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Not long into the year a question that had been concerning Imperial tacticians was at last seemingly answered. The interrogation of a captured Astral Claws [[Apothecary]] took an unexpected turn when the prisoner revealed that he was in fact a member of the [[Tiger Claws]] chapter, an Astral Claws descendent long thought lost. Further Inquisitorial research would eventually establish that the reasons Huron had withheld gene-seed for so long was that not only was he attempting to enlarge the size of the Astral Claws beyond [[Codex]] norms, he was attempting to secretly rebuild the almost wiped-out successor chapter, hiding the extant members within their parent chapter. This explained why the Astral Claws appeared able to take losses but not lose their fighting strength.<sup>1h</sup>
The Inquisition were also able to discover that the Astral Claws had allied themselves with a group of heretical [[heretek]] scavengers in order to recover a buried weapons store on the world of [[Cygnax]]. The loyalists moved to intercept, the Sons of Medusa taking the lead backed up by a newly arrived company of the [[Exorcists]]. The two chapters soon disagreed over the best way to prosecute the campaign, and the Exorcists were pulled out and added to the forces assembled for the Sagan offensive. This force also included heavy presence of the Red Scorpions and Fire Angels as well as squad support from the Salamanders, Raptors and Novamarines. This was a particularly intense battle, with the Astral Claws refusing to give up the planet; they eventually released [[viral weapons]] in an effort to defeat the loyalists. While this attempt was unsuccessful, it did cause significant casualites amongst the Fire Angels, who bore the brunt of the fighting. Nevertheless, the world was taken by the loyalists. This was a significant step in the war, as holding Sagan effectively cut the Endymion Cluster off from Badab, more-or-less trapping the Mantis Warriors in their home territory and cutting off the ability of the Mantis Warriors and the Astral Claws to support each other easily.<sup>1i</sup>
Around this time, and running into the new year, several chapters present in the Maelstrom Zone were dismissed from the campaign in stages by the Inquisition. The Novamarines, Raptors and the badly mauled Howling Griffons were all released from service, theoretically so that they could be available to combat an expected Ork invasion elsewhere in the segmentum but in actuality - according to Inquisitorial files at any rate - they were dismissed because it was felt that they were not 'hard-line' enough chapters to be fully trusted to be in at the kill of the Secessionists now the end of the war was felt to be in sight. The Inquisition attempted to dismiss the Salamanders element present in the Zone for the same reason, but the marines of the influential [[First Founding]] chapter were able to resist the pressure to agree to reassignment. <sup>1i</sup>
