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Legio Osedax - Horus Heresy: Even as Horus began his rebellion on the black basalt plains of Isstvan V, Kelbor-Hal unleashed his own treachery upon Phaeton. Vast bulk haulers that had arrived at Phaeton Prime under the guise of collecting tribute for distant Mars would begin the assault, splitting apart in orbit to reveal cybertheurgic arrays designed to cripple Phaeton's delicate control systems.Toxic machine code and malicious data-djinn from the orbiting craft quickly overwhelmed the unsuspecting forge-fanes of Phaeton, turning the complex systems of its Noospheric network against it. Manufactoria's production lines collapsed, their servitors turning to vandalism and destruction as a welter of chaotic instructions were fed to them, while entire battalions of combat-automata ran amok, allied units now set as hostile targets.Following on the heels of this onslaught the orbiting bulk haulers suddenly dipped and fell into the atmosphere of Phaeton Prime, slamming into the surface like immense missiles. The impact alone destroyed entire precincts of Phaeton, but from the wreckage emerged a host of Martian Battle-Automata that tore into the stricken Titans of the Legio Osedax set as sentinels over their homeworld.Their systems ravaged by the data-phages unleashed upon them many of the Cockatrices were dragged down by the sheer number of foes that set upon them, individual Titans torn apart by swarms of suicidal automata. Only the heroic sacrifice of the Titan Inmisercoris, which purposefully detonated its own atomantic core amid the horde, would see any of the Cockatrices survive the battle.It was not only on Phaeton, but across the galaxy, that the revenge of Mars was played out, with detachments of the Legio Osedax operating as the spearhead of the Great Crusade suddenly abandoned by their Mechanicum allies in the midst of battle, or worse yet, caught in treacherous ambush by those they had once called friend.Within the space of a few short solar days, the Legio Osedax would find its forces decimated in scattered war zones across the galaxy. The treachery of Mars would leave them with barely enough operational Titans to field even a demi-legio-scale force, though thanks to their defiant resistance enough of Phaeton's infrastructure had survived so that many crippled Titans would be swiftly repaired and returned to action.Many among the ranks of the Traitors on Mars and further afield would celebrate this as a great victory, yet they had failed to kill the beast that was the Legio Osedax and had only succeeded in awakening it.Across the galaxy, the Legio Osedax patched their rent armour and nurtured the hatred kindled by this betrayal, preparing themselves to return to the fray in earnest. The infamy they had claimed in the darkest years of their history had not been extinguished, and they stood ready to remind the magi of Mars what it meant to claim the Cockatrices as an enemy.
Legio Osedax - Legion Combat Doctrine: In preparation for the inevitable close-quarters battles in industrial sprawls or hive cities, many Legio Osedax Reaver-class Titans are armed in a manner best suited for close-ranged warfare against opposing Titans.To maximise the destruction each Reaver could cause, the outskirts of many forge-fanes were decommissioned, the manufactoria and warehouses hollowed and adapted to create ideal hiding places for Reaver Titans.Hidden from enemy sensors thanks to carefully placed electronic disrupters, the Reaver Titans will then burst from hiding once the frontline of the enemy's advance has passed their position, tearing through their surprised foe with powerful sweeps of their chainfists.The brutality of such ambushes often forces the foe from the confines of the industrial sprawls or hive cities and directly into the firing range of the Reavers' more powerful, long-ranged guns.
Legio Osedax - Legion Traits: The Legio Osedax were nearly broken in the fires of treachery during the first days of the Horus Heresy and, though it threatened to consume them, they refused to yield. The princeps of the Legio Osedax strove to repay their losses in kind, throwing themselves into battle without hesitation.Their numbers vastly reduced during the opening salvos of the Horus Heresy, the Cockatrices answered each new loss with righteous vengeance.Of note, newly promoted princeps raised up to replace a fallen leader often displayed an inherent and natural talent for battle, despite their relative inexperience. They would place their trust in carefully-laid strategies, devising all manner of counter-ploys for potential threats. Many of these battle-hardened princeps were known for practicing swift attacks, bearing down upon their foe with deadly intent.
Legio Osedax - Legion Specific Wargear: Plasma Channels - The Forge World of Phaeton was a significant power within the Segmentum Solar and capable of equipping the Titans of the Legio Osedax with numerous innovations, including these more advanced plasma conduits which could increase the efficiency of a Titan's power output.
Legio Osedax - Notable Titans: Legio Osedax Warlord Titans were often bequeathed the names of mythical beasts drawn from the annals of Ancient Terran history, paying homage both to the Low Gothic moniker of the Legio and the fearsome nature of the Warlord-class Titan itself. As is oft the case with many antiquated tales, the true details were lost to time, leaving many of the names devoid of context.Amongst the Legio Osedax this was seen as a good omen, for only the future deeds of the Titan and its princeps would be reserved in the annals of Mankind, tainted not by superstitious fears conjured during the more primitive ages.Terra's Calling (Imperator-class Titan) - The Terra's Calling was an Imperator-class Titan of the Legio Osedax that fought in the Third Battle of Nyrcon during the Beta-Garmon campaign, better known as the "Titandeath."Galeru (Warlord-class Titan) - The Galeru, depicted above, was a Warlord-class Titan that took part in the campaigns of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.Enmity's Angel (Reaver-class Titan) - The Enmity's Angel, depicted above, was a Reaver-class Titan that took part in the campaigns of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. It commonly took part in the ambush tactics pioneered by the Legio Osedax for Reaver Titans during the battles of the Heresy, as recounted above.
Legio Osedax - Notable Personnel: Traves - Traves was the grand master of the Legio Osedax during the Balthor Sigma Intervention in the Horus Heresy.
Legio Osedax - Knight Houses: House Arx CanisHouse MehdrisurHouse SidusHouse SkramasaxHouse TaranisHouse Zavora
Legio Osedax - Legion Strength: Forged by the once-boundless industrial might of Phaeton, the Legio Osedax was a Titan Legion of the first order, designated a Primus (Minoris)-grade Legio. Preserved against the ravages of Old Night and enriched by the spoils of the Great Crusade, Phaeton was prolific in its creation of machines of war.By the middle years of the Great Crusade, the Legio Osedax rivalled the Legio Mortis for the sheer number of Battle Titans in its ranks. However, this time of plenty would be cut short by the bitter enmity kindled between Phaeton and Mars, leading to a full third of the Legio's Titans being tithed to the newly-birthed realm of Atar-Median.Furthermore, the treachery suffered by Phaeton at the outbreak of the Horus Heresy would further deplete the ranks of the Legio Osedax. By the year 010.M31, at the heart of the civil war, the Cockatrices could field little more than 75 Battle Titans, mostly ancient Reaver-class Titans.Those Titans in service with the Cockatrices during the Horus Heresy, though few in number, were some of the best-equipped god-engines to be found in the Imperium. Phaeton recognised the sacrifices made by the Legio Osedax by providing it with the most valuable technological relics in its armouries, from advanced plasma channels to multi-phase cyclic Void Shield Generators.By long preference, its princeps went to war equipped for close-quarters battle, and its ranks bristled with Titan-grade chainfists, multi-barrelled Vulcan Mega Bolters and short-ranged Melta Cannons.In addition to these forces the Legio Osedax also always maintained a well-equipped force of siege Titans, their princeps uniquely skilled in the reduction of enemy fortifications and often considered excessive in their zeal for the task.
Legio Osedax - Legion Colours: The Legion colours of the Cockatrices are a quartered colour scheme of aquamarine blue and white with brass trim and red often painted on the Titan's head.The Legion's alternate scheme is sometimes displayed as white with blue checkers.
Legio Osedax - Legion Badge: The Legion badge of the Cockatrices is a cockatrice, a mythical beast from Old Earth's mythology; essentially a two-legged dragon or serpent-like creature with a rooster's head. This creature faces forward towards the foe, its wings outstretched, imposed over an orange circlet, outlined in black.
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Legio Pallidus Mor - Legio Pallidus Mor: The Legio Pallidus Mor, known colloquially as the "Pale Riders," is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.It hails from the Forge World of Tolkhan, located in the Segmentum Tempestus.The Legio has sequestered much of its own early history, largely out of shame for serving beside the Iron Warriors for so much of the Great Crusade, as they eventually became one of the Traitor Legions during the Horus Heresy.
Legio Pallidus Mor - Legion History: The Legio Pallidus Mor is one of the most ancient Titan Legions of the Collegia Titanica and has always been a fervent supporter of the Emperor of Mankind.The Legion participated in some of the most gruesome conflicts of the Great Crusade, often fighting side-by-side with the grim Astartes of the IVth Legion, the Iron Warriors.Within the Pale Riders this is a source of both great pride and great shame: pride for the bloody battles and protracted sieges that eventually led the Iron Warriors to rebel but only deepened the Titan Legion's resolve and devotion to the Emperor, and shame because they did not call out the change that overcame their allies.It was this shame that led the Pallidus Mor to sequester almost all of its historical data, though they valiantly fought in defence of the Imperium during the Horus Heresy.Since the great betrayal by their closest allies, the Legio Pallidus Mor's credo has been one of self-reliance, dogged tenacity and grim fatalism.As a Legion, the Pale Riders have never cringed to pay the butcher's bill, and accounts of detachments emerging decimated but victorious from a battle are the very epitome of this mentality.A princeps of the Pallidus Mor will always march expecting the worst possible outcome. They will not allow themselves to be misguided by the vain trappings of honour and fame. They will sacrifice anything, including their life, that of their crew and most important of all, that of their god-engine, if it means securing victory.Perhaps unusually for a Titan Legion, none of the princeps of the Pallidus Mor are interred in an amniotic tank but choose to remain close to their human form while commanding their Titan.Additionally, this Legion's Titan crews keep themselves in peak physical condition and undergo regular training and fire-drills to allow them to defend themselves in hand-to-hand combat.As a consequence, each crew-member always carries a side-arm should circumstances dictate the need to fight outside their god-engines or survive alone in the wilds.
Legio Pallidus Mor - Legion Colours: The Titan war machines of the Legio Pallidus Mor are known to utilise ivory and midnight-black colours.
Legio Pallidus Mor - Legion Badge: The Legio Pallidus Mor's badge is a skeletal hand holding up a scythe before a bifurcated shield of black and white.Three black tears are placed on the white half of the shield, which is surmounted by three human skulls, one at the top, and two at the centre of the shield's bottom edge.Two scythe-blades curve away from either side of the larger skull at the top of the shield.
Legio Perennia - Legio Perennia: The Legio Perennia is one of the younger Titan Legions of the Collegia Titanica, the strongest and most prestigious military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.Founded during the glorious years of the Great Crusade which dramatically ended in the earliest 31st Millennium, the Legion's original homeworld was the bustling Forge World of Bronta-Median, located in the relative vicinity of the Segmentum Solar.Founded with great pomp and circumstance at the Gallileon temple-forge, a scant few decades before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, the Legion's first deployment would prove -- to its eternal shame -- a total disaster. This perhaps explains the absence of solid historical data about the Legion in contemporary Imperial records.With very little information available, it is unknown if the Legion still carries its founding name or has indeed been renamed in the wake of the terrible events of the Harrowing of Callistra Mundi.
Legio Perennia - Notable Campaigns: Capture of the Omnissiax (Unknown Date. M31) - The Omnissiax was a super-heavy ark-freighter registered out of the Heliodyne shipyards which had been charged of transporting Battle Group Astramax of the Legio Perennia to Terra. As revolts and open rebellion manifested themselves throughout the Imperium, the Omnissiax and its fearful cargo were rerouted to the world of Callistra Mundi to support local forces against the rebels. Unknown to the master of the Omnissiax or his Mechanicum overlords, the Alpha Legion had infiltrated the ark-freighter, fifty of their most apt Legionaries masquerading as empty suits of power armour, life signs reduced to a minimum as not to be discovered. When a sparatoi agent of the Legion awakened them, the Alpha Legion rose from their self-induced coma and began to take over the ship. Other agents of the XXth Legion had thus far disabled the Omnissiax means of communication, be they technological or astropathic. Through the use of armour-penetrating Banestrike-ammunition, even the most heavily armoured battle-automata were no match against the Alpha Legion. The Legionaries purposefully set fire to crew-quarters as to scramble enemy auspexes and sneak up on Mechanicum forces, even killing the Magos Dominus in charge of the ship’s security early on in the battle. But as numerical superiority began to tell, both Alpha Legion and Mechanicum settled for a stalemate, which the Mechanicum hoped to break with reinforcements from Callistra Mundi. However, the Alpha Legion had their own continuity plan: take control of the Titans in the cargo-hold and use its devastating firepower to destroy the Mechanicum forces. Thanks to their own Titan-crew which had also been smuggled onboard the Omnissiax, the Alpha Legion succeeded in seizing the Omniassiax. But the Omnissiax carried other precious goods beside the already powerful Titan Battle Group: a complement of siege engines for the Ordo Reductor, two hundred battle tanks and transports of various designs and five hundred suits of Mark IV power armour, which all fell into Alpha Legion hands.The Harrowing of Callistra Mundi (Unknown Date. M31) - Battle Group Astramax - now fighting in the name of the Alpha Legion and the Warmaster - would soon be unleashed on Callistra Mundus, surprising local Loyalist forces and opening fire on those same forces that hoped to welcome them as allies.
Legio Perennia - Notable Titans: Abyssus Edax (Warmonger-class Titan) - Like the remaining god-engines of Battle Group Astramax, the Abyssus Edax had been newly commissioned and had never seen battle before. Armed with Galting Blasters and the fearsome Quake Cannon, Abyssus Edax was capable of leveling entire city blocks. As lead-engine of Battle Group Astramax, the Abyssus Edax was the main focus of the traitor Alpha Legion’s efforts. Crewed with an Alpha Legion-loyal crew, Abyssus Edax would be used with devastating effects by the Traitors to crush the Mechanicum resistance aboard the Omnissiax, firing Abyssus Edax’s weapons inside the ship -- a premier in known Imperial history.
Legio Perennia - Notable Personnel: Alvar Pallidon - Princeps Majoris of Abyssus Edax and overall commander of Battle Group Astramax before its seizure by Alpha Legion forces. Ultimate fate unknown.
Legio Perennia - Legion Colours: The Legio Perennia's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Perennia - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Perennia is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Pestis - Legio Pestis: The Legio Pestis is a Traitor Titan Legion in the service of the Plague God Nurgle.Other than its service in the Plague Wars of the early 42nd Millennium alongside the other forces of Chaos that invaded the Realm of Ultramar, little else is currently known about the Legio Pestis in Imperial records.
Legio Pestis - Notable Campaigns: Plague Wars (ca. 111.M42) - The Legio Pestis was counted among the forces dedicated to Grandfather Nurgle that invaded the Realm of Ultramar during the Plague Wars.
Legio Pestis - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Pestis - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Pestis - Legion Colours: This Traitor Titan Legion's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Pestis - Legion Badge: This Traitor Titan Legion's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Phasma - Legio Phasma: The Legio Phasma is a Traitor Titan Legion that fell to Chaos. It long served alongside the forces of the Night Lords Legion during the battles of the Great Crusade and chose to remain loyal to them once the Night Lords turned against the Emperor during the Horus Heresy.
Legio Phasma - Legion Colours: The Legio Phasma's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Phasma - Legion Badge: The Legio Phasma's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Praesagius - Legio Praesagius: The Legio Praesagius, ("True Messengers"), is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica. The Legio is foremost known for its venerable status, being amongst the most ancient Legios of the Collegia Titanica still in existence.Most of its god-engines that participated in the Great Crusade seemed to have survived the terrors of the Age of Strife, and only very few Titans have been commissioned since its reunification with the Imperium.The True Messengers are long-standing allies of the Ultramarines Legion with whom they have fought before. This naturally led to their nomination to serve alongside the XIIIth Legion at the great muster at Calth at the end of the Great Crusade, per the Warmaster Horus' orders. This placed them in a vulnerable position when the Word Bearers Traitor Legion and their treacherous Titan allies, the Legio Suturvora, fired the first shot of the Battle of Calth.In the aftermath of the fighting on Calth, a mere dozen Titans, with only three of these being Battle Titans bestowed on the Legio at its founding, were all that remained of the once proud Legio Praesagius. It would take many solar decades to rebuild the True Messengers into a viable Titan Legion once again.
Legio Praesagius - Origins: The personnel of the Legio Praesagius were noble champions of the Imperium, masters of a host of god-engines of cataclysmic power which sought not only to destroy, but to inspire through pageantry, pomp and ceremony. Bedecked in secular finery, the Titans of the Legio Praesagius were an enduring symbol of the righteous cause of the Great Crusade.Its Titan crews fought with a strict chivalric honour code which forbade the indiscriminate use of ordinance and collateral slaughter of Human life, which they saw as unbefitting a true god-engine, instead favouring the precision duelling of individual Titans with worthy opponents. Through this method of warfare did the Legio Praesagius seek to leave a functional realm in their wake, its cities intact and its peoples prosperous.Given patent on Mars at the outset of the Great Crusade, the Legio Praesagius was one of the many Titan Legions born to support the early Imperium's expansion. Scions of the storied and ancient Legio Gryphonicus, the Legio Praesagius was provided at their founding with a large complement of Battle Titans, and were thus destined from their inception to become one of the grandest of the Titan Legions.They would walk time and again throughout the Great Crusade, forging their reputation not as brutes prone to indiscriminate destruction, but as warriors of precision who treated their allies with consideration and compassion, not as a currency to be spent in the brutality of war. For this they earned honours from the Officio Militaris of the Imperium, and earned the respect and trust of the Legiones Astartes, particularly the XIIIth Legion -- the Ultramarines.
Legio Praesagius - Legion Traits: The True Messengers showed a distinct preference for precision weaponry, believing indiscriminate destruction was unfitting conduct for a true Titan Legion.Due to the great size of the Legio Praesagius, the Legio was separated into demi-Legio-sized battle groups that encouraged a structure of dispersed command and reliance on the initiative of its Titan princeps.Often assigned to the vanguard of expeditionary fleets, the Legio Praesagius became renowned for achieving the seemingly impossible. The Legio's princeps were renowned for being able to quickly assess the ebb and flow of battle, directing the god-engines under their command with ease. Many of these princeps were true believers in the crusading spirit of their Legio, adhering to a doctrine of marching forwards with relentless purpose.
Legio Praesagius - 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-class Titan.
Legio Praesagius - Mandatory Components: One Warbringer-Nemesis TitanTwo Warhound Titans
Legio Praesagius - Optional Components: Two Warhound Titans
Legio Praesagius - 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 Warbringers before a counterattack could be organised.
Legio Praesagius - Mandatory Components: Two Warbringer-Nemesis TitansOne Reaver Titan
Legio Praesagius - Optional Components: Two Reaver Titans
Legio Praesagius - Mandatum Battleline Maniple: Mandatum Battleline Maniples rely on intricate battleplans directed by the Warlord's princeps overseeing its subordinate Warhounds into the perfect position.
Legio Praesagius - Mandatory Components: One Warlord TitanTwo Warhound Titans
Legio Praesagius - Nine Paragons of Ithraca: The fallen Titans of the Legio Praesagius, known to the annals of the Collegia Titanica as the "Nine Paragons of Ithraca," were all Warlord-class Battle Titans. They are named below:Auric Pegasus - Commanded by Master Princeps Rhiko Trieste, a veteran warrior respected by her peers, Auric Pegasus saw its finest moments upon the surface of Calth. Taking command of the scattered elements of the Legio Praesagius after the felling of the Titan conveyor Arutan, Trieste issued her first, and final, command as mistress of the Titan Legion. Nine Warlords, Auric Pegasus amongst them, charged at the centre of the Fire Masters' line, buying time for the surviving True Messengers to withdraw into Ithraca City. Now known to the annals of the Collegia Titanica as the "Nine Paragons of Ithraca," of these nine Warlord Titans Auric Pegasus was reportedly the last to fall, the severed and crushed head of an enemy Reaver Titan clenched in the god-engine's fist.Sabris RegnumPlutarchosThe Lion of MarsThe Silver ThornReason's ThunderThe Will of AdamantThe Triumph of AccatranChrysaor's Wake
Legio Praesagius - Knight Houses: House OrhlaccHouse Vornherr
Legio Praesagius - Space Marines: UltramarinesWord Bearers (Pre-Heresy)
Legio Praesagius - Legion Strength: In the early days of the Legio Praesagius, it was ranked as Primaris-grade with over 300 god-engines to its name, and notably had a significant standing of heavy Battle Titans including Warlord, Imperator and Carnivore-class god-engines.For much of the Great Crusade, it was rare for the Legio to be assembled in its entirety for war. Due to the great size of the Legio Praesagius, it was separated into demi-Legio-sized battle groups that encouraged a structure of dispersed command and reliance on the initiative of its Titan princeps. This was the cornerstone of their many victories, for each princeps was a respected commander and a veteran leader of such battle groups.By their time on Gantz, the Legio Praesagius' size was greatly diminished, numbering only 112 Titans at the time of the muster on Calth, of which most were Warlord and Reaver classes with seasoned veteran crews.In the tragic aftermath of the Battle of Calth, and for much of the Shadow Crusade, a mere dozen Titans were all that would remain of the proud Legio Praesagius.
Legio Praesagius - Legion Colours: Perhaps as an outward sign of the longstanding alliance between the Ultramarines and the Legio Praesagius, the True Messengers' colour scheme is noted as being blue, white and gold.
Legio Praesagius - Legion Badge: The iconography of the Legio Praesagius is a golden pegasus, a mythical winged horse, standing rampant in front of a blue starburst on a field of white.
Legio Praesagius - Sources: Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Rulebook (Specialty Game), pp. 15, 70-71Adeptus Titanicus - The Horus Heresy: Shadow and Iron (Specialty Game), pp. 6-8, 10, 12, 14-15, 20-24, 26, 51, 64-66, 68, 72The Horus Heresy - Book Five: Tempest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 51, 55-57, 59-65, 116-121, 126-127, 147, 174Legacies of Betrayal (Anthology), "Honour to the Dead," by Gav Thorpe, pp. 212-246Mark of Calth (Anthology), "Calth That Was" (Short Story) by Graham McNeillHonour to The Dead (Audio) by Gav ThorpeWarhammer Community - Adeptus Titanicus: Old Alliances (26 Feb 2019)Warhammer Community - Pre-Order: Titans, T'au & Tiny Collectibles (08 Feb 2020)Warhammer Community - Shadow & Iron: Crusades of Vengeance (05 Feb 2020)
Legio Praesidium Vortex - Legio Praesidium Vortex: The Legio Praesidium Vortex is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. It is based on the Forge World of Agripinaa.
Legio Praesidium Vortex - Notable Campaigns: 13th Black Crusade (ca. 999.M41) - The Legio Praesidium Vortex aided the defence of its home Forge World of Agripinaa from the forces of Chaos during Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade.
Legio Praesidium Vortex - Legion Colours: The Legio Praesidium Vortex's colours are unknown.
Legio Praesidium Vortex - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Praesidium Vortex is unknown.
Legio Praetor - Legio Praetor: The Legio Praetor is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Legio Praetor - Notable Campaigns: Battle of Macragge (754.M41) - The Legio Praetor is known to have taken part in the Battle of Macragge where it aided the Ultramarines Space Marines Chapter in the defence of their homeworld of Macragge from the predations of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth.
Legio Praetor - Notable Titans: Semper Sanctus - Warlord-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Sidarius Calvin during the Battle of Macragge.
Legio Praetor - Notable Personnel: Princeps Sidarius Calvin - Calvin was the princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Semper Sanctus during the Battle of Macragge. Calvin was supporting the forces defending the Northern Polar Defence Grid, and engaged with a Tyranid construct which would later become known as a Hierophant Bio-Titan. Smaller Tyranid bioforms attempted to scale the Imperial war machine, and although they were targetted by ground-level troops, the sheer amount of bodies and corpses soon clogged the Titan's joints, immobilising it. With his war engine severely damaged and unable to move, Calvin decided to manually overload the Titan's plasma reactor. The resulting explosion obliterated the Hierophant and all other surrounding Tyranids.
Legio Praetor - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Praetor are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Praetor - Legion Badge: The Legion badge of the Legio Praetor is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Proditor - Legio Proditor: Legio ProditorTraitor Titan LegionRuinous PowersThe Legio Proditor was once a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica who spat on their oaths of fealty and instead pledged their undying loyalty to the ever-changing Chaos God Tzeentch.
Legio Proditor - Notable Campaigns: Invasion of the Stygius Sector (Unknown Date.M42) - In the wake of the destruction of the Fortress World of Cadia and the formation of the Great Rift, Tzeentch looked upon his fellow Dark Gods, and grew envious. When he saw Nurgle corrupt the whole Realm of Ultramar, he grew jealous. And so, he sought as ever to conspire against him and to seize systems for his own. So did the Architect of Fate put a million plans in motion. He would lay claim to the Stygius Sector, located in the Segmentum Obscurus, near the Eye of Terror first. The Legio Proditor were a part of this large Tzeentchian war host, charged by their manipulative god, with invading the Stygius Sector. Comprised of eleven different army groups, the Chaos forces wove a pattern of attacks and advances that was well-coordinated and seamless. Guided by mighty Sorcerers and oracles, it was not long before a new realm in realspace was carved out for Tzeentch.
Legio Proditor - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Proditor - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Proditor - Legion Colours: This Traitor Titan Legion's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Proditor - Legion Badge: This Traitor Titan Legion's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Serpentes - Legio Serpentes: The Legio Serpentes is a Traitor Titan Legion in the service of the Ruinous Powers.
Legio Serpentes - Notable Campaigns: Fall of Uraniborg 1572 (Unknown Date.M41) - When the Forge World of Uraniborg 1572 was attacked by a large Dark Mechanicum host led by the Heretek Votheer Tark, the formerly Loyalist Legio Serpentes turned upon their Adeptus Mechanicus masters, and helped their Heretic allies take the Forge World with little resistance in only a matter of solar days. The fallen planet was re-dedicated to the Chaos Gods and now serves as a Hell-Forge of the Dark Mechanicum.
Legio Serpentes - Notable Titans: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Serpentes - Notable Personnel: None listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Serpentes - Legion Colours: This Traitor Titan Legion's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Serpentes - Legion Badge: This Traitor Titan Legion's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Sirius - Legio Sirius: The Legio Serius was a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica that hailed from the Forge World of Lokabrenna.
Legio Sirius - Notable Campaigns: Exploration of the Halo Scar (Unknown Date.M41) - The Legio Sirius was a part of the Explorator fleet of Magos Lexell Kotov, and his expedition into the region of space known as the Halo Scar located beyond the Halo Worlds. The magos was intent on following the footsteps of the Radical Magos Telok, who had previously made the foolhardy expedition himself, but never returned. Thousands of Terran years later, the ambitious Kotov was bound and determined to seek out the so-called "Breath of the Gods" -- a mysterious arcane device said to have the power to unmake and reshape the very stars themselves. With the might of the god-engines of the Legio Serius, the Astra Militarum and the Space Marines of the zealous Black Templars Chapter augmenting his own forces, he searched for hidden clues which would lead him to the greatest power that the galaxy had ever known.
Legio Sirius - Notable Titans: Lupa Capitalina (Warlord-class Titan)Canis Ultrica (Reaver-class Titan)Armarok (Warhound-class Titan)Vilka (Warhound-class Titan)
Legio Sirius - Notable Personnel: Arlo Luth, "The Wintersun" - Princeps of the Warlord Titan Lupa Capitalina.Marko Koskinen - Moderatus of the Lupa Capitalina.Lars Rosten - Moderatus of the Lupa Capitalina.Magos Hydrith - Tech-priest of the Lupa Capitalina.Eyks Skálmöld, "The Moonsorrow" - Princeps of the Reaver Titan Canis Ulfrica.Tobias Osara - Moderatus of the Canis Ulfrica.Joakim Baldul - Moderatus of the Canis Ultrica.Magos Ohtar - Tech-Priest of the Canis Ulfrica.Gunnar Vintras, "The Skinwalker" - Princeps of the Warhound Titan Amarok.Elias Häarkin, "The Ironwoad" - Princeps of the Warhound Titan Vilka.
Legio Sirius - Legion Colours: The colours of the Legio Sirius are not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Sirius - Legion Badge: The badge of the Legio Sirius is not listed in current Imperial records.
Legio Solaria - Legio Solaria: The Legio Solaria ("Imperial Hunters") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Legio Solaris is based on the Forge World of Tigrus and its personnel are overwhelmingly female, a tradition established at the Legio's founding.This Titan Legion has a reputation for swift vanguard actions and devastating spearhead attacks. During the Great Crusade, the Legio Solaria was often at the forefront of assaults upon rebel and alien worlds, its hunting packs of Warhound Titans running the enemy to ground or acting as scouting maniples for their brother Legios.Imperial Hunters princeps are wolfish in the application of their maniples, and are mistresses of misdirection and the quick kill.Since the days of the Horus Heresy, the Legio holds a particular grudge against the Traitor Titan Legion of the Legio Vulpa. Even after ten thousand years, most princeps of the Legio Solaria relish any chance to face their old foes.The Legio Solaria is known to use Scout Titan hunting packs to bring foes to heel, allowing its Warhound-class Scout Titan squadrons to contain additional Titans, and replacing Reaver-class Titans with Warhounds in many maniples.The Legion's combat doctrine also focused on speed and fury, such as their notable tactic known as the "Spear of Tigrus." Keeping on the move was second nature to this Legion's princeps, who lived by the axiom, "A moving blade cannot be broken."
Legio Solaria - Horus Heresy: Much of the Titan Legion's initial efforts to resist the Warmaster Horus and his allies were focused on the Beta-Garmon cluster. It was there that the Great Mother committed the principal strength of the Legio Solaris, intent upon denying the Traitors access to the wider Segmentum Solar.The unfolding conflict claimed the lives of dozens of Imperial Hunters Titans and eventually the life of Mohana Mankata VI herself, who fell in battle against the Traitor Titan Legions and the foul powers of the Warp they unleashed.The Beta-Garmon campaign proved a turning point for the Legio Solaria, their numbers vastly reduced and the survivors deprived of the constant leadership they had enjoyed since their founding.As Horus marched on Terra, the Legio Solaria fragmented, its number scattering across the galaxy during the frantic retreat from Beta-Garmon.Many were to find their way to Terra under command of Esha Ani Mohana, the Great Mother's second-in-command, standing proud behind the walls of Terra in defiance of the approaching Traitors.The remaining numbers of the Legio Solaria drifted across the stars, small battlegroups commanded by senior princeps awarded field command fighting on dozens of worlds, each striving to return once more to Tigrus and reunite with their sisters.
Legio Solaria - At Present: The Imperial Hunters are a proud Titan Legion whose culture bears many resemblances to those of the many Knight Worlds of the Imperium. The Legio's princeps are often recruited from their homeworld's nobility and as a consequence, many of the customs of the Imperial aristocracy can readily be found within the Imperial Hunters.This attitude -- some would call it arrogance -- is bred into them following their induction into the Legio, including an aristocratic disdain for the "lower classes," even when said "lower classes" belong to other Legios of the Collegia Titanica.However, this attitude also favours the Legio's integration into other battlegroups and Imperial Crusades, as the Imperial Hunters manifest none of the typical detachment prone to Adeptus Mechanicus-related military formations.For instance, the Imperial Hunters' command structure does not include the position of executor fetial common to many Titan Legions, as each princeps and moderatus is well-versed in all manner of social etiquette.Few of their number choose to be permanently submerged in an amniotic tank, and the princeps of the Imperial Hunters often use rejuvenat treatments to maintain an impeccable appearance. During victory celebrations, members of the Imperial Hunters are usually raucous and loud, indulging food and drink with visible gusto.The Imperial Hunters are immensely proud of their history and do not take slights to their honour lightly. They often can be obstinate to the point of overweening pride, but their combat abilities and courage cannot be denied.The Legio Solaria is served by House Procon Vi, a Knight House of the Questor Mechanicus that has long served the Imperial Hunters as vassals.
Legio Solaria - Legion Combat Doctrine: The tactics of the Legio Solaria favour hunting packs and swift-moving warfare, with many of the Legio's maniples made up of Reaver and Warhound Titans. The role of Warlords within the Imperial Hunters is often that of an anvil upon which the enemies of the Legion are smashed by the hammer of its lighter Titans.A favoured trick of the Legio Solaria was to use Knights and Warhounds to lure enemies into the guns of its larger Titans, enemies seeking easy kills realising too late that they opened themselves up to annihilation.Legio Solaria Warhound wolf packs can bring down even the largest prey. As a result, they often field larger numbers of Warhounds and are much better versed in coordinating their actions.The Imperial Hunters are also famed for their skills at obfuscation on the battlefield. Often, smaller Titans will hide in the energy shadows of their larger sisters, shifting position unseen by the enemy.
Legio Solaria - Legion Specific Wargear: Fortis Motivators - Warhound Titans used by the Legio Solaria are some of the most formidable of all the Titan Legions. Speed and mobility are especially coveted traits by the Tigrus faction of the Mechanicus, and their Titans are modified with many redundancies and reinforcements to keep them moving.Cameleoline Shrouding - During the Horus Heresy, the tech-priests of Tigrus unearthed many ancient and forbidden technologies in their efforts to aid the armies of the Emperor. Among these were the cameleoline shrouds, layers of light-refractive cloth that could be stretched across the armour plates of a Battle Titan. While they were never fully implemented, many princeps used these shrouds to great effect in some of the pivotal battles of the Horus Heresy.
Legio Solaria - Legion Fleet: Currus Venatores — A mass conveyor transport vessel that carries the Legion's Titans between worlds.Tantamon — A Titan-conveying transport active during the Horus Heresy.
Legio Solaria - Post-Heresy Personnel: Arel Syagrius (KIA) - A scion of the noble Syagrius family whose members have served within the Imperial Hunters for many standard millennia, Marshal Arel Syagrius was the commanding officer of the Imperium's forces on Khania and Katara. Arel Syagrius was one of the youngest princeps to attain the rank of Marshal in the history of the Imperial Hunters. His features have been described as aquiline, which is no surprise, considering the small fortune he invested in rejuvenat treatments which kept him in prime condition. He chose to bear a single scar as a reminder of his many battlefield wounds, a thin white line on his forehead he wore with as much pride as the greatest medal. Arel Syagrius was the very model of an Imperial Hunters' princeps: fair, noble, courageous and even reckless in battle. As an aristocrat himself, he was ill at ease when someone dared to question his decisions, a fact that led to great tensions between his own Demi-legio and that of the Pallidus Mor he was supposed to cooperate with. Marshal Syagrius typically led from the front, frequently challenging enemy opponents into duels where his personal machine, the Warlord-class Titan Augustus Secutor, could blast the enemy at point-blank range with its Sunfury Pattern Plasma Annihilator. Despite the supreme confidence he had in his own skills as a princeps and a commander, during his last days Marshal Arel Syagrius was plagued with self-doubt. The enemy he was fighting against had outmaneuvered him at every turn, making him regret not having listened to his allies' advice for caution. Arel Syagrius died on Katara during the great Battle of Hive Therimachus, alongside most of the demi-Legio he had led in a suicidal charge against the Iron Skulls.Messina Lucretus (KIA) - Princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Primum Victor. Killed during the Battle of Hive Therimachus.Spinther (KIA) - Princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Magnificum Virum. Killed during the Battle of Hive Therimachus.Carrinas - Princeps Carrinas was the princeps of the Reaver-class Titan Nobilis Arma, the highest-ranking Imperial Hunters officer still alive at the end of the campaign on Katara. Though initially a fervent supporter of Marshal Syagrius, Princeps Carrinas was deeply impressed with the determination and tenacity he had witnessed during his time with the Legio Pallidus Mor.Cavellus (KIA) - Princeps of the Warhound Titan Triumphum Canes. Killed during the Battle of Hive Therimachus.Moderatus Majoris Rekorus — Moderatus of Warlord Titan Augustus Secutornowiki></nowiki>'s Sunfury Pattern Plasma Annihilator.Moderatus Majoris Trovalis — Moderatus of Augustus Secutor's Lascannon.Moderatus Velor BalventiusMagos Tsenzhor — Tech-priest operator of the Augustus Secutor's auspex suite.Magos Prendivian — Tech-priest operator of the Augustus Secutor's Void Shields.
Legio Solaria - Vassal Knight Houses: House Procon Vi
Legio Solaria - Knight Houses: House CadmusHouse HyperionHouse KonorHouse MegronHouse Vyronii
Legio Solaria - Space Marines: Blood AngelsDark AngelsIron HandsSpace WolvesUltramarinesWhite Scars
Legio Solaria - Legion Strength: Numerous descriptions of the Legio Solaria's tactical strength make note of the increased number of Warhound-class Scout Titans within its ranks, which far outnumbered that of any other Titan class.Such instances were rare amongst Titan Legions and a census of the Legio Solaria's strength prior to its deployment to the Beta-Garmon cluster recorded a total of 104 god-engines of which 61 were Warhound class, marking it as a Secundus-grade Legio.It should be noted that the strength mustered in the Beta-Garmon System was not the sole battlegroup of the Legio Solaria and several other Imperial Hunters battlegroups, of considerably smaller size, were unable to join up with the principal strength of the Titan Legion due to the effects of the Ruinstorm.The Legio Solaris also held close bonds with the Knight house of Procon Vi, which hailed from the same world as the Great Mother. Over two dozen household banners were assembled alongside the Legio Solaria at the Beta-Garmon cluster, enhancing the Titan Legion's strength and tactical flexibility.
Legio Solaria - Legion Colours: The colours of the Imperial Hunters are pale mottled green, white and red.
Legio Solaria - Legion Badge: The Legion badge is a winged claw, as depicted upon their banners and armoured Titan hulls, which tells a tale of oaths and allegiances between the Forge World of Tigrus and the Imperium.The claw is adapted from the holy symbol of Pahkmetris, the huntress goddess of Procon, sister world of Tigrus, and from whom the Imperial Hunters draw their informal name.Such pagan superstitions are seldom tolerated within the Imperium, however, and so when the allegiance between the Imperial Hunters and the Emperor was made, the wings of the Aquila were added to show the bonds between them.Below the icon of the Legio, campaign honours and oaths of alliance are often shown, such as a star map depicting the warzones fought in by an individual Titan. Below this is the signum nobilis, or symbol of rank, that records the Titan's place within its maniple.
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Legio Suturvora - Legio Suturvora: The Legio Suturvora, or as it later became more commonly and widely known during the latter stages of the Great Crusade, the Legio Infernus ("Fire Masters"), is a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicum that repudiated its members' oaths to the Emperor of Mankind and followed the Warmaster Horus into the service of the Ruinous Powers of Chaos during the Horus Heresy.The Fire Masters were an active and much renowned Titan Legion with an enviable record at the forefront of the wars to reclaim the galaxy for Humanity.Its first loyalty, however, was always to the overlords of Mars, a home from which it had been all but exiled since the first days of the Emperor's wars of conquest and liberation.So it was that when the Horus Heresy came and Kelbor-Hal, Fabricator-General of Mars, threw in his lot with the Arch-traitor Horus, the Legio did not hesitate in joining the Warmaster's cause alongside their lord.It would be a fateful decision that would see them wielded as a weapon against their erstwhile comrades at the Battle of Calth when the Word Bearers Legion struck their blow against Primarch Roboute Guilliman' Ultramarines Legion and its allies, and it would cost the Legio Suturvora dearly.Caught up as a pawn in a war of powers they could not comprehend or control, the Legio Suturvora would suffer dire injury and loss which would wound them for the rest of the war, and see them eventually turn even on their own Traitor kin before the Heresy came to an end, never to see the red sands of their birth world again.At the conclusion of the Heresy, the Fire Masters, along with the Traitor Legions, were driven towards the Eye of Terror along with the rest of the forces of Chaos.Their current whereabouts are unknown, though they did participate in the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41, providing support to the servants of Chaos engaged in combat on the Fortress World of Cadia.