Category:Imperial Church

Imperial Church

Forthcoming.

Historical & Background Information On The Imperial Church

The following section will describe the Neo-Prussian Imperial Church which will from this point on be referred to as the Imperial Church -

The Imperial Church’s main creed is betterment through deeds and actions without basking in the glory of those deeds and as such its members go to great lengths to cover their identities whenever they are doing something church related; but oddly enough not out of a sense of secrecy but out of a sense of humility for god as such whenever they are doing something church related whether a normal worship service or a bake sale to raise funds for the church they wear specially made nanno-tex full body suits provided by the church.

These suits leave the wearer anonymous to everyone around them.

The suit’s full face enclosure doesn’t even have any facial features and the only distinction between them is by sex with females wearing dark pink metallic suits and males wearing dark blue metallic suits that cover the wearer from head to toe.

And church’s actually have built in locker rooms for their parishioners to change into their church garb before they even enter the main temple of the church.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Unlike some past regimes the church and state do not suppress other religions but most Neo-Prussians [both high and low born] feel a certain sense of comfort from the way the church operates allowing it’s parishioners to obtain a certain amount of anonymity, some members of the church even change into their church garb before even getting there.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-background-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Imperial Church Timeline

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Forthcoming. <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: solid black;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Church Hierarchy <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Lay Persons - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> The lowest ranking persons in the church are what is called lay persons, in the Imperial church lay persons are still considered clergy but are only allowed to perform sermons when serving as missionaries outside of the Neo-Prussian empire [which the church pays for and promotes avidly], these lay persons wear the same dark pink or dark blue suits as parishioners save that they have a small silver cross over the right chest and they have thigh length boots and upper arms length gloves that are silver in color to distinguish them from a parishioner.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Lay persons are often just normal parishioners who agree to spend five years helping with missionary missiones as well as things such as soup kitchens and the like but anyone who wishes to enter the actual clergy must first spend five years as a lay person.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Female - Pink

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Male - Blue

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Monks - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> The second lowest ranking persons in the church are what is called monks, in the Imperial church monks tasks are mostly menial or labor or secretarial in nature and they are the ones that keep the church running day in and day out, they also have various monastaries that clergy can go to when they have a crisis of faith or need to recover from an illness [these things are also offered to parishioners but the parishioner must become a member of the monastic community for no less than a year] person’s wanting a career in the church must spend 10-25 years in a monastic order and this can be broken up or served all at one time [the higher on wishes to rise in the church the longer they must be a member of a monastic order]

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The monks wear a brown nt suit with a large black cross centered centered in the middle of the chest and stomach and they have thigh length boots and upper arms length gloves that are black in color, due to their nature of labor and menialness Monks are required to wear head coverings any time they are out of their quarters.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Under Priests - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Under priests are the lowest ranking of those allowed to actual performing ceremonies and sermons as an actual church official in the neo-Prussian empire and they spend at least a minimum of 25 years in this position before even being considered for the rank of priest and spend most of their time keeping things organized for the higher ranking officials and making sure things work smoothly with the Lay Persons and Monks.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Under - Priests wear a black NT suit with a large white cross centered centered in the middle of the chest and stomach and they have thigh length boots and upper arms length gloves that are white in color.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Priests - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Priests are the main shepherds of the churches flocks of parishioners and spend most of their time administering to their needs, marrying them, counciling them, and taking their confesssions as well as preparing and perform most sermons.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Priests wear a black NT suit with a large silver cross centered centered in the middle of the chest and stomach and they have thigh length boots and upper arms length gloves that are white in color.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bishops - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Bishops are in charge of counties or large cities were there are numerous churches and generally rotate through the churches spending at least one Sunday at each and peforming a sermon, they also keep the church’s organized and act as mid-level instructors at one of the academies.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Bishops wear a black NT suit with a large gold cross centered centered in the middle of the chest and stomach and they have thigh length boots and upper arms length gloves that are Gold in color.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Arch-Bishops - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Arch-Bishops are the heads of the church for an entire planet and are responsible for coordinating with the church and other planets as well as being the heads of the academies that are located on their planet [some Arch-Bishops are also in charge of entire solar systems if there is only one inhabited planet.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Arch Bishops wear a Silver NT suit with a large black cross centered centered in the middle of the chest and stomach and they have thigh length boots and upper arms length gloves that are black in color.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cardinals - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Cardinals are the heads of the church for an entire solar system and are responsible for coordinating with the church and other systems as well.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Cardinals wear a Red NT suit with a large silver cross centered centered in the middle of the chest and stomach and they have thigh length boots and upper arms length gloves that are silver in color.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Vicars - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Vicars are the heads of the church for an sectors and are responsible for coordinating with the church and other sectors as well and report directly to Sister Superior I.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Vicars wear a White NT suit with a large Gold cross centered centered in the middle of the chest and stomach and they have thigh length boots and upper arms length gloves that are silver in color.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sister Superior I - <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Sister Superior I is the head of the Neo-Prussian Imperial Church, everything that is to be okayed goes through her first, she can usually be found on New Hamburg at the main church cathedral and does the Sunday Sermons.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Normally Sister Superior I wears an all black NT suit to protect her burned body from the outside world but when performing religious ceremonies she changes [or rather her handlers] change it for an all gold suit with a silver cross running from the chest to the stomach for religious ceremonies.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: solid black;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Imperial Scouts

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first of these organizations is the Imperial Scouts which is sponsored by the church, there are five grades to the Scouts -

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1 - Scouts - Wear a short sleeved, short legged version of the Parishioner suit and wears their covering while in public but not during regular scout meetings, they also have either a pink or blue beret. Ages - 4-6

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2 - Soldat - Wear the same out as the Scouts but have a black beret. Ages - 7-9

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">3 - Specialists - Wear the same as the scouts but have gray berets save that now the inner legs start having a color definition [gold - clergy, black/gray/white - pariah] some scouts also have a darker blue or pink if they are not singled out for either the clergy or the pariahs. Ages - 10-12

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">4 - Ranger - Wear the same as the scouts save for inner leg panels and white berets. Ages - 13-15.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">5 - Commandos - Wear the same as the scouts save for inner legs panels and gold berets - ages 16-18

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Imperial Scouts is used to indoctrinate the youth of the NPE into the church and making them think that the Empire is there for it, parents are encouraged to enter their children into the scouts as soon as they turn the age of 4.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The actual Imperial scouts isn’t really that bad an organization and is really various analogous with older organizations such as Old Earth’s Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts and teaches the scouts various skills such as leadership, knot tying, firearms use, military discipline etc.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Once a scout reaches the age of 18 they may be sent an invitation to enter either the standard Ecclesiarchy as a lay person an invitation to join one of the Imperial Churches Military colleges such as the following -

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IAEMS - Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Military Study

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IAENS - Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Naval Study

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IAEMTS - Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Medical Training Study

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-background-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IAEMS – Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Military Study

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Next organization to be controlled by the Church is the IAEMS or Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Military Study - This academy has replaced the Imperial Military Academy as the teacher of military doctrine for ground based warfare and is used by the Imperial Marine Corps and the Imperial Church, the academy is also a front for the Black Pariah Regiments and one out of every ten female cadets is generally chosen to become a black pariah although currently all Regiments have been filled and the selection process has dropped to 1 in 100 with these choices replacing losses or being placed in stasis/storage until they are needed to fill an opening or start a new regiment.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Academy teaches both Church and Military doctrine and does so very well with all the instructors from the old IMA having transferred here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Ecclesiastic portion teaches humility through anonymous service as well as scripture from the Holy Imperial Writ and while this is going on the females selected for the Black Pariah Regiments undergo strict discipline and various shoolings in gymnastics, dance, assassination, poisoning, explosives and the like.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Black Pariah’s are chosen after their first term [the academy has four terms] and are placed in the advanced Pariah training course.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IAEMS cadets are given a black NT suit that they wear the entire time that they are at the academy, standard cadets only have to wear cover while attending classes and lectures while Black Pariahs must wear their cover at all times.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: solid black;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IAENS – Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Naval Study

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Next organization to be controlled by the Church is the IAENS or Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Naval Study - This academy has replaced the Imperial Military Academy as the teacher of naval doctrine for space based warfare and is used by the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Church, the academy is also a front for the Gray Pariah Ship Crews and one out of every 100 female cadets is generally chosen to become a gray pariah although currently all crews have been filled and the selection process has dropped to 1 in 1,000 with these choices replacing losses or being placed in stasis/storage until they are needed to fill an opening or start a new regiment.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Academy teaches both Church and Naval doctrine and does so very well with all the instructors from the old IMA having transferred here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Ecclesiastic portion teaches humility through anonymous service as well as scripture from the Holy Imperial Writ and while this is going on the females selected for the Gray Pariah Crews undergo strict discipline and various schoolings in every known navies tactics.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Gray Pariah’s are chosen after their first term [the academy has four terms] and are placed in the advanced Pariah training course.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IAENS cadets are given a gray NT suit that they wear the entire time that they are at the academy, standard cadets only have to wear cover while attending classes and lectures while Gray Pariahs must wear their cover at all times.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-background-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IAEMTS – Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Medical Training Study

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Next organization to be controlled by the Church is the IAEMTS or Imperial Academy For Ecclesiastic & Medical Training Study - This academy has replaced the Imperial Medical School as the teacher of Medical training and technology and the Imperial Church and civilians wishing to become doctors use the academy, the academy is also a front for the White Pariah Combat Medics [used exclusively to tend to black and gray pariahs that have sustained massive injuries] and one out of every 1,000 female cadets is generally chosen to become a white pariah although currently all squads have been filled and the selection process has dropped to 1 in 10,000 with these choices replacing losses or being placed in stasis/storage until they are needed to fill an opening or start a new regiment.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Academy teaches both Church and Medical doctrine and does so very well with all the instructors from the old IMeA having transferred here.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Ecclesiastic portion teaches humility through anonymous service as well as scripture from the Holy Imperial Writ and while this is going on the females selected for the White Pariah Squads undergo strict discipline and various schoolings in every known medical procedure as well as the anatomy of every known living creature in the galaxy as well as advanced combat medicine.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">White Pariah’s are chosen after their first term [the academy has four terms] and are placed in the advanced Pariah training course.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IAEMTS cadets are given a white NT suit that they wear the entire time that they are at the academy, standard cadets only have to wear cover while attending classes and lectures while White Pariahs must wear their cover at all times.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-shading: white; mso-pattern: solid black;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Consecrated Commandos

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The final organization under the Aegis of the Imperial church is the Consecrated commandos, these commandos are created from criminals [although on a few rare occasions someone will volunteer to join them not knowing what they are in for], CC’s have even less personality than a Pariah and are unable to talk at all, they are totally loyal and obedient to the church and are most of the time lead by officer’s and NCO’s seconded from the Imperial Marine Corps.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">CC’s undergo a similar process as the Pariahs with genetic level re-engineering done to make each male exactly the same height and weight, and all females are the same height and weight, vocal cords are removed via nanno-tech injections and CC’s undergo complete brain rewrites via nanno-technology and as a CC gains combat experience and new tactics those experiences and tactics can be downloaded to other CC’s remotely.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">CC’s are injected with a variant of the Pariah NV and their bodies are coated with a nanno-tex sheath that can shift camouflage patterns, its default pattern is gray urban camouflage [since their main purpose is to be bodyguards and security for churches and the Ecclesiarch] they also act as guards during humanitarian missions and as shock troops against heretics and worshippers of evil. CC’s also wear gray Berets that are not part of the nanno-sheath.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: black; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-background-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Uniforms And Insignia of the Imperial Church

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">See texts above for information on Imperial Church uniforms and insignia.