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While many Forge Worlds have their own Fabricator-General, it is the Fabricator-General of the [[Machine Cult]]'s homeworld of [[Mars]] that is the most powerful and prestigious. In addition to overseeing the general Mechanicum, the Fabricator-General of Mars is the head of the [[Cult Mechanicus]] and speaker of the [[Synod of Mars]] (formerly the [[Martian Parliament]]){{Fn|3}}. The Fabricator-General of Mars is most often chosen from the Forge Master of the [[Olympus Mons]] [[Forge Temple]].{{Fn|4}}
As the leading figure of one of the [[Imperium]]'s most powerful and influential organizations, he is they are invariably a member of the [[High Lords of Terra]].{{Fn|1}}
==History==
During the early days of the [[Great Crusade]], the Mechanicum was led by the [[Martian Parliament]]. The Fabricator-General acted as the Martian ambassador to [[Terra]] and had a seat on the [[War Council of the Great Crusade]].{{Fn|3}} At some point before [[Kelbor-Hal]] held the position, the post had evolved into the leader of the Mechanicum.
At the end of the [[41st Millennium]] the Fabricator-General was [[Oud Oudia Raskian]], but his position is was being threatened by [[Archmagos]] [[Belisarius Cawl]], the famed creator of the [[Primaris Space Marine]]s. The [[Cawl Inferior]] has been pushing the recently resurrected [[Lord Commander]] [[Roboute Guilliman]] to make him Fabricator-General, but the [[Primarch]] refuses to do so, as the Archmagos is considered a [[Heretek]] by much of the Mechanicum and his appointment would led to civil war.{{Fn|6}} Cawl himself insists that he has no interest in a political position,{{Fn|7}} and is unsure why the Cawl Inferior is so persistent in its request.{{Fn|8}}
Following the presumed death of [[Oud Oudia Raskian]], [[Friedisch Adum Silip Qvo]] heard a petition by [[Leeta Unter Sobel-Phi]], a representative of the [[Synod of Mars]], to become the new Fabricator-General and prepare for what they saw was inevitable civil war within the Imperium. Following up on news that the [[Golden Throne]] was failing, this new Mechanicus sect expressed doubts as to the divinity of the [[Emperor]] as the [[Omnissiah]] and wished to take Mars in a new more independent direction from Terra. Qvo stated that Cawl had no interest in such an endeavor and dismissed the representative.{{Fn|9}}
