The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2006. Holy Advent Sect (Part 2)

Because the Force really exists, within the scope of the Fourth Civilization, whether it is Tang Xiao, the Grand Duke of Dawn, who is worshiped by them as a god, or those mysterious Jedi Knights, as well as the Force that gradually begins to increase in the principality. Sensitive people are also reminding the common people of this -

Supernatural power exists.

Therefore, in fact, during the period of the Galactic Republic, the Jedi Order, the representative of the Force, had a status in the hearts of ordinary people as mysterious, powerful, and transcendent, but it was also accompanied by more fear.

The Jedi Order was eventually destroyed. Although a large part of the reason was due to Palpatine's conspiracy and calculations, there was another very key factor. As a group, they still needed to absorb a lot of fresh blood from the people to continuously replenish their young Force power. The organization of sensitive people ended up being separated from the people.

People were afraid of them, afraid of the Jedi, and they were unwilling to send their children to the Jedi Order. And even if they did it for various reasons, they still felt hatred for the Jedi Order in their hearts.

Of course, the Jedi Order also have their own considerations. They worry about the misuse of the Force, worry about the balance of the Force being disrupted, and more importantly, worry about the formation of classes because of the Force.

Because the Force is so powerful, if the number of Force-sensitive people increases, then what they can do will indeed be far stronger than ordinary people. Over time, powerful Force-sensitive people will become superior, and ordinary people will become enslaved objects.

Therefore, the reason why the Jedi Order does not allow Jedi Knights to have families in principle, and it absolutely does not allow intermarriage between Jedi Knights. The purpose is to avoid the union between Force-sensitive people and form a powerful Force family.

Because of this, the number of Jedi Order has been decreasing year by year. When Rusan reformed a thousand years ago, there were about 20,000 Jedi Order, but when the Clone Wars broke out, there were only more than 10,000 left. The human Jedi.

Similarly, when the Galactic Republic was finally reorganized into the Galactic Empire, although Palpatine's policy towards Force-sensitive people was completely opposite to that of the Jedi Order, one thing was the same - they all chose to hide it from ordinary people. . They don't want ordinary people to know too much about the Force. The only difference is that the Galactic Republic promotes the light side of the Force, while the Galactic Empire directly issues instructions that the existence of all Force-sensitive people is illegal and must be carry out official control.

Therefore, although the Galactic Empire still has many official Force-sensitive organizations, the people of the Empire still feel fearful, strange, and mysterious about the existence of the Force...

But now, the Principality of Dawn has gone in the opposite direction and chosen to popularize the Force.

The Kingdom of Dawn currently has four Force organizations, the elite Twilight Covenant, the militarized Ghost Academy, the theoretical Holy Advent Research Institute, and the popular Holy Advent Sect. Among them, the Holy Advent Research Institute actually conducts research under the auspices of the Holy Advent sect.

These four organizations cover almost all Force-sensitive people and Force-receptors, and most importantly, not only such people, the Holy Advent sect is also open to ordinary people!

The sect basically has no restrictions on ordinary people. It mainly regulates their behavior and morals. It also guides them to understand the Force, their reverence for the 'Way of Reunification', and their respect for the 'Son of God' Tang Xiao. of worship.

That's right, the Holy Advent Sect regards Tang Xiao as the Son of God, not the Supreme God in the original version of the doctrine. To put it bluntly, the previous doctrines were too exaggerated and will always be exposed. But the 'Son of God' is different. He is a son, a son of God, an heir, a spokesman, whatever you want to call him.

As for those people who were preached by the first version of the doctrine, who are going to stand up and say, ‘Eh? Why did you demote Tang Xiao, the supreme human god? ’ Don’t worry, he will disappear the next day, silently.

In short, ordinary people who believe in the Holy Advent sect can attend regular sermon ceremonies held in the sect’s church. In this ceremony, members of the sect with strong Force power—mainly the two classes of bishops and cardinals—will preach in person. The content of the sermon is not only to preach the teachings of the Holy Advent sect, but also to allow all ordinary people participating to sense the Force to some extent.

As for how to make them feel it, there are many ways. There are both Force-related means and technological means.

Therefore, in this process, those ordinary people who sense the Force and have this unprecedented feeling will naturally continue to deepen their identification with the Holy Advent Sect, thus making the Sect become a universal religion that can reach the general public. Sexual religion.

However, because the Holy Advent sect is still developing and has a relatively small number of people, especially the number of bishops and cardinals with certain Force talents, so the sermons can only be held in big cities on some major planets. conduct. But even so, many people are now willing to take interstellar flights to these planets to participate in ceremonies.

This is the cohesion of religion.

Tang Xiao is very satisfied with the current development of the Holy Advent Sect, and is also very satisfied with the work of Helmut Zemo and Anita.

The Principality of Dawn will not become a theocratic country at present, at least not yet, because Tang Xiao's power is far from enough. If one day he encounters a stronger opponent than him, then it will be troublesome if politics and religion are unified. Apart from anything else, at least Palpatine is now recognized as being stronger than Tang Xiao. In the general perception of the entire galaxy, Tang Xiao is only the second strongest person in the galaxy.

Later, Helmut Zemo asked Tang Xiao in a private situation whether he should bring Pope Anita of the Holy Advent Sect into the harem, so that she could give up her mind.

But Tang Xiao is very calm most of the time when it comes to lust and women. He told Zemo that he could never have anything to do with Anita. Because once the two have a relationship, in Anita's heart, she will no longer be a god who is always aloof and inaccessible, but a mortal who can have skin-to-skin contact.

In this way, Anita may still remain loyal, but such loyalty has changed. And there is no guarantee that some unforeseen changes will occur.

Of course, what Tang Xiao didn't tell Zemo was that in terms of his aesthetic appreciation of women, Anita's adjusted image of a kind-hearted yet cold and solemn saint was indeed very beautiful, but it didn't actually poke him. of XP.

After five years of development, the Holy Advent Sect has grown to have tens of billions of believers within the Principality of Dawn. However, the current composition of these congregations is still mainly humans from the fourth civilization, and not many other races believe in the Holy Advent Sect.

But this is enough. After all, among the 600 billion people on the planet Rendili, they are basically all humans. It does not matter if these people do not agree with the values ​​of the Fourth Civilization. As long as the missionary preaching is strengthened and they can agree with the teachings of the Holy Advent sect, it will be a great progress.