Editing Gaspard Lumey (section)

===The Hektor Heresy===

''My Dear Brother,''

''Thank you for the gift. It has been a source of considerable joy to the Legion, both as a reading and in performances organized by our Tribunes. Naturally, I have no disagreement regarding the work's significance and shared your sense of loss on learning that there are thirty works of this remarkable Terran still unknown to us. However, I believe your analysis of the work is quite wrong.  The most important theme is not Brutus' internal conflict between honour and personal loyalty, but the decline of Roman culture. Shakespeare indicates that Brutus represented the ideals of the Republic in its heroic period. Yet by the time of the play, we see this virtuous figure isolated and not enjoying the confidence of the people. That is the essence of the work's '''historical''' tragedy.''

(Except from the "Julius Caesar letter", as collected in Gaspard Lumey's ''Dispatches'')

During the Fifth Legion's long exile in the Galactic Fringe, Gaspard Lumey and Aubrey the Grey made good on the plan to exchange letters, though what was left of their differences was quickly put to bed. Their correspondence proved to be far-reaching, though only Lumey's letters, known as "The Dispatches" are preserved.  The best-known Dispatch, the so-called "Julius Caesar letter", begins with Lumey expressing his gratitude for a copy of Shakespeare's drama. The Primarch then gave his own thoughts on what constitutes the central part of the work, recounts campaign details including tactical experiments against the [[Orks (Hektor Heresy)|Orks]] and passes on a summary of ethnographical and archaeological findings with particular reference to architecture on newly-conquered Dellator. Lumey passed from his reflections with a self-deprecating joke about a senior officer's newborn child "escaping my name by being born female", then expressed his gladness that Aubrey would soon be visiting him in person to explain the recent breakdown in Imperial communications. The letter is dated 008.M31, three years after Hektor's revolt began.

The meeting between Aubrey the Grey and Gaspard Lumey took place at the Fifth Legion's base on Dolsene. It was a sorrowful affair. Aubrey spent two days trying to persuade his exiled brother to join the Traitor camp, then one more spinning a fantasy in which the Eternal Zealots and Winged Victory would return to the Segmentum Solar and forge a peace together. This lie disarmed the Fifth Legion and allowed Aubrey to launch an attempt on Gaspard's life - though thanks to the prowess of the White Knight [[Lord of Bones|Abdul Al-Sherar]], Lumey survived and the Eternal Zealots had to withdraw from Dolsene. As he fell back, Aubrey promised to destroy that which his foes loved best.

Understanding that the fabric of Imperial law was undone and fearing for the people of his homeworld, Gaspard Lumey gathered the host of the Fifth Legion and retraced the steps of their journey into exile. Whatever relief the Primarch felt at finding Ciban IV protected and safe evaporated as the true scope of the galactic crisis was relayed to him by trusted sources. Gaspard dispatched his ships to hunt reaving [[Mastodontii]] warbands and made plans with the Kazi of [[Al-Sherar]] to raise an army of unparalleled scale. What the Primarch had in mind for his armada is lost to history, for his forces contacted the valiant [[Steel Marshals]] and established common cause with the sons of [[Roman Albrecht]]. Together, the two Legions came to the relief of besieged [[Rosskar]], where they met with the remnants of the [[Stone Men]] under the command of [[Onyx the Indestructible]].

At Rosskar, the three Primarchs met and pledged a common cause. Together they would break the Traitor Legions and restore the Emperor's rule, or if their master was fallen, enthrone Roman Albrech as the new emperor of mankind. It is clear from the material balance of forces that Gaspard was not compelled to this decision by force, for records indicate that the Fifth Legion dwarfed their war-weary allies in every category of material. Rather, it was Albrecht's moral character and record of loyalty to the cause of humanity that commanded the loyalty of his brothers. Unified in case with Roman's Steel Marshals and Onyx's Stone Men, Gaspard's newly-dubbed '''Void Angels''' drove into the Solar Segmentum. Their campaign was not decisive, but it bled Traitor forces from the critical battle at Terra and the imminent breakthrough by the three Legions forced Hektor into a desperate gamble and defeat at the Emperor's hand.