Warmaster-class Titan - History: The Collegia Titanica boasts some of the most powerful and destructive war machines in the galaxy -- colossal god-engines that can obliterate entire battlegroups of infantry in a single salvo and annihilate armored vehicles with impunity using their vast arsenal of earth-shattering weapons.These war machines are knowns as Titans, and they tower over the armies that fight alongside them -- a terrifying sight to their foes and a portent of certain victory for their allies.Yet during the dark days of the Horus Heresy, oaths were broken and allegiances betrayed. Entire Titan Legions turned upon each other to bring wrack and ruin to countless worlds. The darkest depths of the Collegia Titanica's Titan Legion vaults were opened and the deadliest and most destructive god-engines deployed. Among their number was the Warmaster Heavy Battle Titan.It took a conflict on the scale of the Horus Heresy -- a war that resulted in the nascent Imperium being torn apart and the Space Marine Legions turning against one another -- for the ancient Mechanicum to unleash the Warmaster-class Heavy Battle Titan.The title of Warmaster is one now tainted by betrayal, the once-lauded honorific a bitter reminder of the once-favoured son who became the Imperium's most abhorrent of foes. Perhaps it was the treacherous actions of Horus Lupercal that gave name to the Warmaster-class Titan, or perhaps fate itself was foreshadowing passages of history yet unwritten when the name was bestowed. Either way, the god-engine's very existence was in many ways an act of treachery of the highest order, its existence kept hidden from most, perhaps even the Emperor Himself, until the latter days of the Horus Heresy.With the virtue of hindsight it is perhaps unsurprising that the ancient Mechanicum kept knowledge of this mighty god-engine from Mankind, for ever did the Cult Mechanicus build upon foundations of secrets. Indeed, it was through its own knowledgeand expertise in technology that the Cult Mechanicus rose to power, and retained it by sharing only what it deemed necessary. Even amongst its own order, a measure of ignorance was maintained, with rival Forge Worlds often refusing to exchangeknowledge so that the hoarder might stand above the ignorant.Yet the Warmaster Titan was not a tool of political power nor a pillar of strength, but a weapon of apocalyptic death and destruction, shrouded and slumbering until a Forge World stood at the very precipice of extinction. On that day, the Warmaster Titanwould stride to war, leaving naught but blood and ash in its wake. Its very existence was a protected secret within the highest echelons of the Mechanicum, one never spoken of openly, to peers or to outsiders.The first rumours of a new pattern of god-engine emerged from Mars following the Death of Innocence which ignited the Schism of Mars, with tales told of towering engines of war, their like yet unseen, marching to battle. Such tales spoke of six forge-fanes of Phoenicis brought low in a single solar day by a mobile fortress filled with wrath; of thousands rendered to ash in a singular storm of plasma; of maniples of Titans, Loyalist and Traitor alike, torn apart by a god-engine contemptuous of its inferiors and the weapons they wielded.Such tales were discarded as myth and fancy, conjured forth by terrified minds broken by the changing galaxy. Yet the emergence of the Warmaster Titan could not be ignored forever, for the god-engines were a final contingency plan, an exemplarof the ethos that peace must be bought with blood and, should victory prove impossible, ally and enemy alike should burn before a Forge World could fall.In battle, a Warmaster Titan is a tool of eradication that rarely rests, sent to stride across the ashes of its foes and tear down any stronghold they shelter in. Little can halt its ponderous advance, for its ceramite-plated form is designed to withstand barrages of artillery and Titan-grade weaponry; where even a Warlord Titan might fall, a Warmaster Titan would stand unwavering. The least of its weapons are those wielded by a Warhound Scout Titan, borne within the Warmaster 's shoulders, while the god-engine's own arms and carapace bear weapons tailored for complete annihilation -- Plasma Destructors that render foes to atoms and barrages of Titan-grade missiles that can slay super-heavy tanks and other Titans alike.Though few Titan Legions held a Warmaster Titan within their ranks, and far fewer still lay claim to several, the Horus Heresy was the crucible for which this god-engine was first conceived. For the first time in millennia, the Warmaster Titan strode forth across the galaxy, a living embodiment of the Omnissiah and the deadly ingenuity of His servants.In time, the title of Warmaster was borne by two, god-engine and arch-traitor, yet stood for both the same -- a perpetrator of annihilation and a foe against whom few could stand.