Red Hour
The Red Hour was a battle during the Badab War. In 911.M41, forces under Astral Claws Arch-Centurion Carnac Commodus stormed the Salamanders battle-barge Pyre of Glory.[2] After the victory, he ordered his warriors not only to kill all of the Salamanders who peacefully surrendered to the Executioners Space Marines (who were allies to the Astral Claws), but also to remove all of Salamanders' precious geneseed stored on the battle-barge. Insulted by this unimaginable order, the Executioners turned on the Astral Claws and with the aid of all of survived Salamanders started the bloody decimation of their former allies. In the ensuing battle on board the Pyre of Glory and the Astral Claws' ship Hyrcania, every single Astral Claw, chapter serf and servitor present was relentlessly and savagely slaughtered, and the Hyrcania was left a charnel house of decapitated bodies.[1]
After the battle, Executioners High Chaplain Thulsa Kane came before the Salamander's leader, Captain Mir'san, and presented him with Commodus's head as a sign of the Executioners' regret for their sins in the war.[1]
Sources
- 1: Imperial Armour Volume Ten - The Badab War - Part Two, pg. 30
- 2: Forge World Scenario (last accessed 20 June 2015)
