Editing Gaspard Lumey (section)

====Lumey's hunting hounds====
[[File:1453945795739.png|thumb|right|200px|Sketch of a citizen-soldier fighting for the Republic of Ciban, unknown year.]]
''For years I believed that Jean-Davide was the most extraordinary person I would ever meet.  If I was an outsider to Ciban IV's struggle for liberty, I had at least been raised by these people, loved by them, and joined the fight as an adopted son.  D'Orléans made himself a renegade twice over by joining us and never flinched at the hardships of his decision.''

(Gaspard Lumey, journals)

For Lumey, the line between foreign war and civil war was little more than terminology.  The Primarch understood that the aristocratic states mobilising against the infant Republic were just as unpopular at home as the Gallian monarchy had been.  Therefore, his strategy was decided by a political question: how to break the ordinary people from their leaders?  Lumey's approach was two-fold.  Firstly, he offered an open hand to conscripts in enemy armies, declaring that the Republic bore them no ill-will for their misfortune and pledging assistance to those who deserted.  Secondly, Lumey promised the guillotine to officers of aristocratic heritage, outlining that they were guilty of a crime against two nations for leading armies against the Republic.

Gaspard Lumey threw himself into the organisation of a new army of the Republic.  If officers were in short supply, volunteers for the new army were not.  Lumey's main struggle was in convincing militias from different regions of Gallia to support one another and welding these disparate parts into a unified whole.  One of his most important aides was the remarkable '''Jean-Davide d'Orléans''', a former Marquis and officer in the Royal Army of Gallia who had resigned his commission and surrendered himself to the Republic, pledging that the skills he had acquired for the defence of the nation rightfully belonged to the nation's people.  D'Orléans and the handful of other officers who abandoned the monarchy endured considerable suspicion and harsh measures.  On Lumey's orders, their families were held hostage.  Some protested and refused to serve under such conditions, but d'Orléans persevered, famously remarking, ''"did not the old order hold the families of peasant conscripts hostage for the sake of its wars of ambition?  Surely this new order, which is fighting daily to emancipate the common man, has the right to put a leash on its hunting hounds."''

Although Ciban's revolutionary wars were bloody and long, the Republic's constant and sincere appeals to the ordinary people eroded the foundations of the armies arrayed against them.  Where Republican armies advanced, they found new supporters, willing to give them supplies, intelligence, and sometimes fresh volunteers for their armies.  Where the forces of reaction pushed back, they encountered a surly populace, resentful at their presence and sometimes taking up arms as partisans.  In the professional army, Lumey and d'Orléans were joined by a new generation of military commanders who had risen up through the ranks.  Particularly notable were '''Bulus Tawfeek''', the handsome Fennec cavalryman, and '''Rani Stolarz''', a young woman whose mousey, studious appearance concealed cool courage and military genius.  Tawfeek's lightning tactics were highly successful in liberating the colonial areas of Jolof.  Stolarz is remembered even thousands of years later for her heroic defence of Surville, a turning point in the war against the Kingdom of Occitar. 

The completion of the wars saw the Republic stand alone on Ciban IV as a popular world government.  Unity paved the way to rapid development.  New factories, printing presses, schools, hospitals, aqueducts, roads, and other infrastructure were planned and built for the common good.  Gaspard Lumey laid down his arms gladly.  He returned to his calling as a journalist, documenting his homeworld's new age of prosperity.