Editing Gaspard Lumey (section)

====Early successes: Markia and Al-Sherar====

Though Gaspard Lumey would become infamous for scouring planets that spurned the Emperor's offer of universal human brotherhood, his first acquisition of new worlds for the Imperium was accomplished without a shot being fired.  In the first months after he was rediscovered by the Emperor and granted a Legion, the Primarch had little in the way of military affairs to occupy his time.  He had undertaken a study of the Imperial way of war and its weaponry, but such matters were not overly difficult and in any case required a certain amount of time to mull over before drawing firm conclusions.  He had also met with his new "Equerry", Antoine Antonelle and judged him a competent man more than able to supervise the transfer of the Fifth's rather modest forces to Ciban IV and the establishment of recruiting centres there.  Rather than simply find busywork or interfere with Antonelle's work, Lumey decided to personally investigate the reports of a small alliance of worlds to the Galactic South-East, supposedly similar in culture and ethics to his own homeworld.

When he arrived on the water world of '''Kouralia''', Lumey made little secret of his origin or purpose for being there.  But he did not immediately demand that [[the Markian Pact]] submit to the Imperium.  Instead he requested permission to travel the worlds of the Pact and speak to ordinary people there, assessing their culture and making clear his own views of the Galaxy.  The Primarch also pledged to avoid any military installations and refrain from espionage.  After a short delay, he was granted travel papers.  The Markians were extremely courteous to Gaspard Lumey.  He was not only given the right to travel.  He was invited to cultural and scientific events, and given many opportunities to lecture both to elite and general audiences.  As he journeyed around the worlds of the Pact, Lumey was greatly impressed by their sophistication and outlook.  He wound up his tour by giving a speech to a joint session of the representatives of the Markian Pact.

The Primarch began with an apology, explaining that it was necessary to tell the representatives much that they already knew so that the basis on which he would make his proposal could be understood.  He then spoke at considerable length on the achievements of the Pact, especially in uplifting the lot of the ordinary citizen.  Lumey rounded out this section of his address by remarking that the kind of society that the Markians had established was what he understood as the goal of the Imperial Truth.  He then made two extraordinary requests.  Firstly, Lumey asked to be granted citizenship of the Markian Pact on the basis that he cherished their liberties and culture and would unhesitatingly fight to protect them.  Secondly, he proposed that the Pact accede to peaceful annexation by the Imperium, that it might best take part in the great task of uniting and uplifting the human race.  The Assembly, greatly impressed by the Primarch, granted his first request unanimously and the second by a considerable majority, then gave three cheers for "Citizen Gaspard" and three more for the future of mankind.

Next, the Primarch set his sights on the worlds of the Al-Sherar sector.  Lumey led the Fifth Legion's few Astartes alongside new Demi-Brigades of mortal soldiers raised from Ciban IV and the Markian Pact in the [[Pacification of the Chwiorydd Hardd]], eliminating an outpost of Xenos slavers.  This act would lead to a [[Al-Sherar Sector War|sector-wide war]] against the Amatteir species, beginning with the invasion of Lumey's homeworld.  The Primarch led his young force of Space Marines in a three-month defensive campaign, but he attributed the Fifth Legion's victory at Ciban IV to the stubborn resistance of the native population.  If this was humility, no amount of modesty could downplay Lumey's audacious counter-offensive and rapid destruction of the Amatteir Empire.