Editing Motoka Isidore (section)

===Tygian's right hand===
The arrival of the Emperor on the sacred soul of Mars itself was a shock to all the great Forge Lords of the Mechanicum who had been frantically preparing for a war with Terra, and the shock was even greater when Fabricator General Tygian pledged Mars to the Emperor and swore to join in the Emperor’s dream of a Great Crusade. There were many within the Mechanicum who hoped that Isidore would make a stand against the Fabricator General’s insanity, for she was an orthodox member of the Mechanicum and highly respected by a great number of the Adepts and Magi of Mars.
She was as shocked as any about Tygian’s move, but he spoke to her at length about the Emperor’s coming, and even engineered a meeting between Isidore and the Emperor.

Her meeting with the Emperor was both illuminating and troubling. His ambition was so great that she had to admire it, but she also feared that he would subjugate the Mechanicum from the inside out, slowly turning Mars into a client of Terra if not simply annexing it outright. On the other hand his martial might was enough that he could ruin Mars, and his promises to the Mechanicum if upheld would restore the Martian Empire and much of the lost knowledge scattered across the galaxy.

Ultimately she once more determined to maintain the balance of power and remained firmly behind Tygian, while acting as the negotiator to those Forges still unsure or opposed to the Emperor’s offer. Her diplomatic skills managed to convince several forges to drop their opposition, but when Tygian threw down the gauntlet Titans of her own [[Legio Fortuna]] ‘Hand of Fate’ marched alongside the Triad Ferrum Morgulum against those Forges who stubbornly resisted.

Though outwardly she appeared the very model of compliance, privately she was said to have wept at the destruction of Urbis Juventas, for the Adept master of that Forge was a personal friend of hers. She had prevented a Martian Civil War and upheld the unity of the Mechanicum, but the cost was high. Mars and Terra were now joined at the hip.

With the beginning of the Great Crusade, the martial might of the Lords of Mars was now unleashed. Much of Mars’ military might was now sent offworld, joining the Expeditionary Fleets of the Great Crusade. Mondus Occulum lost most of its many Cybernetica Cohorts to the Crusade along with several Skitarii Legions and over half the Legio Fortuna, though Isidore managed to retain a considerable amount of Troops on Mars to safeguard her interests there. 

When Fabricator General Tygian left Mars for the first time to oversee the addition of the Knight World of Crysis into the Mechanicum, he left Isidore in charge of Mars. Tygian placed implicit trust in Isidore, that she would hold Mars together in his absence. At attempted rebellion several days after his departure from Mars was snuffed out by Isidore, who smashed the traitor army with massed Titans and Knights. Afterwards she met with a number of the major Forge Lords of Mars, and the message she sent was clear. Do not dare to mess with Motoka Isidore. She understood their concerns about Tygian, but he was the elected Fabricator General and it was their job to keep him on their side and to prevent him from doing anything harmful to the Mechanicum as a whole. Once more she found herself in the middle with both sides distrusting her.

Paradoxically when Tygian heard of this his own trust in her grew, and she became his closest confidant. She would travel greatly when Tygian was on Mars, acting as an ambassador for him and visiting those Forgeworlds that were opposed to the Fabricator General, acting as an intermediary. It was during this time that she developed links with hundreds of Forgeworlds across the Imperium, which would serve her well in the future. She had negotiated with recalcitrant Forgemasters on Mars, and now she would do the same on a hundred Forgeworlds.

While all this was happening her burgeoning research into Artificial Intelligence that had begun even before she had ascended to the position of Fabricator Locum had reached a new, dangerous stage. After meeting with representatives of one of the Navigator Houses now permanently seconded to the Mechanicum, an interesting thought stuck with her. One of the Navigators she met with spoke of how humans had a presence in the Warp, and this now-nameless Navigator wondered if the same could be said for the Artificial Intelligence's who had existed before the Age of Strife.

Adding fuel to the fire the unnamed Navigator thought the Machine Spirit could be the Warp Presence of Machines, the same way the Soul was the human presence in the Warp. These thoughts struck a chord with Motoka Isidore. If she could answer those questions, she would become preeminent within the Machine Cult. If Artificial Intelligences were affected by the Warp, she could shield them with Gellar Fields, preventing them from ever rebelling and thus restoring one of Mankind’s greatest achievements from the Age of Strife. The fact that it went against the very tenets of her faith did not seem to affect her reasoning. She threw herself headlong into her new field, in between trips across the Imperium to visit newly discovered Forge Worlds and negotiate with them.