Editing Life Bringers (section)

===The New Way===

The primarch began spreading his philosophies throughout the Brothers of Death, rechristening them as the Life Bringers and charging them with a mission to alleviate suffering wherever they went through medicine as well as the merciful administration of death through chemicals. The new way was put to the test during the Cordian campaign, and Vrach showed his skill with chemical bombardments and scouring tactics against a militant and resistant human empire. The Cordian system was brought into the Imperial fold very quickly, and the Life Bringers made short work of the various diseases and famines afflicting its people, fortifying their lands with plants and animals designed for survival, and cleaning every trace of corruption and decay in the systems which governed them. The marines that had been Brothers of Death were unused to spending such a long time among the civilian population, but they soon found their nature to be favorably received by those they sought to relieve.

The lessons learned in the Cordian system was the real beginning of the Life Bringers as a legion of its own, whereas before they had been merely re-branded Brothers of Deaths they now resembled the physician army of their primarch's dream. Though most were grateful for a less harsh way of war, there were many within the 12th who could not change, and some railed against the new order. Johannes Vrach, ever the healer, did his best to hear the concerns of his men, but was unwilling to go against his grand plans in any meaningful way. Slowly, those who were warriors alone were denied recognition in favor of their peers' scientific accomplishments. As was common to those in Vrach's gene-seed, the marginalized legionaries largely kept silent. Many rallied around Theophrastus Salk, but the 2nd Captain was ever loyal and dutiful.