Alith comes from a ruthless, authoritarian and fundamentalist empire. Their people were for centuries the prey of a stronger species that dominated the surface of their planet, while they hid and dwelled in caves connec
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addedThis constant dread for their lives was used by a group of individuals that, while trying to give meaning and logic to these harsh living conditions, also found a way to start accumulating power over the community by establishing strict rules of conduct and a strong religious hierarchy. The dogmatic following of these rules created a new way of life known as the Faith .
changedTheir technology started focusing on learning how these ‘Gods’ bodies worked, and to replicate their capabilities to achieve perfection. They experimented with highly complex biomechanical implants to improve the bodies of their brave explorers, who were sent to the surface looking for resources and knowledge about these giant creatures.
addedAfter many centuries, their technology eventually got good enough to finally face in battle their Gods. This started a war that lasted for decades and ended with the conquest of the surface. This created a massive shift in the prey mentality of the underground people. They had become the predators now, and nobody was going to subject them anymore. That also changed their way of government and religion. That is known as the first foundation, and the religion converted to a new system with two main branches: Faith and War .
addedGuided by a strong inferiority complex due to their past as a prey species, the next centuries were focused on ‘preventive conquering’. They underwent the creation of a space fleet and started the systematic subjugation of less developed civilizations to consolidate their new mentality. They became 'Gods' among the stars. With expansion came colonization and impregnation from other cultures and societies. In the long run, this created religious tension among the church as progressive individuals started to appreciate the diversity inherent to other species and forms of religion. These produced aberrant behaviors among pockets of populations that encompassed cross-species sexual intercourse, faith conversion, and full-fledged heretical movements. After a civil war engulfed part of the empire, and to avoid heresy, criticism, and opposition inside their society, the Imperium became more authoritarian and less tolerant. As the Imperium conquered its self-doubt, the second foundation took place with the creation of the branch of Truth . That branch was concerned with dogma and belief. This foundation establishes the current state of political and religious affairs for the Imperium. The Imperium is managed by the church branches known as Faith, War, and Truth, as a Triarchy of power.
addedThe branch of Truth destroyed all recorded history and banned the possibility of keeping records of any past fact. The only holders of the truth were the Triarch of Truth and the Truthsayers . A Truthsayer was the one that established fact (or rewritten fact), and as so, the Truthsayers ended up functioning as a policing force among the administration of the Imperial Triarchy . This allowed them to justify any new conquest and aggression, by claiming a ‘holy right’ and a ‘divine quest’ for the ‘universal truth’. Despite all, nowadays, the primary function of a Truthsayers is that of preventing, investigating, and purging heresy wherever it may spawn. To achieve that purpose, the Truthsayers would surgically remove leaders, sabotage whole planets, and target individuals deemed dangerous. Those are known as truth-seeking protocols. In this sad, obscure, and blind period was when O’Ree-Jin was first discovered by this civilization. The Imperium was the first to find the ruins and the power of the essence . Taking advantage of that, they rewrote their history again, claiming that the planet was their true origin and their lost paradise, so they had the right to inherit and exploit it. When the triarchy achieves full dominance over the planet, the final foundation will take place.
changedAs other civilizations reached the planet and became engaged in the process of extraction, the truth propagated by the Truthsayers began to crumble. As the conflict was not an option (due to mutually assured destruction), the branch of Truth quarantined all information on O’Ree-Jin . The only available personnel on orbit around the planet are personnel from the Truth branch of the church. They are deemed the only ones strong enough to mingle with other civilizations' falsehoods and with the events that take place on the planet’s surface. As so, the Truthsayers dispatched to O’Ree-Jin are specialized in The Harvest ceremony. They are allowed to work with other civilizations... at least for the moment, as they gather enough truth about them.
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addedThis constant dread for their lives was used by a group of individuals that, while trying to give meaning and logic to these harsh living conditions, also found a way to start accumulating power over the community by establishing strict rules of conduct and a strong religious hierarchy. The dogmatic following of these rules created a new way of life known as the Faith .
changedTheir technology started focusing on learning how these ‘Gods’ bodies worked, and to replicate their capabilities to achieve perfection. They experimented with highly complex biomechanical implants to improve the bodies of their brave explorers, who were sent to the surface looking for resources and knowledge about these giant creatures.
addedAfter many centuries, their technology eventually got good enough to finally face in battle their Gods. This started a war that lasted for decades and ended with the conquest of the surface. This created a massive shift in the prey mentality of the underground people. They had become the predators now, and nobody was going to subject them anymore. That also changed their way of government and religion. That is known as the first foundation, and the religion converted to a new system with two main branches: Faith and War .
addedGuided by a strong inferiority complex due to their past as a prey species, the next centuries were focused on ‘preventive conquering’. They underwent the creation of a space fleet and started the systematic subjugation of less developed civilizations to consolidate their new mentality. They became 'Gods' among the stars. With expansion came colonization and impregnation from other cultures and societies. In the long run, this created religious tension among the church as progressive individuals started to appreciate the diversity inherent to other species and forms of religion. These produced aberrant behaviors among pockets of populations that encompassed cross-species sexual intercourse, faith conversion, and full-fledged heretical movements. After a civil war engulfed part of the empire, and to avoid heresy, criticism, and opposition inside their society, the Imperium became more authoritarian and less tolerant. As the Imperium conquered its self-doubt, the second foundation took place with the creation of the branch of Truth . That branch was concerned with dogma and belief. This foundation establishes the current state of political and religious affairs for the Imperium. The Imperium is managed by the church branches known as Faith, War, and Truth, as a Triarchy of power.
addedThe branch of Truth destroyed all recorded history and banned the possibility of keeping records of any past fact. The only holders of the truth were the Triarch of Truth and the Truthsayers . A Truthsayer was the one that established fact (or rewritten fact), and as so, the Truthsayers ended up functioning as a policing force among the administration of the Imperial Triarchy . This allowed them to justify any new conquest and aggression, by claiming a ‘holy right’ and a ‘divine quest’ for the ‘universal truth’. Despite all, nowadays, the primary function of a Truthsayers is that of preventing, investigating, and purging heresy wherever it may spawn. To achieve that purpose, the Truthsayers would surgically remove leaders, sabotage whole planets, and target individuals deemed dangerous. Those are known as truth-seeking protocols. In this sad, obscure, and blind period was when O’Ree-Jin was first discovered by this civilization. The Imperium was the first to find the ruins and the power of the essence . Taking advantage of that, they rewrote their history again, claiming that the planet was their true origin and their lost paradise, so they had the right to inherit and exploit it. When the triarchy achieves full dominance over the planet, the final foundation will take place.
Alith comes from a ruthless, authoritarian and fundamentalist empire. Their people were for centuries the prey of a stronger species that dominated the surface of their planet, while they hid and dwelled in caves connected through an underground galleries system. The giant creatures that inhabited the surface were worshipped, feared, and hated as punishing gods by the underground people.
This constant dread for their lives was used by a group of individuals that, while trying to give meaning and logic to these harsh living conditions, also found a way to start accumulating power over the community by establishing strict rules of conduct and a strong religious hierarchy. The dogmatic following of these rules created a new way of life known as the Faith.
Their technology started focusing on learning how these ‘Gods’ bodies worked, and to replicate their capabilities to achieve perfection. They experimented with highly complex biomechanical implants to improve the bodies of their brave explorers, who were sent to the surface looking for resources and knowledge about these giant creatures.
After many centuries, their technology eventually got good enough to finally face in battle their Gods. This started a war that lasted for decades and ended with the conquest of the surface. This created a massive shift in the prey mentality of the underground people. They had become the predators now, and nobody was going to subject them anymore. That also changed their way of government and religion. That is known as the first foundation, and the religion converted to a new system with two main branches: Faith and War.
The Faith branch was the ancient way, and it was concerned with the day to day ethics and morals of the peoples.
The War branch of the church was born as the war against the Gods neared its end, and it concerned itself with militaristic development, social discipline, and sciences.
Guided by a strong inferiority complex due to their past as a prey species, the next centuries were focused on ‘preventive conquering’. They underwent the creation of a space fleet and started the systematic subjugation of less developed civilizations to consolidate their new mentality. They became 'Gods' among the stars. With expansion came colonization and impregnation from other cultures and societies. In the long run, this created religious tension among the church as progressive individuals started to appreciate the diversity inherent to other species and forms of religion. These produced aberrant behaviors among pockets of populations that encompassed cross-species sexual intercourse, faith conversion, and full-fledged heretical movements. After a civil war engulfed part of the empire, and to avoid heresy, criticism, and opposition inside their society, the Imperium became more authoritarian and less tolerant. As the Imperium conquered its self-doubt, the second foundation took place with the creation of the branch of Truth. That branch was concerned with dogma and belief. This foundation establishes the current state of political and religious affairs for the Imperium. The Imperium is managed by the church branches known as Faith, War, and Truth, as a Triarchy of power.
The branch of Truth destroyed all recorded history and banned the possibility of keeping records of any past fact. The only holders of the truth were the Triarch of Truth and the Truthsayers. A Truthsayer was the one that established fact (or rewritten fact), and as so, the Truthsayers ended up functioning as a policing force among the administration of the Imperial Triarchy. This allowed them to justify any new conquest and aggression, by claiming a ‘holy right’ and a ‘divine quest’ for the ‘universal truth’. Despite all, nowadays, the primary function of a Truthsayers is that of preventing, investigating, and purging heresy wherever it may spawn. To achieve that purpose, the Truthsayers would surgically remove leaders, sabotage whole planets, and target individuals deemed dangerous. Those are known as truth-seeking protocols. In this sad, obscure, and blind period was when O’Ree-Jin was first discovered by this civilization. The Imperium was the first to find the ruins and the power of the essence. Taking advantage of that, they rewrote their history again, claiming that the planet was their true origin and their lost paradise, so they had the right to inherit and exploit it. When the triarchy achieves full dominance over the planet, the final foundation will take place.
As other civilizations reached the planet and became engaged in the process of extraction, the truth propagated by the Truthsayers began to crumble. As the conflict was not an option (due to mutually assured destruction), the branch of Truth quarantined all information on O’Ree-Jin. The only available personnel on orbit around the planet are personnel from the Truth branch of the church. They are deemed the only ones strong enough to mingle with other civilizations' falsehoods and with the events that take place on the planet’s surface. As so, the Truthsayers dispatched to O’Ree-Jin are specialized in The Harvest ceremony. They are allowed to work with other civilizations... at least for the moment, as they gather enough truth about them.
