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Golden Legion
Overview
Objectives:	Imperial Conquerers
Commander(s):	Emperor Zor Supreme Commander Xar'aram Primus Tlor, the Merciless Primus Prime Ar'cruun Qodan, the Luminous Polymath Golor, Supreme Technocrat Bracus Khoch
Keep(s):	The Infernal Warbase Ares (formerly) Firebase Hades Excavation Site VII
Deployed:	Sol

The Golden Legion are a Cabal detachment and legion that act as the direct force of the Cabal Praetorate. Their commander, Zor, was once a previous emperor long before the reign of Calus, who sought to use the legion to conquer the entire universe in his name. But, when Calus purged the Praetorate, the legion would splinter and disband. Now, their leaders seek to rise to their former glory by banding together, in order to bring their Praetorate Emissaries, Statesman and Loyalists to their cause to reforge the Golden Legion back to its former glory.

History

Origins

Being one of the oldest living Cabal Legions, the Golden Legion had predated Calus's regime by several decades or rather centuries. It had been formed by the Cabal Praetorate's high command, Emperor Ganag Zor to be his personal army and the will of the Praetorate, thus the Cabal Empire.

While a majority of its history had been scrubbed from the Cabal's ancient history, it would be recorded within the legion's data stores. They had been mentioned to have conquered and/or destroyed thousands of planets under what they called the "Golden Fleet" and its munitions. Many of the worlds that were conquered were enslaved and many of those who disobeyed suffered a similar fate like those brought by the Red Legion centuries later.

Reign of the Emperor

Due to the corrupt will of the Cabal Praetorate and their Legion, the people staged an uprising in the form of Emperor Calus and his Loyalist regime. Much of the legion was forced to disband or went into hiding in Zor's case who managed to survive a manhunt and the death of the Cabal Council. In secret Zor and his remaining emissaries would hide in the shadows, corrupting Calus's own court from the inside. Many of whom were reluctant to join Zor's cause to reform the Golden Legion as Calus's own greed had seemingly surpassed that of Zor's previous reign as Emperor.

Zor would also help the Consul in raising the youthful and albino-born Ghaul in order to become the war machine to start the chain of events that would lead to the end of Emperor Calus. Eventually his emissaries of revenge varied from Calus's own bodyguard Lictor Shayotet the Psion Freeborn Otzot, chief of festivities Aedile Moli Imoli, commander of all legions Umun'arath, the imperial tea seller Iska'al and Calus's own daughter Caiatl.

Rise of a Dominus

The Legion would begin to conspire against Calus through the Consul and Zor, turning many of those that were close to the Emperor against him. They would also tempt an albino orphan in order to become a vehicle to stage a coup against Calus in his court. They managed to lead a successful coup but were unable to kill Calus due to his popularity and instead exiled him and numerous Loyalists aboard the Leviathan prison ship on a course to the outer regions of the Empire.

Instead of reinstating the Cabal Praetorate to their original glory, the albino child Ghaul titled himself as Dominus of the Cabal Empire and proclaimed that there would be no emperors. This in fact infuriated the Cabal Praetorate and their leader, Zor, who attempted to battle him but Ghaul proved to be more strong willed than him and the Cabal Council. With Ghaul's new empire growing to become superior than that of Calus,' the Golden Legion and its traditions fell into obscurity, their fleets torn down to make way for a new line of frigates, built for quick and swift combat against the enemies of the empire.

Skyburner's Folly

Believed to have arrived after the death of Ghaul, remnants of the Scout Legions of Zor's Empire infiltrated the ranks of the Cabal Skyburners. Valus Pae'gor being one of the more prominent commanders within their ranks as one of their Vals along with a Psion Flayer by the name of Erkos. They relayed information from the Sol Scout Legions to the Cabal Praetorate of the construction of Cabal fortresses on Io, Nessus, Mercury, Mars and Phobos and their studies of the other races within the Solar System. Pae'gor and his troops were ordered to infiltrate the Reef by hollowing out an asteroid by the designated name 3 Juno, eventually turning it into a mobile fortress and fleet manufacturing depot.

War in Red

Two years after the Taken War, the Cabal's Red Legion arrived in the Solar System to respond to the distress call of the Skyburners which led to a successful surprise attack on the Last City. The Golden Legion forces accompanied Ghaul's fleet while Zor and his chosen managed to set up a base within one of the Last City's old temples. After the full occupation of the Last City, Zor and his accomplices conversed with each other and how they could manipulate Ghaul to their favor and bring the Praetorate to their former glory.

After the Red Legion's numerous defeats during the onset of the Red War, and the later deactivation of the Almighty, Zor himself boarded Ghaul’s command ship to inform the Consul about the recent events. Moments later, Zor noticed Ghaul walking out of his Throneroom without the Consul, and wanting to investigate, he found the corpse of his old friend and the Speaker lying on the floor of the room. Horrified, Zor commanded his troops to leave the Last City and their support fleet, equally demoralizing security and leaving an opening for the Guardians to breach into the Last City.

Days later, the Praetorate would get the news of the Dominus's death, most cheered over his death as it led and opening for them, all apart from their prodigy Val of the Red Legion, Ca'uor. He wanted the Red Legion to "pillage the spoils of the system" while the Praetorate wanted to reform the empire to their favor, and much like Ghaul before him, he overpowered their rule, ordering the Red Legion to invade Mercury and Mars for their resources. After the Red Legion's failure to secure proper Vex and Clovis Bray tech, Zor held a slight belief and new plan, later bequeathed an idea to Ca'uor to invade the Leviathan and claimed it for themselves.

While the attack led to an utter failure by the death of Ca'uor and the destruction of a majority of his fleet, Zor there was no one left to take control over the Empire, seeing himself as the last remaining candidate. Around the same time, the Legion would make make contact and reconnect with the apprentice of Bracus Zahn, Bracus Khoch, whom was exiled due to one of his past failures to destroy a Hive fleet. While they ignored the fact that he was exiled, he was reinstated into the Empire and was made as the de-facto leader of the Cabal Armsdealers, eventually developing the Scorch Project, which acted as a combination of a Cabal Scorpius and their mighty Goliath Tanks.

The Black Armory/The Golden Empire

Months after the death of the Kell's Scourge, the Golden Legion began to steal the information and technology of the Black Armory from their remnants, they had managed to complete their Blight containment project with Bank Replicas. They would employ the former Flayer of Skyburners, Erkos, as would be instated into the Golden Legion as the head of their Blight tech research. Unbeknownst to the rest of the legion, Erkos' research led to an even greater danger than what they could have ever imagine.

The legion would turn their eyes towards the Martian surface, the deserted plains of the Tangled Shore, and the ancient ruins of Io. On Mars they took up shop by erecting an enormous fortress called Warbase Ares and what was described by Archborn Qodan as, "It defies the very laws of nature itself." In the Tangled Shore]] they managed to sneak their way into [[Diaviks Mine in order to make a foothold and steal whatever they could find through the use of "Hoarder Legionaries." On Io they began a major excavation project in order to siphon the Blight infecting the planet from Terrabase Chiron in order to fill their Replica Banks.

Mind-Flayed

following their construction of Ares, Erkos would become one of the Taken and eventually lead an assault on the Martian base. Although the Golden Legion repelled as many Taken as the could, they were quickly overwhelmed by Taken Ascendants and were forced to abandon Warbase Ares which allowed the Taken to tear into the surface of Mars once again. As it turned out, Zor kept a hold of an ancient Hive artifact from his Praetorian Era that allowed Erkos who had been taken during his experiments, to infiltrate the base’s central spire. Since the assault, the strange artifact began to whisper to Zor, driving out whatever sanity was within him out.

Gallery

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  Aged symbol of the Golden Legion

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  Banner of the Golden Legion

Trivia

• The Golden Legion is one of if not the largest legion to ever enter into Sol.
  • This may be due to the fact that fractions of the Red Legion were a part of the Golden Legion.
• The Legion is by far the oldest to ever be encountered by the Guardians, predating Calus's Loyalists and the Red Legion.