Editing Steel Marshals (section)

==The Great Crusade - from Terra until the rediscovery of the Primarch==

'''Formation''': The Tempest Knights (The Beginning of the Legion, growing to roughly 100,000 Marines before Roman's discovery)

The Tempest Knights served without fail during the next five decades, seizing worlds that would not comply with the Emperor's will, with Dietmar Hohn leading the Knights into bloody sieges. Even before the rediscovery of [[Roman Albrecht]] the Tenth Legion was forthright and direct, willing to battle through the main approach rather than engage in underhanded ruses or indiscriminate bombardment. Remembrancers attached to their Crusading warships found no shortage of inspiring images to capture for the benefit of new and prospective Imperial Citizens.

Unusually among the Legions, the Tenth were directly responsible for the rediscovery of their Primarch. As the Tempest Knights campaigned south from Sol, Rogue Traders operating ahead of their fleets reported on the world [[Centauri Primus]], a planet united by a giant warrior unmatched in prowess. While many rejoiced at the prospect of another Primarch joining the War Council, Dietmar Hohn felt a sense of dread. Already the Lord Commanders of the [[War Scribes|Second Legion]] and [[The Justiciars|Thirteenth Legion]] had been displaced by foundlings and by all accounts the Council of Ten that ruled the [[Eyes of the Emperor|Twentieth Legion]] would soon follow suit. He reasoned that the displacement of men of proper Terran birth and upbringing by semi-savages raised without the superior culture of humanity's birth world was sure to end in misfortune, and appealed to Hektor Cincinnatus to intercede when it was announced that [[Roman Albrecht]] would take command of the Tenth Legion. Hektor's public response was to express his full confidence in his brother Primarch, but it seems likely that Hektor - or his consort, Pallas Eugenesis - kept the embers of discontent alive within the Tenth.

===Notable Battles===

*'''The Sieges of Saturn'''.  Such savage tactics would not mar the rest of the Sacred Band long, however. With their successful sieges, they were proven and the raising of the Legion began. The first real battles as a Legion saw them in the sieges of Saturn's moons. It was during these battles that the honorable members of the Sacred Band, and many in the nascent Legion, were able to prove themselves. Kilian Fach distinguished himself during this time after charging the gates of Hyperion's largest fortress, '''Hold Keats''', with but a melta-charge and his boarding shield. Other such tales of bravery survive, but are paralleled by darker deeds during that time.

*'''Siege of the Iron Ring'''.  To the galactic south of Sol lay the ringworld Delvar Kha, a massive construction of metal and rock that predated mankind by millenia. It had been colonized by Mankind during the Dark Age, but contact with it had been lost following the Fall. Eventually trade began anew, but the inhabitants of Delvar Kha resisted schemes and invasion by [[Rogue Traders (Hektor Heresy)|Rogue Traders]] moving ahead of the Legiones Astartes. This could not be tolerated, and so it was Hektor sent the Tempest Knights to bring them into Compliance. Loosely led by Dietmar, the horde of Knights descended on the ringworld, exacting an excessive blood price for their resistance.

*'''Purge of the Xathite Khanate'''

*'''The Decimation of Falrak'''