Editing Konstantyn Ibirien (section)

=Early Life=
Konstantyn was born 17 years after the arrival of the Emperor, in the year 872.M30. At the age of six his parents were murdered in a suicide car bombing by democratic insurgents on Rosskar. For the next seven years he never leave the side of his Great Uncle [[Alexandri of Rosskar|Alexandri]]. The Regent of Rosskar intended to groom the lad for command from the start of his guardianship. Konstantyn would become an Astartes, replacing the current Legionary Commander Sergei upon finishing Alexandri's elaborate training program laid before him. During the opening stages of puberty however, the Apothecaries of the [[Silver Cataphracts]] learned that Konstantyn was incompatible with the gene-seed and would not survive implantation. 


Rather abruptly, Konstantyn was removed from Alexandri. He came into the service as a functionary of Geveska Trilyen, the current Supreme Commander of Rosskar. His role as one of the countless aides attached to the Commander taught the teenager of all the minutiae involved in keeping the Strelky operational. He was able to observe the transformation of the Auxilia into a true fighting force. As he grew into adulthood, Alexandri oddly stepped in. A constant supply of rejuvenants were fed to Konstantyn, to keep him youthful and spry. Most of the treatments only stall the aging process, but for the son of House Ibirien it kept him at the age of twenty well into his advanced centuries.


At age thirty-five, Alexandri ordered his former ward Konstantyn to several key locations across the emerging Imperium. His first journey was to [[Ciban IV|Ciban]], greeted right away at arrival by the [[Ciban Chasseurs|Auxilia]] of the [[Void Angels|Winged Victory]] Legion. Here the journeying Konstantyn spoke at length with ''Force Commander'' '''Rani Stolarz''', who introduced him to the ''Speaker of the Assembly'' '''Lamya Samson''' along with numerous chairmen and women of the governmental subcommittees. His experiences on the planet drove the future commander to achieve a level of excellence he thought impossible of him before. But a dangerous seed of discontent towards Alexandri began to grow within him, as he learned of the great composer Francoise Appaz. He had crafted a piece very unflattering towards the local Primarch decades before discovery by the Emperor, yet he and all his children were never punished. 


The freedoms of Ciban amazed him to that extent, that he would not rest till his home Rosskar could be as true and liberated.


He traveled next to Tisenjoch which was the home of the [[Mastodontii]], fostering a bond with many commanders of the Legion that were shattered during the [[The Campaign Of Astral Woe|Lenard Depths Campaign]]. His next visit was to Terra, meeting with dozens of Legates who commanded vast amounts of troops in the Solar Auxilia. He observed the growing heart of the mighty Imperium he would one day fight to maintain. He attempted to arrange a meeting with Malcador, but was rebuked harshly in a private correspondence sent from the Imperial Palace. He went next to Sepulchra, faced with several complications on his attempts to actually meet a Primarch for the first time. Several of [[The Entombed|the Entombed]] welcomed him to take part in there chilling rituals. After months of waiting going from one procession to the next, he was allowed to speak to the legendary [[Golgothos]]. He never once spoke of what went on in the conversation; but several people note that again just like with Ciban, Konstantyn was not the same after his trip there.


Though he would meet more Primarchs in his later travels, such as [[Arelex Orannis]] and the Emperor's Champion himself [[Kleisthenes]], Konstantyn's personal conversations amounted to little. What was important was experience gained from witnessing and learning of the countless and varied military forces at work in the Great Crusade. Few travel across the stars as he had, seeking out knowledge hungrily. He had seen the [[The Kondrus Aeroguard|Aeroguard]] execute flawless for aerial drills, the well timed assaults of [[The Crusaders|the Crusaders]], the unending resolve of the [[Stone Men]]. It taught him of the Imperial Army and Astartes Legions in equal measure.


In the closing years of the Great Crusade, and the beginning of the Hektor Heresy, this knowledge would come to serve Konstantyn well.