Once the commander of the noble Astral Claws Chapter, Lugft Huron's ambitions ignited a vicious civil war that plunged the Badab Sector into chaos. His bid for independence didn't go so well, and after a close encounter with a meltagun, the Space Marine now known as Blackheart scrambled into the very Maelstrom he had once pledged to contain.

There he assembled a fleet of renegades, pirates, and traitors, who quickly became more than just a thorn in the Imperium's side.