What should your focus for the rest of the Quest be?


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[X] Plan: Domain Expansion: 41630 Cogs W/Psykana Choice

I kinda wanna do Paths, because, like, we have people insulting our Kin so let's show them up by having our Choirs learn a Kin Melody. :V
So I was just thinking about Paths, particular in conjunction with the unstable Warp routes on the map. It seems like it would be particularly applicable to improving our Choirs' navigational capabilities, could maybe get us up to 'Navigator' from 'Void Abacus' in terms of navigation quality. Or maybe allow a degree of manipulation of Warp Routes, particular unstable ones.

Something like Perception + Paths + Void?
 
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If colonization is the only objective. People could have more than one objective.
We always have multiple objectives and several on the back-burner.
Right now, with the exact number of available planets to colonize and the currently-selected ISC, is the optimal time to get this objective done, so that we can be more efficient at pursuing other objectives on subsequent turns.
 
It's also true that converting the Ashan families gets us more worlds than a single colonization action. But it also involves us in the nonsense party that is Macabre. Which... I'm happy to delay as long as possible. Place sounds like a nightmare in need of a'conquerin.
 
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Scheduled vote count started by HeroCooky on Jun 7, 2024 at 2:22 PM, finished with 26 posts and 20 votes.

  • [X] Plan: Domain Expansion: 41630 Cogs W/Psykana Choice
    -[X] [Faith] Sermons To The Families
    -[X] [General] Colonize (Planet/s)
    --[X] Turriamnish's Hope - Hope
    --[X] Monresast - Monresast Major
    --[X]Silista - Silista X
    -[X] [Faith] The Great Heresies
    --[X] The Supplicants of the Aetherical Cog
    -[X] Psykana Choice: Technology
    [X] Plan: Paint the Map
    -[X] [General] Colonize
    --[X] Ultima Sigritta - Sira (Mesa and Savannah), Silista - Silista X (Temperate Continent), Turriamnish's Hope - Hope (Steppes and Moss)
    --[X] Monresast - Monresast Major (Arboreal and Savanna), Gnatiila - Smug (Outback and Canyons), Itani - Grubbub (Low Shrubs and Fog)
    -[X] [Faith] The Great Heresies
    --[X] The Supplicants of the Aetherical Cog
    -[X] [Non Action] Set the Melody about to be learned to Technology
    [X] Plan: Go forth and bonk a Heresy
    -[X] [General] Colonize (Planet/s)
    --[X] Turriamnish's Hope - Hope
    --[X] Monresast - Monresast Major
    --[x] Ultima Sigritta - Sira
    -[x] Servitor Cognition Auxiliary Enhancement Procedures
    -[X] [Faith] The Great Heresies
    --[X] The Supplicants of the Aetherical Cog
    -[X] [Non Action] Set the Melody about to be learned to Technology
 
635-M42 - All Are One
The Supplicants of the Aetherical Cog.

A sect and a cult of the Star-Mechanicum that desires to shed the fallibility of the self and replace it with the infallibility of the many. No longer shall one need to suffer the many if they can enjoy the one. No more doubts, no more fear, no more dissonance. Only the hard certainty that no matter who you are, you have a place, a purpose, and a duty that will be fulfilled and enrich all beings everywhere.

There will be no strife when all are one under the Star Child.
There will be no hunger when all are one under the Star Child.
There will be no suffering when all are one under the Star Child.

For when all are one under the Star Child, the Star Child will be them, and they the Star Child.

Those are the words of the Supplicants, and they are intoxicating indeed. The idea that one can simply...let go of all their fears, of all their despair and misery, let go of pain and uncertainty, and be always comforted in the knowledge that, yes, they have a purpose, they are worth and worthy of the Divine Grace that the Star Child has given us to usher in its Age...

They will always have recruits. No matter how many cells are struck, how many of their plans to advance the eradication of the self are discovered and destroyed, their experiments saved, and their raids on research institutions foiled...human nature itself is their ally.

Humanity craves purpose. It is what makes us...us. It made us go into the stars, what enabled us to reach the heights we now once again aspire to achieve, and the doom that falls when that search for purpose is twisted and turned into horrors beyond human comprehension.

There is a saying: "What reason has a wretch dwelling in hell to refuse the Daemons offer?"

There is a truth: "What reason do those who see no worth in themselves have to refuse an offer to make them worthy?"

Unlike the Syncretists, the Supplicants cannot be fought with propaganda and wary eyes, not with hands and fists, nor ease and reach.

They are a cancer upon the minds of 87% of our people, for they prey upon the needs of Humanity itself to feed themselves.

How Shall We Deal With Them?
(6-Hour Moratorium)
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... So yeah, this is basically a "Chaos Cult where Chaos is actually trying", yeesh.

"There's nothing you can do because it preys on a fundamental weakness in human nature, and no amount of suppression will stop them"
 
Also, is this suggesting they've already subverted 87% of our population? Or is this suggesting instead that "If we do nothing ,they'll get 87% of our population"
 
Humanity craves purpose. It is what makes us...us. It made us go into the stars, what enabled us to reach the heights we now once again aspire to achieve, and the doom that falls when that search for purpose is twisted and turned into horrors beyond human comprehension.

There is a saying: "What reason has a wretch dwelling in hell to refuse the Daemons offer?"

There is a truth: "What reason do those who see no worth in themselves have to refuse an offer to make them worthy?"

Unlike the Syncretists, the Supplicants cannot be fought with propaganda and wary eyes, not with hands and fists, nor ease and reach.

They are a cancer upon the minds of 87% of our people, for they prey upon the needs of Humanity itself to feed themselves.

How Shall We Deal With Them?
(6-Hour Moratorium)
Well, remind people of their purpose.
Of the good work the glimmerlings are doing.
Of the value of community.
How the Starchild is 5 in 1 and wants us to be [many individuals, many selves] in [one body of faith].



Also, is this suggesting they've already subverted 87% of our population? Or is this suggesting instead that "If we do nothing ,they'll get 87% of our population"
87% of our population are human and they are preying on human instincts.
 
Anyway, I may have failed to pay attention here, but why do we hate these guys in the first place?
This outgrowth of the Star-Mechanicum was recently discovered and has, as far as Cerberus knows, been founded by an unknown Magos after the Nuking of the Forge, when they found an artifact of unspecified power and nature. However, interrogations have since revealed that this artifact was a receptible of data and contained several teachings within its form that range, by their descriptions, from "perfectly acceptable" to "utterly heretically." The various sects of the Aetherical Cog are cellular by nature and differ in several ways, even amongst themselves, but all hold to the central belief that a Divided Consciousness is no longer tolerable. Instead, they seek the Convergence, the day when all minds are joined as one under the guidance of the Star Child to be but a cog for their designs of peaceful unity.

They want all humanity to become a hive mind.
 
Anyway, I may have failed to pay attention here, but why do we hate these guys in the first place?
We don't necessarily hate them as reconciling their heresy to the main faith is an option. The issue more is that...well how bad is this? The religion aspect tends to fly over my head I am afraid

EDIT: But they are seeking the death of individuality which...yeah that's not good
 
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So if we cannot fight them, can't we just declare them prohibited and let Cerberus do its job?

Because the problem with the Heresies is that they are on a grey legal area where no one is really sure what to do and that's why we have to make the final call.

So can't we just declare the Cogs fully illegal and have Cerberus hunt them down like the regular Chaos cults?
 
This outgrowth of the Star-Mechanicum was recently discovered and has, as far as Cerberus knows, been founded by an unknown Magos after the Nuking of the Forge, when they found an artifact of unspecified power and nature. However, interrogations have since revealed that this artifact was a receptible of data and contained several teachings within its form that range, by their descriptions, from "perfectly acceptable" to "utterly heretically." The various sects of the Aetherical Cog are cellular by nature and differ in several ways, even amongst themselves, but all hold to the central belief that a Divided Consciousness is no longer tolerable. Instead, they seek the Convergence, the day when all minds are joined as one under the guidance of the Star Child to be but a cog for their designs of peaceful unity.

They want all humanity to become a hive mind.

Yeah, and?

Are they forcibly recruiting people, are they lying about how their system works, do they have mind control rays?
 
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