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Collar of Khorne - Collar of Khorne: A Collar of Khorne is a Chaos artefact granted only to those favoured by the Blood God. Said to be forged from Khorne's own rage and hatred of all psykers, Collars of Khorne are gifted only to those that have given their lives to the Blood God. These brass collars, cruelly spiked and engraved with the sigils of the Blood God, are worn around the neck. Each protects the wearer from cowardly sorcery or psychic powers, and once attached they can never be removed as long as the champion lives. Khorne's terrible daemonic Flesh Hounds and Bloodletters wear them, though when slain their collars return to their furious master. On rare occasions a Collar is stolen from a fallen warrior, and these unattached collars are highly desired by those who have not yet received Khorne's attention and attained one for themselves.Exceptional mortal Champions of Chaos are sometimes granted a Collar of Khorne by the Blood God to ensure no thrice-cursed psyker will lay such favoured servants low with his eldritch trickery. In the case of mortals, the favour of the Blood God does not always manifest as a physical collar; for instance Khârn the Betrayer, the most favoured of Khorne's current mortal servants, is utterly immune to any psychic power, yet his neck remains unadorned.
Collegia Titanica - Collegia Titanica: The Collegia Titanica is the division of the ancient Mechanicum and the current Adeptus Mechanicus that operates and oversees the Titans, the colossal combat walkers that are the most powerful engines of war in the Imperium of Man.The Collegia is also more rarely known as the Adeptus Titanicus (a contraction of "Adeptus Mechanicus Collegia Titanica") and as the Legio Titanicus in ancient records dating back to the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy.Born of the time during the Age of Strife when the first temples to the Omnissiah were being raised on Mars, the Titans are the personification of the military might available to the Emperor of Mankind.Bristling with massive cannons and missile launchers capable of wreaking terrible destruction upon an enemy, they dominate the battlefields of the galaxy and are a testimony to the consummate skills of the Tech-priests of the Cult Mechanicus.Every Titan is part of a larger unit called a Titan Legion or a Titan Order. Each Titan Legion is based on a Mechanicus Forge World and remains under the direct control of the Adeptus Mechanicus, who jealously guard these mighty war machines and have the power to sanction which war zones they will commit their forces to.It is this power that gives the rulers of the Adeptus Mechanicus much of their influence when it comes to determining when the armies of the Imperium will fight. It is a power which is coveted by other factions on Terra -- especially the priests of the Ecclesiarchy, who would dearly love the reliable support of Titans for their Wars of Faith.The Titan Legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus are amongst the most powerful military entities within the Imperium of Man. Ancient and implacable, Titans are colossal engines of war, massive robotic combat walkers the size of multi-story buildings rightly known as "god-machines" or "god-engines" to the Tech-priests, who revere them as the physical embodiments of the Machine God.Even the smallest class of Titan is mighty enough to destroy an entire tank squadron in a span of seconds or level a city block. Each Titan Legion is its own ancient warrior order inextricably linked to the Forge World (or worlds) on which it is based.The Titan Legions are fierce and proud, each with its own historic alliances and rivalries, and its own unique character that makes it somewhat similar to its counterparts amongst the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes or the houses of the Imperial Knights.
Collegia Titanica - History: One of the most ancient pillars of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Collegia Titanica operates the mighty Titans, each a bipedal metal giant armed with weapons able to level entire cikty districts, and protected by armour and void shields capable of shrugging off attacks from all but the heaviest of foes.Though few in number compared to the uncountable hosts of the Great Crusade, the Titan Legions fought at the forefront of the Imperium's expansion, carrying the light of Unification to the benighted worlds of Mankind. The so-called "god-engines" of the Titan Legions have served Humanity since the Age of Strife, though their true origins remain lost in the Dark Age of Technology.
Collegia Titanica - Horus Heresy: The Great Crusade continued to expand outwards, until the Imperium encompassed nearly the entire galaxy by the early years of the 31st Millennium. At that time, a new and unexpected threat emerged to challenge Humanity's dominance over the galaxy. This was the rebellion against the rule of the Emperor that would be known to later ages as the Horus Heresy.This revolt was instigated and led by the Warmaster Horus, the greatest and most beloved of the Emperor's sons, the transhuman primarchs who served as His generals, governors and proconsuls. The rebellion began with Horus' virus-bombing of those Space Marines whose loyalties to him were suspect on the world of Istvaan III, and soon took hold amongst half of the Space Marine Legions and many of the Titan Legions serving under the command of the Warmaster, until nearly one third of the entire armed forces of the Imperium had sworn their allegiance to the Traitors.
Collegia Titanica - Siege of Terra: The Siege of Terra by the Traitor forces of Horus began in 014.M31 with an orbital bombardment by the Warmaster's fleet as the prelude to invasion. After solar days of shelling, the Heretic Astartes of the Traitor Legions landed on the surface of Terra in Drop Pods and advanced on the two spaceports nearest the location of the Imperial Palace to secure them in preparation for the main landings of the Traitor forces.Elements from five of the Traitor Legions participated in the battle, aided by Traitor forces already on the surface. Despite the brave efforts of the Loyalists, the Eternity Wall and the Lion's Gate Spaceports fell within solar hours to the Traitors. With them secured, Horus' remaining troops in the Traitor Legions and their Traitor Imperial Army and Dark Mechanicum support forces landed en masse, and the hulking transports carried thousands of troops each. They also brought to the battlefield the terrible Traitor Titans that served the Warmaster's cause and had been infected with the daemonic spirits of Chaos.The transports' immense size made them prime targets for Terra's Defence Lasers. Although many of the Traitor landing craft were destroyed in-atmosphere, notably the transport vessel carrying the Legio Damnatus, many more made it to the surface, disgorging yet more soldiers, main battle tanks and Traitor Titans to add to the besiegers' strength. They met stiff resistance from the Loyalists as the Imperial defenders knew that the survival of their homeworld, their Emperor, and the entirety of the Human race rested on their shoulders.The siege of the Imperial Palace then began in earnest. Three times the forces of Chaos scaled the walls, and three times were hurled back by the defenders. Frustrated at this lack of progress, Horus granted the Legio Mortis ("Death's Heads") the singular honour of breaching the walls of the Imperial Palace, amongst whose defenders were the Loyalist Titans of the Collegia Titanica and the Death's Heads' hated rivals -- the Legio Ignatum.Using the many powerful weapons at their disposal, they eagerly set about the task. By virtue of their insane fury they accomplished this near-suicidal endeavour, despite suffering the losses of over thirty Titans in one evening of fierce fighting. The Chaos Warlord-class Titans broke the outer walls and let inwards a flood of Traitors.But ultimately, the Traitors' assault failed as the final events of the Heresy played out aboard Horus' own flagship, the Vengeful Spirit. The Emperor triumphed during the confrontation between Himself and the Chaos-corrupted Warmaster, but only at the cost of His own mortal wounding. The majority of the Traitor Legions scattered following this disastrous defeat, and the Imperial forces gave chase, unleashing the period known as the Great Scouring. Hunted and pursued, system by system, the Traitor Legions and the Traitor Titan Legions eventually were driven into the Eye of Terror and the worlds they had occupied were reconquered by the Imperium.
Collegia Titanica - Post-Heresy: Following the Horus Heresy, the Collegia Titanica continued to serve the Mechanicum, now the reformed Adeptus Mechanicus, and the Imperium, bringing its might to bear where it was deemed required. Throughout the Heresy, past rivalries between certain Titan Legions were aggravated into outright hatred once they found themselves on opposing sides. For millennia after the great conflict the Loyalist Titan Orders continued to battle the surviving Traitor Titan Legios at every opportunity, and one of their most significant assignments was bearing vigil over the Eye of Terror and guarding Imperial space from Chaos raids and Black Crusades.The Collegia Titanica also protects the Imperium from xenos incursions and other threats. Although as a result of their political autonomy as part of the Adeptus Mechanicus they are generally not concerned with any internal political quarrels that may occur between the Imperium's sometimes competing adepta, they do at times interfere at the behest of their Mechanicus masters, whatever their motives may be.
Collegia Titanica - Operation: Over the long millennia of constant warfare, the Titan Orders of the Collegia Titanica have developed their own tried and tested tactics and battle formations, many of which are based around the unit known as the "maniple." This is a configuration that makes use of Reaver and Warhound-class Titans, consisting of at least three god-engines of either class but up to five if they are available.In a maniple formation, the Warhounds stride ahead of the Reavers, finding and marking targets to be destroyed by the advancing Titans. Some Titan battlegroups are in fact only comprised of maniples, and if such a force faces the need to divide its strength, it will create smaller units of near-identical configuration called "demi-maniples."The Tech-priests accompanying a Titan battlegroup carry with them the equipment necessary to accommodate Titans engaged in heavy combat, and in addition to the performance of mundane battlefield maintenance, have the means to conduct minor field repairs.The Tech-priests can facilitate the rearming of Titans in the event of the destruction of their original weapons load-out, or refit them with ordnance better suited for the task they face when battlefield conditions change.Damaged Titans are taken after battle to the Tech-priests' facilities for repairs, but if during the course of fighting one of them sustains grave damage it will be withdrawn as soon as possible so as to avoid its untimely destruction, and given into the care of the Tech-adepts. If they prove unable to assuage the battered machine's pain, they will secure the ravaged Titan and return it to their home Forge World, where it may be given appropriate care.Despite such precautions, the god-machines occasionally do fall in combat, much to the grief of the Cult Mechanicus and in particular the crews and staff that accompanied them. When a campaign is running its course, although saddened, the Forge World will send new Titans to replace the battlefield losses and to continue the fight.
Collegia Titanica - The Divisiones: The Collegia Titanica has four "divisiones," the Divisio Mandati, the Divisio Telepathica, the Divisio Investigatus, and most importantly, the Divisio Militaris, which is the main fighting force of the Collegia Titanica.The divisiones are further divided into a number of "Legions" or "Orders": groupings of Titans bound by a common heritage such as the Legio Ignatum or the Legio Gryphonicus. Each Titan Legion is a self-contained unit headed by an officer who is a princeps who holds the special rank of "grand master."
Collegia Titanica - Divisio Militaris: The Titan Legions of the Divisio Militaris, or as its Legios are more commonly called, the "Military Orders," are the main military force of the Collegia Titanica, and each includes its own support staff in addition to its Titans. Each Legio is based on its own Adeptus Mechanicus Forge World -- most Forge Worlds maintaining one, though others are known to harbour a larger number -- with Mars itself having three.Although their home Forge Worlds are technically their bases, elements of the Titan Legions are actually stationed throughout the galaxy, guarding vulnerable locations across the Imperium.Many Legios are stationed near the Eye of Terror, ready to combat their Chaos counterparts. Some of the Titan Legions of the Divisio Militaris are highly specialised forces, created to deal with siege works or undertake combat in exotic planetary environments.
Collegia Titanica - Divisio Mandati: The Titan Legions of the Divisio Mandati are known as "Executive Orders." They travel in vast temple-spacecraft, responsible for bringing the Pax Imperia to isolated worlds of the Imperium. Each temple ship carries between two and five of the immense Emperor Titans, as well as Tech-priests, Mechanicus regular troops, maintenance adepts and support personnel.Each Emperor Titan in the divisio is its own self-contained unit, carrying members of the Adeptus Arbites, the Inquisition and the other adepta of the Adeptus Terra.With an Emperor Titan as their platform, servants of the Imperium can be very persuasive, and if that fails, they possess more than enough firepower to get their point across. It is through this combination of persuasion and potent threat that the Pax Imperia is brought to many new Human-settled worlds.Some of the Executive Orders never leave the boundaries of Imperial space, confined to the dioceses left to their care. The elite of the Divisio Mandati's Titan Legions are known as "Missionary Orders" -- they travel beyond the borders of the Imperium, often accompanying Rogue Traders in discovering new worlds and regions of space to be settled and exploited by Mankind.
Collegia Titanica - Divisio Telepathica: Being highly specialised, the Divisio Telepathica is somewhat smaller than the Divisiones Mandati and Militaris. The Divisio Telepathica is responsible for the operation of the dreaded Psi-Titans, such as those of the Ordo Sinister, whom, judging by their known deployments, are specially designed to combat the forces of Chaos and the Traitor Titan Legions. Its Legios are called the "Telepath Orders," each operating from a secret Forge World near the heart of the Imperium.The existence of Chaos is a closely-held secret of the Imperium, as are all those organisations like the Ordo Malleus and the Grey Knights devoted to combating it.Since nearly nothing is known of the Divisio Telepathica, and because of their presumed dedication to combating the Ruinous Powers, it is not unlikely that it ranks alongside those esteemed servants of the Imperium as being entirely unknown by the greater populace of the galaxy.
Collegia Titanica - Divisio Investigatus: The Divisio Investigatus, whose Titan Legions are sometimes called "Research Orders," is the scientific research and development division of the Collegia Titanica. Its role is to construct the many war engines used by all the Titan Legions, and to engineer and test the rare improvements made in Titan technology by the increasingly stagnant Imperium.At times, a Research Order takes part in battle so that it can test its new designs under proper combat conditions.The Divisio Investigatus' Titan Legions favour the Warlord-class Titans, as their well-known handling characteristics and capabilities make them an ideal test-bed for the divisio's new devices.
Collegia Titanica - Maniples: Depending on their role, Titans are fully capable of operating individually, and often do so when supporting conventional ground units. In practice, they are often deployed in formations of anything from two to ten god-engines, but broken into formal units known as a "maniple" comprising three to five god-engines -- the numeral "5" having an occult and numerological signifier of destruction in many numiscantic systems of prognostication favoured by the Cult Mechanicus.According to tradition, a maniple is made up of five Titans, although they may be divided (or, indeed, reinforced) into sub-maniples for the duration of a mission. There are countless configurations of maniples, as set out in the Libraxus Titanica, each being recorded in exacting detail along with countless footnotes detailing deployments, successes and failures.The most commonly used maniple is called the Axiom. A Warlord Battle Titan leads the maniple, supported by a pair of Reaver Titans, while a pack of two Warhound Scout Titans ranges ahead to survey the battlefield. The Axiom maniple is widely regarded as the epitome of balance and tactical opportunity, but is only one among many maniple configurations, each with its own strength and tactical doctrines.Command of a maniple is generally granted to the most senior princeps within it, although there have been notable exceptions. In any case, the elevated officer is granted the High Gothic rank of "princeps seniores" or "princeps senioris," which means a "senior princeps" in Low Gothic and is charged with dictating the maniple's strategic and tactical approaches.The senior princeps' personality will shape the way the maniple hunts and fights, and as such the rank is highly sought after by ambitious princeps who wish to prove their worth.
Collegia Titanica - Battlegroups: In conventional battles, the presence of a lone Titan -- even a Scout Titan class such as a Warhound-class Titan -- can be sufficient to guarantee victory. However, when Titans go to war en masse, they are formed into ad hoc groups, operating together under the command of their most senior princeps for the duration of a campaign.All the units of a Titan Legion command deployed to a specific theatre are referred to as a "battlegroup." This is a loosely-defined term which can encompass one or more maniples of 3-5 Titans, individual Titans acting as reinforcements and any attached support units, such as banners of Imperial Knights from allied houses.
Collegia Titanica - Axiom Battleline Maniple: The Axiom maniple is one of the most sacred and well-regarded maniple configurations. It is both numerologically and strategically balanced, capable of dealing with almost any threat.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Component: One Warlord Battle TitanOne Reaver Battle TitanOne Warhound Scout Titan
Collegia Titanica - Optional Components: One Reaver Battle TitanOne Warhound Scout Titan
Collegia Titanica - Myrmidon Battleline Maniple: There are very few enemies who can hope to stand against a Myrmidon maniple. Comprising the mightiest Battle Titans, it boasts sufficient firepower to damage a cruiser in low orbit.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: Two Warlord Battle TitansOne Reaver Battle Titan
Collegia Titanica - Optional Components: One Warlord Battle TitanOne Reaver Battle Titan
Collegia Titanica - Venator Light Maniple: Where other maniples favour firepower and brute strength to overcome the foe, a Venator maniple puts emphasis on speed and opportunistic attack.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: One Reaver Battle TitanTwo Warhound Scout Titans
Collegia Titanica - Optional Components: Two Warhound Scout Titans
Collegia Titanica - Corsair Battleline Maniple: Corsair Battleline Maniples are built around a raiding doctrine, its Titans chosen for both their speed and fire power. The versatility of the Reaver-class Titan lends itself to this role -- swift enough to extract itself from danger but potent enough to win a protracted battle.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: Three Reaver Titans
Collegia Titanica - Optional Components: Two Reaver Titans
Collegia Titanica - Janissary Battleline Maniple: During the Great Crusade, Titans were often supported by large numbers of Knight banners. Janissary Batteline Maniples were developed to fill this role, bringing a balanced mix of war engines and crews skilled at fighting alongside Knight household units.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: One Reaver TitanTwo Warhound Titan
Collegia Titanica - Optional Components: One Reaver TitanOne Warhound Titan
Collegia Titanica - Regia Battleline Maniple: Formations utilising paired Warlord Titans are common to many of the strategies of the Collegia Titanica. The Regia Battleline Maniple is perhaps the oldest of these, based upon the ancient concept of a king and queen and their court.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: Two Warlord TitansOne Warhound Titan
Collegia Titanica - Optional Components: Two Warhound Titans
Collegia Titanica - Lupercal Light Maniple: It is unclear if the Lupercal Light Maniple existed before Horus took command of the Great Crusade and its Titan Legions. However, its effectiveness was such that even after Horus' betrayal of the Emperor, both sides continued to use it extensively in battle.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: One Reaver Battle TitanTwo Warhound Scout Titan
Collegia Titanica - Optional Components: Two Warhound Scout Titan
Collegia Titanica - Fortis Battle Maniple: Titans are mobile fortresses as formidable to bring down as any redoubt of steel and stone. The Fortis Battle Maniple was created as a defensive formation, allowing Titans to resist assaults from numerically superior foes or the massed firepower of enemy war engines.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: One Warlord Battle TitanTwo Reaver Battle Titans
Collegia Titanica - Optional Components: One Warhound Battle TitanOne Reaver Battle Titan
Collegia Titanica - Ferrox Light Maniple: Collegia Titanica tactical doctrine teaches that lighter Titans must either support larger Titans or mass their firepower from the safety of cover. The Ferrox Light Maniple subscribes to a different tactical school of thought, striking in close for quick and destructive kills.
Collegia Titanica - Canis Light Maniple: Better known as a "Battle-Pack," Canis Light Maniples were perfected by the Legio Audax, utilising a Warhound's speed to launch brutal ambushes as they fall upon their prey with unbridled fury.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: Three Warhound Titans
Collegia Titanica - Arcus Battleline Maniple: A rarely observed maniple, Arcus Battleline Maniples were used against mobile enemy forces, relying on fast scouts to encircle the foe and direct the greater firepower of a Warbringer-Nemesis Titan.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: One Warbringer-Nemesis TitanTwo Warhound Titans
Collegia Titanica - Ruptura Battleline Maniple: Ruptura Battleline Maniples were formed to break open the most hardy of fortifications, its faster elements seizing every breach created by the Warbringer-Nemesis Titans in its complement before a counterattack could be organised.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: Two Warbringer-Nemesis TitansOne Reaver Titan
Collegia Titanica - Mandatum Battleline Maniple: Mandatum Battleline Maniples rely on intricate battleplans directed by the Warlord's princeps overseeing its subordinate Warhounds so they can maneuver into the perfect position.
Collegia Titanica - Mandatory Components: One Warlord TitanTwo Warhound Titans
Collegia Titanica - Additional Titans: In times of need, a maniple can be reinforced by additional Titans, which may be seconded from another maniple or from the wider Legio. These Titans offer their support, and defer to the maniple's commanding  princeps seniores, usually for the duration of a single mission.A battlegroup can contain any number of additional Titans, other than those in the maniple.
Collegia Titanica - Knight Household Support: When a Titan maniple goes to war, it is often supported by banners of Knights, compact war engines piloted by Nobles of the Knight houses, which use their speed and agility to scout ahead or secure battlefield objectives, broadening the strategic options available to a maniple's princeps seniores.
Collegia Titanica - Infantry and Knight Support: Not all of a Titan Legion's subjects serve within the bodies of the mighty god-engines, for many more fight in their shadow. Each Forge World is served by massive cohorts of Skitarii, Secutarii and Adsecularis infantry troops, and these are often assigned to provide the Titan Legions with massed ground forces capable of performing the battlefield duties which the Titans themselves are too large to perform.Furthermore, there are those Forge Worlds which, having compacted with subservient Knight houses of the Questor Mechanicus, march to war preceded by a fast moving skirmish line of Knight-Lancers and similar classes of combat walker that bridge the gap in size between infantry and Titan, engaging enemy vehicles and allowing the Titans to concentrate on the heaviest of enemy war machines, in particular enemy Titans.It is when an army is to confront an enemy that is itself supported by Titans that they truly come into their own, and this only came about with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. From the very outset, the Warmaster Horus ensured that as many Titan Legions as possible rallied to his banner and first amongst these was the Legio Mortis -- the "Death's Heads" -- and soon others followed.Traitor Titans saw service in the very earliest battles of the Horus Heresy, including the Isstvan III Atrocity and the Isstvan V Drop Site Massacre. The Collegia Titanica was split asunder by the war and as it spread across the galaxy, the battlefields of the sundered Imperium burned with the staggeringly destructive potential of these mighty god-engines. The battle was never so bitter nor all-consuming however as when Traitor and Loyalist Titans faced one another in open war, the mortal soldiers fighting at their feet as inconsequential as insects and slain by the thousands as unimaginable energies were unleashed.
Collegia Titanica - Tech-priests: Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-priests are charged with maintaining the Titan during the course of a battle, monitoring the state of the unstable and dangerous Plasma Reactor which is used to satiate the great machine's colossal power requirements, making sure that there is enough output to operate as many systems as possible, and that a catastrophic meltdown does not occur. In addition, the Tech-priest and their assigned servitors will tend to other devices present on the Titan, guaranteeing that they function to their best ability.Amongst those devices are the Void Shield generators, which are a Titan's first line of defence. In the process of deflecting and absorbing hits, the generators build up a large excess of power, which eventually will cause them to shut down to prevent damage. A Tech-priest will attempt to withdraw as much as possible, at the same time carefully monitoring the reactor, so that the Titan does not take a direct hit.However, when the Void Shields fail, the god-machine sustains structural damage. In such an event, the Tech-priest will immediately make sure that the reactor does not threaten meltdown, attempt to bring the Void Shield generators back on line, and then scan the Titan, searching for systems which have been disabled by damage, and try to repair them. In all these tasks, the Tech-priest is assisted by a number of servitors hard-wired into the god-engine.
Collegia Titanica - Reverence: To the Cult Mechanicus, Titans are incarnations of the Machine God in the material realm, and possess a sacredness invested in them by virtue of their antiquity and technical complexity. The Tech-priests proclaim their divine nature by word and ritual. A thousand times blessed and consecrated with the holiest unguents, a Titan is a towering, walking idol to the Tech-priests of the Machine God. Many see the honour of serving aboard a Titan as an opportunity to serve the Omnissiah in person, and there is no greater service a mere mortal can perform.Prior to being sent into battle, ceremonies are performed and the war engines are blessed. Exotic creatures are slain and their blood used to anoint each Titan's foot -- a symbol of the reality that they will soon lay blood at the Emperor's feet. During these rituals a senior Tech-priest will sprinkle the machine with sanctified oils and recite passages of the Prima Incubatoria.These rites serve to rouse the Titan's Machine Spirit and prepare it for battle. A holy engine of destruction, a Titan's death is greatly saddening to all in the Cult Mechanicus. When one of their number falls, the rest will attempt to recover its ravaged hull and send it to their home Forge World, which will mourn its passing and toll a bell for each Titan lost.
Collegia Titanica - Heraldry: Each Titan bears a distinctive and unique set of symbols. The Titan Legions use a complex and largely archaic system of decorations, icons and insignia to record a machine's past, as well as dedicating its Machine Spirit to the Emperor. Amongst those are banners flown from the Titan as well as markings and heraldry etched on the Titan's hull.The following specifications lay out a minimum standard followed by much of the Collegia Titanica. However, every Titan Legion, and to lesser extent individual machines and their crews, have much freedom in designing their own decorations.
Collegia Titanica - Crew Badges and Uniforms: The uniforms and insignia of a Titan crew are largely specific to a given Titan Legion, as they are entitled to create their own designs. The body armour worn by Titan crewmen, in addition to granting protection, only has to accommodate two functions -- to allow for a cybernetic link to the Mind Impulse Unit, and to contain the necessary power and life support systems.Usually, a crewmember's rank badge will be displayed on his left shoulder, whereas the Titan Legion badge will be shown on the right. Some Legions also use a chest badge, and the symbol of a crewmember's rank will be attached to or hanging on a short chain from it.Personal decorations are not uncommon, especially amongst Moderati who mark their kills on their left sleeves. It is also common practise for Princeps to add their Titan's honours to their uniform. Some Titan Legions, however, choose not to display any decorations and insignia on their uniforms, believing that the markings their Titans bear convey all the required information.
Collegia Titanica - Ranks: Titan crewmen, save for the war machines' attendant Tech-priests, are divided into four ranks. These are, in order of seniority, the Moderatus, the Princeps, the Senior Princeps, and the Titan Legion's Grand Master. Although such an event would be rather unlikely, in theory a Moderatus can advance through the ranks and one day become a Grand Master himself.The Moderatus rank badge is in the shape of a plain circle surrounding a hollowed-out geometric figure -- if the Order the crewman belongs to utilises chest badges, in the amulet attached to it this shape will be socketed with a phased crystal gem which is used as a key to the Titan's controls. The Princeps and Senior Princeps also bear similar insignia, however the circles around their socketed gems have lugs added -- four and twelve, respectively.A Grand Master's rank badge is unknown. However, when one takes to the field aboard his Titan and wishes to make his presence apparent, he is entitled to fly a banner bearing his Divisio's symbol. Some Legions use different names for these ranks, though none is entitled to change the system itself -- for example, some Titan Legions designate a Senior Princeps as a "High Princeps."
Collegia Titanica - Hull Markings: Titan hulls are richly inscribed and decorated, as befits these physical avatars of the Omnissiah. This grows more true over time, as they are awarded honours for their performance on the battlefield, and their crews never miss an opportunity to etch a new commendation on the machine. The war engines also bear the personal heraldry of their Princeps. In the event of their death, the old commander's emblem would be removed and the new one's painted in its place.The standard place for these heraldic sigils are, for Reaver-class Titans, the kneeplates, or for Warhound-class Titans, the carapace or leg plates. Although the colour scheme is constant for all Titans in a Legion, the decorations they bear are not. Machines of similar names (e.g. Canis Primus, Canis Secundus) will bear similar decorations, however, since those are very much the indication of the individual Titan, no two can be exactly alike. The war engine's head will often be inscribed with the name of the Titan, or, barring that, the name of its Legion. The hull will also display a gilded dedication to the Emperor, along with the Purity Seals the machine has earned during its service.Titans can also be seen bearing identification marks. They are symbols etched on the Titan's legs where they can be clearly seen by ground level troops and provide them with information on what class of a Titan is towering over them. The Warhound identification mark is a rectangular shape standing on four unevenly spaced vertical legs, the Reaver mark is an axe facing leftwards, and the Warlord mark is two crossed axes. Imperator-class Titan identification marks are presently unlisted in Imperial records.
Collegia Titanica - Banners: The banners flown from the Titan contain much information on its origin, history and feats, its past and present, the information essential to what the Titan is. These banners are very much prized Imperial relics in their own right, and will be taken down from the machines to which they belong prior to battle in order to preserve them.This means that for most of the time, the banners are stored on the Titan Legion's homeworld, or follow the Titans on their deployments to warzones stashed safely behind the front lines in the resupply and refit facilities set up by the Tech-priests accompanying the war machines.
Collegia Titanica - Honour Banners: The Honour Banner is the most prominent banner flown from a Titan, bearing the symbol of the Legion it belongs to and displaying the rank of the Princeps in command of it. It also usually displays the individual Titan's honours and battles won. The Honour Banner has the following form: it is split into two horizontal bands on the top of the Banner, the rest being split into two vertical bands of equal size. The left vertical band is further split in a similar fashion, one horizontal band on top and two vertical bands below.The larger horizontal bands bear, top to bottom, the emblem of the Titan Legion the machine belongs to, and the name of its home Forge World. Some Titan Legions, however, choose to display the Legion's name instead, and some individual Titan banners can be seen displaying their revered machine's name altogether. Further, the right vertical band contains a listing of the battles the Titan participated in and won (likely under its current Princeps), broken down by the type of enemy they faced – these markings being entirely invented by a given Legion.On the left vertical band, the top horizontal section displays the rank of the Princeps in command of the Titan, as well as recording past Princeps, if only by number. On the leftmost vertical band, the Titan's individual honours are listed in the form of arrayed "T" symbols. The vertical section located to the right contains a High Gothic litany of deliverance from danger, and dedicates the war engine to the Emperor.
Collegia Titanica - Kill Banners: The Kill Banner displays the Titan-class kills attributable to the actions of an individual Moderatus. The Kill Banner usually takes the shape of a triangle, with a top section bearing decoration used to differentiate each Moderati's banner, and the lower section listing the kills -- usually in the form of skulls.If there is only one Gun Moderatus aboard a Titan, only one banner will be flown. The Moderati religiously mark their feats on their banners, as a form of service to the Titan, and in extension, to the Machine God.
Collegia Titanica - Heresy Banners: During the dark days of the Horus Heresy, fully half of the Collegia Titanica's Titan Legions declared their allegiance to the rebel Warmaster Horus in his bid for power over Mankind. Those Titans that have remained loyal to the Emperor during that grim time -- and survived -- gained the right to fly so-called "Heresy Banners," as a display of their steadfast loyalty to the Imperium.The banner, in addition to decoration specific to a given Titan Legion, bears the Divisio Militaris eagle, the Legion's campaign motto, citations and honours from battles the Titan has taken part in, and purity seals it has been awarded during this period.
Collegia Titanica - Notable Loyalist Titan Legions: CyclopeansFiresword LegionImperial EaglesImperial Fists (Titan Legion)Legio AbsolutiumLegio AdamantusLegio Aeris AestusLegio Agravides ("Battle Scourges")Legio Amaranth ("Night Spiders")Legio AnnihilatorLegio Arconis ("Iron Kings")Legio Astorum ("Warp Runners")Legio Astraman ("Morning Stars")Legio Atarus ("Firebrands")Legio AtroxLegio BombastorLegio CastigatraLegio CastigatumLegio Confindo ("Sun Cleavers")Legio CrucisLegio Crucius ("Warmongers")Legio DebellatorLegio DecimataLegio Defensor ("Nova Guard")Legio Destructor ("Beasts of Steel")Legio DominatusLegio ExcruciataLegio Ferrax ("Iron Wolves")Legio Ferocastrum ("The Holdfasts")Legio FerroxusLegio Fortidus ("Dauntless")Legio FortisLegio FortitudisLegio FulminariLegio GigantesLegio GladiusLegio Gryphonicus ("War Griffons")Legio Honorum ("Death Bolts")Legio Ignatum ("Fire Wasps")Legio Ignis ("Fire Kings")Legio InterfectraLegio IntrafexLegio InvictaLegio Invigilata ("Emperor's Guard")Legio KaurthosLegio LacrimaeLegio Lysanda ("Sentinels of the Edge")Legio MaledictisLegio Manus FlameausLegio Metalica ("Iron Skulls")Legio Mortis MetallumLegio Naesseas ("Deep Dwellers")Legio Nivalis ("Ice Giants")Legio Oberon ("Death Bolts II")Legio OfficiumLegio Ordo Canis ("Head Hunters")Legio Osedax ("Cockatrices")Legio Pallidus Mor ("Pale Riders")Legio PerenniaLegio Praesagius ("True Messengers")Legio Praesidium VortexLegio PraetorLegio SiriusLegio Solaria ("Imperial Hunters")Legio Tempestus ("Stormlords")Legio TeneriiLegio ThanatarisLegio UltimaLegio Venator ("Iron Spiders")Legio Victorum ("Foe Slayers")Legio VindictusLegio XerxesLegio Xestobiax ("The Iron Vigil")Ordo Sinister ("Nightmare Titans")
Collegia Titanica - Notable Traitor Titan Legions: Adamant FuryBurning StarsFestering DeathForsaken ReaversIronclastRiotous HostSilver ScythesSuns of DamnationLegio AbhorraxLegio AbominatorLegio Argentum ("Dread Lances")Legio Audax ("Ember Wolves")Legio CovenentiaLegio Damicium ("Unbroken Lords")Legio Damnatus ("Warped Dogs")Legio Damnosus ("Lords of Ruin")Legio Excruciatus ("Helldogs")Legio FrostreaverLegio Fureans ("Tiger Eyes")Legio Interfector ("Murder Lords")Legio Krytos ("God Breakers")Legio Kulisaetai ("Gatekeepers")Legio Kydianos ("Death Cry")Legio Lacrymea ("Harbingers of Grief")Legio Laniaskara ("Impalers")Legio Magna ("Flaming Skulls")Legio Metallum ArmaturumLegio MorbusLegio Mordaxis ("Deathdealers")Legio Mortis ("Death's Heads")Legio OnerusLegio PestisLegio PhasmaLegio ProditorLegio SerpentesLegio Suturvora ("Fire Masters")Legio Tempestor ("Stormlords")Legio UliconLegio UlriconLegio UrsaLegio VendetticaLegio Vulcanum I ("Dark Fire")Legio Vulcanum II ("Lords of Ruin")Legio Vulpa ("Death Stalkers")Legio Vulturum ("Gore Crows")Legio VulturusLegio Xestobiax ("Iron Vigil")
Collegia Titanica - Notable Blackshield Titan Legions: Legio Tritonis ("Dark Tide")Blood Hounds of GryrutCleansing FlameHounds of NightProtectorate of Unsubdued SteelPretermitted BrotherhoodLords of Valour
Collegiate Astrolex - Collegiate Astrolex: The Collegiate Astrolex is a corps of strategic advisers, cloisters of Ecclesiarchy priests and a personally maintained stable of psychic seers, prophets and Emperor's Tarot readers that accompany the Lord Commander Solar Arcadian Leontus wherever he goes in defence of the Imperium.With the aid of the insights and predictions provided by the Collegiate Astrolex and his own hand-picked subordinate officers, the Lord Solar Commander has masterminded hundreds of stunning victories.
Colonel Death Strike - Colonel Death Strike: Colonel "Death" Strike is the famed commander of the CLXXXIII Regiment of Catachan Jungle Fighters. He earned his nickname whilst still only a squad Sergeant, fighting against insurgents on the forest world of Burlion VIII.The colonel's enemies say that fighting against Strike and his troops can mean only one thing -- certain death. Indeed the colonel himself statistically rivals a Deathstrike Missile in sheer lethality.During the events of the Pandorax Incursion, the colonel and his troops protected the Death World of Pythos in the Pandorax System from the assault of the Black Legion and their allies.Led by Strike, the regiment successfully managed to survive against the forces of Chaos, using their renowned jungle and urban warfare skills to achieve victory.The CLXXXIII Regiment was en route to the Maelstrom war zone when catastrophic engine failure on their transport craft resulted in a crash-landing on Pythos, just before Abaddon the Despoiler's invasion began.The Dark Angels Chapter's Supreme Grand Master Azrael later announced that were it not for Colonel Strike, Pythos would have been completely overrun. This personal commendation from the Dark Angels Chapter cemented Colonel Strike's image as a hero of the Imperium.Strike and his regiment are still present on Pythos, which now receives a constant supply of fresh reinforcements from other Astra Militarum regiments.Whilst martial bonding practices are considered to be a positive, headstrong Guardsmen have attempted to arm-wrestle the colonel on several occasions, resulting in the practice being banned due to the strain placed on medical staff (in less extreme cases) and a lack of cybernetic limb replacements (in more severe cases).
Colonel Iron Hand Straken - Colonel Iron Hand Straken: Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken is the most notorious and storied commanding officer of the Catachan Jungle Fighters regiments of the Astra Militarum. A Veteran of decades of constant warfare, Straken has fought at the forefront of more battles and survived more wounds than most Imperial Guardsmen have eaten hot meals.Irascible and gutsy in the extreme, Colonel Straken leads from the front with a vigour that belies his years. Having worked his way up from footslogging grunt to colonel of the entire Catachan II "Green Vipers," Straken continues to share every hardship of the common soldier.Larger than life and twice as violent, Straken can always be found where the fighting is thickest. Bellowing a constant stream of orders and invective, the colonel stands shoulder to shoulder with his fellow Catachans.Straken's lack of tolerance for any display of incompetence or cowardice is legendary, and his men redouble their efforts in their determination to live up to Straken's exacting standards.Straken's personal code of "getting stuck in" is matched by a determination never to waste good Catachan lives for ephemeral gains. The colonel has nothing but scorn for officers who fritter away lives to further their own careers.This fact has caused endless friction with the commanders of other Astra Militarum regiments, yet Straken displays the same contempt for upper-echelon politics as he does for the foe. Straken's troops all but deify their gung-ho commander, and have carried his battered body to safety almost as often as he has dragged theirs.
Colonel Iron Hand Straken - Wargear: Plasma PistolShotgunFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesBionic Arm with Devil's ClawRefractor Field
Colossus (Leagues of Votann) - Colossus (Leagues of Votann): A Colossus (pl. Colossi) is a massive mobile fortress used by the Leagues of Votann.The Colossi are vast machines each the size of a city block, which are used as mobile mining installations and ore refineries by the Leagues of Votann. They are primarily used to scout new Kin Mining Worlds for valuable strategic mineral deposits and move from one ore seam to the next, constructing highly efficient, automated mining facilities over each region of valuable ore before moving on.Ever adaptable, the Kin have also taken this basic design and replaced the mining equipment with weapons of war, producing two new kinds of mobile fortress, the Leviathan and the Colossus. The Colossus is a mobile fortress that bristles with potent Kin weaponry and massive ballistic cannons capable of unleashing explosive shells the size of a man.
Colossus (Leagues of Votann) - Wargear: Doomsday CannonThunderer Cannon4 Plasma Missiles8 Battle Cannons16 Heavy Bolters
Colossus (Leagues of Votann) - Ordo Xenos Departmento Analyticus Specifications: The Ordo Xenos has not yet released specifications for this Kin vehicle.
Colossus (Siege Tank) - Colossus (Siege Tank): The Colossus, also known as the Colossus Bombard or Colossus Siege Tank, is an open-topped, self-propelled artillery piece commonly used by the regiments of the Astra Militarum, and it is one of the oldest and most renowned siege weapons still in use during the 41st Millennium.The vehicle is usually deployed by the Astra Militarum during sieges of fortified enemy emplacements and against structures being used as cover by the enemy during urban combat.The Colossus is armed with one of the largest and most powerful mortars used by the Imperial armed forces, known as the Colossus Siege Mortar.The Colossus is based on the common Chimera armoured personnel carrier chassis, and like the Imperial Bombard mobile artillery piece has a crane installed on its rear to lift its heavy siege shells and move them into place to be loaded into the siege mortar.The Colossus and the Bombard are nearly identical in appearance, leading to many cases of mistaken identity between the two artillery pieces on the battlefield.
Colossus (Siege Tank) - Armament: The Colossus is armed and also named after the weapon it carries, the Colossus Siege Mortar. This weapon is the largest and most powerful mortar used by the Astra Militarum.The weapon fires special high concussion shells, which upon impact create explosive shock-waves that are capable of crushing bones, cracking rocks, and pulping flesh. The mortar is mostly used to destroy enemy infantry in cover, since the shock-waves produced by the Colossus' shells are able to kill their soft targets without first destroying their hard cover, but the Colossus is also capable of destroying even fortified targets, crushing the defenders beneath tons of rubble and debris.The Colossus' range is equal to that of the much more common Basilisk artillery piece, and like most mortar weapons it is incapable of firing directly at its targets.The Colossus is also equipped with a hull-mounted Heavy Bolter, which can be replaced with a Heavy Flamer.The tank can also be outfitted with camouflage netting, an enclosed crew compartment, a Hunter-Killer Missile Launcher, a Dozer Blade, extra armour plating, and a Pintle-mounted Heavy Stubber or Storm Bolter.
Colossus (Siege Tank) - Known Formations: Emperor's Wrath Artillery Company - An Emperor's Wrath Artillery Company will begin the Imperial Guard's march to war, preceding the troops and vehicles with a thunderous barrage of heavy artillery fire. The battlefield is turned into a smoking, crater-strewn ruin, amidst which the enemy can find no cover or shelter from the death raining down upon them. These bombardments can last for solar hours, days, weeks, or even longer, and few defences can withstand the sheer destruction that is unleashed. These companies usually consist of three ordnance batteries, with each battery ccomposed of up to three Basilisk or Colossus artillery tanks and a single command Chimera tank.
Colossus (Siege Tank) - Known Users of the Colossus: Astra Militarum - Many regiments of the Astra Militarum field the Colossus during demanding sieges and urban battles.Iron Warriors Traitor Legion - The warbands of the Iron Warriors Chaos Space Marines make use of many types of artillery and mortars during their sieges, including the Colossus, many of which have been captured from the Iron Warriors' Loyalist opponents.
Colossus (Siege Tank) - Adeptus Mechanicus Technical Specifications: Technical Specifications for this vehicle are not available in existing Imperial records.