Titan Legios

The Titan Legios are one of the most ancient pillars of the Mechanicum, the Collegia Titanica, which operates the mighty Titans - massive, bipedal war-machines with weapons able to level entire districts, and protected by armour and void shields capable of shrugging off attacks from all but the heaviest of foes. During the Great Crusade, the Titan Legios were made up of uncountable hosts of such deadly walkers, fighting 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 Mankind since long before the Age of Strife, their origins lost in the Dark Age of Technology. The Legios themselves came into being on Mars during the anarchy of Old Night, when the fabled 'Triad Ferrum Morgulus' was established. This trio of nascent Orders consisted of the Legio Tempestus, Legio Mortis and Legio lgnatum, and while all three stood against the horrors of Old Night, from ravening xenos to thinking-machine aberrations, they were just as equally likely to fight one another; for each served the interests of its home Forge above all else, so that throughout the long age of anarchy, rivalries were established that much later would bear bitter fruit indeed.

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 Five Ruins. From the very outset, Traitor Titans saw service in the very earliest battles of the Ruins. The Collegia Titanica was split asunder by the wars 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, Loyalist or Separatist 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.