, you know, they just, it's bureaucracy. Yeah. So with this, as they're pushing through and going through all these kinds of usual stuff, then the Black Templars were, once again, taken away by the Adeptus Territus. and gone to go deal with the wake of a tyrannid war. So after having substantial losses in the campaign that Huron has been going forward and dealing with,

immediately having the Black Templar pull out, and some spooky readings from the Adeptus Terra about impending doom, had them have to withdraw their massive advance through the Maelstrom zone, much to Huron's dismay. Displeasure, yeah, yeah. This only started getting worse because as he had to pull back, the orcs arrived. And they were just having a grand old time. More orc was started coming around from the area.

More ghastly ships of chaos started arriving. The moment the Black Templars pull out, they have to halt their advance. And then enemies start arriving because you'll love to hear it. Oh, yeah. You love to see it. You love to see a wad just come on through and just start going crazy. Yeah, sure. Why not?

So during this time, this is when the administration finally decided to act. Finally, after 150 years of dealing with the bad abys kism, they decided, okay, we're going to send a fleet. We're going to send a fleet and see what the hell is going on. So this was by an administratum general with an adeptus and mechanicus biologists, some lords of the Garthago sector as well, who are pretty pissed off, and at least one inquisitor as well. It was a solid fleet. You know, huge mass conveyors expecting to receive the ties that they no longer were giving them. You know, cult mechanicus, locust, caraville, escort craft, etc.

Okay. Don't really know exactly what happened. But they try to force their way through the ring of steel. Oh, no. Oh, that's a bad move. Yeah, so you don't really know exactly what was said, but not one ship survived, and 20,000 servants of the Imperium were killed. Oh, boy, I was going to say, the only thing they found was,

oh, suddenly there was a new asteroid field in the area, and we just don't know where it came from. Are there bodies in it? No, that's just astral debris. Don't worry about it. Yeah, it's about what I thought might happen. Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Heroin had explanation.

Pirates did it. Is that really what he said back? Hereon, we sent to Fleet. What happened to them? I don't know. They never got here. I guess pirates got... Is that really what he sent back as a response?

Let's see. We have a wonderful communications fragment right here. Let's see here. Fragment begins. Bad Dad Defense Control. Tide Fleet VX-4-2-1-1. This is your final warning. Decrease thruster burn and head and heave to the designated approach you will be fired upon.

Ident, administratum, bark quies, lambda. This investigation deputation carries the seals of the adeptus terra. It is you who will comply. Make obeisance, obeisance, and stand down your weapons immediately in the name of him on terra. Badab defense control. Damn you obey. I don't care if you're carrying St. Leor's bones. No vessel enters the ring of steel without first.

permitting to inquiry and piloting. This is the Maelstrom zone, not some safe haven quill pushers enclave. Static interrupts. Box distortion consistent with high energy weapons fire. Unconfirmed source, likely a bad-em system defense forget.

Heavy damage sustained deport engines. Deck 7 through 11 open to void. Casualties high. Assailants unidentified. 18 plus vessels now burning. Primary quadrant autonomous battle systems registering full activation. Omega lock.

disengaged. 4,000 assassin mines awakening. Gargoyle platforms, anima and Epsilon reaching terminal power. By the tyrant shall be attempt abort? Confirm? Fragman ends. Oh, boy.

All right. All right. I mean, that's what happens. It's like, back the fuck up. No. Welp. What was it? Safe haven, quail pushing, whatever? I was like, damn. Safe Haven Quill Pushers Encliffe. Love it.

You love to hear it. You love to hear it. But yeah, it's probably pirates. So, you know, they try it again. Didn't work great. And so after the constant threats of not just the Adeptus Terror, but also the fat, I say fat, I don't mean to be mean to anyone, to be fatphobic. But I say fat in a ass. holy greedy way.

Yeah, they're like fat with greed and hubris and political tyranny and yeah. That kind of stuff. The fat governors of the Carthago sector altogether, you know, constantly sending threats and issues against bad ad sector and Huron. Heron's answer to these threats was to announce and produce his infamous articles of just secession. Oh, boy. All right.

These articles were delivered to the authorities and said, many and grievous insults, presumptions and denials of the emperor given rights and titles of the adeptus astardies by the false and wayward servants of the administratum, the Carthin lords, and their allies. Yeah. Yeah. These documents were stated the fusal to hand over the ties of local segmental authorities, aid or defend attempt, any attempt to do so, or recognize the demands of the Carthin lords. That being said, they do still say they will serve the emperor. We are seceding because the people here are corrupt dickheads and we're way better at it.

I mean, they're right. Which I'm, well, I guess it doesn't surprise me that they're still willing to serve the emperor, right? because, like, the emperor didn't do anything wrong to them. It was, it's, it's these, it's these damn politicians. It's these damn administratum. It's these, you know, these damn planetary governors that are so fat with power and greed and corruption. Yeah, screw them, but, you know, still praise the emperor, right? But, well, you know, it's, like I said, hating on the administratum is heresy unless you're a Marine.

Then it's just classic. You would think they would learn at some point that maybe we should stop dunking on the space marines. Like, there are holy fighting force. Like, maybe we should, you know, we should have a little respect. So the Carthens extremely pissed by this and losing their grip on power and their high decadent position, threatened all out war in response, but threatened it and had no means to do it. do so alone. They had plenty of planetary defense forces and guardsmen and all that, but you really can't fight space marines except with other space marines. Yeah, I was going to say,

like, let's even say they had a platoon of space marines. This is badab. Like, they've got the iron ring around it. What are you going to do? You need, like, a fleet. You need an army at this point to get into bad ab and do anything about what heron's going on right or what he's got going on exactly and so the carthens petitioned a few people the subcommand at the forge world of risa which flatly refused them and said this is an internal dispute we will not interfere uh local inquisitorial representatives as well which kept an eye on the situation but were It was a squabble that was not particularly uncommon from Imperial commanders. We've seen this in Gaunt's ghosts.

Imperial commanders love to fight each other and argue. Yep. Especially in border regions. And there was no evidence of taint or heresy at all. So only one group responded. And those were the... Firehawks, who already had a grudge against Huron and his men. Okay.

All right. Man, yeah, I got to imagine everybody was just like, you want us to help you fight. Who? Nope. Not doing it. This is your problem. You did this.

I don't. Nope. So the fire hawks aiding along with the Carthens right. sorry, the Carthens eventually made their way with their ships and fleet and were invited to enact judgment, I suppose, is the best way to describe it. All right. They took a particular vessel, one called the Red Harbinger, entered a cluster of ancient stars and all that kind of jazz, and had them sent towards Huron and his giant ring of everything. when, sorry, I guess not Hero, this was the Mantis Warriors. Wait, so they just had one Firehawk cruiser, the Red Harbinger, and that's what they sent to take over?

No, no, no, no, not like that. It was more they were operating on their own time, and then the Mantis Warriors specifically went to intercept. Oh, okay. Gotcha. The Mantis Warriors intercepted, and after some back and forth refusals and thursday, and three, threats, they opened fire, and full-scale conflict happened in which the mantis warriors then boarded and captured the Red Harbinger and taking roughly 20 or so Firehawks captured. Yeah. Upon learning of this, the taking of the Red Harbinger, the chapter master of the Firehawks chapter became pretty pissed. He didn't say.

withdrew all operations from every single firehawk zone and made course with the entire chapter towards Bad Ab. Ah, okay. So now we've got a full chapter of space marines heading to Badab. All the firehawks are coming in because of what happened with the Red Harbinger. And that signifies the first beginning of Astardis versus Astardis of the Baddhanty's of the Baddhawks. Deb war. And that's probably we're going to end it for today. Okay. Things are cooking.

Things are cooking. It is a slow, slow increase of just political crap. Yep. And that's what led to everything. It is just like political nonsense,

administratum failings, refusing to give anything to Huron who has already done so much for you and probably done more than you could have ever asked of him to do. And then the flat out refusal to send him. It's like you, you, my brother, you are causing your own problems. We all know that Huron eventually goes towards chaos. We all know that. Yeah, Huron Blackheart. We all read the book. Yeah, I know. But at the same time, it's one of the classic cases of why there are so many human chaos followers, one, because they're easily manipulated him, but two, because God, when you push him so far, that jump of

renegade and succession, that jump from that to the dark gods, is a much shorter jump. Oh, yeah. So many, like, fallings to chaos are people going heretical. You pushed them in that direction. You, like, all they needed was just a little push. You know, all it takes is a little push and gravity. And like, man, it's crazy. Like, they could have stopped this from happening. I mean, it's what happens when, like, it happens in the real world all the time, too. You know, you had the COVID pandemic, which was. unprecedented times for everybody. And then for some people who were already maybe a little disenfranchised with life and political system, it's a pretty quick hop to next thing you know, it's spread by 5G networks and now they're going on Q&ON. Like, it's not a hard jump. Yeah, it is.

And I'm sure that happens a lot with chaos too, where it's just like, oh, it didn't take much. I mean, you had already, you know, beaten them and broken them down and broken their spirit enough that, hey, all I had to do was one little whisper in their ear about giving them to power to change this. It's all I took. I didn't even have to do anything. Yeah, that's, you know, it's, it's, it's, and also, especially when it comes to emotions, you know, here on right now has dreamed, some pretty big dreams right now. And, you know, he's taken over quite the area. So that push is getting there.

But Marines versus Marines is happening. That was the kind of setup before the real bloodshed starts to happen. Oh, yeah. I am anxiously awaiting the next episode to see all of the firehawks descending in. And yeah, I'm excited. Let's go. Badab War. Let's go.

Badab War. Hell yeah. Good luck, Huron. you're probably going to need it. Yeah. All right, everyone. Thanks so much for watching and listening to the podcast. We will see you for the book club at the end of this week,

but in particular, we will also see you next week for the next episode of the Bad Dab War. Goodbye. Yeah, sure. I wasn't sure if we were going to leave it at that, and we're just going to bang and dab on them, you know? Ay, you mother. Thank you.