Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Techpriesthood (section)

==Activities==

Dozens of worlds began feeding tithes to Cognomen’s vast forges.  Orbital cradles, manufactorae, synth-presses, STC-series constructors, and assembly lines rose from what used to be grassland, and girdled the slowly dying world with industry.  Temples to the Omnissiah and Arbites precinct-houses took their place alongside ancient warehouses and server farms.  Hundreds of thousands of vast apartment towers for the rapidly rising population of the world and over fifty military bases sprouted from the ground.  After several further attempts to gain clarity on their permission to build Knights, Cognomen gave up, and decided to build them anyway, though they edged away from building Cybernetica robots just yet.  One forested world set aside for agriculture was quietly earmarked for use as a Knight World, and that fact conveniently forgotten when it came time for Cognomen to next report to Mars.

The fleets of the Cognomen and Solstice Basilikon Astra and Explorator ply every route between every cluster in the young Sector.  Rogue Traders and Inquisitors who comb the Cloudburst Circuit for secrets and wealth often welcome Explorators flying the proud banner of MacDonald’s Finest, knowing that the Explorators of Cognomen have a desperate need to prove themselves, to Terra and Mars.

The Explorators of the Cloudburst Sector, regardless of their Forge World allegiance, seek archaeotech caches and habitable worlds for the Imperium.  The fact that Cognomen was sitting in the middle of a habitable star cluster and never noticed for many thousands of years is a huge embarrassment to them.  The other fact that their glorious predecessor, Archmagos Explorator Justin MacDonald, was able to find over a dozen habitable systems in under a decade of searching, is a point of pride to them, and the third fact that he found them within visible distance is a huge shame to them.  Now, driven by the need to make up for past laxity, for the extra scrutiny of Mars, and the need to find fresh resources to take the fight to the Glasians and Orks, the Explorators of Cloudburst scramble across the Circuit to hunt down the vaguest hints of treasure and technology.
Unlike in some other Segmentum Ultima border zones, Rogue Traders and Explorators in Cloudburst work together readily and voluntarily.  Fleets of them, working in tandem, have dragged Space Hulks to Cognomen or Grand Anchor to be ripped apart, seen off alien invasions before the Administratum even learned about them, and discovered whole networks of lost human colonies to loot and plunder.