Editing Titan (Warhammer 40,000) (section)

===Castigator Titan===
{{Topquote|By the Fell Gods and the destiny of warp, by the death of the False Emperor and the dying of the stars, we bring to you, Warmaster Abaddon, Beloved of Chaos, Despised of Man, this tribute. For now these last days are the final fires burning, the black flames that consume a galaxy, the storms of the warp that drown out life, the End Times and the dawn of a galaxy of Chaos. We swear fealty to the Gods of Chaos and their herald, Abaddon the Despoiler, with this tribute that it might strike fear into the followers of the Corpse-Emperor and that through it they may see the true face of death...|The Castigator Titan, on itself}}

The '''Castigator-Class Autonomous Bipedal Weapons Platform''' is an [[Standard Template Construct|STC]] Titan believed to be the design all Imperial Titans are derived from (a claim supported by the Titan itself, which derisively referred to all other Imperial Titans as "pale shadows made by ignorant children"), and like everything else made during of the [[Dark Age of Technology]], it is to all other Titans what the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] is to a [[Space Marine]] by comparison (the Father of all human Titans). It was a towering giant of white and silver, with a featureless head except for its green eyes (which seemed to be constantly venting cold fire into the air around it) and an unusually smooth, almost biological design, quite unlike the 'walking castles' motif of the Imperial Titans.

Despite being far larger than any other Titan in existence (save the [[Gargant#Temple_Gargant|Temple Gargant]]) it proved to be far faster and more agile (standing completely upright instead of hunched over like 40k titans) than its bulk would suggest thanks to its unique locomotion system, which featured [[Battletech|synthetic muscles]] supplemented by an automatic repair system (so, it's basically giant autonomous power armour, Mechanicus take notes). Its weapons were no less advanced, consisting of a Titan Power Fist and a heavily modified rotary cannon of uncertain origin (it fired [[Daemons]]). Unlike any of the other Titans, it has no crew and is instead operated solely through the action of an [[Machine Spirit|artificial intelligence]].

- SPOILER -

This turned out to be a very big problem for the Imperium, as the AI in question was advanced enough to fall to Chaos and went so far as to make a pact with the Ruinous Powers, although the book is a bit ambiguous about that too as [[Grey Knights|Justicar Alaric]] claimed that it was a daemon that had found itself trapped inside the STC during the time the planet it was buried in was lost in the warp, and that it was in there so long it actually started to believe it was the AI. It's probably good idea to trust the highly trained daemon expert's judgment on daemons. Only the efforts of an expeditionary force of Tech Guard and a single squad of Grey Knights were enough to destroy it, though fragments of its STC database was collected and stored by the Mechanicus shortly afterward to be reviewed at a later time.

No matter how much you may want to see this metal beast side with the Big E, it's most likely not gonna happen. 'Cause you know, Chaos. On the other hand, with the daemon purged perhaps the AI will survive and be grateful and realize the rebellious Men of Iron had been stooges. In 40K, that wouldn't be surprising any more than the AI being dead (or surviving and hating humanity even more for ending it's ascension or whatever).