“This particular childie soon pushed the extreme leniency afforded to the House to its limits, purposefully and more importantly publicly replacing vast swathes of their biology with inferior technological substitutes. The blatantly ritualistic nature of these “surgeries” as the agent termed them, was hard to miss, reaching crisis point when they removed their occipital lobe, installing it within an independent bio-mec shell that acted as their watchdog-cum-familiar. The agent’s handler perceived this act as a deliberate parody of the link shared between the Great Houses and their Time-Ships and the ensuing fallout saw the agent take on a near-renegade status within the House Military. While they have never openly taken action against the Homeworld, and indeed still ostensibly challenge the enemy, their motives of late suggest someone concerned with their own power and status above all else. The last recorded sighting of the agent placing them at the heart of a coup staged within the ranks of a degenerate technosapien sect found at the edges of the so-called frontier in time. While the exact nature of their involvement with this regime change is unknown it must be assumed that they have done rather well from it...”
- Surviving Extract from The House of Oakdown: An Ongoing History.