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==Magos Erin Ermincrole==
{{Topquote|This Sector, and the adherents of the Cult Mechanicus, deserve better. They deserve to feel the footsteps of the Knights around them on the fields of battle, and to worship the Machine in combat. If only more people could understand that.|Magos Erin Ermincrole}}

The current leader of the [[Setting:Cloudburst/ABX2|ABX2]] system. Magos Ermincrole is a close confidant of Lord Fabricator Beraxos of [[Setting:Cloudburst/Cognomen|Cognomen]]. Their bond was forged in shared labor, as the Genetors and bureaucrats of Cognomen groomed Beraxos for leadership. While Lister trained to rule, Ermincrole trained to obey his ruler. However, despite their Machine-ordained hierarchy, the two also simply got along well. As youths, the two were thick as thieves.

As they advanced through the layers of tech-clergy on Cognomen, both men grew increasingly irritated by the lack of help from Mars in advancing Cognomen’s presence and blueprint library. The lack of [[STC|Template]] support from the Red Planet made the expansion and improvement of its Titan Legion arduous. As the strategic situation of the Imperium grew ever more dire, both men agreed it was time to take matters into their own hands. Several decades before the turn of the forty-second millennium, Erin Ermincrole volunteered to commit the crime of the century, and build a Knight World for Cognomen to develop as a satrap. Beraxos agreed at once, and the work began.

In his labors, Ermincrole is territorial and easily-distracted. He does have substantial logistical talent, and suits the role of System Overlord well for the ABX2 project, but his prickly demeanor and reluctance to trust in the autonomy of his subordinates is hampering ABX2’s development into a functional military bastion of the Mechanicus.

Ermincrole does not resent his born-and-raised inferiority to Beraxos in the grand scheme of things. Decades of implanting from the rigid Mechanicus hierarchy have brought him to accept his role. However, the task of building a Knight World from scratch is taxing his patience. Remilia Matraxia is a highly independent leader, and has little patience for Ermincrole’s caution and defensiveness.

He gained his status as a [[Magos]] not by riding Beraxos’s coattails, but through his research into the application of the chemicals acquired by rendering wood down to its constituent molecules to the manufacturing of flexible liquid transport pipes. Coincidentally, this makes him the perfect public face for the development of ABX2, which started out as a simple timber camp.