Legio Metallum Armaturum
| Legion Info | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Legio Metallum Armaturum |
| Alternative name: | Unknown |
| Affiliation: | Chaos |
| Founded: | Unknown |
| Forge World: | Unknown |
| Colours: | Unknown |
| Strength: | Unknown |
The Legio Metallum Armaturum were a Traitor Titan Legion of Chaos.
History
During the 4th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler, the Adeptus Mechanicus enclave on the moon of Crucible was vulnerable; their Titan army was on the verge of readiness but the Araken System, which Crucible was a part of, had become cut off. The Chaos fleets were driving back the Imperial forces and it was only a matter of time before the Achilles Subsector was subsumed by the Arch-Fiend's forces. The Mechanicus on Crucible had to do something, otherwise the Despoiler's forces would seize the Titans and consecrate them to their own fell purposes. In desperation, the technomagi began to devise some way to hide Crucible from Abaddon's forces. Instead, their experimentation created the Warpstorm Araken which consumed Crucible.[1a]
Millennia later, during the 13th Black Crusade, a joint Iron Hands/Adeptus Mechanicus task force journeyed to the newly rediscovered moon to retrieve the Iron Clads. In pursuit were a Word Bearers host, also in search of the Iron Clads, led by the Dark Apostle, the Iscariot.[1b] The task force made their way to the enclave, with the Word Bearers in pursuit. The Iron Father Anatolus Gdolkin led the Iron Hands and Skitarii in defense of the Titan Legion, while Magos Thule and his tech-adepts attempted to bring the Imperator Deus Mortem online. During the battle, the Word Bearers host wore down the defenders until only a few Iron Hands remained. The Iron Hands retreated to the Imperator allowing the Word Bearers to invade, bring the other Titans in the Legio online.[1c]
With time running out, Magos Thule interacted with the Deus Mortem's spirit. In an instant, Magos Thule learned at last what a terrible toll the millennia of exposure to Warpstorm Araken had wrought upon the Legio Metallum Armaturum. Over the long centuries, the holy wards protecting the god-engines had been broken down, eaten away and possessed by the insidious evil of the warp. The Magos' mind was destroyed, and the Iscariot and his Word Bearers invaded the Deus Mortem and began fighting the Iron Hands. During his battle with Gdolkin, the Iscariot became impaled upon the princeps throne and somehow merged with the possessed Deus Mortem.[1d] The Iscariot/Titan began moving and firing its weapons, while the surviving Iron Hands escaped the Imperator and teleported to their ship, the Ajax, in space. There they had the Ajax perform an Exterminatus on the moon, destroying both the corrupted Legio and the Word Bearers host at once.[1e]
