Legio Fortidus

The Legio Fortidus was a Loyalist Titan Legions of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. There is very little information in the Imperial records about this obscure Titan Legion, though they are suspected to have been founded before the Age of the Imperium, sometime during the Age of Strife.

Legion History
At the outset of the Horus Heresy, the Warmaster Horus sent Regulus (an Adeptus Mechanicus representative who had already thrown in his lot with the Warmaster) to Mars to secure the tentative support of the Fabricator-General of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Kelbor-Hal. Regulus convinced the Fabricator-General of the Warmaster's resolve to support increased autonomy for the Mechanicus against the autocratic rule of the Emperor of Mankind. As a show of his appreciation for the Fabricator-General's support, Horus provided information to Kelbor-Hal that allowed the Tech-Priest to open a repository of forbidden knowledge known as the Vaults of Moravec, which the Emperor had ordered sealed.

When this repository was reopened, there was all manner of forbidden arcane knowledge and weaponry that had obviously been tainted by the corrupting influence of Chaos. Soon the corruption spread throughout the forges and temples across the Red Planet as scrap code -- Chaos-contaminated digital source code that was infected with an arcane computer virus. The scrap code infested the logi-stacks and Cogitator (computer) archives of the Adeptus Mechanicus, causing literal Chaos to emerge in any Cogitator system that was networked to one of its infected counterparts. The Fabricator General and his Dark Mechanicum allies used this disruption to marshal the strength of their forces, intent on bringing the rule of Mars firmly under their control. Infected by this vicious scrap code, the Titans of Legio Fortidus met their end when their reactors went critical and exploded, destroying their fortress and eliminating this once-proud Titan Legion from the roster of Loyalist forces.

Notable Campaigns
None recorded in current Imperial records.

Notable Titans
None recorded in current Imperial records.

Notable Personnel
None recorded in current Imperial records.

Legion Colours
The colours of this Titan Legion are unknown.

Legion Badge
Unknown.