Tiger Claws
The Tiger Claws were a Renegade Space Marine Chapter descended from the Astral Claws. It is possible that some of their members survive among the Red Corsairs.
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History
Little is known about the Tiger Claws, or their history. Having previously been thought lost in the warp in their entirety, a single company of the missing chapter reappeared many centuries later. Their petition to have their gene-stock released and their chapter rebuilt was dismissed when their senior surviving officer, Captain Vetala, disappeared shortly after delivering it on Terra. The other surviving Tiger Claws themselves disappeared shortly afterwards.1a
It was rumoured in senior Inquisition circles at the time that this was no bad thing; the chapter was thought to be of the Cursed Founding and so better off dead.1a
The Tiger Claws were once again thought extinct, until the interrogation of an Astral Claws apothecary during the Badab War revealed some startling information. The prisoner disclosed that the remnants of the long lost Tiger Claws had secretly taken refuge with their primogenitors, the Astral Claws, and were being masqueraded as members of that chapter with the eventual aim of rebuilding the Tiger Claws using withheld Astral Claws gene-seed tithes.1b
Because of this, any Tiger Claws survivors of the Badab War are now part of the Red Corsairs.
Timeline
- M36 - Founding (allegedly).
- M40
- c.280.M40 - The entirety of the Tiger Claws chapter disappear in the warp and are thought lost.
- M41
- 680.M41 - The Bakasurra, a Strike Cruiser of the chapter, reappears with over 100 battle-brothers aboard.
- Aid the Storm Wings chapter in battle against Dark Eldar.
- Disappearance of Captain Vetala and subsequently the rest of his company,
- 908.M41 - Revelation that Vetala's lost company are by now masquerading as Astral Claws and attempting to increase their numbers.
- 912.M41 - Conclusion of the Badab War; surviving Astral/Tiger Claws remnants become the Red Corsairs.
- 680.M41 - The Bakasurra, a Strike Cruiser of the chapter, reappears with over 100 battle-brothers aboard.
Canon Conflict
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In the original version of the Badab War the Tiger Claws took the role of the Astral Claws (there was no such chapter as the Astral Claws in this iteration).2 The name of Huron's chapter was altered to the Astral Claws in subsequent editions with the name 'Tiger Claws' variously either going missing or being applied to other elements of the background until the current edition, which places them as a successor chapter of the Astral Claws.
The Tiger Claws were originally depicted in a tiger striped camo pattern, and had a different chapter symbol.2 Their current symbol appears to be a black tiger head in profile, very similar in style/pose to the Astral Claws chapter symbol.
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Sources
- 2:Warhammer 40,000 Compendium, p.33
