Editing Koriel Zeth (Hektor Heresy) (section)

==The Akashic Reader==

''The Akashic is the key to the sum of all knowledge. With it, I will be able to lift the Imperium into a golden age of scientific progress not seen since the Dark Age of Technology. All we have lost will be found again. All we can be, we will be again. ''

- Koriel Zeth, before the first test of the Akashic Reader

One of the most intriguing of all the records discovered by Laszlo was the postulation of a nexus of all knowledge, a place where all the knowledge that man had ever found in all of recorded and unrecorded history was stored. Zeth continued to study this, only to find evidence this nexus was real, and located inside the other dimension where ships travelled: the Warp. The Warp was a realm of thought and emotion, and all the great discoveries of man were also preserved there. If one could access those records, then everything man had ever discovered, the technology that had made man into a race of gods during the dark age of Technology, all would be revealed and accessible. This became Zeth’s obsession.
Throughout the Great Crusade, as her forges continued to experiment with Noospheric Technology for Forges and Taghmata forces fighting in the distant Stars, Zeth continued to search for a way to access the Akashic Records. All her experiments proved to be failures, until she was able to secretly obtain Psykers from the Black Ships. This move was dangerous, as she did not know if the Lords of Terra would be pleased with her investigations, but she was at an impasse and needed a breakthrough.
Those psykers were lined into a machine, the Akashic Reader, which would allow her to access the Akashic records and learn that which the golden men of the past understood without the need for the dogma and superstition that the rest of the Mechanicum were shackled to. She would break those shackles and free the Mechanicum from ignorance and superstition.
Finally Zeth was able to get her machine to work, even if briefly and never able to properly reach the Akashic. But once she gained outside help from a number of volunteers from across the Galaxy, including several from earth, as well as an Empath Psyker, she was finally able to make the breakthrough she desired. She also found the ideal power source for her machine, the raw undiluted power of the Astronomican. Though using that power would disrupt the Astronomican, possibly causing untold damage to ships trying to traverse the Warp. However to Zeth the risk was worth it, anything was worth it to reach the Akashic Records and find the truth. She would be the saviour of all humankind.