He began reaching out to the beings he had condemned as the "source of corruption" at the beginning of the war-Chaos.
In a secret chamber deep within the Pride of the Stars, the Astral Claws' flagship, Huron used an ancient communications device covered in blasphemous runes to send his soul-selling cry into the Warp. He did not care which of the Dark Gods answered him. He wanted only power-enough power to turn the tide of the war and destroy his enemies.
And the Warp was always particularly generous to souls like his.
A dark power steeped in deceit, arrogance, and boundless ambition answered him. It came not from any one of the Four Gods, but from a purer form of Chaos-Chaos Undivided.
Huron's body began to undergo horrific mutations. His Power Armour fused with his flesh, metal tendrils crackling with electricity sprouted from his back, and ghostly blue flames from hell burned in his eyes. He gained unimaginable power, but paid an eternal price. He was no longer Lufgt Huron, but the future "Tyrant's Claw," a Chaos Lord through and through.
Having been "reborn," Huron devised a plan of utter madness. He would sacrifice the entire Maelstrom region to Chaos, along with its hundreds of planets and billions of mortals! Through an unprecedented mass sacrifice of living beings, he would tear the Maelstrom-an already unstable Warp Rift-wide open and turn it into a second "Eye of Terror"!
He would turn the entire sector into his own realm of Chaos!
He secretly contacted his equally desperate allies, showed them his newfound power, and promised them immortality and boundless authority in his new "daemon realm." Driven by despair, these former Astartes chose damnation without hesitation.
A vast conspiracy to destroy the entire sector swiftly took shape in the darkness. On planets at