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Titus had served the [[Ultramarines]] for one hundred and fifty years and had led the [[2nd Company (Ultramarines)|2nd Company]] for ten, when he was sent to [[Graia Invasion|defend]] [[Graia]] from the [[Ork]] [[Waaagh!]] of [[Warboss]] [[Grimskull]]. The [[203rd Cadian]] [[Regiment]] as well, but it suffered heavy losses and its remnants came under the command of [[Imperial Guard Lieutenant|2nd Lieutenant]] [[Mira]], who was its last surviving officer. During the battle, Titus mainly fought beside Brother [[Leandros]] and his close friend and confident [[Veteran Sergeant]] [[Sidonus]], who each served in the Captain's [[Space Marine Command Squad|Command Squad]]. As they fought against Grimskull's Waaagh!, Titus personally led the two on a mission to secure one of Graia's [[Imperial Titan]] [[manufactorum]]s, as well as in assisting 2nd Lt. [[Mira]] against the Orks. The three Ultramarines were later diverted by a message from [[Inquisitor]] [[Drogan]], who asked for their assistance in retrieving the power source of an experimental [[Warp]]-powered weapon, the [[Psychic Scourge]]. The Captain agreed to do so, but after they fought their way through the Orks to reach it, Titus was directly exposed to the power source's Warp energy. To everyone's surprise he survived the encounter, though this quickly raised suspicions within Drogan and Leandros. Then upon traveling to Drogan's laboratory to use the Scourge, the Ultramarines were betrayed by Drogan, who used the weapon to open a [[Warp Rift]] on Graia. In truth, the Inquisitor had been possessed by a [[Daemon]] all along and from the Warp Rift emerged its master, the [[Chaos Lord]] [[Nemeroth]], and his [[Chosen of Nemeroth]] [[Chaos Warband|Warband]].{{Fn|4}}
This began the [[Chaos]] invasion of [[Graia]] and Titus, [[Sidonus]] and [[Leandros]] fought their way to a nearby [[Imperial Titan]] hangar, with the [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] slaying [[Warboss]] [[Grimskull]] while en route. After arriving in the hangerhangar, Titus commandeered the [[Warlord Titan]] ''[[Invictus (Titan)|Invictus]]'' and equipped it with the [[Psychic Scourge]]'s power source in an effort to close the [[Warp Rift]]. He then had the Titan's [[Princep]], [[Enoch (Princeps)|Enoch]], fire upon the Warp Rift, but their efforts failed, as the Warp Rift only became contained. Titus then entrusted the power source to Sidonus to evacuate it to the [[2nd Company (Ultramarines)|2nd Company]]'s [[Strike Cruiser]], the [[Fury of Descent]] for safekeeping, while the Captain and Leandros kept Nemeroth's attacking forces at bay. Sidonus raced towards a landing pad to wait for an aircraft to evacuate him, but the [[Veteran Sergeant]] was ambushed and killed by Nemeroth before he could do so. The Chaos Lord then escaped with the power source, as he intended to use it to become a [[Daemon Prince]]. Titus sought to stop this and left Sidonus' body with Leandros and [[Imperial Guard Lieutenant|2nd Lieutenant]] [[Mira]], as he went to pursue Nemeroth. Titus then interrupted the Chaos Lord's ascension on the top of Graia's orbital spire, before it concluded, by tackling Nemeroth off the spire mid-transformation. The Captain was able to kill the Chaos Lord during their fall and then shattered the Psychic Scourge's power source. The resulting explosion of [[Warp]] energy finally closed the Warp Rift, but once again Titus was left unscathed by its corrupting touch. His resistance to the Warp, though, had caused Leandros to report Titus to the [[Inquisition]] for potential [[heresy]]. This led the Captain to be confronted{{Fn|4}} by the [[Ordo Malleus]] [[Inquisitor]] [[Gerome Thrax]]{{Fn|1}} and Titus allowed himself to be taken into custody, in order to spare the [[2nd Company (Ultramarines)|2nd Company]] and the [[203rd Cadian]] [[Regiment]] from the Inquisition's wrath, as they were affiliated with a potential [[heretic]]. However he would give a few disparaging words to Leandros, before departing from Graia with Thrax.{{Fn|4}}
===Prisoner of the Inquisition===
Once the [[Ultramarines]] became aware of what had occurred to Titus, [[Chapter Master]] [[Calgar]] made repeated requests to the [[Inquisition]] for the [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]]'s return. These were to no avail, however, as Calgar would never receive any replays regarding Titus or [[Inquisitor]] [[Gerome Thrax]]. With his absence though, the [[2nd Company (Ultramarines)|2nd Company]] was left without a Captain and it was decided that [[Cato Sicarius]] would succeed Titus as its new commander.{{Fn|1}} The Ultramarines later erected a statue of Titus in their [[Fortress Monastery]]'s '''Hall of Heroes'''.{{Fn|5}} The missing Captain was also honoured by [[Malum Caedo]], an Ultramarine who went on his own mission to [[Graia]] in order to investigate the fate of a fragment of the [[Psychic Scourge]]'s power source.{{Fn|6}}
