Legio X Lupus

The Hounds of the Empire

Colors: Blue and Gold Banner: Wolves Head Crest

"Semper Venatione" (Latin): "Always Hunting"
The Tenth Legion is a particularly old and storied Legion within the empire founded as a traditional legion with a mix of mechs, infantry, auxiliary armor, support units, etc. but with Heavy Infantry equipped with power armor and a small contingent of psychics with teleportation equipped with special Lorica Fortis called Lorica Fortis Lupus. The legion organizes itself in a standard manner with ten man Decemviri for infantry squads, ten Decemviri are combined into a single Centuria which is commanded by the Centurion and then these are Organized by 5 into a Cohort lead by a Tribune. Finally Legio Lupus has four Prefects each leading five cohorts and one Praetor. It is unique in that it typically has no Legate and the Praetor, who is usually a psychic, leads the troops.

Synth Wars
Due to the fact that it has many psychics the tenth legion had very few synthetic troops compared to many of the other legions. This meant that it managed to keep it's legion almost entirely intact in the initial stages of the war, though it suffered losses just like the rest. Due to the fact that it was at full strength it was often pushed in fact to go into the thickest parts of the battles and was brought down to 3/4 strength, though it has mostly recovered since.

The Hardest fought battle occured at Proxima Reach where Legio III was ambushed by Synth and Cygnus forces. Command was at first unwilling to send anyone as it was deemed that the third legion was doomed and an attack on Cygnus command was the more tactically sound option. While the Praetor recognized this wisdom he was not willing to completely abandon Augusta to it's fate and sent a detachment of Lorica to teleport over to the Third Legion and provide them much needed reinforcements. They had already begun to regroup as the Lorica arrived lead by then Prefect Aquila Juventius and together they were able to force a rout while the bulk of the legion pushed through entrenched Cygnus positions and caused an encirclement ending the battle of Proxima Reach. The Thirds legion holding down the bulk of Cygnus troops was instrumental to this battle and the two legions have some of the highest mutual respect of those who made it out of the war.

After the battle of Proxima Reach, Legio X was redeployed several times though they never faced as difficult a battle. By the next few months fighting shifted to small scale skirmishes and the Legion was moved to a counter-insurgency role.

Post-War
When the war had ended the last Praetor who had was already aged decided to retire and was sent off with honors. In his stead the Prefect Aquila Aquila Juventius was raised to Praetorship

Notable Members
Praetor Aquila Aquilarius Juventius

Quaestionarius Aquila Lucrezia Rosenkranz