Holy See
Holy See by SMACSid Meier's Alpha Centauri Fac Pack Discussion thread |
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| Efficiency | -1 |
| Growth | +2 |
| Research | -1 |
| Anti-Ideology | Democratic |
| Ideology | Fundamentalist |
| Starting tech | Social Psych |
| Facility | Recreation Commons |
| Max base size | +2 |
| File:Missing leaderhead.png Cardinal Julius Cerutti |
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| Personality | Erratic |
| Interests | Explore |
| Emphasis | GROWTH |
| Gender | Male |
Summary
An ancient Church on a new world, the Catholics are ready to make their place on a new world. They have their impressive population to draw on to give them an edge over other factions, but can suffer from a sluggish economy and censored scientific research.
Backstory
Under the crisis conditions now in play on the Unity, colonists banding together in armed factions for self-protection was almost inevitable. Similarly, the significant Catholic contingent amongst the Unity colonists from Southern Europe, Latin America, and Africa had been assigned the former Archbishop of the Congo, promoted to the rank of Cardinal as de facto head of the Centauri Church, Julius Cerutti, an Italian priest with extensive missionary experience in Africa. Between the Society, Dai Seung, and the Catholic contingent, the Unity was soon largely split into armed camps, with sporadic fighting and banditry punctuated by minor acts of sabotage performed by Society members to shake the morale of outsiders.
With no recourse to the mission authorities and with the chaos of the Unity convincing many of the Catholic colonists that secularism had convincingly failed, the de facto leadership of Cardinal Julius was soon formalised into a theocratic state, with political and spiritual power united in the same leaders, and with the Cardinal occupying a new Holy See in place of the Pope on Earth. One of the Church's first priorities on Chiron was to establish a system of humane support to ease the difficulties of the least fortunate members of its society, and a cultural emphasis on the value of the family helped encourage burgeoning populations as the Church began to settle Chiron. Although the Church was relatively economically and technologically stagnant, it had many hands to turn to the tasks of survival, and, although not the colony with the fewest members of the drone class, it was a colony where the lot of the drones was relatively mild.
FutureWorks
Stellae Cognitae, 'Known Stars', is basically an assertion that the timeless principles of morality and religion hold on a new world, and that by holding to them the Church can thrive and bring people to salvation. In talking about what the righteous society will do, is sort of the mission statement for Catholic theocracy on Chiron.
De Homis Naturalis, 'On the Natural Man', is fundamentally a warning against pride, arguing that human pride growing on this world threatens to turn man to ever greater sin. But still holds that mankind might yet easily repent.
Dies Irae, written partly in the context of aggressive Anarchist attack on Catholic territories, is arguing that Man's sins have grown overwhelming, and God will find a way to punish Man.
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