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Consolidated Axiom Dynamics does not believe you are broken. It believes you are inefficient. The distinction matters, because broken things are discarded. Inefficient things are corrected.
This sourcebook is the complete guide to one of Deadwake's most unsettling factions: a corporate power that survived the Feedback Cascade not by protecting its people from the Cognitive Static, but by deciding that the part of the mind most vulnerable to the Static was the problem all along. CAD's Logic Engine does not advise its leadership. It makes decisions. The humans are there to implement them. The question the sourcebook explores, across every chapter, is what happens to the people who built that system once it no longer needs them to.
Three families. One machine. No consensus.
CAD is governed by the Patrician Trust, three powerful families who agree on almost nothing except that the other two cannot be allowed to win. The Hancock pragmatists built the Logic Engine as a tool and have spent two generations pretending they still control it. The Nishimura Zealots have stopped pretending: to them, the Engine is not a tool but a revelation, and human agency is simply a legacy error awaiting correction. The Shaw Directorate has no theology. It has leverage. Navigating the cold war between them is as dangerous as anything happening on the battlefield outside the arcology walls.
What Is Inside
Full faction lore covering CAD's history, internal politics, and the secret at the center of the Logic Engine that recontextualizes everything players thought they knew about the faction. New Origins and Archetypes for RPG campaign play, including the Vein Echo-Touched Hacker, built for characters who get too close to the system's buried architecture. The Social-Efficiency Score mechanic for tracking standing within CAD's internal hierarchy, where your usefulness is quantified and your score has consequences. The Purity Audit scenario framework, which turns bureaucratic process into a genuine mechanical threat. For miniatures play, the Probability Alignment Track rewards patient network warfare with cumulative bonuses that build toward a late-game state most factions cannot match. New units, legendary profiles including Exec-Inquisitor Malix (who carries no weapons and has never needed one), and complete campaign arcs for both systems are included.
There is also the matter of the Omega-7 Incident: an entire armored column that ceased to exist without wreckage, distress signals, or recoverable data. For a faction whose theology is built on the principle that everything can be measured and predicted, something that left no data at all is not merely a military mystery. The Hancocks' private terror of what might have caused it runs through the sourcebook like a fault line.
Requires the Deadwake Roleplaying Game Rulebook and/or Deadwake Miniatures Combat Rules. Compatible with both systems.