Legio Ignatum - Origins: The Legio Ignatum boasts a proud lineage that few other Titan Legions can match, for they are one of the Triad Ferrum Morgulus, the first three Titan Legions to be raised upon Mars, which also included the Legio Mortis and the Legio Tempestus.Originating in the Age of Strife, they were, according to the legends of the Martian Lexmechanics, one of the three originating Titan Legions created by the besieged Cult Mechanicus during the bloody wars to take back the Red Planet from the degenerate hordes of Cy-carnivora and mutant scavers that had overwhelmed Mars after the fall.It is by the fire of their weapons and the steel of their resolve that Mars was safeguarded through the long years of the Age of Strife for, by their ancient oath, while any warrior of Ignatum still stood no harm would come to those places left in their charge.It is this stubborn defiance, the bitter intransigence in the face of impossible odds, that would be the cornerstone of the Legio Ignatum's fame, for never in the history of that Order had they chosen to retreat in the face of the enemy.This ironclad loyalty was to be both a blessing and a terrible curse -- at once the pride of the Legio and also the reason for their exile and near-destruction at the dawn of the Horus Heresy.Where the warriors of the Legio Mortis and Legio Tempestus knew no creed other than death and destruction, the Titans of Ignatum often came to the aid of those isolated forge cities all but overrun by the monsters that roamed Mars. Many of these lesser forges would pledge fealty to the Legio Ignatum's masters, seeking to gain in  perpetuity the indefatigable protection of those warriors and their Titans.Only in defence of their forge-fanes were the warriors of Ignatum truly roused to open anger, boiling forth to give battle with a ferocious zeal when those fastnesses were threatened. To those who dared to trespass upon the ground they had sworn to defend, they offered none of the courtesy for which they were otherwise known.On many occasions, the princeps of the Legio Mortis would mistake the forbearance of Ignatum for weakness and seek to dominate them by force, only to be met with defiant fury, and many credit the principal reason why the otherwise rapacious warriors of Mortis did not fully conquer Mars to the steadfast valour of the Legio Ignatum.From this came their cognomen, the "Fire Wasps" -- named for the ancient insect predator of Old Earth whose nests none would dare defile lest they woke the beasts slumbering within.With the coming of the Emperor to the Red Planet and the signing of the Treaty of Mars, the Titan Legions that made up the Triad Ferrum Morgulus would be granted new roles in the unified Mechanicum.Where the Legio Mortis were bound to be a tool of utter destruction brought down upon Mars' foes and the Legio Tempestus were crusaders carrying Mars' will to the stars, the Legio Ignatum became the protectors of the Mechanicum.The Fire Wasps would stand sentinel over the domains of Mars, both the sacred fanes of the Red Planet and those key installations scattered across the Segmentum Solar and beyond.For much of the Great Crusade, they would fight only in defence of those worlds reclaimed in the name of the Mechanicum, fending off xenos incursions and crushing rebellions among the thralls.Among the most famous of their battles was the defence of Ultrecht Magni, one of the first worlds invaded by the Orkoid warlord Urlakk Urg and the beginning of the campaign that would culminate in a historic battle on the world of Ullanor. There, on the very edges of the Segmentum Solar, a dozen Titans of the Legio Ignatum stood sentinel over the seed of a new Forge World sown at the edges of the Red Planet's domain.Perhaps seeking to reap the wealth of technology within the enclave's walls, Urlakk Urg would unleash his hordes against them as part of a wave of conquest, the last desperate onslaught of the only remaining Orkoid empire of note within the borders of the early Imperium.More than a hundred lumbering Orkoid scrap-constructs led the assault, backed by uncounted swarms of crude gun platforms, a force large enough that the defenders could never hope to withstand them unaided.Indeed, the warriors of the Fire Wasps would not win glory in victory, but would instead be immortalised for their heroics in defeat. Over the course of four long solar days of fighting, the 12 princeps would sell their lives and their Titans dearly, stubbornly refusing to abandon the defence and evacuate their Titans while any of the ground crews remained at their stations.The Warlord-class Titan Perditus Existimamur was the last to fall, its final battle captured on pict by the evacuating magi, its guns firing even as the shambling Orkoid monsters pulled it down. When the Legio Ignatum took the field at Ullanor, to see the final end of Urlakk Urg, it was to the fanfare of the war horns of those Titans gathered, a salute to the fallen and a call for vengeance.