Editing The Saracens (section)

===Background===

Salah Yusuf was recruited to the Fifth Legion from the wild parts of Gaspard Lumey's native Fennechia.  Unlike the Primarch, he grew up in a tribe still nomadic and semi-lawless, learning the arts of horsemanship and hunting on the arid Fennec plains.  After his warlike father was killed in a skirmish with the authorities, Yusuf was put in the care of his maternal uncle, who taught the youth a little patience and discipline.  Rather than carry on the futile struggle for a dying way of life, Salah Yusuf sought to enlist in the military academies of Ciban.  Testing quickly revealed his phenomenal aptitudes and a genetic scan indicated a high compatibility with Fifth Legion geneseed, seeing the youth brought to the '''Collegium Majoris''' for implantation.

If the physical difficulties were bad enough, the requirement to conform with the ideals of Gaspard Lumey chafed at the young nomad's spirit.  Salah Yusuf could accept the virtues of human betterment and liberty (especially his own), but despite his native intelligence he detested book-learning.  Only superlative results in physical testing and an acceptance of the core Imperial Truth kept the aspirant in the Legion - and nobody expected that he would amount to much more than a Battle Brother.