Belisarius Cawl - Cawl Inferior: As the ancient archmagos is dedicated to a multitude of projects that are running simultaneously, he has added multiple, independent consciousnesses to track them all. In order to facilitate his objectives and to allow him to focus further on his research and the re-discovery of lost technology, Cawl constructed at least two artificial intelligence devices, each known as the "Cawl Inferior."One was located aboard Roboute Guilliman's ancient flagship Macragge's Honour, secreted deep within the bowels of the mighty vessel, hidden within a chamber where none were allowed to go but the primarch himself, and by Cawl's invitation only. A similar device was installed on Cawl's own Ark Mechanicus, the Zar-Quaesitor.This massive device was operated by a lone master astropath, Guidus Losenti, and was often used by Cawl to communicate with Guilliman from across vast distances once Cawl had departed the Indomitus Crusade to pursue his own quest to discover the workings of the Necrons' blackstone Cadian Pylons and how their technology might be used to seal the Great Rift. Their communications through their respective Cawl Inferiors suffered no corruption of the like that had plagued astrotelepathy since the opening of the Great Rift.Cawl's blasphemous device was comprised of a being made up of hundreds of the decapitated but still-living heads of servitors, deck-sized, psychically-active cogitator processors and parts of obvious alien origin. When communicating with the lord commander of the Imperium, it could perfectly mimick Cawl's voice and mannerisms, though it insisted it was an all-together different entity entirely.When communicating with Guilliman, the Cawl Inferior claimed that it sought to seek to emulate Human interaction to make the primarch more comfortable with its aberrant existence. This preamble was to ease tension and re-establish bonds between Belisarius Cawl and the Imperial Regent.Though he had lived ten thousand years, the changes Cawl had wrought upon his body to support his mind through it had stripped most of his Humanity away. His emotions had become ghosts in the great mechanism of the Cawl Inferior that his mind now inhabited, and mediated through the machine, they should have been practically absent. But surprisingly, the Cawl Inferior's emotionless pronouncements often contained elements of sardonic humour from time to time, even in this soulless facsimile.The information conveyed through the Cawl Inferior to Guilliman was, in fact, innate to the device's construction. An encoded message sent through the device's operating Master Astropath unlocked the appropriate responses. The Cawl Inferior's creator supplied the machine with multiple, prerendered scenarios that he, in his great wisdom and genius, had mathematically extrapolated. The messages the Cawl Inferior received from its creator merely modified these prognostications to fit the actuality of current circumstances. The Cawl Inferior's programming was pre-loaded. The linked brains and the logic engines in the greater portion of the vessel's chamber contained all eventualities relevant to the task undertaken by Guilliman and Cawl. All probable futures were thus contained within the memory banks of the Cawl Inferior.Despite its protestations, Guilliman did not entirely trust the device, nor its creator. The Cawl Inferior claimed to be no Abominable Intelligence that possessed forbidden machine self-awareness and sentience. The entity's responses were not spontaneously generated, but predetermined by Cawl before its construction, and it violated none of the Adeptus Mechanicus' or the Emperor's technological proscriptions since the servitor brains that partially made up the Cawl Inferior's being were organic in nature and thus sanctioned for use.The Cawl Inferiors were thus not truly machines, nor unique, independent creations, but a limited expression of Belisarius Cawl's own entirely Human, if augmented, mind. By these means, the Cawl Inferior was supposedly free of the wickedness of the forbidden science of artificial general intelligence.Yet Guilliman believed that it was probable that the Cawl Inferior was a real machine intelligence masquerading as a non-intelligent device as a pretence. Guilliman was no technologist of the ability demonstrated by his brother primarchs Perturabo, Vulkan or Ferrus Manus, but he doubted that the archmagos was telling him the complete truth about how his creation truly worked, especially since it obviously also made use of power drawn from the Warp, which was one reason why Master Astropath Guidus Losenti preferred to never be in the machine's presence once he had activated it with the code Cawl had astrotelepathically transmitted to him.The Cawl inferior was thus clearly partly psychic in nature, a blend of various xenos and Imperial technologies, which definitely made it heretical by the tenets of the Adeptus Mechanicus in several regards, whether it could actually think for itself or not. Its existence, no matter how useful, was just another indicator that Cawl needed to be watched more closely lest he fall into true heresy.