We of His faithful have been chosen by the Lord above in a time far before our own existence, for when the Lord made you it was with a purpose given and path laid out. The responsibility lays with us, my children, to tend to this path until the day we return to a time of grace with our Lord, and we see His mercy once again. Carry yourselves every day with this knowledge, but do not place any sense of pride in it, for this clouds the judgement and unfavors you in the eye of the Lord. Embrace the humility inherent in your place and know that One who is infinitely our greater watches from perfection. The eye of the Lord sees forever into all things that the Lord has made by the Lord's own supreme will.

Yes, we who follow the teachings of His messenger, the blessed Prophet Ocillan, are truly the most cherished children of the Lord, for in our hands we hold the true Lord's direct commandments, and will see it done until the end of days. There are those who think they can follow the Path but spurn the orders given on what to do with the heathen and the heretic. They would pervert the true meaning of the Reclaiming entrusted to us. They would tell you that your actions would taint your soul, that destroying the godless heathens is not the Divine Will. That we can find a way to open the Gate to Paradise without removing the evils that infest the Garden. That through our own technological means we can bring our own selves to Heaven and leave the Garden.

No, my children, we know this to be a fallacy. It is a false thing they would preach to you; that we can be with our Lord while the unfaithful claim the Garden for themselves. With the guidance of His messenger, the Prophet Ocilan, we see through the lies and know better than to heed such folly. It is their own souls who have become lost in the dark, trapped in the ever-twisting roads of their scientific inquiries and studies. We who truly believe, we who follow the commands of the holy Prophet directly, are shown the way to salvation. We know that it is only through the complete removal of the sinful that earns us our place in Paradise. What they would call mercy, we know only as damnation. It is not merciful to spare the disease as it kills the body. It is not righteous to spare the heathen as he promulgates false laws upon the worlds that are not his, as he claims ownership of people that are not his own.

"The words of the Prophet ring louder than the whispers of any heretic, and the beauty of Paradise shines brightly enough to illuminate our way. We are the instruments of the divine will, and through us and through our actions, the divine light will shine brightly across all worlds in the Garden."

Praise the Lord. Praise St. Ocilan Ardishapur.

May His will be done.

Amen.

"Through our faith in God as instruments of the Divine Will, we will one day see a cleansed cluster. It will be many years, decades, even centuries, but just as those who have held the Faith for two millenia before us, we shall not falter from the true and righteous path."
- Amir al-Mu'minin Koronakesh

What sort of vile heresy it this?

What sort of vile heresy it this?

Ok, who left the insane asylum door open again?

For truly it is said that the worst sort of heresy is when a believer places the word of a man above the word of God. The words of man may occaisionally illuminate the mysteries of God's Plan, but they must be constantly tested to ensure they do not depart from the true word of the Lord.

Clearly it is our divinely assigned mandate NOT to destroy His creation unless no other path is open. The Reclaiming is supposed to be an act of charity and duty, it is for the purpose not of Reclaiming creation for God, but of Reclaiming the Lost and Damned for God.

Ok, who left the insane asylum door open again?

Unless you have something of value to add, please take your petty comments elsewhere.

While I am an avid supporter of the Theology Council and Empire legislative and don't agree with you on your heretical viewpoints Ms. Ardishapur, I have to ask: What did you expect from tree-prancing-spirit-worshipping Republicans?

Make me, slaver.

For truly it is said that the worst sort of heresy is when a believer places the word of a man above the word of God. The words of man may occaisionally illuminate the mysteries of God's Plan, but they must be constantly tested to ensure they do not depart from the true word of the Lord.

Clearly it is our divinely assigned mandate NOT to destroy His creation unless no other path is open. The Reclaiming is supposed to be an act of charity and duty, it is for the purpose not of Reclaiming creation for God, but of Reclaiming the Lost and Damned for God.

I imagine God cares little for a hydrogen atom or for any other collection of matter and energy. He requires SOULS and it those things which we are meant to Reclaim.

Of all the perversions conjured up by addled minds I will never understand the apparent allure of this cult.
What could be more cold and hollow than the vision Ocilan Ardishapur had for our cluster?
What promise does it offer except for a promised wasteland filled with blood and ashes?...

Of all the perversions conjured up by addled minds I will never understand the apparent allure of this cult.
What could be more cold and hollow than the vision Ocilan Ardishapur had for our cluster?
What promise does it offer except for a promised wasteland filled with blood and ashes?...

Of all the perversions conjured up by addled minds I will never understand the apparent allure of this cult.
What could be more cold and hollow than the vision Ocilan Ardishapur had for our cluster?
What promise does it offer except for a promised wasteland filled with blood and ashes?...

As someone who supported House Ardishapur during the last Succession Trials, I take a very dim view of attempts to disrupt normal life there.

My dear friends in the Seekers see what you consider a 'normal life' to be the disruption.

You do realise that your dear friends' philosophy demands your annihilation, right?

I guess that with friends like that, you really don't need enemies.

We don't let little details like that get in our way *smile*

From a practical standpoint I imagine they would save their close friends for 'last' if that is the correct way to put it.

No reason we can't make beautiful music together until that day of course.

In any case I will be disregarding any barbaric challenges you feel the need to assert. If you did even a modicum of reading you would know I have far more important things to deal with than the likes of one boisterous pilot.

Hello there, my dear old friend.

I confess some disappointment, as you should know better.You call it a "wasteland, cold and hollow", without the masses thrumming through space and across worlds that are not theirs and which they are not fit for? You'll forgive me for, necessarily, disagreeing with such a bleak assessment.

Rather the opposite, as where you see empty wastes, I see cleansed and holy reaches, calm and quiet without the tides of sin and the chaotic noise reverberating across hundreds of once-pure stars. When my Faith gave the cluster Reschard as a monument to the Divine Will, it was just another note in a chorus that has been going on for millenia, but through it you can see just how far those of the Faith will go to ensure the purification is completed. We are dealing with the noblest of ends, the very salvation of all humanity, and so we must use the greatest means to accomplish our goals, to immanentize the eschaton.

You should not mourn those who die in the holy struggle, be they pure or not; there is no sin in the destruction of those who are a breach against Molokite influence, and their spirits are commended to the Ocean of Lost Souls that wail and whirl around the Gate to Heaven, which bars all impurity from the Divine's presence. Nor is there sin in the death of Faithful men and women, who die in service to the Maker of Creation. There is indeed no surer path to Heaven than through death incurred by protecting the Saved, and by destroying sources of sin.

I continue to hope that you will abandon your errant path, my dear old friend, and that you will someday see the Maker's light and follow the proper path as laid out by Prophet Khalid and as told by the Blessed Prophets Ocilan and Paragyn.

IGÇÖm puzzled by your apparent disappointment that I am unreceptive to your message. Our friendship was over when you turned your back on your House and your Empire. I used to consider you a respectable and intelligent man. Unfortunately you always did lack restraint. For a time I thought that your unhealthy interest in forbidden texts was passing and academic in nature. I thought that you of all people had the moral fortitude to stay true to the Imperial rite of faith and couldnGÇÖt be swayed by false prophets. In fact, I recall a moment when you were trusted to judge my loyalty or lack thereof in the past. We were all very wrong about youGǪ

Not only did you descend down the spiral of fanaticism, but you did so for a heresy that turned your entire faith upside down. And it seems to have warped your perceptions.

There is nothing glorious about your acts of murder. Just like there was nothing divine about the Reschard incident. It was genocide, and no amount of writing can mask the injustice of what happened that day. New Eden can do without your vision of Utopia.