Legio Honorum - Origins: Much of the Legio Honorum's history lies with the Great Crusade, for the Titan Legion was founded only three solar decades before the Emperor set foot upon Mars and secured an agreement between Terra and the ancient Mechanicum in the Treaty of Mars.The founding of the "Death Bolts," to give the Titan Legion the cognomen assigned to it on creation, was driven by the desire held by many on Mars to spread the reach of the Red Planet elsewhere across the galaxy.It was with this goal in mind that the Legio Honorum was created, not to serve as warders of the Red Planet but rather conquerors of distant stars. Thus, when the Emperor presented His dream of the Great Crusade the Death Bolts were well-prepared to depart alongside His expeditionary fleets.Though forged on Mars, the Red Planet offered no support beyond that of the legacy it had imparted the Legio Honorum and semi-regular shipments of Titans intended to replenish any losses the Legio suffered.In this manner, the Death Bolts became an exemplar of a so-called "crusading Legio," a term applied to those Titan Legions that stood not as guardians over a specific Forge World but instead committed the entirety of its strength to expanding the Imperium's borders.This constant state of warfare proved untenable after solar decades of continuous service, as the attrition of unceasing war threatened to condemn  the Legio Honorum to extinction.After repeated missives to Mars demanding further supplies of god-engines, an alternative was suggested whereby the Legio Honorum was granted rights to stewardship over a planet for every 30 worlds they brought to Imperial Compliance.Such a method was not without its flaws, and there existed no ratified criteria for measuring the level of participation during Compliance for the individual elements of an expeditionary fleet. This circumstance made the process of assigning feudal rights to the Legio Honorum an arduous process involving extensive reviews of campaign records, dictations and reports from the presiding commanders of each war zone in which the Death Bolts served and judgement of numerous appeals, be those against the awarding of rights or for.Such political wrangling happened beyond the sight of the Legio Honorum, who cared for little but their duty, an attitude that would gain the Death Bolts great praise from those they served alongside. Indeed, so great were the victories of the Legio Honorum that, by the onset of the Great Crusade, its battlegroups had gained rights to at least four domains, while two more lay pending following assessment of the legitimacy of the Death Bolts' conquest.In this manner, through the holdings of the Legio Honorum, was the reach of Mars expanded, while providing a network of safe harbours upon which the Death Bolts could construct a series of forge-fortresses capable of sustaining its numbers.Devoid of a Forge World to call their own, the Legio Honorum made their hearth within the war machine of the Imperium, and it was there, embedded within the workings of the expeditionary fleets, that great changes were wrought upon the Death Bolts' demeanour.The most notable of all changes became the creed the Titan Legion's princeps soon followed. Though the teachings of the Mechanicum still held strong, and the adherence to the rites and rituals associated with the maintenance of a god-engine never changed, a measure of emotion took root within the ranks of the Death Bolts.