Vega Project

The **Vega Project** is a research and development undertaking by the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade that resulted in the creation of the Psychic Hood and Force Weapons. The Vega Project was a collaboration between the Librariums and Armouriums of the Silver Skulls, Blood Ravens, Mentors, Mantis Warriors, Flesh Tearers and Storm Wardens Legion which led to the creation of psychoactive technology that revolutionised how a Librarian took to a battlefield. The project was under the direction of Mikael Corveda, Primarch of the XVIIth Legion and Kamakiri, Primarch of the IXth. The Project was also named the **Mind's Eye Project** and the **Ethereal Hammer Project** and it was assigned the codename **Orion**. Research and production of the project took place over five Forge Worlds as well as the personal forges of the Blood Ravens and Silver Skulls Legion.

The Project also charged with gathering intelligence and locating psycho-active machinery already constructed from the Dark Age of Technology that could assist them in battle. This secondary objective was referred to as **Operation Falling Vulture** and it's codename was **Lyra**. Operation Falling Vulture was also a resounding success as it resulted in the location of Ciricrux Anima, a piece of Dark Age technology that would become the main foundation for the Ordo Sinister's Psi-Titans.

Broadly speaking, the project led to the creation of Psychoactive technology; technology that relies upon psychic power as its stimulus and is therefore useless to non-psykers. This marriage between the empyrean and technology, and by extension of the psyker and the machine, gave birth to Force Weapons, tools that were connected to a user's psychic power and would allow them to channel their energy into a foe. This would result in a dramatic improvement on the conventional weapon and allow Librarians to take down far larger foes with ease. This technology was the foundations for the Psychic Hood which originally only amplified the power of those wearing it, but eventually (with the creation of the Nullifier) went onto also dampen the powers of enemies, making it especially useful.

## Organization

* **Project Chiefs** - Primarchs Mikael Corveda and Kamakiri
	+ **Prognostication Order** - Chief Prognosticator Vadim Palantir (Silver Skulls)
	+ **Workforce Order** - Taxiarch Jibril (Blood Ravens)
		- **Imperium Naval Lodge** - Lord High Admiral Cleo Beckman
		- **Imperial Army Lodge** - Lord Commander Argan Brig (Imperial Army)
		- **Adeptus Mechanicus Lodge** - Archmagos Intendant BG-9 (Mars)
			* **Servitor Unit** - Archmagos K2-12 (Forge World Solemnium)
	+ **Administratus Order** - Cadre Master Obraq al Hasarad (Mentors)
	+ **Sentinel Order** - First Captain Kou Tokugawa (Mantis Warriors)
		- **Translocation Protection Lodge** - Lord Admiral Hugo Carlind
		- **Information Protection Lodge** -
		- **Workforce Protection Lodge** -
		- **Forge Protection Lodge** -
	+ **Operations Order** - Forgemaster Archimedes (Mentors)
		- **Production Lodge** - Forge Master Ashmedae (Flesh Tearers)
		- **Construction Lodge** - Forge Master Goro Nyudo (Mantis Warriors)
		- **Procurement Lodge** - Forge Master Danann Goibniu (Storm Wardens)
	+ **Segmentum Solar Order** - Chief Librarian Kujou Toshinori (Mantis Warriors)
	+ **Segmentum Obscurus Order** - Chief Librarian Valafar Amos (Flesh Tearers)
	+ **Ultima Segmentum Order** - Chief Librarian Gregor (Storm Wardens)
	+ **Medicae Order** - Chief Apothecary Galenus (Mentors)

## Lyra

Lyra was the codename for Operation Falling Vulture, a subsidiary endeavour of the Vega Project that aimed to recover psychoactive machinery of the Dark Age of Technology in hopes it would aid their endeavours. Falling Vulture was under the direct command of Primarch Kamakiri of the IXth Legion Mantis Warriors and was divided into three groups, one for each of the Segmenta the Imperium had a substantial foothold in at the time.

## Outcomes

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The Vega Project was a resounding success in terms of technological achievement. the project itself led to the creation of, most famously, the Psychic Hood and the Force Weapon. The Project resulted in various other technological feats other than these two but they were the most notable.

### Polaris-Pattern Psychic Hood

The First successful variant of the psychic hood was the Polaris Pattern. This pattern was very primeval in its design: it had a very bulky casing, a restrictive headset with dozens of wires, two power cables and many communication prongs. At this point, the nullifier housing was not developed so it only performed the function of increasing the wearer's general psychic potency on the battlefield, the traditional nullifier was implemented in later patterns.