Legio Tempestus

The Legio Tempestus is one of the oldest and most esteemed Titan Legions of the Collegia Titanica, one of the military arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus. There is very little information in Imperial records of when the Legion was founded, though it is known that it was raised before the Age of the Imperium, during the Age of Strife. The home of the Legio Tempestus is the Forge World of Orestes in the Segmentum Pacificus. Orestean Mechanicus is noted for its theological distinction between the notions of the Omnissiah and the Emperor, a belief that is upheld by the Legio Tempestus.

Legio History
The Legio Tempestus had been originally founded on Mars, the chief Forge World of the Cult Mechanicus and seat of it's ruling Fabricator General, with the creation of it's first Titan, the Deus Tempestus, during the Age of Strife. The Legio's fortress was one of the earliest established on the surface of Mars in ancient times and was located at Ascraeus Mons, in the Ascraeus Chasmata. Carved within the basalt rock of the volcano, the home of the Legio Tempestus was known as a place of courage and wisdom, a place where warriors of honour came to settle their disputes without violence. The Legion shared this rugged and inhospitable, although highly productive region of Mars with its rival Legion, the Legio Mortis, the fortress of which was located in close proximity, at Pavonis Mons.

Horus Heresy
During the 31st Millennium the climate on Mars was one of discontent. There were tense relations between the various Techno-Magi with sporadic outbreaks of espionage and violence being committed amongst the forges that represented the primary sociopolitical units of Mars. There were even unconfirmed suspicions that the Titan Legions had already secretly chosen sides in case of a potential civil conflict. Princeps Senioris Indias Cavalerio of the Legio Tempestus, known also as the "Stormlord", sought to keep his Legion free from the insidious poison of the Mechanicus' politicking. He believed that the Titan Legions should remain true to their warrior ideals and not be instruments of the Magi's political will, and serve only the interests of the Imperium of Man itself. During the Great Crusade the Legio supported Primarch Roboute Guilliman's Ultramarines Legion. Shortly before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, the Legion took part in the Epsiloid Binary Cluster Campaign, during which the Titan of Princeps Cavalerio had been damaged, forcing him to leave the bulk of the Legio under the command of Princeps Maximus Karania and join the detachment of war engines headed to Mars for repairs. Princeps Cavalerio was scheduled to remain on Mars until all of his Titans were fit.

When the Schism of Mars began during the opening days of the Horus Heresy the Legio Mortis forces, led by Princeps Camulos in the towering Imperator-class Titan Aquila Ignis, moved to threaten the Legio Tempestus stronghold at Ascraeus Mons. The Death's Heads trespassed on Legio Tempestus territory, violating an agreement signed between the two rival Legions several centuries prior. Although the Legio Tempestus had the right to open fire on the offending engines, Princeps Cavalerio dared not do so, as his forces stood no chance against the awesome power of the Imperator Titan, and was also unwilling to be the one to start a shooting war between Titans on the surface of Mars. A stand off between the two forces occured in front of the Ascraeus Chasmata, and although not a single shot had been fired, the Legio Tempestus war engines were struck by a scrapcode attack which caused the death of a number Legio Tempestus personnel onboard the Titans, as well destroyed Princeps Cavalerio's Titan, the Victorix Magna. Following this, the Legio Mortis retreated from Legio Tempestus territory. As a result of the death of his Titan, Cavalerio had to be interred in an amniotic tank, and required a period of readjustment to such a drastically different life. During this time he was deemed unfit to command the Legion, and Princeps Kel Sharaq assumed his duties as acting Princeps Senioris of the Legio Tempestus on Mars.

Princeps Cavalerio slowly recovered while the conflict on the surface of Mars was further aggravated, and although Princeps Sharaq received numerous petitions from Mechanicum Forge Cities asking the Legio Tempestus to walk, he acceded to none, as he believed that such order should come only from the Stormlord himself. Facing their gravest crisis in its long and glorious history, Princeps Senioris Cavalerio felt that warriors of honour and courage should not stand idly by in such times, but act. He assembled his princeps and proclaimed to them that the Legio Tempestus would go to war, with him in command of the Legion's first God Machine, the Deus Tempestus. The Legio Tempestus sallied forth in support of Magma City, a Loyalist forge that stood in defiance of the newly imposed order of the corrupt Fabricator General Kelbor-Hal and his Dark Mechanicus co-conspirators. The forces of the Legio Tempestus stood firm in the face of aggression in the defence of their allies, though they knew they would find their inevitable doom at the hands of their hated rivals of the Legio Mortis. The Legio Tempestus was overwhelmed by the superior numbers and firepower of their rivals. Despite the odds, the Stormlord valiantly led his Legion in the destruction of the Death's Heads' lesser war machines, only to face his own destruction, along with the remainder of his war engines, at the hands of the Imperator-class Titan Aquila Ignis.

There are no records of the Legio Tempestus' further actions throughout the remainder of the Horus Heresy, though it is presumed they continued to fight on. At some point in its history, the Legion had been relocated to the Forge World of Orestes, located in the Segmentum Pacificus. Its most recent action was participation in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, to which its homeworld contributed much war materiel by virtue of its close proximity to the theatre. The Crusade's leading Warmaster's constant requests for supplies and the support of the Legio Tempestus had drained the world of resources and left it weak -- rendering it a perfect target for Archon Urlock Gaur, the commander of the Forces of Chaos in the sector. When the attack finally came, the world was saved only thanks to the support of the Legio Invicta, which was passing nearby on its way to join the forces of the Crusade on the Sabbat front.

Notable Campaigns

 * Epsiloid Binary Cluster Campaign (Unknown Date.M31) - A campaign conducted by the Legio Tempestus alongside Primarch Roboute Guilliman's forces during the Great Crusade against the Orks. The Legion suffered the loss of 6 Titans in the course of fighting, as well as many wounded, including the already battle-scarred Victorix Magna, the towering war machine of The Stormlord himself. Because of the injuries his war engine sustained, Princeps Senioris Cavalerio was forced to return to Mars for repairs, leaving the bulk of the Legion under the command of Princeps Maximus Karania.
 * Schism of Mars (Unkown Date.M31) - When the civil war broke out on Mars, the Legio Tempestus supported the Loyalist Mechanicum forces during the opening days of the Horus Heresy, defying the traitorous Fabricator General Kelbor-Hal and his Dark Mechanicum. They fought a major engagement at the Loyalist forge known as the Magma City against their bitter rivals, the Traitor Legio Mortis. The Stormlord valiantly led his Legion in the destruction of the Death's Heads' lesser war machines, only to face his own destruction, along with the remainder of his war engines, at the hands of the Traitor Imperator-class Titan Aquila Ignis.
 * Defence of Orestes (779.M41) - The Legio Tempestus ' homeworld of Orestes was invaded by a large force of Traitor Titans during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, to which it contributed much war materiel and by virtue of its close proximity to the theatre was a vital source of supply. The Crusade's leading Warmaster's constant requests for materiel and the support of the Legio Tempestus had drained the world of resources and left it weak -- rendering it a perfect target for Archon Urlock Gaur, the commander of the Forces of Chaos in the sector. The Dark Mechanicus in the Archenemy's service blinded the planet's sensors and allowed bulk landers to set down in the Astrobleme region and disgorge engines of war. As a result of the Forge World's acceeding to the Warmaster's demands, the Legio Tempestus had been left with only a token force of twenty-two Titans to defend its homeworld -- nowhere near enough to face an enemy Titan force seven times this size. The Legio Tempestus was unable to cover ground and found itself outnumbered, outgunned and outmanouvred at nearly every turn, loosing eight Titans in the first days of fighting. Orestes escaped swift and inevitable destruction only thanks to the arrival of the Legio Invicta, which was passing near the planet on its way to the Sabbat front. The bulk of the Legio Invicta landed in Orestes Principal, and after three days of preparation, It moved out into the Jeromihah Subsidiary and adjacent areas, engaging the Archenemy on Orestes for the first time. Its efforts bore fruit, as its forces scored many Titan kills with few losses of their own, eventually causing the Traitors to converge on the ruins of Hive Argentum in hopes of drawing the two Imperial Titan Legions to full-scale battle -- a challenge which the Legio Invicta Princeps Maximus Pietor Gearhart, against the advice of a number of his Princeps, accepted, also wishing to wipe out the enemy. In the meantime of the fighting, the Orestean Analyticae department, at the behest of the Legio Invicta, had been reviewing pict scans of Traitor war engines in order to discover their original identities as Adeptus Mechanicus Titans, and in extension any weaknessess and construction flaws they may exhibit. To this end, the Orestean Magi opened sequestered archives, containing materials pertaining to the Horus Heresy and the times before the founding of the Imperium. Amongst these, a document proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that the Emperor of Mankind is not the Omnissiah was discovered, and leaked out of the Analyticae offices. Such revelation confirmed the beliefs of the Mechanicus of Orestes and many other worlds, and caused outrage in the Imperial populace of the Forge World. In the ensuing chaos, a triumvirate of conspirators -- Legio Tempestus Executor Fetial Enhort, Master of the Archives Tolemy, and Master of the Analyticae Egan -- moved in to seize power in the Forge. They had known about these revelations for several years, and were merely using the war as an excuses to open the archives and publish them. These news reached the Titans in the field as they were closing in on Hive Argentum, and caused a rift between the two Legions, for the Legio Invicta did not share the beliefs of their allies and venerated the Emperor as the Omnissiah. Despite this, they continued on their task, and although they suffered some losses, they achieved a crushing victory, obliterating nearly the entire force positioned against them. Following the battle the Legio Invicta Princeps Maximus Gearhart wished to move the forces of the two Legions back to the Forge to restore order, but was confronted by the Legio Tempestus. Despite being outnumbered by a four-to-one margin, the Legion of Orestes' acting commander issued Gearhart with an ultimatum, telling him to stand with the Legio Tempestus or against it. Legio Tempestus engines proceeded to acquire target locks on Legio Invicta machines. Bloodletting between the two Legions was perhaps only averted by a miracle -- during the course of the war a large storm which blocked orbital scans emerged over the Western Prospection. This weather anomaly turned out to not be natural, but generated by a climate tower erected by the Archenemy in order to conceal a sizable part of its forces. This tower was discovered by a stray unit of Imperial Guardsmen who succeeded in destroying. The emergence of this new threat posed by a previously hidden Traitor Titan battlegroup which outnumbered operational Imperial Titans caused to the two Legions to set aside their differences and move to face it. By virtue of the skills of the Titan Princeps, and thanks to the tactics employed, the Titan Legions succeeded in destroying this threat as well, and by the time the fighting finished, the danger of schism within the Mechanicus was already over -- Tolemy revealed to Enhort and their associate, Egan, that he had manipulated the data. Enhort was infuriated, stating that altered data undermined their position and the validity of their claims, and attempted to contact Gearhart to acquiesce to his demands. Tolemy attempted to strangle the Executor, but was stopped by Egan, who killed him with a weapon brought to the meeting in secret -- and subsequently committed suicide, struck with grief over what he had been a part of. Following this event, Enhort submitted to Gearhart. Orestes had been delivered from the rampaging Traitor Titans and, alongside the broader Imperium, from the danger of schism.

Notable Titans

 * Deus Tempestus - This ancient and venerable Warlord-class Titan was the first God Machine of the Legio Tempestus. At the time of the Schism of Mars, the Deus Tempestus had already been interred in the Ascraeus Chasmata for half a millenium, and had not moved as much as a single joint in two centuries. After Princeps Senioris Cavalerio's internment in an amniotic tank following the destruction of his Titan, the Victorix Magna, he assumed command of this august war engine as he prepared for what would be his last battle -- the defence of Magma City from the Dark Mechanicus and the Legio Mortis.
 * Victorix Magna - Warlord-class Titan that served as the personal war machine of Princeps Senioris Indias Cavalerio at the time of the Schism of Mars. When the Legio Mortis moved to threaten the Ascraeus Chasmata at the outbreak of the Schism, Cavalerio, who was at the time on patrol with his engines, hastened to his Legio's fortress, greatly straining the capabilities the Victorix Magna. Altough not a single shot was fired in the stand off that occurred, the strain put on the machine made it susceptible to infection by scrapcode which was spreading over Mars. The Victorix Magna was destroyed and Cavalerio severely wounded. As a result of this, and the psychic shock of living through the death of his Titan, he received extensive cybernetic augmentation and underwent the process of complete immersion within an amniotic tank.
 * Tharsis Hastatus - Warlord-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Vlad Suzak at the time of the Schism of Mars. The Tharsis Hastatus was destroyed along with its Princeps by the Legio Mortis Imperator-class Titan Aquila Ignis during the defence of Magma City.
 * Arcadia Fortis - Reaver-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Jan Mordant at the time of the Schism of Mars. The Arcadia Fortis was destroyed along with its Princeps during the defence of Magma City.
 * Metallus Cebrenia - Reaver-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Kel Sharaq at the time of the Schism of Mars.  The Metallus Cebrenia was destroyed along with its Princeps during the defence of Magma City.
 * Raptoria - Warhound-class Titan  and war engine of Princeps Zafir Kasim at the time of the Schism of Mars.  The Raptoria was destroyed along with its Princeps during the defence of Magma City.
 * Astrus Lux - Warhound-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Lamnos at the time of the Schism of Mars.  The Astrus Lux was destroyed along with its Princeps during the defence of Magma City.
 * Vulpus Rex - Warhound-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Basek at the time of the Schism of Mars.  The Vulpus Rex was destroyed along with its Princeps during the defence of Magma City.
 * Tantamount Stridex - Warlord-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Theron during the defence of Orestes. The Tantamount Stridex was noted as being one of the Legio Tempestus war machines to survive the first days of the war on Orestes largely unscathed.
 * Orestes Magnificat - Warlord-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Rufus Joslin during the defence of Orestes. The Orestes Magnificat was destroyed during the drive on Hive Argentum by the Traitor Imperator-class Titan Augmenautus Rex
 * Cullador Braxas - Warlord-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Lenix Devo during the defence of Orestes.
 * Nicomach Ignix - Warlord-class Titan and war engine of Princeps Valen Lustig during the defence of Orestes. The Nicomach Ignix is noted of being the sole survivor of its battlegroup, active in the field continously for eight days, unable to return to retrofit and let its crew rest. On its way back to Mount Sigilite Assembly Yards, it was assaulted at Undergox Edge by a Chaos Warhound-class Titan supported by Dark Mechanicus Skitarii. Due to its exhaustion, the Nicomach Ignix was defeated by the smaller war engine. The Legio Invicta, which moved in to secure the area, saved it from the encroaching Skitarii and its ultimate destruction. The Nicomach Ignix was a burned out wreck and its only surviving crewman was in a critical state. Both would take a long time to recover, and the latter was suspected to never be able to recover his sanity. Despite this, the Nicomach Ignix was used as an effective tool of propaganda by the rulers of the Forge World, who cited the war engine's steadfast valour in holding the line by itself until it was relieved at its brink by the Legio Invicta.

Notable Personnel

 * Indias Cavalerio - Indias Cavalerio was known as "The Stormlord" and was the Princeps Senioris of the Legio Tempestus during the Great Crusade and the Schism of Mars. He commanded the Warlord-class Titan Victorix Magna, which was damaged during the Epsiloid Binary Cluster Campaign that the Legio carried out alongside Primarch Roboute Guilliman's forces. As the result of the injury, Cavalerio was forced to accompany the detachment of the Legion's Titan's headed to Mars for repairs -- this being the reason for his presence on the Red Planet at the outbreak of the Schism. Cavalerio sought to keep his Legion free from the insidious poison of the Mechanicus' politicking. He believed that the Titan Legions should remain true to their warrior ideals and not be instruments of the Magi's political will, and serve only the interests of the Imperium of Man itself. When the Legio Mortis moved to threaten the Ascraeus Chasmata at the outbreak of the Schism, Cavalerio, who was at the time on patrol with his engines, hastened to his Legio's fortress, greatly straining the capabilities of his Titan. Altough not a single shot was fired in the stand off that occurred, the strain put on the machine made it susceptible to infection by scrapcode which was spreading over Mars. The Victorix Magna was destroyed and Cavalerio severely wounded. As a result of this, and the psychic shock of living through the death of his Titan, he received extensive cybernetic augmentation and underwent the process of complete immersion within an amniotic tank. Following this, he had been deemed temporarily unfit to command the Legion, and Princeps Kel Sharaq assumed his duties as acting Princeps Senioris of the Legio Tempestus on Mars. After Cavalerio recovered enough to take to the battlefield, he took command of the first God Machine of the Legion, the Deus Tempestus, and ordered his forces to move out and aid the beleaguered Magma City, which the Legio Mortis was assaulting, supported by other Dark Mechanicus forces. He led his Legion against the impossible odds stacked against it, and succeeded in destroying all war engines of the Death's Heads battlegroup -- save for the towering Imperator-class Titan, Aquila Ignis, which proceeded to kill the Stormlord and obliterate remaining Legio Tempestus war engines.
 * Kel Sharaq - Kel Sharaq was the Princeps of the Reaver-class Titan Metallus Cebrenia and Cavalerio's second in command on the Red Planet during the Schism of Mars. After Cavalerio had been deemed temporarily unfit to command the Legion following his immersion in an amniotic tank, Sharaq assumed the Stormlord's duties as acting Princeps Senioris of the Legio Tempestus on Mars. He met his death in the outskirts of Magma City, when the Legio Tempestus sallied out to defend Koriel Zeth's domain from the Legio Mortis. His war engine was destroyed by the Traitor Imperator-class Titan, Aquila Ignis.
 * Vlad Suzak -Vlad Suzak was the Princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Tharsis Hastatus during the Schism of Mars. He, along with his machine, had been obliterated by first salvo fired from the Traitor Imperator-class Titan, Aquila Ignis, although not before he had managed to destroy two enemy war engines.
 * Jan Mordant - Jan Mordant was the Princeps of the Reaver-class Titan Arcadia Fortis during the Schism of Mars, being recently promoted from his Warhound princepture, and thus still withholding many traits characteristic to pilots of these war engines. Mordant died during the defence of Magma City, when a lucky strike damaged his Titan's neural network and the subsequent feedback agonies burned out his cerebral cortex.
 * Karania - Princeps Maximus of the Legio Tempestus who had been given overall command of the bulk of the Legion's forces assigned to Roboute Guilliman's Expeditionary Fleet following the Epsiloid Binary Cluster Campaign, during which Princeps Cavalerio's Titan had been damaged, forcing the Stormlord to join the detachment of damaged war engines headed to Mars for repairs.
 * Zafir Kasim - Zafir Kasim was the Princeps of the Warhound-class Titan Raptoria during the Schism of Mars. Kasim had been awarded a golden skull-and-cog medallion by the Stormlord after the Epsiloid Binary Cluster Campaign. He disliked being present on Mars and witnessing all the petty squabbles of the Mechanicum, being in these views similar to Princeps Cavalerio. Kasim died shortly after Princeps Sharaq, whom he accompanied in the defence of Magma City, when his engine was destroyed by carapace-mounted ordnance of the Legio Mortis Imperator-class Titan, Aquila Ignis.
 * Lamnos - Lamnos was the Princeps of the Warhound-class Titan Astrus Lux. He was the first Legio Tempestus Princeps to die during the defence of Magma City, when a Reaver ' s missile barrage stripped his Titan of its void shields and threw it to the ground, allowing the larger war engine to crush it beneath its bulk.
 * Basek - Basek was the Princeps of the Warhound-class Titan Vulpus Rex. He died during the defence of Magma City when a scrapcode interference obscured his Titan's auspex readings, causing his war engine to tumble into a crater, severing one its weapon arms and buckling its legs in the fall. Basek and his crew attempted to eject, but the Titan chasing them ended their lives in a mercifully swift thunder of hard rounds.
 * Zem Aeschman - Zem Aeschman was the commander of the Legio Tempestus Skitarii forces on Mars during the Horus Heresy. He resolutely supported the Titans with his augmented warriors, both in the stand-off between Legio Mortis and the Legio Tempestus near Ascraeus Mons, and in the final defence of Magma City, where he presumably died after his divisions had been wiped out.
 * Sorlan Veykot - Sorlan Veykot was the Princeps Maximus of the Legio Tempestus during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade and the defence of Orestes. He died in battle against Chaos Titans whilst defending his homeworld from assault, leaving the Legion under the command of First Princeps Rufus Joslin.
 * Rufus Joslin - Rufus Joslin was a First Princeps of the Legio Tempestus during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade and the defence of Orestes and the commander of the Warlord-class Titan Orestes Magnificat. After the death of his Princeps Maximus he assumed his duties as acting commander of Legio Tempestus forces on Orestes. Joslin was noted for his staunch belief in the Orestean Mechanicus' theological distinction between the notions of the Emperor and the Omnissiah and was appraising of the pre-Heresy document leaked out of the Orestean Analyticae which stated that this belief is true. He understood that the Legio Invicta, which was engaged in defending Orestes from attack and was the chief Imperial force present there, would be less amused as they did not share such faith and venerated the Emperor. He was prepared to defend his Forge from all, Legio Invicta engines as well if need be, and to this end had his Titans prepare target solutions on the allied Legio ' s war engines prior to their mutual drive on Hive Argentum. During the fighting there, however, he met his fate as the first victim of the lumbering Traitor Imperator-class Titan Augmenautus Rex, as it drove Imperial forces out of the hive.
 * Lenix Devo - Lenix Devo was the Princeps of the Warlord-class Titan Cullador Braxas and the acting commander of the Legion's forces on Orestes following the death of Rufus Joslin during the battle for Hive Argentum. Like him, Devo was stoutly devoted to his forge and was ready to defend it from the Legio Invicta, despite his forces being outnumbered four to one. After most of the fighting for Hive Argentum was finished, Legio Invicta Princeps Maximus Pietor Gearhart asked of the Legio Tempestus to follow him back to the forge, and was confronted by Devo. He queried as to what Gearhart intended to do, and stated that if the Legio Invicta would move on the forge, the Legio Tempestus would stand in its way. A stand off occurred, and bloodshed was perhaps averted only by the news of a large Traitor Titan battlegroup moving to threaten Orestes Principal Hive.
 * Guido Prinzhorn - Guido Prinzhorn was the Princeps of the Legio Invicta Warlord-class Titan Dominatus Victrix during the defence of Orestes. The Legio Invicta came to the aid of the beleaguered world of Orestes following a campaign it conducted in the Beltran Cluster against the Eldar. One of the victims of the graceful xeno Titans was the Princeps of the Dominatus Victrix. The Orestean Magi agreed to repair the war engine in their facilities, and the Legio Tempestus offered one of its Princeps -- Guido Prinzhorn -- to allow the machine to fight. As all Proximus Pattern Warlord-class Titans, the Dominatus Victrix required full amniotic interface to operate it, and this Prinzhorn could provide. Despite being a young Princeps, and one who has never seen actual combat but only simulations, Prinzhorn was interred in an amniotic tank. He would be assisted by one of the surviving Moderati of Dominatus Victrix, Zane Tarses, as well as crewmen drawn from Legio Invicta reserve. Prinzhorn was afraid of his first real command, and was predictably less able than an experienced war engine officer. He was aided in his charge by the veteran Moderatus, even though he was initially reluctant to accept this help. Following the battle for Hive Argentum, after the publication of revelations which allegedly proved the truth of the Orestean faith, Legio Invicta Princeps Maximus Pietor Gearhart wished to move the forces of the two Legions back to the Forge to restore order, but was confronted by the Legio Tempestus. Despite being outnumbered by a four-to-one margin, the Legion of Orestes' acting commander issued Gearhart with an ultimatum, telling him to stand with the Legio Tempestus or against it. When Legio Tempestus engines acquired target locks on Legio Invicta machines, Prinzhorn had done the same, but was stopped by Tarses, who forced the Princeps to shut down the Titan at gunpoint. Bloodletting between the two Legions was perhaps only averted by the emergence of a new threat posed by a previously hidden Traitor Titan battlegroup.
 * Valen Lustig - Valen Lustig was the Princeps of the famed Warlord-class Titan Nicomach Ignix. Lustig and his crew were noted of being the sole survivors of their battlegroup, active in the field continously for eight days with no sleep or rest. On their way back Mount Sigilite Assembly Yards, they were assaulted at Undergox Edge by a Chaos Warhound-class Titan supported by Dark Mechanicus Skitarii. Due to its exhaustion, the Nicomach Ignix was defeated by the smaller war engine. The Legio Invicta, which moved in to secure the area, saved it from the encroaching Skitarii and its ultimate destruction, but they were unable to help the crew -- Princeps Lustig died from exhaustion and psychostigmatic wounds, while all but one of his crewmen had been killed by Traitor Tech-guard that managed to board the Titan in the heat of the battle. The sole survivor, Moderatus Dolf Gentrian had his socket connectors shot off while connected to the Titan's Mind Impulse Unit. The state he was in led the Medicae to believe that he might never recover his sanity. The Nicomach Ignix itself was a burned out wreck, and both of them would take a long time to recover. Despite this, the Nicomach Ignix was used as an effective tool of propaganda by the rulers of the Forge World, who cited the war engine's steadfast valour in holding the line by itself until it was relieved at its brink by the Legio Invicta -- although making no mention of the Titan's crew's fates.
 * Enhort - Enhort was an Executor Fetial, a diplomat, of the Legio Tempestus during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade and the defence of Orestes. He took part in a conspiracy to topple the world's ruling Adept Seniorus and bring to the light of day the revelations concerning the Emperor's non-divinity, of which he was already aware for several years. Although his co-conspirator, Master of the Archives Tolemy, was said to be operating only for the sake of personal aggrandisement and not caring for the matters of faith, Enhort was a staunch idealist on this subject, believing that it was his duty to disseminate the truth. Legio Invicta Princeps Maximus Pietor Gearhart, who had learned of the details of the coup, ordered Enhort to step down after the latter had assumed the position of Adept Seniorus. The Executor, believing he was in the right, was not about to accede, and instead issued a counter-demand. Violence between the Legio Invicta and the Orestean forge, and the Legio Tempestus which would invariably defend it, was averted only by the emergence of a new threat posed by a previously hidden Traitor Titan battlegroup. The two Imperial Titan Legions sallied forth to engage them, and before the fighting finished, the danger of schism within the Mechanicus was already over -- Tolemy revealed to Enhort and their associate, Egan, that he had manipulated the data. Enhort was infuriated, stating that altered data undermined their position and the validity of their claims, and attempted to contact Gearhart to aquiesce to his demands. Tolemy attempted to strangle the Executor, but was stopped by Egan, who killed him with a weapon brought to the meeting in secret -- and subsequently committed suicide, struck with grief over what he had been a part of. Following this event, Enhort submitted to Gearhart. His ultimate fate is unknown.

Legion Colours
The Legio Tempestus' Legion colours are cobalt blue and silver.

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

Canon Conflict
The novel Mechanicum indicates that the Legio Tempestus uses the name Princeps Maximus for a Senior Princeps, and Princeps Senioris for a Grand Master. However, Titanicus indicates instead that the Legion uses the names First Princeps and Princeps Maximus for the Senior Princeps and Grand Master respectively -- exactly like the Legio Invicta. It is possible that the Legio changed its nomenclature in the ten millenia timespan between the events depicted in these two novels, although it is also plausible that the author used that of the Legio Invicta for clarity's sake -- especially so as they are never addressed by rank in a conversation.