Editing Motoka Isidore (section)

===Old Mars===
Motoka Isidore took careful pains to keep her own information under lock and key, and this makes recording her history difficult, as most of it was lost in the Martian Civil War and the fall of Olympus Mons. What we do know is that she was a long-serving Magos of high standing who started her career at Mondus Gamma, the principal Forge producing Legio Cybernetica Robots. Fragmentary records have her as a Magos Dominus leading Robot Cohorts during Mondus Gamma’s many disputes with its rich and powerful neighbours. Despite the skill she showed, her passage to higher command was blocked due to her youth and perceived inexperience as well as opposition to her more unorthodox proposals for improving Cybernetica combat abilities. Frustrated, she decided to defect. Perhaps this first defection marked her for life, for the cloud of suspicion would never quite leave her despite all her attempts to prove herself. Later on she would see this as her first and greatest sin, but also the one which proved her allegiance to the Mechanicum as a whole, above and beyond any Forge or Fane. She became a true believer in the unity of the Mechanicum, that despite all the minor differences, in the end they were all united under the Cog of Mars and the aegis of the Machine God. This belief would be her core one.

Her refuge was Mondus Occulum, the second most powerful Forge on Mars, and when she went there she took with her all the greatest secrets of the Legio Cybernetica that she had learned during her service with Mondus Gamma. Those skills were soon put to the test as swiftly afterwards the Cybernetica Cohorts of Mondus Occulum found themselves in combat with their Mondus Gamma cousins. Thanks to her skills they inflicted a severe defeat upon Mondus Gamma after which she was given the rank of Archmagos, granted a seat as one of the advisory council to the Fabricator Locum and allowed to pursue improvements to the combat abilities of Cybernetica, even though some veered dangerously close to Tech-Heresy. However even as she worked on the basic and primitive intelligences of Cybernetica Robots, she was beginning to turn her attention towards another area, the long suppressed area of Artificial Intelligence.

None of this prevented her from being nominated for the post of Fabricator Locum, for she was not only highly talented but also had a knack for getting the best out of her underlings and fostering a sense of personal loyalty to her, though she was scant regarded by those of equal rank. Her ascension was hailed as an important step for the Mechanicum in light of the growing power of distant Terra, and she seemed a likely choice to become Fabricator General when that spot was opened several years later. 

The Lords of Olympus had other ideas and chose one of their own, Adept Kalkas Tygian to become the new head of the Mechanicum. One of Tygian’s first stops after his conformation was to Mondus Occulum, where in a closed-door session lasting several hours he spoke at great length with Isidore, laying out his belief that the Omnissiah was coming soon, and that all Mars had to be prepared. If his dream was to become a reality, he needed the second greatest of all the Forge Lords at his side. While to someone as conservative as Isidore this was borderline Tech-Heresy, she promised to support him in his quest and pledged the full might of Mondus Occulum to his banner. 

Privately she was deeply concerned with Tygian’s approach, fearing that it could lead to disaster when the armies of Terra inevitably came calling. He was the chosen head of the Mechanicum and her rightful overlord, and she determined to save Tygian from himself, try to rein him in and keep him from dragging the Mechanicum into the abyss. Thus did she enter the Fabricator General’s confidence, a position she would continue to uphold in the centuries to come.