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===Early History===
[[Image:YoungDemetrianTitus SecretLevel.jpg|thumb|right|Demetrian Titus as a child.{{Fn|15}}]]
He was born on the [[Ultramar]] [[Agri World]] [[Tarentus]], some eighty years before the [[Battle of Macragge]], and was the only child of a humble family of modest means. {{Fn|1}} Titus was later selected as an [[Aspirant]] by an Ultramarines selector named [[Metaurus]], who remarked that the child had never known fear. Metarus found the child Titus carrying an [[Astartes Combat Knife]] through a battlefield.{{Fn|14}} Titus joined the [[10th Company (Ultramarines)|10th Company]] and excelled at every trial set before him. After becoming a [[Space Marine]],{{Fn|1}} Titus struggled with his temper during his youth,{{Fn|2}} but became a decorated warrior.{{Fn|1}} However in a campaign against the forces of [[Chaos]] he was badly injured slaying a [[Chaos Sorcerer]] who wiped out the rest of his squad. The aftermath of that action led some to question how Titus had survived where the rest of his [[Battle Brothers]] had fallen.{{Fn|2}} More than once since that occurred, Titus was forced to defend his reputation within his Chapter. He overcame these doubts, though, due to his reputation for decisive action and for being a warrior of incredible skill, who always emerged victorious throughout countless battles, despite facing seemingly impossible odds.{{Fn|3b}}
A little more than fifty years later, he joined the Ultramarines' [[2nd Company (Ultramarines)|2nd Company]]. It was led by [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Severus Agemman]] when the [[First Tyrannic War]] began, but the [[Space Marine Company|Company]] was fighting elsewhere when the Ultramarines' [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|Homeworld]], [[Macragge]], was invaded by [[Hive Fleet Behemoth]]. Though the 2nd raced to aid their [[Chapter]], they arrived after victory had been achieved at Macragge and the Company instead joined the [[Imperial]] reinforcements that aided in scouring [[Ultramar]]'s worlds of the [[Hive Fleet]]'s presence. As this occurred, the Ultramarines began to rebuild their devastated Chapter and Agemman was made the Captain of the [[1st Company (Ultramarines)|1st Company]]. The 2nd's [[First Sergeant]], [[Lucian Trajan]], would replace Agemman and Titus became the [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] of his new Captain's [[Space Marine Command Squad|Command Squad]]. Trajan then had Titus lead multiple [[Kill Team Unit]]s as Ultramar was purged of Hive Fleet Behemoth. This allowed Titus to develop his distinctive trait of studying [[Xenos]]' tactics and strategies by fighting them in close-quarters combat. The Sergeant and Trajan would also flourish under the tutelage they received from [[First Captain]] Agemman.{{Fn|1}}
