Editing Blackshield (section)

==Blackshield Titans?!==
Way back during the days of fucking Horus' big temper tantrum, a number of [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)|Titan]] princeps found themselves isolated from their legions, or just plain presumed dead and struck from the records. Unfortunately for them, a Titan isn't a Space Marine, with the result being that they were often believed to be working for the other side and attacked by Loyalist and Traitor forces alike.

The vast majority of the Blackshield Legios were organized along similar lines to their legionary counterparts, being little more than small groups of various different Titan patterns loosely bound together by the need to survive; oftentimes, these groups included members from many different legios and used only one pattern of Titan to avoid logistical issues.

Most of them (like the Legio Tritonis) were opportunistic in behaviour, taking over planets that had been weakened by the traitor-loyalist conflict to create their own pocket empires, or just going full "fuck everything" and raiding planets for supplies without bias or care. Others withdrew to their home worlds and guarded them jealously, blowing up anyone who tried to get too close. Rarest of all (as in, we know of only one case), they were members of a traitor legio who sided with the loyalists; one detachment of the [[World Eaters]]-aligned Legio Audax fought their own kind during the Titandeath.

None of them survived past the end of the Heresy for fairly obvious reasons - Titans are neither cheap or easy to maintain (let alone make) without the backing of a larger group like the Mechanicus, and unlike the Blackshields they couldn't just easily vanish into obscurity. Most of them were destroyed by Loyalist forces during the [[Great Scouring]] for to trying to break away from Imperial and Mechanicus control alike, or were reintegrated (by force) into the standard Legios.