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Irradial Cogitator

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When the box sings a pretty song
When it saves you from all that’s wrong
When it adds a sudden price,
You bless it once to be cursed thrice.

– Children’s rhyme from the Jericho Reach

The Irradial Cogitator is a Cogitator created by the Magi of Samech; it looks outwardly innocuous but its intelligence comes from a daemon inside.[1]

It is a miraculous machine that in its nascent stages can answer a struggling hive’s prayers. Disease, hunger, and pollution are some of the most common problems the beneficent machine seems to cure for its masters. It creates a cult around itself, enforcing it through apostles or by controlling technology its neural patterns have a physical connection to, able to take over worlds with networked data looms.[1]

Its body is an inanimate machine that is easily destroyed, but its brilliance allows it to indirectly influence its surrounding to protect itself.[1]

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