[STGOD-i] Anti-Troll Jihad Psychology.

[weemadando]

Following the great burn of the STGODmk1 universe in which nearly everything known to the ATJ was destroyed, it was decided by the then leader, WeeMadAndo, that they would assemble what vessels survived and plot a course far off the beacon in hyperspace and send the survivors into cryogenic stasis for several millenia.

Lost in the burn were the great stations of the ATJ and their mothership, an artificial planet known as The Glorious Task. The survivors were still in shock when put into cryogenic stasis and during the long sleep as it came to be known many died of subconcious-induced physiological night-terrors that lasted several hundred years.

Roughly 2000 years ago the cryogenic systems aboard the Archangel a highly modified Eclipse type SSD failed. The survivors awoke from deep sleep often to find their friends dead alongside them. The ships computers had been failing for several hundred years and only a select few systems remained active. Onboard other vessels that had also made the jump and begun the migration entire crews had been lost. Other vessels had failed entirely en-route.

The Jihad had been decimated. Its ships all but inoperable they tried to start over, recovering what they could. One of the freezers that had failed en route was that of WeeMadAndo. They enshrined their fallen leader on a great pedestal in the chambers of the ATJ leadership. Slowly this chamber became a chapel and the ATJ began taking a more and more religious bent.

After 2000 years the ATJ had turned into a theocracy, with the ancient records of their achievements before the great burn forming the basis of their religion. Those who had died en route were martyrs and the tales of the trolls created such a frenzied fervor that the Jihads leaders feared losing control of the masses.

So they turned to the same thing that their predecessors had. Distraction, in this case, the manufacture of replicas of ancient stations. They didn't have the technology or the materiels to construct stations like their predecessors, so they scaled them down and began construction. Soon their resources were at an end. For the first time the Jihad broached the limits of the system in which they had been scouring for resources. All their original vessels were still stuck in hyperspace, their power sources degraded to such a point that a jump to real-space would leave them nearly totally powerless.

As they sent out their probes to search for more resources, they began to detect signs of other civilisations. The stations would not be a complete waste after all. But the ATJ leaders believed that this new universe could still be host to trolls. So, ever vigilant, and under the watchful eye of the thousands of martyrs the ATJ began to seek for the truth in this new place.

[Sea Skimmer]

Seems a bit strange to travel thousands of years and suddenly find another Earth. Generally you at least need to shift dimensions.

[weemadando]

Seems a bit strange to travel thousands of years and suddenly find another Earth. Generally you at least need to shift dimensions.

Dude, they've been adrift in hyperspace for a thousand years, then the jump engines they used to exit hyperspace were untested designed based on unintelligible technology. I see no reason why they couldn't have arrived somewhere where there is another earth.


Also. Another note on ATJ psychology. They act a lot like the Eldar in 40K. They rock up, kill a lot of people and leave with no explanation. But everyone knows that if they intervened they did it for a damn good reason.