Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo
Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo[2a] was a Tech-Priest of the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy[1] and currently a cloned servant and friend of Belisarius Cawl.[2a]
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Friedisch
Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo was born on Mars in M30 prior to the Horus Heresy.[2b]
Friedisch was a colleague and friend of the young Belisarius Cawl on Trisolian-A4. During the Battle of Trisolian the two remained loyal to the Emperor and managed to escape to loyalist space.[1] After the battle the duo fled to Terra, where they came into contact with Ezekiel Sedayne. Sedayne, wishing to merge with Cawl to extend his life, had his acolyte Herminia shoot Friedisch. Mortally wounded and quickly bleeding out, Sedayne stated that he could save Friedisch if Cawl merged with him via cortical linkage.[2b] However Sedayne's plan was ultimately foiled when Cawl instead emerged as the dominant personality. Cawl flew into a panic calling for a cryo-flask to at least save Friedisch's head, all while his only friend died in front of him.[2c]
Cawl's attempt at preserving Friedisch's head wasn't perfect, as he died very quickly.[3a]
Qvo
Ten thousand years later, Cawl has created many subsequent clones of Friedisch he simply dubs Qvo with their following number representing the number of clones before the current. Each Qvo has varying degrees of memory of their past exploits with Cawl. Most tend to be confused or agitated when the Archmagos calls him Friedisch. They all are aware that they're not the original Friedisch and be not accept Cawl referring to them as such.[2a][3a] In spite of the fact that all these clones possesses a complete set of knowledge of the former Friedisch, each new clone has their own individuality and clearly understands their individual personality without identifying themself with the previous clones or Friedisch.[2c][3a]
Each Qvo clone remembers the life and death of the original Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo, as well as the subsequent Qvo copies who's engrams were able to be recovered. They Qvo's perspective, they each awaken just after Friedisch's death. All the memories of the prior Qvo iterations, both their lives and deaths, tend to catch up with the current version after about half an hour.[3a]
Sometime after the Great Rift's creation, Cawl planned to lead an expedition to the Emperor's Scythes' former Homeworld, Sotha and sent Qvo-87 ahead to prepare the way for it. His main task was repairing the Scythes' ruined orbital station Aegida, for a meeting place where the high ranking members of the expedition would meet. Though the Aegida suffered heavy damage in the Tyranids' invasion of Sotha, Qvo-87 and the forces he commanded were able to slowly restore life to the orbital station. This greatly surprised Tetrarch Decimus Androdinus Felix when he arrived at the Aegida, as part of the expedition, as he had thought the station was irreparable. Qvo-87 ensured the Tetrarch, though, that the Aegida would be restored in time and made ready to stand watch over Sotha once again.[2a] After Qvo-87 was killed in the Pharos during the battle with Necrons, the Qvo series would quickly move on to its 88th iteration, known simply as Qvo-88. Qvo-88 would deliver Cawl's final report to Tetrarch Felix regarding the prospects of the new Necron map just obtained the Pharos before both parties would leave the Sotha system.[2c]
Lord Guilliman had requested for a skilled magos to aid in the Lord Regent's upcoming expedition into Imperium Nihilus so that those chapters receiving Primaris reinforcements would have high quality education on the new procedures and technology. Cawl would send Qvo-88 to aid in Guiliman's crusade. At some point afterward, Cawl would create the 89th iteration of the Qvo clone series, Qvo-89. Normally Cawl doesn't have two Qvos active at one time, but this isn't the first instance it has occurred. Qvo-89 would stay with Cawl while Qvo-88 would fulfill the Primarch's order of having a skilled magos accompany the last of the Torchbearer Fleets departing for Imprium Nihilus in Cawl's stead.[3a]
Cawl remarks that Qvo-89 might be the most Freidisch-like iteration yet. Qvo-89 is almost entirely mechanical, the small amount of flesh being about 20% of a human brain and a face cloned to look like the original Friedisch. Magos Biologis Vintillus was assigned the task of working on Friedisch's fleshy face atop the metal skull, the result of his work was applauded by Cawl.[3a] Qvo-89's mechanical body was also fitted with archeotech and the best technology Cawl could offer.[3b] In addition, Qvo-89 also has a significant amount of access to the systems and noosphere of the Zar-Quaesitor.[3c] Cawl describes Qvo-89 as being more like a highly advanced servitor, as opposed to Qvo-89's initial distraught reaction that he was an abominable intelligence.[3a]
Qvo-89 is frequently referred to as a Magos by other tech-priests, even though he admittedly states to himself that he doesn't have such a rank.[Needs Citation]
Techno-Physiology
Each Qvo clone's brain has a subatomic entanglement communications array rendered at an extremely small scale. This allows for a perpetual, memory-gathering uplink to be sent into the heart of the Zar-Quaesitor.[3b]
The design of each Qvo iteration varies to some degree, depending on Cawl's experiments when tinkering with the body and soul. There are Qvos that have had 2 legs, and others that have had multiple little feet or wheels. One Qvo iteration even had a faulty contra-grav impeller. Aside from mundane physical mechanisms, the real challenge Cawl tinkers with is Friedisch's soul.[3a]
Sources
- 1: Wolfsbane (Novel) Chapter 27
- 2: Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel):
- 3: Genefather (Novel):
