Editing Lyster Larrey (section)

===The Wanderer===
In the end, Larrey could not remain at Crater City forever. There was nothing there for a Magos Biologis to do, beyond ensuring that candidates for Servitorization were in optimum condition. In the vast expanses of the Great Crusade, there would plenty of work for a disgraced lord of the Ordo Biologis. So Larrey bid Luthier farewell and boarded a newly constructed Martian Cruiser, bound for the cutting edge of the Great Crusade.

The records of Larrey’s years between his departure from Crater City and his arrival within the ranks of the XIIth Legion are largely lost to us, for though it is known Larrey kept meticulous records of himself, they were all lost when he fell, and no copies have thus far been found. However in the countless fragmentary logs of the myriad battlegroups, scout fleets and compliance formations of the Great Crusade a fragmentary record can be pieced together.

Larrey first ended up as the senor Magos Biologis of the Taghmata Zoprone, a formation attached to the 119th Expeditionary Fleet fighting to break the Ork Empire of Zaragtz. At first his position was to monitor and maintain the biological components of Servitors and Tech-Thralls, as far a fall from the lofty heights of the Astartes Project as possible. However his talents soon brought him out of the workshops and onto the battlefield as both a medic and an advisor. It was here that he first gained an understanding of Ork Biology, and he certainly believed that certain aspects of Ork Physiology could be reproduced to enhance the physical strength and pain resistance of Astartes. There were no Marines of any sort in the 119th, so Larrey never had a chance to share this theory or attempt to move it beyond the theoretical, and in any case he chafed under the dead end he found himself in. His name was no longer on the records for the Taghmata Zoprone after the fall of Zaragtz.

His next confirmed appearance ten years later was as an Explorator in the fleet of Rogue Trader Helori Le Gall, Granddaughter of the famous Visant Le Gall. Though Larrey rarely stayed in any one place long, his service for the Le Galls was the single longest unbroken period of time spent in any one place. For fifteen years he faithfully served the Le Galls as they drove forward the boundaries of the Imperium, and Larrey made many reports of the various Xenospecies encountered by the Weatherman and reports about how certain worlds might affect human physiology in the long term. It is believed that Larrey himself was the one who finally cut ties with the Le Galls and once more vanished into the wilderness of contested space, unable to stay put any longer. Despite the circumstances of his departure, even until the Rebellion a pict of him remained in the grand hall of the Weatherman and he was spoken of fondly by Helori Le Gall before her own untimely death.

The next definitive record of him is as a senor medical officer on the blasted killing fields of Testroetera during the bloody climax of the Third Ruavu Grun xenocide, as the Imperium sought to roll back the tide and reclaim the galactic north from the Extragalactic invaders. Testroetera was one of the bloodiest battles the Imperium ever fought before the horrors of the Rebellion, and the best estimates say up to a billion men and women of the Imperial Army died keeping a vast host of the enemy pinned down while the Legions pushed ever deeper into the occupied north. Larrey’s skills with biology made him a highly effective doctor, and he ended up as commander of an entire Mobile Army Hospital Complex, the 8063rd. The horrors of that battlefield can now only be guessed at, but by his example Larrey was able to have the single lowest death rate in his Hospital Unit. A single record by a Captain Macquarie who served in the 8063rd is the only testament of that time, and Macquarie wrote that Larrey was almost completely detached from the horror around him, acting like he was in a hospital far from any fighting and unphased by even the most horrific wounds. Though Larrey was little liked for his cold, emotionless attitude he was respected by those under his command and Macquarie said that Larrey’s example helped him survive the ordeal. Larrey resigned his position after the battle was over and once more disappeared.

For nearly sixty years Larrey drifted from service to service and place to place across the Great Crusade’s frontiers. His name was largely forgotten across Mars. Even the Ordo Biologis he once headed only knew him as ‘Larrey the Lunatic’, who was responsible for ending Martian involvement in the Legion Expansion program and ensuring that it would be almost completely dominated by the Selenar of Luna. Larrey could very well have perished on some nameless world or in the dark depths of Space, forgotten and unlamented. But as fate would have it one had heard his name and wanted his services. And that one was one of the Emperor’s eighteen sons.