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==Ground and Air Forces==


Among the military forces of the Sector, however, the mightiest is the ''Legio Congelatio''.  Although the Frostbite Army is minuscule compared to some older Legions, its short and bloody history has earned it infamy among other Imperial institutions.

The battle in which the destruction of the Legio occurred was a savage affair, with the ''Legio Congelatio'' squaring off against a Traitor Guard force of far greater size during the War for the Corumbino Nebula.  The war engines of the Legio were able to drive off the scout and forward armor elements of the Traitor force without too much trouble, but the pressure applied by the Chaos force was relentless.  The Corpus Secutarii forces protecting the Titans encountered rough terrain as the Titans advanced, and the Titan crews were left with a choice: abandon their escorts, or allow themselves to be slowed.  The Legio chose the latter, and endured a punishing Manticore barrage from the Traitors.  The final problem was that of a Chaos Titan force that accompanied the Traitors, from a Legio that remains unidentified.  The Titan force consisted of four engines, accompanied by a pair of Chaos Shadowswords.  As soon as they came within range, the Congelatio Titans engaged with the super-long-range energy weapons that were the hallmark of the Legio, and managed to destroy a Ravager before it could return fire.  However, just as the Chaos force and the Loyalist force entered direct battle with each other, a third party entered the fray.

A wing of eighty-five Dark Eldar aircraft armed with Void Lances appeared at the edge of the engagement.  Raking the assembled Titans with their dark energy beams, the Titans withered under the unimaginable technosorcery of the evil xenos.  Chaos and Imperial Titans alike fell, destroyed or crippled, as the Chaos artillery kept up its savage barrage.  When the Black Winter Warlord Titan of Cognomen’s force detonated from a lucky reactor kill, the chain reaction that ensued destroyed all of the Titans left in the fight, which had been forced together by the bad terrain.

The stunned Chaotic and Imperial forces outside the blast radius fell back.  The loss of their Titan cover meant that the Chaos artillery could no longer operate so far from their caches, and they turned tail and ran.  The Imperium noticed this and pursued, eventually driving the Chaos force off-world.

Since that time, Cognomen has been hastily expanding their Titan force.  Although only one Reaver engine could be salvaged from the disaster that destroyed the Legion, Cognomen has since built ten Battle Titans and fifteen Scout Titans.  A Warlord never leaves Cognomen, to ensure that the disaster of Corumbino never recurs.  Another Warlord was lost in the duel with the Ork Supa-Gargant Bloodcrunch in M41.962, leaving the effective strength of the Legion at two dozen Engines.  That is pathetic compared to Anvilus, Mars, Voss, or even the Lathes, but it is more than enough to have driven off the Third Glasian Migration unaided when the aliens foolishly attempted to conquer the Forge World in M41.600.  When the Legion’s numbers rise to reach a new maniple number, or a number divisible by five, the new engines bud off from their existing maniple to form their own, and begin housing the next engines until their number reaches ten, then the maniple splits, and the newer one hosts the next few engines, and so on.


Contemporarily, Cognomen has begun to further expand its Titan Legion and its Corpus Secutarii.  The Secutarii of all Titan Legions, of course, answer to the leadership of the Legion itself, not its attendant priests or Skitarii.  However, the savage beatings the ''Legio Congelatio'' has endured over the years have hammered a sense of fatalistic and even remorseful pride into the Secutarii of Cognomen.  The prevailing belief among the Titanshields – as the local Secutarii dub themselves – is that the world is not at fault for any of the troubles that have befallen the Legion.  Rather, the very sector itself, the untamed wilderness of Imperial space beyond, or even the nature of the galaxy are siding against them.  Secutarii of the Corpus ''Congelatio'' paint their armor black with green highlights, and are the most enthusiastic wielders of phosphor and irrad weapons in the Sector.  Though this is understandably a huge liability in the largely defensive wars of the Sector, the Titanshields demand the right to wield the ancient hate of Mars.

Naturally, this is why the Titanshields are so often rebuked by other Imperial Commanders who do not share their passion for uninhabitable wastelands.  The Titanshields therefore, often reluctantly, field Arc Weapons, Hellguns, and Galvanic weapons when they are fighting on Imperial worlds.  The Axiarchs of the Titanshields are also sometimes seen adorning their armor with pieces of the destroyed six engines that started the Legio, as a mark of their shame and their determination to prevent it from happening again.  This is a devotional effort, as no living Axiarch was present for the Corumbino campaign.

===Legio Congelatio Composition===

Legio Congelatio Composition (circa M41.999)

# 	([Command Variant] Warlord) Gold Blood
# 	(Warlord) Punitive Spirits
# 	(Warlord) Victrix Mechanicus
# 	(Warlord) All Sights of the Machine
# 	(Reaver) Scoured Alloys
# 	(Warlord) Steed of Gods
# 	(Reaver) Glory of Doom
# 	(Reaver) Predator of Mars
# 	(Reaver) Free Radical
# 	(Warhound) Speeding Victory Along
# 	(Warhound) Holy Motor
# 	(Warhound) Speak Ye Faithful
# 	(Warhound) Hound of Knowledge
# 	(Warhound) Bulwark Mechanicus
# 	(Warhound) Foe of the Faithless
# 	(Warhound) Pack Leader
# 	(Reaver) Ion Storms
# 	(Warlord) Battlewrought
# 	(Warhound) Cognomen Victorious
# 	(Warhound) Crushing Blow
# 	(Warhound) Canis Argentum
# 	(Warhound) Unsubtle Arrival
# 	(Warhound) Data Shielded
# 	(Reaver) Oil of Conquest
# 	(Warlord) Omnissiah’s Servant