Editing Legio Fortuna (section)

===Origins: The Second Wave===
The Triad Ferrum Morgulus were the first Titan Legions to be constructed, and when their success in cleansing the soil of Mars was proven, Mars and those Forges closest to it began to create a second levy of Titan Legions to join them in freeing the rest of the Red Planet. Mondus Occulum, the second most powerful of all the Forges on Mars founded two Legions at this time: The Legio Magna ‘Flaming Skulls’ and the Legio Fortuna.

All of these ‘Secundus’ Legions had very high expectations and were looked down upon by the Triad Ferrum Morgulus Legions, creating a need to prove themselves as worthy of their predecessors. This was certainly true of the Legio Fortuna, which threw itself headlong into the campaign to cleanse Mars and reclaim it for the Mechanicum. After that the Legion would also find itself fighting on Old Terra when a Battle Maniple was landed to protect a vital Archeotech reclamation center from the forces of the Unspeakable King of Albion. In all of these actions the Legion proved itself a master of precision warfare, favouring weapons like Volcano Cannons and Laser Blasters over Plasma Destroyers and Gatling Blasters that could bring powerful, focused destruction to the enemy.

Even with this growing martial record the Legion still felt itself inferior to the other Legions of the Mechanicum, and as Terra rose once again and it looked like War was coming the Legion began to experiment with new techniques of battlefield communication.
The newly minted Mistress of Mondus Occulum, Motoka Isisdore had earned her place through her extensive research into enhancements to Legio Cybernetica Robots, and one of those was the ‘Cortex Neural Network’ system, where every Robot in a maniple was linked to all the other robots, turning them into a Hive Mind. If one Robot was attacked, instantly every Robot knew about the enemy and could respond instantly. Information was constantly shared between the Robots so they had the collective intelligence of the entire maniple at once. This made the Robot Maniples unparalleled in their combat coordination and ability to react to enemy threats.
When the Manos (as the High Princeps of the Legio Fortuna was styled) met with Isidore to discuss the Legion and the desire to improve their combat skill, she was the one who openly pondered if a similar neural network could be constructed for Titans, linking every Princeps together. Though the idea ran dangerously close to Tech-Heresy, the Manos asked her to investigate it further.

Isidore had never worked with Titans before this point, but she found some similarities between the Cybernetica Cortex system and the Mind Impulse Unit of Titans. Though the Neural Load was considerably greater, with certain enhanced cerebral surgery she found that a Titan Princeps could withstand the inload from multiple Titans at once. A trial Maniple was deployed with these enhancements, and they would be instrumental in covering the last Mechanicum Outpost on Terra, Archeotech Station Devanps in the Northwestern corner of the Merican Continental Mass, holding off a massive assault by Thunder Warriors backed by human auxiliaries as the priceless archeotech was evacuated back to Mars. The Neural Link system proved a resounding success, the Titans having reaction times beyond what was ever considered possible and coordination between the Engines turning the maniple into a single entity on the battlefield.
With this success, the practise as spread throughout the Legion. Every Maniple was now linked together with Isidore’s network systems It was expected that when the Terran Emperor came to Mars, this system would prove itself in the conflict. Fortunately this scenario never came to pass. The Emperor came not as a warlord, but as a peacemaker. And his dream of a galactic Empire would give the Legio Fortuna plenty of time to prove itself on battlefields across the Galaxy.