Editing Raven Guard (section)

==The Last Ones Standing==
[[Image:RavenCommander.jpg|thumb|[[Beakie]]s slashing at [[Eldar]] ]]
The Raven Guard got its ass kicked in the Drop Site Massacre during the [[Horus Heresy]], the battle of Isstvan V reducing the Legion's strength from over 80,000 Astartes to a little less than 3,000. Whilst the [[Salamanders]] and [[Iron Hands]] took heavier losses, the Raven Guard lost a bigger percentage of its troops. Its primarch, wishing to do his part to stop [[Horus]] from [[Anal Circumference|ass-raping]] the Imperium, [[Raptors (Raven Guard)|resorted to cloning technology provided by the Emperor]] to replenish the Chapter's numbers, which went well in the first few stages.

However afterwards, due to some dickery by [[Alpharius]] and the Alpha Legion with the gene manipulation gizmos in the cloning process, [[Troll|which they corrupted with Daemon blood and proceeded to take the pure sample for themselves]], a sizable proportion of these clones were flawed and degenerated into shambling, [[furry|inhuman creatures]]. The Raven Guard herded them up and led them into battle regardless, however, arming the strong ones and using the weak ones as meat-shields. The tactic proved brutally effective and succeeded, most notably, in pushing the [[Iron Warriors]] off a valued forge world.

Owing to the instability of the Raven Guard gene-seed and the experiments of Corax, a big portion of the chapter's genetic stock has been irreparably damaged. Now, most of their genetic material comes factory-direct from supplies held on Terra. This means the cycle of recruitment for the Raven Guard is notably slower than other Chapters and fewer Raven Guard candidates for the Chapter prove able to survive their training and genetic modification. In essence, this means the chapter is constantly short-handed (which would neatly explain their preference for being sneaky, since they have to especially value each marine's life), though it's recovering, albeit slowly. That said, they recovered enough to sire at least two successor chapters. How they could have problems is unclear, since their gene-seed all comes from pure stock kept in stasis and so is not corrupted and therefore the gene-seed produced by those Marines would also be pure. Most likely, the Mechanicus is just messing with them for giggleshits. That, or the [[Games Workshop|High Lords]] are just really, really senile.