Editing Legio Maleficarum (section)

==Hammer of the Witches==
In the centuries preceding Hektor's betrayal the Emperor had devoted humanity to a crusade of unprecedented scale, in an effort to change Mankind into a singular people of reason and deprive the Chaos Gods of the anarchy they so desired. The Imperium of Man mercilessly stamped out falsehoods and superstition, destroying millennia-old religions without so much as a whisper as to why the Emperor would take such lengths. He even hid the existence of Chaos, the Imperium's truest and greatest enemy, from his most trusted Primarchs. Even with their ignorance - or perhaps because of it - the Primarchs fell to the ruinous powers one by one, until Hektor began his great rebellion against the Emperor and showed the galaxy the might of Chaos. 

The traitors unleashed upon the Imperium the nightmares of the Warp. Legions of daemons spilled into real space, spreading Chaos and confusion among the worlds. As the Emperor's vision fell apart, Malcador the Sigillite pursued the future of the Imperium. He began many organizations to safeguard the Imperium against Chaos, including what would become Legio Maleficarum. He sought Kalkas Tygian, the stalwart Fabricator-General of the Mechanicum, and pleaded with him to assist in the creation of a powerful new weapon. The two collaborated, and mixed their respective institutions' darkest secrets in Malcador's cauldron. The Sigillite provided countless volumes' worth of information on Chaos, and instructions for advanced sigils and rites; the Fabricator-General gave the secrets of titan construction, the most sacred ritual of all the Mechanicum. A dedicated team of the greatest techpriests and adepts worked to fuse magic with metal, and designed the first psi-titans that would form the fighting arm of Legio Maleficarum. 

The adepts were loathe that the construction of the first titan would take centuries to build, and the legion would not be ready for battle for a thousand years; this Malcador knew, and approved the project nonetheless. To house the legion Malcador selected a location so remote and obscured that nobody could stumble upon it by accident for a million years: the largest moon of the lost world Tyche, a ninth planet hidden in the Oort Cloud of the Sol System. Techpriests and servitors erected the gantries and shrines in a crater on that moon, named Malleus Obscurus, and by the end of the Great Scouring began construction on the first psi-titan. It would not be until mid-M32 when the legion was up to strength, but that time had been well-spent, as the end-product exceeded any other force in the Imperium in its ability to fight the daemonic hordes of Chaos.