Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Cognomen (section)

===Exports===

When time comes, as it often does, for Cognomen to export weapons to the rest of the Segmentum, it does have a few foci for its manufacturing.  Although it is just as capable of building basic human and Astartes wargear as any other Forge World of its age, the world’s Fabricator Magos Council has elected to pursue excellence in specific forms of weapons rather than try to master them all without the absolute support of Mars like mighty Anvilus or Lucius.  The focus of most Cognomen arms trading for now is infantry weaponry, specifically high quality autorifles, stubbers, lasguns, and grenade launchers.  Though this is a far cry from the diverse and technologically bizarre weapons of the Dark Age and Age of Strife, that’s the point, in Cognomen’s way of thinking.  Laser technology is one of the few fields of technology in which present-day humanity is unambiguously superior to Dark Age technology, so why not focus on what they do best?  Cognomen lasrifles and autorifles are cheap, quiet, easy to repair, easy to maintain, waterproof, and light – perfect for a Guard or PDF force without much money.  For the forces with more money, like [[Setting:Cloudburst/Septiim|Septiim]] and [[Setting:Cloudburst/Celeste|Celeste]] troops, there are all manner of options: plasma, [[melta]], [[bolter]], shotgun, missile, and [[flamer]] weapons of the usual variety.  By necessity, the Cognomen Forgemasters have also grown accustomed to making the various vehicle upgrade kits the [[Setting:Cloudburst/Blue Daggers|Blue Daggers]] and Septiim Guard love so much, like sponson and pintle bolter packages.

Sniper weapons are the natural progression of Cognomen’s infantry rifle focus.  Cognomen manufactures a line of projectile rifles dubbed the Razor series by its testers.  Based loosely on the ancient Martian and Terran hunting rifles from which it takes its name, the Razors are mechanical simplicity itself.  Using the expanding gas from the primer and powder of its discharged slugs to both propel the slug and clear the chamber, they come in automatic, semi-automatic, and bolt-action variants.  Long-barrel variants and variants with integrated sound suppressors are especially popular with counter-sniper and counter-terrorist specialists, while shorter ones with integrated forward grips and compensators or flash hiders pop up often in Imperial Guard infantry units.  Cognomen Lasweapons are based on Martian designs, with few technological deviations.

Cognomen combat vehicles are a different story.  Septiim provides the template for vehicle equipping, in the post-Glasian worlds of Cloudburst.  With Septiim’s love of vehicle upgrade kits and Forge World-quality guns, this means that Cognomen must produce a massive variety of vehicular weapons and do so to the highest standards it can.  This is wholly compatible with the Cult of the Machine, of course, but logistically, this takes a toll on Cognomen’s expanding infrastructure.

To get around this cost bottleneck, the Cognomen Council of Magos has established three satellite worlds of their own Forge World, with the intent of eventually making them Forge Satraps of Cognomen.  The first is the planet Foraldshold, originally discovered by the Rogue Trader Forald Drenweiss during the First Gold Rush.  The world was earmarked early for colonization by the Administratum, but the Mechanicus’s subsequent tests revealed significant geological instability in its two continents and deep seabeds, and recommended that the world be subjected to limited Terraforming before a colony be built.  The Administratum acceded to this.  Thousands of years later, the planet is tectonically stable and ready for inhabitation, and the Mechanicus has already erected a massive city of colonists and Tech-adepts, ready to begin turning the planet into a Forge Satrap.  The second is the Forge Moon of Solstice, in the Septiim system, which is already manufacturing advanced weapons for the Blue Daggers.  Solstice is more independent, but recognizes Cognomen’s undeniably higher placement in the Mechanicus hierarchy.  Eventually, Solstice will manufacture all forms of Space Marine hardware and take over doing so on the behalf of the Blue Daggers.  The third is the cluster of proto-Agri-worlds of Forender, which are now producing food for Cognomen, since it can barely produce any now.

What few vehicles Cognomen does not build, it would very much like to.  The planet has, after two thousand years of careful negotiating – the Martians would say ‘wheedling’ – finally gained access to the -hammer and Bane- hull tanks, including the mighty Baneblade itself.  Although its components and cannons are somewhat larger than the glorious Martian master design thanks to Cognomen’s less advanced (and less numerous) forges, they are no less deadly for it.  Next, Cognomen seeks the rights to build the Storm- and Shadow- series tanks, and perhaps even the Leviathan and Capitol Imperialis.  The Macharius tanks are hardly a mainstay of Cognomen forges, but they do build them for the regiments that ask for them.