Editing Gaspard Lumey (section)

====The late crusade: on the brink of crisis====
[[File:Darius Cyaxares.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Shakya Vardhana]], master of the Eyes of the Emperor]]
While absent from the struggle with the Orks of Ullanor and the Triumph at their capital world, Lumey won the Imperium an immense prize.  The '''Core Worlds Confederation''' had long been the "second state" of humanity in the [[Galaxy (Hektor Heresy)|Galaxy]], spanning many rich systems and formidably armed.  Their rulers had not bowed to threats of force or supplications of reason and remained independent for decades.  But with the assistance of [[Shakya Vardhana]] and his [[Eyes of the Emperor]], the Fifth Legion raced through the [[Core Worlds Campaign]], winning a tremendous bounty of men and industry to the Great Crusade.  To Hektor, still selling the lives of his battle brothers, the news came as a smack in the face.

Still flush with the prestige of the Core Worlds Campaign, Gaspard Lumey travelled to the [[Council of Nikaea (Hektor Heresy)|Council of Nikaea]].  Initially intending to support Shakya Vardhana's policy of moderation, Lumey was provoked by the Voidwatcher and swung sharply to an anti-psyker position in order to humble his rival.  The only long-term success of this policy was the warmth with which [[Arelex Orannis]] received Lumey's turn of position.  While the Black Augurs were disgraced at Nikaea, their master would avenge himself the next year by calling for an investigation of the Core Worlds Campaign.  Lumey found himself answering an interrogation by warlords he had alienated in past years, but he was largely unconcerned with their accusations.  Shakya Vardhana, acting more as counsel for the defence than fellow accused, was left to plead a case while Lumey limited himself to matter of fact answers.  In the end, no wrong-doing was discovered.  Hektor Cincinnatus, speaking on behalf of the War Council as a whole, pronounced that the destruction wrought by the Fifth Legion "regrettable" and dispatched Lumey's entire force to the thinly-populated fringe of the Galaxy.

If Lumey saw this as a punishment - and in his writings he claimed that he did not - the blow may have been lessened by Aubrey the Grey attempting a reconciliation after the investigation.  Aubrey apologised for his heated behaviour at Lazarus and explained that he had come to see the righteousness of acting for part of a greater goal than one's own personal preferences.  Before Lumey could reply, the Primarch of the Eternal Zealots added that he did not expect to be forgiven on the spot, but hoped that the two could make use of the Fifth Legion's exile to work out their differences in letters, so that they might embrace one another as brothers when they saw one another again.