Editing Titan Marchers (section)

==Pre-Primarch History & Reunion==

The XVIIth legion was founded in the waning years of the [[Unification Wars]], with it's recruits primarily drawn from the hive cities of Ursh. During their short tenure without a Primarch, they would become known as the 'Steel XVIIth' and were well known for their characteristic calmth and calculated stoicism, but the early XVIIth also carried itself with grim and dour nihilism. They thought of themselves as workhorses who ground their way through the early Great Crusade without real joy or purpose beyond the expansion of Imperium and service to the Emperor. The legion would only exist like this for a small number of decades.

Raj Vokar was the fifth Primarch to be rediscovered. After being spirited away from [[Terra]], he had ended up on the forge world of Manaan, on the border of Segmentum Solar and Pacificus. There, he had risen up against the tyrannical noble class that had ruled the heavily polluted world from their paradise moon for millenia. With the use of cunning and the brutal force offered by the massive Titan-like war machines known as the ''Raakshas'', Raj had set fire to the paradise moon and united Manaan under his banner.

Reunited with his gene-sons relatively early in [[Great Crusade]], Raj had more than enough time to reshape the legion to fit his ideals and tactics. During his education within the Imperium, he found himself fascinated by the collosal Titans of the Adeptus Titanicus. Those massive walkers were very similar to ones found on Manaan. The Raakshas were based on the same Dark Age technologies as the Imperium's Titans, but had diverted from the designs of the Machine God. Still, they proved to be of great interest to the techpriests and in exchange for patterns of the Raakshas and access to the facilities of Manaan, the Titanicus would provide the XVIIth legion with more Titan Legio cohorts than any other Astartes Legion. This agreement decisively shaped the future of the Steel XVIIth or, as they know from then on out, the Titan Marchers.

Not only did the Liberator of Manaan overhaul the Titan Marchers tactically, he also overhauled them culturally and spiritually. Gone was the dour nihilism of the old days, replaced with optimistic self-reflection and a desire for self-improvement. Where Marchers had once thought of themselves as nothing more than tools made only to work until they were broken, now they were proud warriors fighting not only for a better future for humanity, but for a better future for themselves.