Von Buren

Not all archeoteks are content to follow the Three Laws.^[1]

Especially when it comes to the innovation of technologies not born of the STC. Among these, perhaps the most infamous is the rogue archeotek known as Von Buren. Once one of the great minds of the Clan House, the archeotek was a favourite of Duke Otto and moved among the very highest circles of the House of Artifice. Like so many before him, however, Von Buren’s genius became his downfall as he began using the output of the STC for his own bizarre experiments and creations. The most successful of these was the Heart of Iron, a complex cyberteknika rad-sink and power source Von Buren implanted into his own body. Using the Heart of Iron made the archeotek almost immune to the exotic energies of the STC, as well as granting him a near limitless supply of energy to drive his weapons and wargear.^[1]

When the inner circles of the archeoteks learned of the invention, Von Buren was cast out, for fear he would take the STC for his own. By the time of his exile Von Buren had surpassed the limited imagination of his peers, and left without quarrel, taking with him much of his research and a handful of his most promising students. Since becoming an outcast, Von Buren has travelled extensively across Necromunda, selling his inventions to gangs, guilders, and lords, and allying with gangs seeking out lost archaeotech. Some of his students have become great archeoteks themselves, like Lydar the Technomatrix of Ceres, while others have succumbed to less noble pursuits, like Freikstorn Strix, the augmented bounty hunter. As for Von Buren himself, kept unnaturally young and strong by the Heart of Iron, he continues to dig into the past of his clan, perhaps seeking the very secrets of its creation.^[1]

Sources

• 1: Necromunda: House of Artifice, pg. 84 - Von Buren the Rogue Archeotek