Adept Prime

Home System
The Petrah system is situated almost equidistant from the Cadian system and the Mechanicus controlled Forge Worlds in the Stygies System.

Petrah IV is one of two densly populated worlds in the system. Due to it’s proximity to the Eye of Terror, throughout the post-Heresy period Petrah has been the target of several incursions into the region by the ruinous powers, the most recent of which, the Black Crusade. All stratas of society have since envolved to encompace the ongoing military effort. Non-essential citizens have been drafted into the Imperial Navy, Imperial Guard, PDFs, or other war related stations as a result.

Early Biography
Adept Prime was born Severus Cortez, the only child of Macheus Torveh, a mid-ranking administrator in the Adeptus Administratum, and Serena Cortez, a regional councillor.

From a very young age, Severus was noted as demontrating extremenly high levels of intelligence and problem solving skills. Due to the system’s constant warlike state, these skills did not pass the Adeptus Mechanicus unnoticed. Their role in the sector had changed dramatically from one of technological preservation to one of active research and archeotech exploration. These circumstances have since dictated Severus’s direction in life.

His career in the Mechanicum has only recently grown to any degree of significance. For the past 10 years, Severus was involved in copying intricate mechanical texts and plans, and producing accounts as experiments were undertaken. This activity dramatically increased his knowledge base, and superiors were beginning to notice he was exceeding the limits of this role.

Severus is highly inquisitive and is naturally adept at committing specialist knowledge in various fields of research to memory. His young age by Mechanicum standards means he is only lightly touched by the Omnissiah, but it is evident that mechanical augmentation is a key personal goal. It is also evident that Severus suffers in social terms in much the same was as his contempories in the organisation, being reserved and highly suspicious of outsiders. Although not directly involved in the war against the Black Crusade, Severus has not been immune to the effects it has spread throughout the region.