Editing Void Angels (section)

=Culture=

''I have heard that many brothers are unsettled by the news that a Lord of the Imperium has come to Dolsene to do us harm.  Not just any Lord, but one who shed his blood alongside us.  But in truth, I don't think Aubrey the Grey's intentions are any ill for the Legion at all.  He has said only that he means to destroy us!  Wasn't the Legion destroyed once at San Angelus, two centuries past?  Wasn't it destroyed again at Pandora, near enough a hundred years later?  The Zealot's boast is nothing more than the changing of the seasons.''

- Mai Dac Kien, excerpt from address to his troops on the eve of the Battle of Dolsene.

From their beginnings, the Fifth Legion were set apart from the other Space Marines but oddly close to the rest of humanity.  They found it easy to fraternise with the Imperial Army - or even civilians! - but looked on the sons of other Primarchs with some suspicion.  Many Legionnaires maintained hobbies that would have been considered wildly eccentric in other Legions, such as acting and photojournalism.  And though they were quiet about the point, the Fifth's allegiance to the Emperor was always conditional, a loyalty to the ideas and not the man.

Their spirit of rational inquiry struggled to deal with the madness of the Warp.  Jeffrey Dinola's Librarus slowly established regularities even in irrationality, but their pain-staking work was done under the strictest supervision.  The Legion's hatred of the [[Black Augurs]] was almost elemental and did little to endear psykers to the sons of Lumey.

Despite the bitterness of the Hektor Heresy, the Void Angels never felt the need to drastically alter the beliefs and methods that they had cherished during the Great Crusade.  Even ten thousand years later, the Chapter still believes firmly in the old Imperial Truth and sees itself as a guardian of the Emperor's great vision of a united Humanity ascendant over the stars.  The old-fashioned beliefs of the Void Angels sometimes raise eyebrows in other parts of the Imperium, especially as the sons of Gaspard Lumey still hold that the denizens of the warp are merely ill-understood xenos of an extraordinary nature, rather than fundamentally different creatures.

==Notable Domains==
Despite their slow start in the [[Great Crusade (Hektor Heresy)|Great Crusade]], the Fifth established a secure base in the '''[[Al-Sherar Sector]]'''.  Their exile to the galactic fringe proved less fruitful, but the Void Angels still found some places of refuge and support at the edge of the Galaxy.

*'''[[Ciban IV]]'''.  Gaspard Lumey's homeworld is a hospitable planet, often compared favourably to a young Terra.  The Void Angels are recognised by the Imperium as the world's feudal overlords, but on Ciban they recognise the elected civilian government as their superior.  This unusual arrangement has aroused suspicion, but it is effective, generating a steady supply of gifted recruits for the Void Angels and a great mass of mortal regiments (or ''Demi-Brigades'', in the local dialect).

*'''[[The Markian Pact]]'''.  Close to Ciban IV and culturally similar, the worlds of the Markian Pact were quick to accept Gaspard Lumey and made great sacrifices for his cause.

*'''[[Dolsene Rifles|Dolsene]]'''.  Although the Fifth took with them the great city-ship ''Light of Reason'' into exile, it was critical that they establish a base of operation in the Galactic fringe.  Months of crusading, fighting against the [[Orks (Hektor Heresy)|orks]] and other [[Xenos of the Hektor Heresy|xenos]] that inhabited these reaches, finally turned up a human world that had defied the terrors of Old Night.  Dolsene's inhabitants were proud of their resilience and their traditions, and greeted the Void Angels dourly, but accepted an audience with Gaspard Lumey.  If the Primarch had hoped to be received with the same rapture that the Markian Pact worlds exhibited, he was sorely disappointed.  Dolsene accepted its annexation into the Imperium in 005.M31 without a shot being fired, but its tough people would not hold up Gaspard Lumey as their idol.  Nonetheless, much came of their co-operation.  Factories aboard the ''Light of Reason'' helped to upgrade Dolsene's production facilities, and the Void Angels set up orbital fortifications.  In return, Dolsene tithed troops to Lumey's crusade.

==Decorations==
The Fifth Legion developed its own system of medals and awards.  All of the soldiers who fought under Lumey's banner were eligible for the same awards, and it was not unusual for the Astartes and Auxilia to be recognised in the same ceremonies.

*  The '''Markian Star''' was awarded to soldiers who showed conspicuous courage in the line of duty.  It was famously given to the planet Ciban IV during the Al-Sherar Sector War in recognition of the stubborn civilian resistance.

==Notable Members==

'''[[Antoine Antonelle]]''' was the first Master of the Legion and became Equerry to Gaspard Lumey after the Primarch's rediscovery.

'''Augustin Carron, b. 851.M30 (Saint-Vercy, Ciban IV)''' was the second Equerry of the Fifth Legion and later the Chapter Master of [[the Mercurials]].  He was a brilliant commander, particularly famed for his lightning campaign in the Varrian Reach.  Carron was a child of Gaspard Lumey's homeworld, [[Ciban IV]] and carried many of that planets virtues.  He was cultured and well-read, and a firm believer in the dignity of human life.  Yet he had also been a boy at the time of the [[Al-Sherar Sector War]] and witnessed the Invasion of Ciban IV at the beginning of that conflict.  Carron's visceral hatred of Xenos never quite clouded his judgment, but it would leave its mark on the Mercurials.

'''[[Fabrice Diallo]]''' was a vigorous commander and hero of the Great Crusade.  He went on to lead the [[Angels Imperious]] Second Founding Chapter.

'''[[Uli Dreier]]''' was the Legion's first major field commander, serving alongside the Steel Marshals with great distinction.

'''Jeffrey Dinola, b. 845.M30 (CH-4)'''  He was a former slave, rescued from CH-4 and inducted into the Fifth Legion after being found to have an outstanding psychic talent.  Dinola's prodigious abilities required him to be tutored by the [[Eyes of the Emperor]], as Winged Victory lacked Librarians of their own.  On his return, the young marine was assigned the daunting title of Chief Librarian of the Legion, a responsibility he would uphold with honour until the [[Council of Nikaea (Hektor Heresy)|Council of Nikaea]].  At that conclave, Dinola spoke ahead of Gaspard Lumey, trialling what he believed to be the Primarch's position of a carefully monitored Librarium.  Although he was shocked by Lumey's damning revelations, Dinola accepted that the truth had to be told and took his demotion to ordinary battle brother with good grace.

'''Unai Garrastazu, b. 808.M30 (Terra), d. 857.M30 (Egaleco)'''  A Terran-born Legionnaire and early commander.  He was killed on Egaleco during the [[Al-Sherar Sector War]].

'''Kesh Kanak, b. 810.M30 (Sol system)''' Born to a spacer line who had plied the short trade routes within the Solar System for thousands of years, Kanak hardly set foot on a planet until he took part in a trial of aspirants shortly after his eleventh birthday.  Though recognised as prodigiously gifted among his own people, the youth was seen as merely adequate for the Adeptus Astartes and assigned to the ill-fated Fifth Legion.  But as he underwent the painful process of becoming a Space Marines, Kanak benefited from the personal oversight of the Legion's master, Antoine Antonelle, who saw that his peculiar heritage would bring something special to the Fifth.  It would be decades before that plan bore fruit, decades in which Kesh Kanak learned the arts of war and gained the confidence of his battle brothers.  Once the Primarch Gaspard Lumey was rediscovered and the Fifth became a significant supply priority, Antonelle did not hesitate to put forward Kanak to supervise the rapid expansion of the Legion's naval arm.  It was an astute decision, as time would prove the advantage of a commander who had grown up in an environment with no up or down.  Kanak not only guided his own commands to stirring victories, as against the Harakien Eldar Empire at Gelden, but established the Fifth Legion's naval doctrine.  In the Second Founding, he was tasked with guiding the new [[Angels Vigilant]] Chapter.

'''Mai Dac Kien, b. 831.M30 (Ciban IV), d. 812.M31 (Ciban IV)'''  Slow to speak but both quick-witted and a deep thinker, Mai Dac Kien distinguished himself in the Fifth Legion's Victualary as a data analyst and in the field of battle.  He eventually rose to become the first Chapter Master of the Void Angels after the reforms of the Institutorum Astartes.  He first came to the attention of the Legion's commanders during the battle of Egaleco in the Al-Sherar Sector War.  Mai had infiltrated the planet ahead of the main advance, and helped to salvage a bad situation after the death of commander Unai Garrastazu.  Later, as a Sergeant, he would be responsible for preparing the Legion's situation report ahead of the Curis-4 Compliance.  Mai's last act as Chapter Master of the Void Angels was to close the Nova Terra debates on Ciban IV.

'''Joso Nikolić''' commanded the cruiser ''Ténacité'' during the opening stages of the Al-Sherar Sector War.