Editing Wilmut Sachs (section)

===The Asclepeion===

Near the end of the Unification Wars, the Imperial strategists started preparing for the imminent Great Crusade. It was clear to all that it would require a very different approach from the one used during the Wars, but very few generals had any idea what exactly to expect. In this atmosphere of uncertainty, the suggestions from the veterans were listened to with great attention, particularly those coming from such distinguished individuals as Edentis Pneuren. He stressed the utmost importance of field medicine, arguing it to be one of the key success factors in any battle. His words resonated with Hektor Cincinnatus, who ordered to open the Asclepeion, a medical school for the Space Marines aimed to prepare them for the Great Crusade.

The school was staffed with some of the best physicians and genetors found in the young Imperium, but a headmaster befitting of such an establishment was not so easily found. Ultimately, the genetors suggested [[Lyster Larrey]], an Adept Biologis of Mars for this role. Larrey was glad to accept the invitation, for it gave him a highly coveted opportunity to study the biology of the Space Marines. As expected, both Pneuren and Sachs were star students in the Asclepeion, but it was the latter who quickly became Larrey's pet. The adept admired young Wilmut's burning curiosity, innovative mindset and craving for experimentation, for these qualities reminded him of himself. Although Pneuren was bz all accounts a superior and more diligent physician, it was with Sachs that Larrey spent a lot of hours in his laboratory, performing experiments that could be charitably described as extracurricular. Nevertheless, this did nothing to damage the firm friendship between Sachs and Pneuren; if anything, their time together in the Asclepeion only made their bond tighter.

While Larrey was by all means a formative influence on Sachs, the opposite is true to a certain extent as well. It was him who suggested to the adept that the positions of a field medic and a geneseed caretaker should be merged into one due to the abundant overlaps between the two. Larrey relayed the proposal to Hektor and suggested the name Apothecary for this new position. The Primarch found it to his liking and ordered the founding of the Apothecarion. Sachs and Pneuren were the very first Apothecaries to graduate from the Asclepeion, although their skill sets were quite different at this point. Edentis grew to become a peerless physician, while Wilmut deepened his knowledge of gene manipulation, which he fully intended to use for the glory of Mankind.