2021.06.17
LAMADENT III, SINQ LAISON
Firebrand preacher Balash Kavad of the Amarrian Orthodox Church, Sedevacantist celebrated Federation Day in the only way he knows how — with a sermon making a thundering denouncement of the Minmatar people. Addressing recent violence against his church, Fr. Kavad said of anti-sedevacantist protestors, “To call them subhumans is too generous. They are animals. Beasts. Yet we will not be baited — until that glorious day of days when God restores a True Emperor to us, we will obey the law of this Federation. Arm yourselves to the maximum extent this Federation allows — but no farther. Practice self-defense to the maximum extent this Federation allows — but no farther. For the day will come when these filthy Matari protestors will lie broken at our feet and their wives will be our mistresses!”
There followed an orgiastic display of violence against effigies of prominent anti-sedevacantist protestors which were beaten and then finally ripped to shreds by the congregation. Having thus exhausted itself, the congregation, itself swollen by an influx of ethnic Amarrians fleeing crackdowns against so-called heretics in the Empire proper, sat down and listened to Fr. Kavad announce the planting of two additional satellite churches to accomodate the growth of sedevacantism in Constellation Aeman. In keeping with recent sedevacantist practice, the churches were placed in hardscrabble locations whose desperate residents might find the promise of salvation through a True Emperor appealing. One church was announced for the town of Narbonne on the barren world of Thelan IV, a system directly across from the Minmatar border and which like the world housing the first sedevacantist church plant in the Federation, Lamadent, has experienced large scale Minmatar immigration and accompanying ethnic unrest. A second church was announced for a disused warehouse on Rancer VII - Moon 22 - Federal Freight Storage, the Rancer system being a haven of capsuleer piracy — and the civilian displacement that goes along with it — since the beginning of the Empyrean era.
Reached for comment, the Amarrian Orthodox Church, Sedevacantist repeated Fr. Kavad’s admonishment that sedevacantists in the Federation should strictly obey the letter of Federation law in matters of self-defense and rights to bear arms even as they prepare for the coming of the True Emperor to the maximum extent thus allowed.