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[[Image:CortexController.jpg|thumb|330px|A [[Magos]] with a '''Cortex Controller'''{{Fn|2}}]]
The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a device used by the [[Legio Cybernetica]] of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. This arcane device comprised the reasoning control centre and animating [[Machine spirit]] of the Battle-automata. Consisting of a synthetic "brain" cased in complex bio-plastic mass which extrudes nerve-like tendrils into the body of the robotic frame< it invigorated the machine with false-life. Far beyond a simple cogitator in capability, it was neither truly alive nor sapient like the dreaded inhuman [[Silica Animus]] of the [[Age of Strife]]. Instead it was akin to a primal web of instinct guided by a programmed framework of encoded behavior. The result is a superior self-guided machine that will act with a degree of tactical sense and self-preservation beyond a [[Servitor]] but not risk revolt like the mythical [[Men of Iron]].{{Fn|1}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre]] pg. 264
*{{Endn|2}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20151119013251/http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Mechanicum-Magos-Dominus-with-Rad-Cleanser Forge World webstore : Mechanicum Magos Dominus with Rad-Cleanser] (saved archive, last accessed 02/12/23)
[[Category:Legio Cybernetica]]
[[Category:Equipment (Adeptus Mechanicus)]]
[[Category:Artificial Beings]]
