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==[[Magos]] Logisticos Alveena Alexia==
{{Topquote|Half for them, half for us. If only it were that simple.|Magos Logisticos Alveena Alexia}}

Magos Logis Alveena Alexia is a busy woman. Under her authority, half of the operations of the great Deep Void [[Setting:Cloudburst/Maxient|Port Maxient]] function. Her specific task is as the leader of the Adeptus Mechanicus contingent of the huge space station, and all that entails. As a Magos Logis, her official duty is to supply and coordinate the Quest for Knowledge in the outermost reaches of space, far from the comforting but un-innovative confines of Forge Worlds. In practice, since she does not actually control the station, her day-to-day leaves a bit more time than would normally be available for a woman of her significant rank and rarity.

Alexia is a flesh-spare and brutal woman, one from whom nearly all personality has been shorn. Duty has taken it, and an earnest interest in the soothing work of tabulation and organization. Her cranial implants have replaced all of her head save a bit of her brain and a patch of skin that grows a single braid that hangs down her back, decorated with iron skulls of the Mechanicus to indicate her long service. The ancient Magos has served on Maxient for only seventy years, but has existed in the Quest for Knowledge for thrice that. As the chief of the indispensable (and legally-mandated) Adeptus Mechanicus contingent of the huge station, her tasks include summing up all orders from the Forge Worlds of the Mechanicus every Terran month, replacing and promoting underlings, overseeing the growth of servitors, and extraditing Here-teks.

In reality, she does far more, as the Imperial Navy does not allow her any direct control over one square inch of the station more than the law absolutely demands. The Explorators and Enginseers who work the ships that travel to and from the station describe her as inspiringly even and mechanical in her nature, given the frustrations of the role, but the simple fact is that she can’t do more than she is without breaking the law. Maxient sits at the very edge of Imperial space in the north trailing, and thus sees Rogue Traders, Explorators, Free Captains, and even the occasional Inquisitor or Space Marine come to visit, delivering archaeotech to reverse engineer, or even xenotech. Thus, her role at the galaxy’s sentinel station is crucial, even if the law limits her.

Of course, the Adeptus Mechanicus has always had a dim view of the Lex Imperialis, and Alexia is no different. There have been times when the martial provosts of the station, or even Adeptus Arbites, have demanded she bring a halt to some activity or another in the pursuit of her duties, and she has not always done so. As she insists, half of the station is the sovereign territory of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and so long as they do not violate the Inquisitorial edicts against specific anti-Imperial activities, there is precisely nothing the Arbites can do about it.

While this defiance has made her few friends outside the ranks of the Mechanicus, it has earned her many within it. Lister Beraxos does not know her well, but trusts her about as much as he trusts anybody not named Erin Ermincrole. He plans to let her in on the secret of ABX2 soon, incorrectly assuming that she does not already know. In reality, the master logistician figured out the secret of the Knight World decades ago, by carefully tabulating the timber output and sudden drop of metal ore shipments. She does not care, and trusts in Beraxos to do what he believes is best for the Omnissiah and Mankind.

Among her other duties is commanding the Adeptus Mechanicus forces in war and its cleanup. On the rare occasion that the station is threatened so badly that its Naval half alone cannot repulse the threat, she springs into action, directing armies of Skitarii Tech-guard, combat servitors, war clergy, mercenaries, and Enginseers in battle. However, the Imperial Navy has ceded total salvage rights to all battle debris around the station to the Mechanicus in exchange for other concessions of their own, and so any takings and leavings from battle near the station are hers and hers alone.

Alexia has set up shop in the huge Bay 6, the last of the original six storage modules attached to the Xerxes III from which Maxient grew. The cavernous structure has had its gravity plates left untouched, and as such, the pull of gravity is towards the nearest bulkhead, not the arbitrary ‘down’ of the station. This laboratory approach allows for any one wall of the room to be quarantined if something goes awry. This is helpful to her. As she is a properly ordained Magos, she is among the few people in the Sector who is authorized to perform original research, and actually does so in her sparse free time. The Skitarii of the station subtly jostle for her attention and the right to work here. Aside from the lack of radiation-emitting weapons to kill them, the chamber is also home to the most hallowed shrine of the Machine in the entire Cloudburst Circuit, that of the Magos herself, where she prays to the Omnissiah and performs her sanctified Innovation. Her current research project is on a logistical computation device, to aid her work as the leader of the station contingent.

Magos Alexia is a grudging inferior to her Imperial Navy counterpart and technical superior, Admiral Caravel. She sees his authority, but chooses to buck it in small and sometimes easy-to-miss ways.