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The world’s defenses at present consist of a small flotilla of Basilikon Astra warships, Redshield, and two incomplete Defense Lasers on the surface, built into camouflaged structures of Citadel Matraxia.  The world’s eventual defenses will be far greater, and Beraxos has already sent over plans for entire arrays of void platforms and surface-to-space guns.  Until then, the planet is terribly vulnerable.  While Cognomen has some of the Knight designs they have decided to withhold most of the designs until the world’s other defenses are in place.  Most of the colonists of the planet hail from Cognomen and Forender, and the Mechanicus has trained some in self-defense, just in case the worst should come to pass and the planet suffers invasion and the Knight House is not ready to fight back.  Matraxia does not appreciate this, but begrudgingly accepts the necessity for now – all the chivalry and honor in the world are meaningless if their peasants are all dead.  So far, the planet’s indenturetude by the Mechanicus is operating precisely on schedule.  The members of House Matraxia who chafe under the leadership – and rulership – of Cognomen have kept their mouths shut, though even Cognomen’s loudest detractors have admitted that other Knight Houses have fared much worse under Forge Worlds than they have.  Still, until the world’s colonization, industrialization, and Knight deployment are complete –which will take three hundred more years at minimum – the world is Cognomen’s, and they know it.