Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo
| Homeworld | Mars |
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| Born | c. Late M30,
Mars, Sol System[1a] |
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| Type | Unclear; AI or "advanced servitor" (Qvo iterations)[3a] |
| Gender | Male |
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Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo[2a] was a Tech-Acolytum training to become a Tech-Priest of the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy[1b] and currently a cloned servant and friend of Belisarius Cawl.[2a]
Friedisch
Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo was born on Mars prior to the Horus Heresy.[1a] His home on Mars was the Mundus Planus fabricatory conurb. This location was destroyed during the Schism of Mars, and in the aftermath only a deep fissure remained where it once was.[2b]
Friedisch was a colleague and friend of the young Belisarius Cawl on Trisolian-A4. Both were subordinate tech-acolytum to Magos Domina Hester Aspertia Sigma-Sigma. The two had very different personalities and would disagree and debate each other often, but regardless of this or because of it, a friendship would emerge.[1a]
During the Battle of Trisolian the two remained loyal to the Emperor and managed to escape to loyalist space.[1b] After the battle the duo fled to Terra, where they came into contact with an elderly Ezekiel Sedayne. Sedayne was on the precipice of death and wished to merge with the youthful Cawl, taking his body to extend his own life. The extremely influential Sedayne ordered Cawl be brought before him. When Sedayne's agent Herminia arrived on Ryza Cawl convinced her to allow Friedisch to be brought along to Terra as well.[2c] Upon meeting Sedayne who explained his plan, Cawl declined and made to leave. Sedayne had his acolyte Herminia shoot Friedisch with her small calibre bolt pistol in the gut to force Cawl to go through with the procedure.[2d] Mortally wounded and quickly bleeding out, Sedayne stated that he would save Friedisch if Cawl merged with him via the cortical linkage procedure.[2b] However, Sedayne's plan was ultimately foiled when Cawl emerged as the dominant personality in his body, instead of Sedayne. 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
Qvo is now a programmable servant, cloned from Cawl's long-dead companion.[5]
Over the millennia, Cawl has created many subsequent iterations of Friedisch that are simply dubbed Qvo with their following number representing the iteration in the chronological order of creation. Each Qvo has varying degrees of memory of their past exploits in Cawl's service. All Qvos so far react with confusion or agitation when the Archmagos refers to them as Friedisch. They all are aware that they're not the original Friedisch and do 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, or at least those who's engrams were able to be recovered after their demise. From each Qvo's perspective, they begin their life just after Friedisch's death, typically awakening to Cawl welcoming him back and mostly having the same conversation each time. All the memories of the prior Qvo iterations tend to catch up with the newly-awoken Qvo iteration after about half an hour.[3a]
The existence and purpose of Cawl's servitor-magos companion isn't a secret amongst Guilliman's inner circles, despite the borderline heresy of Cawl's Qvo iterations.[6c]
Qvo-02
In his early Qvo iterations, Cawl had preferred to use more organics. Qvo-2 utilised a butchered clone brain and other flesh atop a metal, cybernetic skeleton.[3c]
Over 9 thousand years later, the robotic chassis of Qvo-2 is kept aboard the Zar-Quaesitor within Cawl's gallery of mementos and other objects from his past. Qvo-02's cybernetic mechanisms held together fairly well for a device that hadn't received any upkeep in over nine thousand years.[3c]
During the battle on Pontus Avernes, Cawl would remotely control this ancient memento to create a distraction when an Necron prisoner escaped and attempted to kill an unarmed Cawl.[3c]
Qvo-87
During the Indomitus Crusade, Qvo would meet with Archmagos-Emmisarius Leeta Unter Sobel-Phi, emissary of the Synod of Mars, in Cawl's stead. While accompanying Fleet Primus, they would meet in the orbit of Bane's Landing. She would request that Cawl usurp the new Fabricator General who replaced the deceased Oud Oudia Raskian. The ultimate goal of this scheme would be in order to unite the divided Mechanicus fiefdoms and renegotiate their relationship with the Imperium with the Machine Cult being dominant. Qvo stated that Cawl would never accept the shackle of the highest office's responsibility, nor be a figurehead and pawn having his genius manipulated to other's schemes. Alongside that, it would cause a civil war in the Mechanicus and the wider Imperium. Sobel-Phi warned that this civil war was inevitable and Cawl should pick a side now while he can the ability to choose. She departed from Qvo with a warning, bidding that Cawl to seek her out in order to learn the dangerously important information about how and why Oud Oudia Raskian died.[4]
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]
Qvo-88 & 89
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 Guilliman'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 Imperium 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 accompanied Cawl in his quest to stabilize the Attilan Gate, uploading massive amounts of Necron data into his brain during the exploration of a derelict World Engine.[10a] "Saving" the system's Deep Spirit, Qvo later utilized this data during the Battle of Ulvheim to allow Cawl to activate Ulvheim's Pylon network and stabilize the Attilan Gate.[6b]
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.[6c]
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]
Qvo iterations are sometimes equipped with the ability to create a privacy field.[4]
Trivia
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Qvo's form of "immortality" via mind/memory transfers to (mostly) mechanical vessels has interesting parallels with Fabius Bile's means of "immortality" via mind/memory transfer to organic clones.
See also
Sources
- 1: Wolfsbane (Novel):
- 2: Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel):
- 3: Genefather (Novel):
- 4: The Silent King (Novel), Chapter 21
- 5: Fall of Cadia (Novel): Phase One, Chapter One
- 6: Archmagos (Novel):