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==History==
The legion gained great fame during the [[Great Crusade]] at [[Tentrion]]. Other hard-fought battles followed as theTrue Messengers found themselves assignedto the vanguard of a number of [[ExpeditionaryfleetExpedition Fleet]]s, often fighting alongside the [[XVII Legion|XVIIth]] and[[XIII Legion|XIIIth]] [[Legiones Astartes]]. In many campaignsthey found themselves summoned to battlesothers had dubbed impossible, called uponto champion the armies of the Great Crusadeand to bolster flagging morale. Amidst thehowling dust wastes of [[Akeron Cards]] andthe towering cities of [[Benthur]], they foughtwith stoic pride and utter devotion to thecause of the fledgling Imperium, and paid ahigh price in blood and the precious BattleTitans that were the soul of the Titan Legionto achieve victory.
By the dawning of the [[31st Millennium]]the True Messengers had been crippled bythe continuing pace of their deployment,reduced to a third by casualties and withmany of their surviving Titans unable totake to the field due to damage. Though thereputation of the Titan Legion remainedintact, it could ill afford to remain at thetip of the spear of men and machines thatwas the Great Crusade. In recognition ofthe Titan Legion's service and eager to addto the defences of his newly establishedrealm, [[Roboute Guilliman]], [[Primarch]] of theUltramarines, prevailed upon the [[magos]] ofthe newly founded Forge World of Gantz tooffer a new home to the Legio Praesagius.{{Fn|3}}
Staying loyal to the forces of the [[Emperor]] during the [[Horus Heresy]] they defended the population of [[Ithraca]] from the [[Fire Masters]] with the aid of the [[Ultramarines]] during the [[Calth]] campaign.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}