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| In the end, Thetors warlike implants led the mechalus to genocide, and the backlash has reinforced their aversion to strong leaders of any kind. Anyone seeking personal power is considered immoral at best and criminal at worst. Mechalus are masters at passive resistance to dangerous demagogues, a category that includes most human heads of state, corporate executives, and religious leaders of all stripes. Thetors physical body is known to have died in 2020, but his followers claim his spirit was recorded and implanted in the Aleeran Grid. Occasional sightings of a Grid shadow tattooed with an hourglass, the symbol of the cult, give new life to the legend every few years. Whether Thetors consciousness survives is largely a matter of faith for Creedans. | In the end, Thetors warlike implants led the mechalus to genocide, and the backlash has reinforced their aversion to strong leaders of any kind. Anyone seeking personal power is considered immoral at best and criminal at worst. Mechalus are masters at passive resistance to dangerous demagogues, a category that includes most human heads of state, corporate executives, and religious leaders of all stripes. Thetors physical body is known to have died in 2020, but his followers claim his spirit was recorded and implanted in the Aleeran Grid. Occasional sightings of a Grid shadow tattooed with an hourglass, the symbol of the cult, give new life to the legend every few years. Whether Thetors consciousness survives is largely a matter of faith for Creedans. | ||
| - | The story has some basis in reality, because the Creedans have always been the keepers of the machinery that transformed a mechalus into a fully mechanical being, or iolite. These machines operated by the careful use of magnetic imaging of each individual cell, then nanite construction of a mechanical copy. The nanites copy each cell, destroying it in the process, called iolification. The last of these devices known were taken away by the Negationists aboard the Kiscae Fleet, but sometimes a [[gridrunner_advanced_class|gridpilot]] claims to have found schematics of the device among the datacores of Pesh or some older source, inevitably involving files that require a dozen data format transfers to decode. Such claims are never verified, and surely any such device would be rejected by the mechalus themselves. | + | The story has some basis in reality, because the Creedans have always been the keepers of the machinery that transformed a mechalus into a fully mechanical being, or iolite. These machines operated by the careful use of magnetic imaging of each individual cell, then nanite construction of a mechanical copy. The nanites copy each cell, destroying it in the process, called iolification. The last of these devices known were taken away by the Negationists aboard the Kiscae Fleet, but sometimes a [[gridpilot_advanced_class|gridpilot]] claims to have found schematics of the device among the datacores of Pesh or some older source, inevitably involving files that require a dozen data format transfers to decode. Such claims are never verified, and surely any such device would be rejected by the mechalus themselves. |
| These few believers of the Creed who remain active today are known variously as the Thetites (as they call themselves) or Creedans (as others call them); they are convinced that mechalus appeasement of humans has been nothing but a disaster. They believe that abandoning their traditional ways after the orodin genocide was a terrible mistake, and they preach a doctrine of rearmament and rebellion, seeking to establish a sovereign mechalus state. To them, the fight for independence is sacred duty, and any bloodshed is a sacrifice to the cause. | These few believers of the Creed who remain active today are known variously as the Thetites (as they call themselves) or Creedans (as others call them); they are convinced that mechalus appeasement of humans has been nothing but a disaster. They believe that abandoning their traditional ways after the orodin genocide was a terrible mistake, and they preach a doctrine of rearmament and rebellion, seeking to establish a sovereign mechalus state. To them, the fight for independence is sacred duty, and any bloodshed is a sacrifice to the cause. | ||
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