Editing Hektor Heresy (section)

===Battle of Felton's Gap===

Before losing contact with the Steel Marshals, Cromwald Walgrun set in motion a plot to kill or at least gravely wound Roman Albrecht. The Lion of Sommesgard was an outstanding swordsman in his own right, but he had no intention of crossing blades with his warlike brother. Instead, Walgrun planned to deploy a trio of Hezeyar assassins. Assisting in this effort would be the traitor Gustav Wild, a warrior from the Steel Marshals who had defected to Hektor's service at the Olmer Conference.  Wild had already provided key insights into Roman Albrecht's strategic decision-making, helping to set the trap of the Lion's Cordon. According to the traitor, the Steel Marshals would be most likely to make a sharp course change once they realised the scope of the cordon. Wild saw the Marshals' two most likely destinations as the Atalantos Sector in the Ultima Segmentum and the Al-Sherar Sector in Segmentum Pacificus, but could not pick one or the other. Even had Hektor not commanded the Lions Rampant to muster near Sol for the attack on Terra, the window for attacking the Lord-Knight was closing. Gustav Wild also predicted that the Steel Marshals would split their forces into two groups, each protecting a group of astropaths capable of projecting a short-range beacon for warp navigation. Quick-moving Warp Runners were able to confirm this suspicion: a portion of the Steel Marshals fleet had entered the Warp from the Hebex System while the rest remained in-system to protect a warp beacon on the Feudal World Felton's Gap. Long-distance auspex indicated that the Marshals were encamped at a feudal castle and had butressed its medieval stone with modern plascrete.

Cromwald Walgrun guessed that his brother would take personal command in the more dangerous role, guarding his Legion's withdrawal, and immediately issued orders for an attack on Felton's Gap. Taking advantage of the talents of the Xenos Hezeyar to move swiftly through the Warp, the Lions Rampant broke Warp in the Hebex System with the Marshals still encamped about their beacon. As the Traitor fleet moved toward Felton's Gap, Roman Albrecht ordered his outnumbered fleet commanders to avoid battle, reasoning that his warships were better used threatening the Lions Rampant during their planetary assault than in a futile engagement in open space. This prudent strategy forced the Lions to slowly conduct landings far from the Steel Marshals concentrations, then expend their fuel reserves moving overland to attack. If the Lions Rampant attack had been in earnest, Roman's strategy would have limited their mobility and forced the traitors to fight a static battle of the type favoured by the Steel Marshals. Unfortunately, despite the scale of forces deployed to Felton's Gap, Cromwald Walgrun's attack was only intended to occupy his brother's attention.

The decisive stroke was delivered by the Hezeyar assassins. These strange creatures ritually ended their own lives to bring forth a trio of powerful Slaaneshi daemons. The Neverborn sought out Roman Albrecht in his borrowed keep and attacked the Primarch. Few creatures in the Galaxy could hold their own against three Greater Daemons - but Roman Albrecht was among them. The Lord-Knight met his foes' unnatural prowess with the skill and speed of a thousand men. Honor's Blade struck down one of the three before the Primarch's bodyguard were even aware of the attack, and a second swiftly followed. The third of the would-be assassins fled in search of an easier target. Tragically, the daemon was able to slaughter many of the astropaths who laboured at their psychic beacon before Roman Albrecht could catch it. As the Traitor forces withdrew from Felton's Gap, the Steel Marshals pressed their Librarians to take the place of the fallen astropaths. This desperate effort saved some of the Marshals' ships traveling the Warp, but others were lost forever.