Editing Ataulf Sachs (section)

===Genewright-Bailiff===

As was common with the orphans found by the Imperial forces during the Unification wars, Sachs received an offering to take military training to become an officer in the young Imperial Army, but he decided to decline it. His true passion lied with biology and geneurgy, so he asked for an apprenticeship with the Genewright guild instead, which he was granted. Already quite knowledgeable from his extensive reading in the House of Smiles, Sachs quickly became a star student and surpassed all of his teachers one by one. His colleagues kept guessing what drove the young man's insatiable curiosity, but none knew the true answer. His difficult youth gave Sachs a zealous hatred of mutants and abhumans of all kinds as well as a dream to one day correct all of the mutations and genetic flaws found in humans and make his race perfect. A bold aspiration, for sure, but young Ataulf worked hard to achieve it. Whenever the Imperial forces managed to recover ancient dataslates containing information on genetic engineering, he was the first to study them and try his new knowledge in practise. In several years, he rose up to become the Bailiff of his guild and Terra's foremost authority on geneurgy. Even the Emperor himself consulted with him on the matters concerning genetic engineering.

Inevitably, Sachs became one of the primary architects of the Adeptus Astartes project. He did not approve of his master's idea to create a race of genetically enhanced humans to help him conquer the Galaxy, as Sachs abhorred all deviations from the perfection of the human genome. But his loyalty was out of question, and he joined the Master of Mankind in his effort to make a perfect supersoldier. While the Emperor was certainly the main creative force behind the project and came up with most of the features, Sachs cleaned up after his liege, painstakingly searching for any defects and imperfections and removing them. It was largely thanks to his hard work that the Space Marines came out much more stable than the Thunder Warriors. Although he did not manage to weed out every single genetic flaw for every type of geneseed, he came close enough to make the Adeptus Astartes a reliable force that could sustain a centuries-long crusade.