One of this warband's more notable campaigns took place in the Coronid Deeps within the Gethsamaine System.

Some would form isolationist bands, fighting their own private wars against the Traitors, such as the infamous 'Red Talons' of Autek Mor. Yet a substantial number of Iron Hands Legionaries had extricated themselves from the massacre, and while few had made it off the surface of Istvaan V, many more had survived the calamitous void ambush of the Legion's fleet, breaking away and scattering across the stars. The Red Talon, flagship of the Iron Hands' Morragul Clan, was one of the first Iron Hands vessels to arrive in the Isstvan System after the treachery of the Loyalist reserves had been revealed, breaching into realspace amid the titanic space battle that had erupted between the Loyalist and Traitor fleets.ДЄutek Mor ordered his ship to attempt a breach through the firestorm to reach the surface of Isstvan V, and the infamously powerful grand cruiser succeeded in punching through the void battle, but took such heavy damage that it was forced to bypass Isstvan V and flee, managing to escape, unlike many of the Iron Hands starships that would later arrive.ДЄmong the Iron Hands Legion, many Astartes had been driven to stark madness by witnessing their gene father's end on Istvaan V and threw themselves wholesale into the crucible of war as if to absolve this terrible loss with their own deaths. In fact, the Space Marine Legions of the second wave had already betrayed the Imperium and secretly turned to the service of the rebellious Warmaster Horus and Chaos. No love was later lost between Autek Mor and his primarch.Дespite the enmity between the primarch of the Iron Hands and the lord of the Morragul Clan, when his grand cruiser, the Red Talon, arrived at Isstvan V as the void battle of the Drop Site Massacre was at its height, he bravely attempted to go to his primarch's aid.Дuring the infamous events which would become known in the annals of Imperial history as the Drop Site Massacre, three Loyalist Astartes Legions - the Iron Hands, the Salamanders and the Raven Guard - were betrayed by the four other Legions of the supposedly Loyalist second wave sent to defeat Horus' Traitors at Isstvan V - the Alpha Legion, Night Lords, Iron Warriors, and a large contingent of Word Bearers - who they had believed were loyal to the Emperor of Mankind.

In the years that followed, his Morragul Clan became a sink for the outcasts and most unstable elements of the Iron Hands Legion, who fought and died under Mor's merciless command. On the X th Legion's new homeworld, Medusa, he took over the outlaw Ra'Guln Clan's leviathan crawler in a bloody night of violence and made himself its lord, imprinting on it his name and will. Mor was known to have killed several members of his own Legion in duels over 'slights to his honour,' and to rule his company with a cruel and unforgiving fist. He held field command by the time of his primarch's finding on the world of Medusa, having already developed a reputation both as a weaponsmith and malevolent soul. Red Talons Chapter Colour Scheme as displayed by Primaris Marine Brother Daeron Koth, 5th Company, 3rd Squad (battleline).ДЄ Terran by birth, he was part of the X th Legion's first intake and fought in the re-conquest of the Sol System during the early Great Crusade. Mor held a sinister reputation within his Legion, and dark rumours accompanied him long before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, including whispered accusations that the origins of his gene-seed or perhaps his bloodline were not as they should be. This bloody-handed Chapter is descended from the ranks of the infamous Morragul Clan Company of the Iron Hands Legion, led by its unforgiving master, Autek Mor, who was both Iron Lord of the clan and an Iron Father of the X th Legion. The Red Talons can trace their heritage back to the dark days of the galaxy-wide rebellion known as the Horus Heresy, which began in the waning days of the Great Crusade in the early 31st Millennium. Red Talons Chapter Colour Scheme as displayed by a Firstborn Space Marine.

Talons of the black hand