Legio Canem preliminary outline

Legio Canem "Pit Hounds"
(All names subject to change if needed)
-Strength
	-Warhound Scout Titans
		-8 Titans; 4 wolf patterns, 5 mastiffs, 1 jackal

	-Battle Titans
		-2 Vandal class Reavers
		-5 Warlords; 3 Death Bringers, 1 Eclipse, 1 Mars-Alpha (Canis Imperator)

	-Emperor Titans
		-1 Warmonger. Currently in disrepair and cannot walk

	-Taghmata
		-Numerous skitarii regiments; many of these operate in tandem with the Warhounds. Some Warhounds equipped with pintle mounted weaponry, weapon caches, and hidden entrances to the machine's superstructure.

		-Tank regiments; The Legio makes heavy use of tanks as supporting vehicles. Numerous unsual and arcane variations can be seen, including a few Baneblade variants.

		-Battle suits: armored suits smaller than a Knight, around the size of a dreadnought. These are mostly made of parts cannibalized from ancient ruined titans. Can be found with unique weapon and equipment variants.

	-Weaponry: The Legio's Titans are relatively standard, save for the fitting of warhounds with smaller scale weaponry. It is on a smaller scale where The Canem truly shine. During the wars that devastated Koriphon's surface and ruined so many titans, the Skitarii and other menials became quite skilled at salvaging parts from the god-machines to craft their own armaments. Enormous vulcan cannons were mounted on servitor-linked tanks, defensive plating and void shields were cobbled into powered suits of armor, and captured titans were jury-rigged with those weapons too large to be borne otherwise. This allows the Canem to deploy heavy weapons in unusual combinations or with speeds not matched by cumbersome Titans.

-Leadership
	-No Archmagos Intendant; instead there are 2 Magi who jointly represent the world and legio's affairs.

		-Magos Iudicose: Senior Princeps of the Titan contingent, 	and in charge of all affairs relating to Titans directly. Always held by the current princeps of the Canis Imperator, currently a man named Berion Kal. He is a schemer who would see the Titan operators as supreme once again, ruling like unto gods.

		-Magos Malleus: Elected leader of the "menials", including the skitarii and common laborers. Currently held by Modonus X-3, third in a well respected line. He wears the ancient battlesuit Luna's Roar, which features a chain axe personally added by Brennus in addition to other, rarer weapons.

	-The two leaders have approximately equal power, and usually work together. Their alliance is secured by the ancient "Compact of 	Logical Equality", forged after the devastating wars of the 	world's past.

-Hisory (brief)
	-DAOT to Pre-Crusade: The ancient forbears of the Legio set up shop on the world of Koriphon, in a system neighboring Alessia's. The Titan lords hold an irong group over their system and those that neighbor it, which includes the Crannorga system. The Titans are used not only to wage war, but to intimidate their less advanced neighbors. Titans form an especially powerful legend on Alessia as the "Thunder Kings", which are believed to be agents of the gods during their isolation in the Warp. Eventually, inspired by the rebellion of Crannorga under Over-Judge Silas Thurmann, the menials and workers of Koriphon rise up against their Titanic masters. After centuries of fighting, the two sign the "Pact of the Leash and Collar" which balances power between representatives of the two factions.

	-pre-crusade to Heresy: Shortly after Brennus unifies Alessia and defeats the technocrats of the Black Sky Islands ( a group of Alessians who managed to save technology from before the collapse into barbarism, and use it for slave-taking), the Magos Xiphoi begins expeditions to the worlds once used for harvesting laborers. Brennus is at first distrustful of another technocrat, but when the Magos gifts him with advanced technology and instructs him in the use of plunder from the Black Sky Islands, they forge a relationship. Towns and cities begin to appear again on Alessia shortly before the Emperor arrives, and Brennus takes this opportunity to draw the Legio into his orbit as a military commander. Serving as a Primarch's personal titan legion allows the Canem to make repairs to some of their most dilapidated titans, though their Warmonger (the original Canis Imperator) does not get fully fixed.

		-religion: being reconnected the the wider Mechanicum  causes some difficulty foer the Canem. The Xiphoi do not believe in a literal interpretation of the Omnissiah, and look on The Emperor as a mortal representation of a legend, but not a god. The Tyranus believe at first that The Emperor is a prophet of the Omnissiah, but gradually lose faith in him during the course of the Great Crusade; they throw in their lot with Chaos once Hektor rebels, and are instrumental in the plans of the Traitor Thunder Kings.

	-post-Heresy: those few titan crews that survive the destruction of Alessia flee to the Eye, selling their services to the highest bidder. The Taghmata forces under the Magos Xiphoi take control of Koriphon (The Magos Xiphoi becoming Archmagos Intendant) and continue to work closely with the Thunder KIngs and their successors. (Still working on ideas for this)