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and family incentivised to betray doubters so they can be“healed” at the special reformation camps in Siberia. There’sno way out save to disappear entirely.By the 2040s, Divine Ascension was one of the largestreligions on Earth. Some of the followers truly believed; thosewho didn’t kept their mouths firmly shut. But now the reallystrange part started. Lilith, a grasping materialist since birth,finally found herself with the luxury to rest, think; and foundthat she genuinely had faith, in herself, as a god. Now thismight have been a result of the trauma she received after anassassination attempt, and it didn’t change anything aboutthe cruelty and authoritarianism of her organisation – but itchanged the religion’s aims. She was a god; now she wanted aplanet of her own.Using the fabulous wealth of a tithe drawn from a billion people,Lilith had Noxium build her a fabulous space cathedral, agothic rotational habitat that was decorated as a prayer wheel,turning the sun’s rays into rotational force, and hence prayer,and incidentally gravity. With her faithful few, she retreatedinto meditative cryo-pods in the hub of the habitat. Here theylay, ageing only slowly, waiting for the discovery of a world shecould call her own – and the science to get there.In the 2080s, the Pandora announcement invigorated herreligions. Vermillion’s instructions were clear – her cryo-podand those of the faithful were loaded straight into her custombuiltNoxium colonisation ship and sent to the stars, while herfearful faithful prayed for her deliverance (and many secretlyhoped she never came back).On Pandora, Lady Lilith Vermillion sits at the top of a socialpyramid that combines the worst parts of Facebook, Scientologyand North Korea. Her zealous followers worship her for being26
God’s instrument to express his will among men. She believesit’s her destiny to show her people the right path, and leadthem to a prosperous future in a promised land. Pandora is thatpromised land. Woe betide any heathens who get in her way.IMPERIUM“Yeah sure, I’m aware that for some of our guysfighting in this hellhole was a living nightmareand traumatizing experience. But for me... itwas Tuesday.”– Admiral James Heid, The Callisto Conflict***The itch... had returned. After an age of peace, She had wokenfrom uneasy dreaming to find a scrabbling against Her flanks,a handful of crawling contacts worrying at Her. Her memory27
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