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The '''Tiger Claws''' were once a [[Renegade Loyalist Space Marine]] [[Chapter]] descended from the [[Astral Claws]], who eventually joined with and were absorbed into the [[Renegade Space Marine]] Chapter [[Astral Claws]]. It is possible that some of their members survive among amongst the [[Red Corsairs]](formerly the [[Astral Claws]]).
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|Name=Tiger Claws
|Homeworld=[[Krodha]]{{Fn|1a}}
|Fortress-Monastery=
|Colours=Dark grey/yellow(or black) and amber
|Specialty=
|Battle Cry=
==History==
Little is known about the Tiger Claws, or their history. Having previously been thought lost in the [[warp]] in their entirety, over 100 Tiger Claws [[battle-brothers]] aboard the [[strike cruiser]] the '''Bakasurra''' reappeared more than fourteen centuries after having gone missing. The ship appeared to have experienced severe time distortion due to its time spent in the [[warp]], causing those on board to have only experienced a few months of elapsed time since their disappearance. The Tiger Claws then made contact with a single [[Storm Wings]] Space Marine Company|companystrike force and aided them in battle against [[Eldar]] of slavers. Afterwards, the missing chapter reappeared many centuries laterTiger Claws were resupplied and headed back to their fortress-monastery on [[Krodha]]. Upon arrival, they discovered that, during their long absence, their ancient sun had expanded, rendering their home world a lifeless, irradiated husk. Their petition Chapter, now nothing more than an all but forgotten legend, then returned to [[Holy Terra]] to try and rebuild. They petitioned to have their [[gene-seed]] released and their chapter Chapter rebuilt , however their petition was dismissed when after their senior surviving officerand now de facto Chapter Master, [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] Vetala, disappeared shortly after delivering it on [[Terra]]without a trace while awaiting the petition's hearing. The other surviving remaining Tiger Claws themselves disappeared shortly afterwardsthereafter, last seen conducting operations in the region of their Chapter's dead home world.{{Fn|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 [[apothecary]] disclosed that he was in fact a former member of the Tiger Claws Chapter, and that remnants of the long-lost Tiger Claws had were secretly taken refuge with in by their [[primogenitors]], the Astral Claws, and were masquerading as members of . It was also revealed that chapter with the eventual aim of rebuilding the Tiger Claws using withheld Astral Claws were withholding their [[gene-seed]] [[tithe]]swith the initial intent of rebuilding the Tiger Claws Chapter; though this would never come to fruition.{{Fn|1c1b}} 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 disappears into the warp and are thought lost.
*[[M41]]
**680.M41 - The ''Bakasurra'', a [[Strike Cruiser]] of the chapterChapter, 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 AstralClaws/Tiger Claws remnants become the Red Corsairs.
==Conflicting sources==
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).{{Fn|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., a tiger head as seen from a frontal view{{Fn|2}} Their current symbol appears to be a black tiger head in profile, very similar in style/pose to the [[Astral Claws]] chapter symbolon a field of amber.{{Fn|1c}}
==See also==
**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 14
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 42
**{{Endn|1c}}: pg. 5455
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 Compendium]], pg. 33
