Legio Vulcanum II

Legio Vulcanum II
Warcry/Motto	Unknown
Founding	Pre-Imperium (Suspected)
Homeworld	Stygies VIII (Forge World)
Allegiance	Chaos; Chaos Undivided
Colours	Unknown

The Legio Vulcanum II is a Traitor Titan Legion of the Dark Mechanicus that repudiated its oaths to the Emperor of Mankind and followed the 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, though it is believed that it was founded before the Age of the Imperium during the Age of Strife. The Legio Vulcanum II 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

Legio Vulcanum II Colour Scheme

Stygies VIII was once home to two Titan Legions, the Legios Vulcanum I and II. While unusual for a single star system to support two Titan 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 the attendant risks of Chaotic attack on this important Forge World. Most of the twin Legions' war engines 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 Loyalist Tech-priests, these valiant defenders protected the planet's Temple of Knowledge against the robed cultists and the hastily-improvised berserker machines that they had produced. Trapped and on their own, the Loyalists expected that death would eventually follow, but unanticipated liberation came on the thirty-first day of the siege in the form of the graceful Eldar Titans and hundreds of Jetbike-mounted warriors of the Saim-Hann Craftworld who smashed the servants of Chaos.They had not come to help the Mon-Keigh, but to deny to the Forces of Chaos such a strategically potent manufacturing world so close to the Eye of Terror. When the Horus Heresy finally ended, both the Traitorous Titan Legions of Stygies VIII fled into exile within the Eye of Terror. Stygies VIII is now home to a third Titan Legion, the Legio Honorum, which was brought to restore the Forge World's honour in the eyes of the Emperor.

Notable Campaigns

• 13th Black Crusade (999.M41) - When Abaddon the Despoiler led the largest Chaos incursion into Imperial space in 999.M41 since the Horus Heresy as part of the 13th Black Crusade, the Legio Vulcanum II was one of the Traitor Titan Legions that had a suspected presence in the campaign near the Imperial world of Subiaco Diablo.

Notable Titans

None listed in current Imperial records.

Notable Personnel

None listed in current Imperial records.

Legion Appearance

Legion Colours

The colours of the Legio Vulcanum II are not listed in current Imperial records, but they may be similar to those of its brother Legion, the Legio Vulcanum I

Legion Badge

The Legio Vulcanum II's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.

Sources

• Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition), pg. 16
• Titan Legions (2nd Edition), pg. 18
• Imperial Armour Volume One - Imperial Guard & Imperial Navy, pg. 8

Gallery

A Chaos-corrupted Warhound-class Titan of the Legio Vulcanum II