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[[Image:Imperator_Titan_Dominatus.jpg|thumb|right|The Dominatus]]
The '''Dominatus''' was is an [[Imperator Titan]] that fell in battle against the forces of [[Chaos]], during the [[Imperium]]'s failed defense of the planet [[Lorn V]]. As the planet fell into Chaos' grip, the Dominatus lay broken and forgotten for millenia{{Fn|1a}} until the Imperium sent the [[Cadian 412th]] [[Imperial Guard Regiment]], led by [[General]] [[Sturnn]], to retrieve it{{Fn|1b}}. With the aid of [[Farseer]] [[Taldeer]] and her forces, who had their own goal to achieve{{Fn|1c}}, General Sturnn's Guardsmen fought their way through both the [[Chaos Lord]] [[Crull]]'s [[Blood Legion of Khorne]] warband and the [[Orks]] of [[Warboss]] [[Gorgutz 'Ead 'Unter]], to reach the final resting place of the Titan{{Fn|1d}}. There the [[Eldar]] would betray the [[Imperial Guard]], reaching the Dominatus before them and powering it with a powerful soulstone; to fight their ancient enemies the [[Necron]], which had begone to emerge from beneath Lorn V's surface.{{Fn|1e}}
Despite her betrayal Taldeer convinced General Sturnn to aid them in fighting the Necrons; as the Eldar fired the Dominatus' weapons repeatably into their advancing [[Monolith]]s - defeating the Necrons. Unfortunately, the Dominatus' long neglected systems could not handle the power of the Eldar's soulstone and it overloaded the Titan's power core. The Dominatus's internals started to explode, the Titan's lights once again fading, and the machine became dormant once again.{{Fn|1e}} General Sturnn and the 412th were then gunned down by the Eldar troops, before the Eldar fled into the Webway once again. What few survivors of the Regiment made it off world spread word of the Farseer's treachery and to this day, the 412th's banner bears a black ribbon to mark their failure in recovering the Dominatus.{{Fn|2}} While the Titan was not fully destroyed, the damage sustained by the destruction of its power core and the defeat of the troops sent to secure it resulted in the Titan once again being declared "lost" to the Imperium.{{Fn|1e}}{{Fn|2}}
