Legio Venator - Angevin Crusade: The Legio Venator was one of several Titan Legions that accompanied Imperial forces at the commencement of the Angevin Crusade to conquer the Calyx Expanse in the early 39th Millennium.The Legio was glorious to behold as they relentlessly delivered utter annihilation to all who refused Imperial rule. Winning much glory and honour during the opening phases of the campaign, the Legio gained a fearsome reputation for completely decimating their opponents.During the Bleak Years, the Legio fought with particular distinction against a massive Ork WAAAGH! that fell upon the crusaders with barbaric fury. A critical victory in the struggle came with the destruction of a massive Mega-Gargant, identified in the Ork's bestial tongue as Spine Smasha.Following a coordinated orbital Lance strike, Princeps Senioris Angevelo Vsevolod of the Warlord Titan Valorus Ira, with support from a Warhound Centurion Pack, engaged the damaged Greenskin war engine.The battle was close and ferocious, and it was only after the Warhound  Titan Celerus Moria sacrificed itself through drawing the Mega-Gargant's fire that the Valorus Ira was able to target the enemy's internal core with its Volcano Cannon. The resulting meltdown decimated the Ork hordes, and the sight of their idol's destruction robbed them of their will to fight.After pushing into areas of the region thought secure, the foul xenos Yu'Vath brought their insane Warp-science and techno-sorcery to bear on the beleaguered crusaders.The Legio Venator encountered a particularly massive and atrocious Yu'Vath Warp construct leading the opening attack of one such offensive. Dripping with ethereal energy, the monstrous creation propelled itself forward on five twisted legs, and wielded inexplicable weapons that drew on the power of the Warp itself in three misshapen arms.Four Titans fell to the abomination before the Desidius Rae, heavily damaged and venting plasma from its ruptured core, challenged the beast in close combat.The embattled princeps diverted all available power to his Titan's Arioch Power Fist, which caused his first strike to overload the already weakened core containment field. The Titan's ensuing fiery death ensured the complete and utter destruction of its Warp-spawned foe.Following the arrival of Archmagos Mat Aleph Xenon and the conclusion of the Angevin Crusade, the Legio Venator attained the right to requisition one of the newly-settled Adeptus Mechanicus colonies known as the Lathe Worlds as its own.However, before the process of selecting a world could begin, the Legio Venator joined other Titan Legions in the glorious and historic Macharian Crusade.The remaining Legio forces within the newly formed Calixis Sector instead set to work establishing fortresses within the Lathes themselves, including one on the dead moon of Lycosidae. Upon the completion of the Macharian Conquests, the Titan battle groups returned with fresh tales of heroism as well as regret at the loss of Macharius himself.In recognition of his glory and the Legio's participation in this crusade, the Lathe Covenant designated a Forge World within the Drusus Marches sub-sector "Opus Macharius," and ceded it to the Titan Legion as its new homeworld.