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With this knowledge, around 500 new, war-ready space marines were created in few weeks. It is at this point that an infamous treachery took place. Some Astartes of the [[Alpha Legion]], in a plan orchestrated by the primarch [[Alpharius]] Omegon themselves, infiltrated the Raven Guard after the [[Drop Site Massacre]]. To obtain this, Alpha Legion apothecaries grafted the facial traits of some dead Raven Guards over the face of their own legionaries. The objective was to hinder the Raven Guard using their obtained knowledge as "this would have displaced the balance against [[Horus]]' forces" said the [[Cabal]] emissaries. Of course, since free to act as best suited, Alpharius Omegon had in mind also to recover the secret knowledge in order to expand their legion too. With the help of renegade Mechanicum magos [[Unithrax]] and his forces on [[Kiavahr]], the Alpha Legion tainted the original genome recovered from the laboratories of The Emperor on Terra. This was accomplished introducing a virus-vectored mutagen based on daemonic blood. Thus, the successive implantation's resulted in still operational but deeply-mutated Astartes exhibiting scales, horns, fangs, tails, overgrown muscles and similar features. However while the plan to corrupt the new Astartes were successful, the attempt by the Alpha Legion to [[Battle of Ravendelve|Destroy the legion's gene-seed]] was not.{{Fn|2i}} After this outburst of mutations and the discovery of the Alpha Legion infiltrators, Corax decided to stop the rebuilding of the Raven Guard and led his warriors, along with all the war capable mutated marines, with small squads striking like lightning on the enemy weak spots.{{Fn|2}}

Following the Battle on Ravendelve, Corax still was committed to combating the forces of Horus. Compensating for his devastated legion's small numbers, he conducted raids, hit-and-run attacks, and instigated uprisings on traitor controlled worlds. These included actions on [[Constanix II]], [[Scarato]], and [[Carandiru]].{{Fn|9}}

*{{Endn|18}}: [[First Founding (Background Book)]], pg. 301

*{{Endn|19}}: [[Campaigns of the Age of Darkness: The Martian Civil War]], pgs. 35-43

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