Cambria Kilgannon

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## Cambria "The Knowledge" Kilgannon

Cambria in The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade

### Relatives

Coheed Kilgannon (husband)
Jesse Kilgannon (brother-in-law)
Josephine Kilgannon (daughter)
Claudio Kilgannon (son)
Matthew & Maria Kilgannon (fraternal twins)

## Appearances

### Appears in

*Year of the Black Rainbow*
*The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*
*The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*

### Debut

*The Bag.On.Line. Adventures: The Second Stage Turbine Blade* (2004)

**Cambria Kilgannon** (neé Myers) is the wife of Coheed Kilgannon and the mother of Claudio, Josephine, Matthew and Maria. She, along with Coheed and his brother, Jesse, are IRO-bots that were created by Dr. Leonard Hohenberger and made up the three member team, KBI before their memories were erased to send them into hiding to live as normal humans.

## Appearance

Kilgannon is tall and thin for a woman. She has dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and light skin. As the White Ruineer, her appearance became completely enclosed in what looked to be armor, including a full helmet.

## History

### Early Life

Kilgannon was constructed shortly after the appearance of The Black Rainbow in Heaven's Fence's skies by Dr. Leonard Hohenberger, a scientist with a specialization in biomechanics, with the help of two other trusted doctors, Inaid & Stockmeyer. Hohenberger first conceived Kilgannon using cell samples from the Prise known as Paranoia. The accelerated growth process only took roughly eighteen weeks after which, she had a relatively mature look; early twenties. Coming online, Kilgannon, like her fellow IRO-bots, knew nothing, not even her name, but due to her innate psychic abilities, she was able to gather knowledge more quickly than any of them. For this reason, she was assigned the code name Knowledge, though unlike her fellow unit, Inferno (who exclusively went by his code name) she only used it on missions, and instead was called Cambria. Who gave her this name and why are unknown.

Together with Coheed and Inferno, the IRO-bots were made to form the private special operation force known as KBI. She was a long-range ground unit alongside Coheed as a Close-combat ground unit and Inferno, who provided aerial support. Aside from her passive psychic abilities, she was also able to hone this power to project a psychic blast, or take control of one's mind, depending on the target's psychic barriers. For almost an entire year, KBI performed covert operations against Supreme Tri-Mage Wilhelm Ryan, the de facto ruler of Heaven's Fence, in rebellion of his reign. Through these operations, they gathered intelligence and sabotaged Ryan's forces, or even engaged them head on. The team was officially disbanded upon the capture of Hohenberger's wife Pearl, who was held for the ransom of Kilgannon and Coheed, and the completion of Ryan's Monstar Virus. Hohenberger did as requested, but split the virus between Kilgannon and Coheed and concealing the activation specifications. After being delivered to Ryan, Inferno broke the pair out, but powered them down. He suppressed all their memories and then replaced them with false ones.

Kilgannon's false memory was the following:

> Born on Sector 6, Planet Five, Morlunus, to father Marcus Myers and mother Shandra Conroy, who died giving birth. Cambria Myers then lived in a struggling single parent household; her father bounced her from relative to relative and planet to planet while he smuggled illegal spice. The constant travelling allowed his daughter to learn the different cultures, fundamentals and languages of the planets she lived on. But eventually his criminal activity led to the infamous Gortus Bust of Sector 5, which he did not survive. At that point in time, Cambria was nursing at George Haven's hospital (Sector 11, Planet Three, Helvar) where she met her future husband, Coheed Kilgannon
>
>

After that, they were placed on the first planet in Sector XI, Hetricus in Valley's Hill with the understanding that they were a married couple with a newborn daughter named Josephine, another IRO-bot designed to cure Ryan's virus when she reached maturation, thus needing to be protected by the pair.

### Capture

In the twenty years leading up to Ryan's forces finding them, Kilgannon went on to have three other children with her husband: Claudio (17, son), and fraternal twins Matthew & Maria (roughly 5). Kilgannon "retired" from nursing and became a fulltime housewife for their family. Throughout these many years, she maintained her passive psychic ability; seeing Coheed's dreams or reading people's thoughts and memories without meaning to. She never disclosed this to anyone, even her husband. On the day Coheed left work and ran into Mayo Deftinwolf, she witnessed the whole conversation through this, and surprisingly, she was not surpised, later disclosing to Coheed that she felt she'd always known.

They conclude that they have no choice but to go through with Deftinwolf's directive (kill their children due to the Sinstar Virus, but afterwards, they'll kill themselves too, world be damned. Josephine was out with her newly fiancé and Claudio was out with his girlfriend. Only the twins were home so they decided to use the poison Deftinwolf left them because he claimed it would be quick. Coheed mixed the poison with water and brought it up to them. When they drank it, however, it was not quick and very painful for them. Josephine had come home by this point and is crying and sick. Kilgannon could see that she had been sexually assaulted and the result of the poison on the children. Coheed decided that he won't delay with the elder children and picked up a hammer. With Kilgannon comforting her, he closed his eyes and brought it down over Josephine's head in one, quick, strong, stroke.

Before Claudio was able to return home, Deftinwolf and United Red Army soldiers appeared to take the couple into custody and dispose of any remaining loose ends. Since Claudio was still alive, he asked them where he was. When the couple wondered what will happen to him, Kilgannon got the answer in the form of a thought: They will capture and kill him, and experiment on him before or after. She cried out at this revelation, and enraged at the truth of his children's innocence coming out, Coheed's special left-arm blades appeared and he killed several of the soldiers until they tranquilized him and Kilgannon.

When she woke up, she found she was aboard a starship (a Red Army ship named *Gloria vel Vessa* they later learned) in individual stasis tubes. This wasn't effective for her and she easily broke free with Coheed. They decided to make their way to the bridge to take control of the ship. Having regained many of their memories, including how to use their abilities, the pair pursed this campaign with relative ease.

On the bridge, the pair easily accomplished control of the vessel, but the ship had already been placed on auto-pilot from the Army-controlled port. The crew was under their control, but the ship continued its course to Sector 12. Meanwhile, the port was alerted to the crew's capture, and Ryan sent Admiral Vielar Crom to regain control. Also, the *Grail Arbor* which is an important pillar in the greater rebellion against Ryan, moved to incept the ship as it was clearly an enemy ship. Answering an incoming communication signal from the *Arbor*, Kilgannon and her husband discovered its pilot is none other than Coheed's brother, Jesse Kilgannon, who still used his code name, Inferno. The family briefly discussed joining forces, but Jesse made it clear that the ship must be stopped one way or another. After an interjection from a senior bridge officer, Coheed decided to try to rewire the ship and Jesse gave him one hour to try before he blew the ship up.

In the engine core, Coheed uses his own biomechanical tools and knowledge working with machines in his day job to attempt the rewire. Upon failure, Kilgannon unleashed a physic blast that damaged the core component making it impossible to rewire. At that time, Jesse informed them that the *vel Vessa* was captured by Ryan's forces and his own ship was under attack by the *Notting Vezzer*. The couple decided to blow the ship up rather than be captured, so they began to rig explosives, but before Coheed could fire his arm cannon, the power was seeped from it by Crom who had boarded the ship from the *Notting Vezzer*. Crom's special ability drew energy to himself, including Coheed's ion cannon. Kilgannon attempted to attack him using her psychic powers to take control of the captured crew, but he was also able to absorb much of her energy. Jesse boarded one of the *Grail Arbor*'s shuttlecrafts and joined Coheed and Kilgannon in taking down Crom.

They put up a valiant fight, but ultimately Crom expelled the energy he absorbed to knock them all out and capture them once again.

### Death

When Kilgannon and her husband came to, they found themselves on Paris: Earth in Sector 12, this time being cuffed and overseen by Crom to ensure they couldn't use their abilities. They tried to fight back, but it was futile. The pair were strapped to opposing gurneys, and a head device produced little arms that held open their eyes. The gurneys were then lifted to a nearly fully standing position. Ryan's forces released a horde of genetically modified dragonflies; dragonflies that were also genetically altered to have a stinger at the end of their abdomen. These dragonflies were irritated and stung Coheed's shoulder which dispensed a liquid known as the Cache Serum that interacted with the Monstar Virus in his bloodstream. Then, a holographic video of Ryan appeared to mock them saying, "When eye meets eye... become." These words were the key to fully activating the virus. The restraints were not necessary as the pair were transformed; Coheed into The Monstar, and Kilgannon into The White Ruineer.

The White Ruineer had skin that looked and felt like full body armor, including a helmet. Any trace of humanity was gone. Since Crom passively absorbs energy, he attempted to absorb the pair's new source, but it quickly overwhelmed him and left him vulnerable to their abilities. Coheed, now a complete monster, produced his left arm blades and buried them deep into Crom's chest. His also produced his usual right arm cannon which was even larger and stronger, and blasted Crom with it too. After destroying the facility that restrained them, The Monstar jumped into the air, rocketing through space to land on Star VI; the White Ruineer was close behind him. His body absorbed the gases and energy of the Star, rendering it dead. The White Ruineer generated a sword from thin air, engaged him in battle, and eventually stabbed him through the heart, killing him. As he died, he reverted back to his normal self, and Kilgannon, realizing what she did, stabbed herself through the throat and unleashing the last of her psychic powers to reignite the Star. Though the Star and it's planets were still separated from Heaven's Fence, they reformed into their own separate system because of this.

### Reappearance

After her son, Claudio, is attacked by Al the Killer, Kilgannon appears to him to pass her ability to control minds onto him. It is unclear if this appearance was real in some way, or if Kilgannon was just a figment of her son's mind to work out the puzzle of the ability.

## Powers & Abilities

Knowledge was made to be a long range offensive complement to the Beast’s close-range capability. Appropriate to her code name, her powers rely on the fortitude of her mind; telekinesis and mind control being among some of her most powerful abilities. She is even able to manifest energy that she can project as an offense, defend with as a shield, or propel with to fly/hover. She possesses another, more passive, ability to read and connect to the minds of others, typically those she is emotionally connected to or within close proximity of. She does not have much physical strength and she needs to concentrate to use her more powerful abilities.

## Trivia

* In a Reddit AMA post, Sanchez joked that both Coheed AND Cambria would be played by "Chuck Andrews" in a live action adaptation.
* The Kilgannon Family's address is listed as 2 Camry Drive, Valley’s Hills, NK 10988.
* Along with Coheed, Cambria was the first action figure released by NECA for *The Amory Wars* in November 24, 2020.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Gus Vazquez. *The Amory Wars Sketchbook*. Page 15, 17, & 19. Evil Ink, 2006.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 9. Evil Ink, 2010.
3. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *Year of the Black Rainbow*. Chapter 8. Evil Ink, 2010.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *Year of the Black Rainbow*. Chapter 10. Evil Ink, 2010.
5. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *Year of the Black Rainbow*. Chapter 1. Evil Ink, 2010.
6. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *Year of the Black Rainbow*. Chapter 11. Evil Ink, 2010.
7. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *Year of the Black Rainbow*. Chapter 15. Evil Ink, 2010.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *Year of the Black Rainbow*. Epilogue. Evil Ink, 2010.
9. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Gus Vazquez. *The Amory Wars Sketchbook*. Page 15. Evil Ink, 2006.
10. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 1. Evil Ink, 2010.
11. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 2. Evil Ink, 2010.
12. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 3. Evil Ink, 2010.
13. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 4. Evil Ink, 2010.
14. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 5. Evil Ink, 2010.
15. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 6. Evil Ink, 2010.
16. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 7. Evil Ink, 2010.
17. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio. *The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade*. Issue 8. Evil Ink, 2010.
18. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Peter David. *The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3*. Issue 12. Evil Ink, 2012.
19. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20221117181946/https://evilink.com/stats
20. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ikw5z/i\_am\_claudio\_sanchez\_frontman\_of\_coheed\_cambria/cb5hsp3/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
21. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ICfgMTpgSQ
22. ↑ https://twitter.com/Coheed/status/1331054194304815104