Void Angels

Summary of Legion V

The Void Angels have long been the most suspect of the Loyalist Space Marines. Their forces scarcely fought in the Heresy, Gaspard Lumey refused to divide his legion, nor is there any record of the Primarch's death or disappearance. Some say he still lives, and every teller of such tales has a new and more outlandish location for Lumey's eternal chamber. Behind the fanciful stories is a grain of truth. The Void Angels' primarch spends decades at a time in stasis, emerging unpredictably to judge, and execute, the current First Consul.

Legion Tactics

All of the Astartes are instruments of the Emperor's wrath, but to the Void Angels it is not enough to destroy the enemy. They seek to prove the futility of opposing the Empire - and its terrible cost. The many atrocities carried out by the Void Angels have often attracted censure and complaint, but none can deny their effectiveness.

Legion Equipment

Gaspard Lumey, Primarch of The Void Angels

Appearance

Lumey is broad-shouldered and olive-skinned. His face, framed by dark curls, has a high forehead, prominent nose, and expressive, thoughtful eyes.

While other Primarchs far exceed Lumey's ability to inspire trust, loyalty and respect, he is the master of sowing suspicion, envy and discontent. When speaking he often emphasises his points by gesture. He rolls his eyes and sneers so often that these expressions are almost habit.

Youth

Raised on a relatively civilized world, the young Primarch's first career was as a journalist, condemning the monarchs and aristocrats that ruled Ciban. As unrest grew, Lumey was thrust to the fore as the leader of a popular rebellion, quickly developing skills as a general and statesman. Though he refused to be installed as an autocrat, Lumey's presence and ability dominated the newborn republic of Ciban.

The Coming of The Emperor

As Speaker of Ciban's Senate, Lumey was one of the first citizens to learn of an approaching vessel. He insisted that the public had to be informed immediately and gave a great speech to the Senate in which he announced the coming of these "Angels of the Void".

The Emperor approached Lumey openly, explaining their relationship by way of introduction. This did not convinced the Primarch, who began to question his father on his views of morality. Their debate, which lasted three days, was collected in a series of texts entitled "On Virtue", and remains a popular source of instruction for Imperial administrators.

The Great Crusade

The Void Angels racked up a fearsome reputation for ruthlessness during the Great Crusade. They consistently met resistance with brutality, punishing those who dared to defy the Emperor as an object lesson for other peoples.

At the Council of Nikaea, Lumey took the podium to demand strict regulations of psykers. However his bitterness towards The Voidseer drove his case into extremism and a universal condemnation of "any and all traffic with the Irrational."

The Heresy

Lumey's open contempt for the other Primarchs put the Void Angels in a unique position during the Heresy. Nobody at all sought their aid, leaving the Legion to sift through the news reports and assemble its own picture of the rebellion. Lumey slowly drifted his forces towards Sol and arrived in time for a token clash with the Black Augurs - just enough that he could be deemed a Loyalist.

After Hektor's death and the repulse of the Traitors from Terra, the Void Angels are poised in the outer Solar system with the overwhelming might of a full Legion of Space Marines. A week of terse communiques goes by, with Lumey refusing to attend his brother Primarchs at the Imperial Palace. Humanity holds its breath - then the Void Angels depart the Solar system, dispersing their great fleet across the Empire to Scourge every trace of Heresy and betrayal.

Post-Heresy

Carrying out the Scourging of Traitors and Renegades made the Void Angels seem indispensable to the Imperium. Memories of the other Legions' great sacrifices were one thing, but when danger appeared it was more often than not Lumey's warriors who were there to thwart it. Still, the Void Angels' defiance of the Codex Astartes caused great friction with the Lords of Terra.

In this period, the other Loyalist Primarchs slowly grew closer to their difficult brother and came to appreciate the man behind the barbed words. The most important of Lumey's friendships was with Brennus, Primarch of the Thunder Kings. The two had fought together in the Saturn campaign and would exchange many letters in the decades after. As their siblings died or vanished, Lumey and Brennus grew to cherish one another.

But eventually, Lumey saw that their closeness posed one last threat to the Imperium. Were the two Primarchs to join their forces, their charisma and their prestige, they could have seized control of that which they had sworn to protect. The only solution was to set one against the other.

Lumey sought out his brother and challenged him to a duel. Brennus began the bout in good spirits, believing that the matter was sport. But as their weapons clashed the Primarchs spoke and made clear their last thoughts. Whether Brennus was bested or allowed himself to die will never be known.

In the end, Lumey is the last surviving Primarch, a relic of a bygone age. The ancient preserves himself through long bouts of stasis sleep, emerging only to cull the leadership of the Void Angels.

Nobody can be trusted.