Legio Interfector

The Legio Interfector is a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicus that repudiated their oaths to the Emperor of Mankind and followed Warmaster Horus into the service of the Ruinous Powers during the Horus Heresy. There is very little information in Imperial records about this Titan Legion's founding and homeworld, though it is believed that they were founded before the Age of the Imperium during the Age of Strife.

Legion History
The Legio Interfector are known to have supported an effort made by the Word Bearers splinter warband, the Foresworn, led by the Daemon Prince Kor Megron, to topple the Shrine World of Eydolim. During the days of the Great Crusade, a company of the Word Bearers Legion under the command of Kor Megron was stationed on the world to assist human colonists in settling the planet. As was customary for them, the Word Bearers spread amongst the populace the belief that the Emperor of Mankind was a god incarnate -- a creed directly conflicting the atheistic Imperial Truth, which was the official philosophy of the Imperium. When the company turned to the worship of Chaos along its Legion, Kor Megron and his followers swore that their great work would not be complete until every last icon of the false Emperor was cast down and the Imperium itself no more than a distant memory. Each sealed this pact with blood and they anointed themselves as the Foresworn.

They continued on this quest throughout millenia, though their greatest goal had always eluded them -- the undoing of the magnificent works they had done on Eydolim in their former veneration of the Emperor, slaughtering all who stand in their way. To this end, the Foresworn assembled a force of several Chaos Space Marine warbands -- the Red Corsairs, splinters from the Black Legion, the Iron Warriors and the World Eaters Legions, and as secured the support of Dark Mechanicus Traitor Titans. The Iron Warriors and Red Corsairs forces set to strike at Lector's Lowell, a Forge World located in the same system as Eydolim, hoping to plunder the vast resources of the weaponariums for which the planet is rightly famed. The forge-masters were aware of the incoming assault, and rallied their Skitarii regiments to defend the world. Soon after the Chaos Space Marines made planetfall, however, it became apparent that the Forge World stood little chances, as the Heretics were supported by the Traitor Titans of the Legio Interfector. Lector's Lowell was in dire straits.

In response to the attacks carried out throughout the system, a sizable portion of Crusade Group Black Gate was diverted from its original assignment to support Imperial efforts in the Damocles Gulf Crusade to defend the world of Eydolim. Units of the contingent, including nine regiments of Cadian Shock Troops, as well as smaller dispositions of other Imperial Guard regiments bolstered the undermanned Planetary Defence Force, and its grateful marshal offered overall command to the far more experienced Cadian officer, who accepted the commission with humility. Eventually, the Chaos Space Marines made planetfall, and steadily pushed Imperial forces back, overcoming all resistance, until they finally reached the capital city of the world. Outmatched at every turn, the defenders looked to the heavens in desperation -- and beheld a miracle. The Scions of Ultramar had arrived.

While fighting the aliens of the Tau Empire, the Ultramarines Second Company and a force of First Company Veterans accompanying them received orders from their Chapter Master, Marneus Calgar, to relocate to Eydolim. Captain Cato Sicarius, with barely disguised enthusiasm, hastily diverted his force. Aboard the Strike Cruiser, Valin's Revenge, the Ultramarines prepared to face their Traitor brethren. As the Heretics swarmed towards Eydol City, the Space Marines deployed their entire stength to support the Imperial Guard. First contact between the Ultramarines forces and the Traitors took place in the munitorum district outside Eydol City. A small task force led by Epistolary Casmus daringly assaulted Chaos Titans of the Legio Interfector which brazenly strode into the urbanised area, succeeding in destroying one of these towering machines, in addition to damaging several others. This task force retreated only when a unit of the Red Corsairs moved to clear them out.

The two forces proceeded to clash in the climactic engagement of the campaign, the Battle of Eagle Gate. Eagle Gate was the sentinel of Eydol's east road, the central point of an imposing curtain wall. Reinforced with plascrete and bristling with automated turrets, it was a redoubt which no attacker had penetrated in the past, and yet during the Battle of Eagle Gate it was breached in several places -- long range bombardment tearing holes in its right flank, Titans of the Legio Interfector blasting great chunks from the walls on the left flank, and Khornate Space Marines supported by the Foresworn hurling the gates themselves open.

At the end, the wrath of the Foresworn and their allies was halted before the Gate of Martyrs -- the great eastern portal of Eydol City. There, the remnants of the Imperial forces made their last stand as Kor Megron hurled himself at the defenders, anxious to slaughter them all. Cato Sicarius stood defiantly before him as the Daemon Prince brought his weapon down in foul sweeps, battering the Space Marine Captain with such ferocity that his knees buckled and his finely crafted power sword was notched and chipped. Kor Megron stomped Sicarius to the ground and raised his weapon triumphantly. The final blow never came, however, as a lone Imperial guardsman, upon witnessing the dire straits the Captain was in, hurled himself at the daemonic monstrosity careless for his own safety, and pierced the Word Bearer's flesh with his bayonet. Kor Megron turned his attention to the brave soldier, and burned his body in burst of Warpflame. This distraction allowed Sicarius to act, andhe hastily thrusted his sword upwards, piercing the Daemon Prince's breastplate and driving the blade into his corrupted heart. With a deafening scream, Kor Megron was banished to the Warp.

Stunned and dazzled by the loss of their leader, and worn to breaking point by the defenders, the Chaos forces began to fall back. For the Imperium, a reprieve had been bought at great cost. For the Legions of Chaos, there would be another reckoning...

Notable Campaigns

 * Iconoclasm of Eydolim (946.M41) - The Legio Interfector supported the Foresworn splinter warband of the Word Bearers Legion in their quest to raze the Shrine World of Eydolim, which they helped to create millenia ago, in the days of the Great Crusade. The Murder Lords took part in a number engagements throughout the campaign, including an invasion of the Forge World Lector's Lowell, and the final assault on Eydol City.

Notable Titans

 * Sin of Commission - A Warlord-class Titan, one of the Legion's Titans supporting the Iron Warriors and Red Corsairs warbands in their attack on the Forge World Lector's Lowell, which was a stepping stone to the eventual invasion of the Shrine World Eydolim. The presence of Traitor Titans rendered the forge-masters of the world hopeless, as the Skitarii regiments available to them could not possibly fend off the God Machines.
 * Soulmauler - A Reaver-class Titan which was destroyed in the munitorum district outside of Eydol City, the capital of Eydolim, by Space Marines of the Ultramarines second company. Several other Titans, amongst them the Purge Master, had been crippled by similar assaults.

Notable Personnel
None listed in current Imperial records.

Legion Colours
The colours of the Legio Interfector are dark red with decorations in bronze.

Legion Badge
The Legio Interfector's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.