Intergalactic Summit

I'm a little puzzled about the asteroid, actually; I haven't run into references to it outside your work, Dr. Valate.

It seems a little odd that an interstellar society (they were in more than one system, if I remember?) with technology the Empire still hasn't quite caught up to would really get disrupted so badly by an enemy that could be mined to death.

Even if it was just a matter of everybody watching everybody else so hard that they didn't notice the large rock sneaking up on their capital, it seems more like a catalyst than a cause-- a fast route to something that was primed to happen anyway.

Uh ... I don't think the Order of Saint Tetrimon is a "secret society" as such, Ms. Leshrac. More of a (largely open) religious order that's often been at odds with Imperial authority.

I kind of don't doubt that there are a lot of secret societies in the Empire, though: it seems like just the kind of game bored petty nobility (and even some of the more bored Holders) might occupy themselves with even if they don't end up getting into stuff that would get them set on fire if the Ministry of Internal Order came knocking.

(That would be a fun thing to get to see, but there are a whole lot of good reasons not to let someone like me go nosing around in such places.)

A few corrections. It was not a singular asteroid, and it did not strike the capital world.
The fateful events were a series of small asteroids that struck the two ocean worlds that were the primary source of planktonic biomass used by the mass cloning industry, to produce labourers and sacrificial slaves for the Takmahl Lords. The sudden collapse of this industry causing the socio-economic calamity that ultimately led to the decline and fall of the Takmahl Empire.
And while some technologies were very advanced, others were not, so it may have been the case that the asteroids were not detected by the technology available at the time.
The other possibility, would be, that the initial strike on one of the ocean worlds, was a deliberate act, by the planetary overlord of the other world, in a bid to monopolise the biomass industry for personal gain, possibly even to usurp the then Takmahl Emperor. A counterstrike by the other planetary Lord, and then counter-counter strikes, and the situation unfolds with a certain tedious inevitability.

And while the asteroids may have been the catalyst, they can also be interpreted as the notification that the Takmahl have been Judged, and that the Sentence is about to be given out.

As for why there are few references to this series of works, it is, in my opinion, quite possible that the Amarr Imperial scholars who would be the ones to write down anything significant about the whole affair, considered it beneath noticing. "A small empire of heretics was eradicated by their own infighting", without reference to the circumstances behind the infighting. Generally speaking, in the Amarr histories, it does not often record what grievances that someone had before they rebelled against the authority of their Holder or Emperor, only the facts that they did rebel, and were quashed.

And of course, the influence of the Theology Council, in suppressing knowledge of the Takmahl history, and in particular suppression of any surviving Takmahl scriptural works.

Okay, but, can you point me to something referencing an issue with asteroids, Dr. Valate?

(Also, when you bring something on yourself by cause and effect, I'm not sure it's necessary to describe it as God's judgment. I mean, maybe you can, but it seems just as easy to say, "Don't be so fixated on each other that you ignore everything else or destroy your own foundation by striking at your enemy." I'm not sure God need be bothered to care, when natural consequences do just as well.)

Couldn't those have happened post-collapse at least as easily?

Erm....with all possible respect Admiral, are you sure about that?

I have personally convened with the Tetrimon Order leadership on their stratagem to annihilate your corporation and allies in particular. Then, worked with your devoted Admiralship to stymie those efforts. Grand Master Horm, and his cadre, and his beloved heretical texts, died to Imperial Navy Dreadnoughts. Inside one of my own towers.

If you knew the sort of things the Order tried to do, your trust in their current incarnation might be altered significantly.

The matter concerning the Order of St. Tetrimon was well known factor back in the day.

Some of their most loyal members later joined cults of the Sani Sabik and many of them successful.

That being said, all is not what it seems. The the masses see, listen and believe in the "Ivory Tower" will remain so. But to those who educate themselves and study history as opposed to merely reciting rhetoric from times past.

I am honored for your perspective Cardinal Graelyn

As for our trust; PIE trusts in God, and God's divinely appointed ruler. We trust in our Holy Empire.
It is through our faith and devotion, and God's grace, that we are still here to continue defending our illustrious Empire from threats.
Internal and external.
Covert and overt.
Physical and spiritual.

Careful there Admiral.

Your hubris is showing.

Not to be confused with Humility before the Divine.

I guess I missed that when I walked among the Faithful.