Salvation Through Oblivion

Red Corsair

The Red Corsairs are a Renegade Chapter and warband of Heretic Astartes who lead a vast fleet of pirates composed of mortals and other Traitor Marines that threaten Imperial shipping and Imperial worlds near the Maelstrom Warp rift in the Ultima Segmentum, a region known as the Maelstrom Zone to Imperial astrocartographers. The Red Corsairs were once a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter called the Astral Claws who were based on the world of Badab Primaris in the Badab Sector of the Ultima Segmentum. Under the leadership of their Chapter Master, Lufgt Huron, the "Tyrant of Badab," in the late 41st Millennium, the Astral Claws sought to have the Badab Sector secede from the Imperium of Man. This was in protest against the Imperium's continued attempts to use the resources of the Badab Sector outside the region to fill the pockets of greedy Imperial merchants and manufactoria rather than dedicating them fully to the defeat of the Chaos and xenos threats that menaced the Maelstrom Zone.

They failed you

All of them

well, the ending of Leman Russ: The Great Wolf made me understand that meme and just how correct it is.

Lion had an honor dispute with Leman over something extremely trivial in the context/big picture of the events of Horus Heresy... and even after Terra fell, the unfinished duel bugged him //so much// that he hunted down and stabbed one of the few surviving loyal brothers (who did not defend himself at all) to be able to close this mental chapter in his stubborn head. that's how it read to me initially.

BUT upon further thought (and reading other novels/short stories), I know it was more than that. Lion was mad at Leman for being late again to defend Terra and the Emperor. he was mad at himself for not being able to stop it. so a very potent mixture of frustration, grief, helplessness and the itch of an unsettled score on top of that?

proved a little too much for Lion.

Leman being Leman took it in stride:

by "Leman being Leman" I mean mainly the following:

this is how the Wolves solve conflict - they beat each other up to clear the air and then let it go

Leman was in a place where he definitely felt like he deserved that "punishment"

I think as proud as he is, he can also admit when he's wrong or when he fucked up. even those "defeats" he faces with his head held high

he genuinely loves all his brothers. I don't think it would have gone down the same if he hated Lion.

so, in conclusion, although the situation had many layers and was way deeper than a meme, I feel like Lion being described as autistically aggressive is fitting to the situation, seeing as Lion's ~spectrumness~ was part of the complex puzzle.