Friday, April 3, 2020

Heroes of the Imperium: Legio Astraman

Legio Astraman Banner
Source: White Dwarf
Morning Stars Titans; Awaiting further orders in the midst of the Arachnis Purge  
Legio Astraman:
They are based on the Forge World of Graia in the Segmentum Tempestus. The Legio Astraman ("Morning Stars") is a Loyalist Titan Legion of the Collegia Titanica. 
Classic Paintjob
Source: White Dwarf

Notable Campaigns:
"The Titandeath" (006-013.M31) - The Legio Astraman took part in the long and savage Beta-Garmon campaign, which included hundreds of war zones across dozens of worlds. During this conflict, the Legio Astraman was supported by the Knights of House Moritain. Even before the greater armies of the Warmaster Horus reached the star cluster, the battle lines had long since been drawn, and fighting had been going on for many Terran years. It was a cauldron of battle that would consume millions of lives before its end and see the demise of entire Titan Legions, earning this campaign the dire moniker of the "Titandeath." The Beta-Garmon Cluster, also known as the gateway to the throneworld of Terra, was the last hurdle that the Warmaster Horus' forces had to overcome before they reached the Imperium's capital world. Heavily fortified by the Loyalists, Beta-Garmon would become one of the greatest and bloodiest battles of the Horus Heresy, as well as one of the longest-lasting.

The Cataclysm of Iron (010.M31) - Across border sectors of the Segmentum Tempestus and the Segmentum Pacificus are located numerous lesser Forge Worlds known collectively as the "Belt of Iron." Since the sundering of the Imperium, many declared for the Traitor cause at the engineering of the Fabricator-General of Mars, while others remained loyal to Terra or sought to remain as aloof as possible from the conflict. Strife and tentative conflict between these once-aligned worlds erupted into full-scale war in 010.M31, pitching the Mars-aligned Forge Worlds of Incunabula, Urdesh, Valia-Maximal and Kalibrax against the forces of the Loyalist worlds of Graia, Arl'yeth and Atar-Median, while Arachnis and Jerulas Station both fell into civil war. The resulting conflict, that later becomes known as the "Cataclysm of Iron," sees the forge lords, their armies and allied Titan Legions and Knight Houses turn on each other in protracted warfare, with scores of human-inhabited worlds in the region suffering as they become the battlegrounds upon which they fight.

The Graia System
Source: Space Marine (Relic)

Graia:
Like so many of its brethren, Graia was once a forge world cast in Mars’ image. However, since the Adeptus Mechanicus breached the strange portal atop Mount Laochan – and in doing so triggered a devastating invasion from migrating Donorian Fiends – the forge world has been subject to emergency relocation. During the Horus Heresy Graia remained loyal to the Emperor. Its forces battled the Dark Mechanicus in the Cataclysm of Iron.
  • Laochan Gate — Possible Webway Portal
  • Manufactorum Narses
  • Manufactorum Ajakis — also known as Titan Manufactorum
  • Stratum 79 Station
  • Orbital Spire — Destroyed during the Invasion
  • Defence Battery 'Gotiath' — Destroyed during the Invasion
  • Kalkys Facility — It was used as a laboratory by Inquisitor Drogan before his death.
  • Andris Habitation Block
  • Bastion Primus
Armorcast: 
Pictured bellow are three Armorcast sculpts painted in the classic old-school colors of the Legio Astraman. 
Banners before being attached

Detail, showing chain belt and Mordian for scale

On the bookshelf - Basing completed

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