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of new religions, some riffing on old favourites like The GreekAutodocs Church, some entirely new, like Blessed Abduction,but all plugged deeply into user’s online lives. Each one wassubtly different, but all had Divine Ascension and the unity ofall religions as their heart, their eventual revealed truth.That wasn’t Divine Ascension’s biggest secret though. Theprecepts of the church were extremely hierarchical and toreach the next level of salvation believers had to put theirtrust in their higher-ups – revealing their darkest secrets aspart of ascension rituals, projected live on the social network.Essentially, every step up the hierarchy knew the dirty secretsof every person below them. And Lady Vermillion, aided bydata-mining AIs, sits at the top.Now imagine trying to leave such a network. You’re all beingautomatically-blackmailed, your income siphoned, your friends25