Legio Vulcanum I

The Legio Vulcanum I (Dark Fire) are a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicus that repudiated their oaths to the Emperor of Mankind and followed the Warmaster Horus in service to the Ruinous Powers during the Horus Heresy. There is very little information in Imperial records about this Titan Legion's founding, though it is believed that they were founded before the Age of the Imperium sometime during the Age of Strife. The Legio Vulcanum I hailed from within the Vulcanis System upon the Forge World of Stygies VIII in the Ultima Segmentum, a large moon orbiting a massive ringed gas giant on the outer fringes of the star system

Legion History
Stygies VIII was once home to two Titan Legions, the First and Second Legio Vulcanum. While unusual for a single system to support two Legions it is far from unknown, as Mars itself supports three. Stygies VIII was granted two Legions due to its close proximity to the Eye of Terror and attendant risks of Chaos attack on the Forge World. Most of the brother-Legion’s machines were on crusade with Warmaster Horus when the Horus Heresy began. In a series of bloody surprise attacks, a core of Chaos cultists back on Stygies VIII seized control of the Forge World’s manufactorum facilities. Reduced to a small group of Loyalists, these valiant defenders protected the Temple of Knowledge against the robed cultists and the hastily-improvised berserker machines that they had produced. Expecting to die, the Loyalists were trapped and alone, but their liberation came from an unexpected quarter. On the thirty first day of the siege, the Eldar Craftworld of Saim-Hann sent forces of graceful Titans supported by speeding jetbikes in their hundreds, smashing the Chaos cultists. They did not come to help the mon-keigh, but to deny Chaos a staging post so close to the Eye of Terror. When the Horus Heresy finally ended both the traitorous brother-legions fled into exile within the Eye of Terror. Stygies VIII is now home to a third Titan Legion, the Legio Honorum.

Great Crusades

 * Shi'Hu'Gal Purge (Unknown.M31) - The Legio Vulcanum I & II supported the Night Lords Legion during the infamous xenocidal purge of the Shi'Hu'Gal Dominion during the Great Crusade.
 * Siege of Vraks (813-840.M41) - During the Siege of Vraks, a battlegroup of Chaos Titans belonging to the hated traitors of the Legio Vulcanum I (known in some sources as ‘the Dark Fire’), were seen accompanying the Chaos forces drawn into the steadily escalating conflict. The exact numbers of enemy Titans was not identified, although post-battle reports claimed 14 enemy Titans of Warhound and Reaver class was destroyed during the campaign. If so, then the Legio Vulcanum paid a heavy price for its involvement, and their hated enemies from the loyalist Legio Astorum can claim a famous victory over their ancient enemy.

Notable Titans

 * Venataris Mori - Perhaps the most infamous of the Dark Fire's Titans is the Warhound-Class Titan identified by the Imperial Logos Tactica as an ancient and thrice-cursed war machine named the Venataris Mori, a corrupted Warhound Titan of the Mars pattern, the Mori’s history is known to date back to long before the Horus Heresy and it was said to have accompanied the (then loyal) Night Lords Space Marine Legion on their infamous xenocidal purge of the Shi’hu’gal Dominion; a campaign of such fury and viciousness it remains a legend of the Great Crusade, even after the Warmaster’s betrayal.

Notable Personnel
None recorded in current Imperial records.

Legion Colours
The colours of the Legio Vulcanum I is olive green with details in yellow and black.

Legion Badge
Unknonw. Not recorded in current Imperial records.