The Church

The Church is an organized religion which existed, mostly on Saturn and Jupiter, but to a lesser extent on Uranus, Neptune, Mars and some of the asteroids and moons in Gasan space. Although their beliefs were not entirely defined, they seemed to a be a monotheistic religion based off of Christianity.

The symbol of their faith was a 'Y' shaped cross with three small lines between the main lines of the cross. Its god was described as sexless, generally mostly formless, and with countless faces, symbolizing omnipresence.

## Beliefs

The Church believes that all things originated from chaos, and from that chaos was born a garden or paradise (The spiritual realm) which spawned various god like beings. The last of these beings was the Spirit of Wisdom, a flawed yet benevolent feminine spirit embodying finite wisdom. Against the wishes of the other gods, she allowed herself to create a material world as well as human beings, not from her own hands, but through the Spirit of Creation, a masculine spirit that was neither benevolent nor malevolent. The Spirit of Wisdom attracted a cult following of minor deities and one last major one: the androgynous or sexless Spirit of Change. The Spirit of Change eventually turned on the Spirit of Wisdom. The Spirit of Wisdom, Change and Creation, as well as all minor deities that had followed them were butchered by the other gods, and expelled from the spiritual realm and forced to live in a realm between the spiritual and material realm: the realm of ideas, or cognitive realm.

In this realm, all of them fused, forming a single, sexless god not physically, as they were not in the physical realm, but as an idea. In the realm of ideas, concepts, thing souls and beings are routinely created, as beings partially inspired by the perfectness of the spiritual realm, and are brought to life in the material realm, but to only to the realistic extent that the Spirit of Creation and wisdom can make them, resulting in a flawed world wrought with suffering and conflict. The dissonance between the flawed material world and the expected perfection of the realm of ideas creating a chaos, a force of change ruled over by Spirit of Change.

In the Gasan church, change is not seen as a bad thing. Death, pain and conflict are the result of a change, a transition to a better form. Life if cyclic. The dead are mourned but also happily let go.

## Services

The Church was known for mastering the discipline of plastic surgery, and incorporated the best plastic surgeons in the known universe. Many left the church afterwards to become esteemed surgeons.

The Church was known in the Gas Giants, but mostly on Saturn and Jupiter, to be able to give people new identities, oftentimes changing their physical appearances as well. This was done for a variety of reasons.

People, regardless of nationality, could come to a church to be given a new a identity with a new life somewhere else, and they would go through all the paperworks and handling of such a deed. This is could done for a variety reasons. It was mostly done by fugitives wanted for crimes. The clergy would judge the fugitive and choose to accept the deed depending on the nature of the crime and how resentful the criminal concerning that crime. The priests would generally require some show of sacrifice, generally through some form of fasting and or financial donation. It was mentioned that due to Iyderan's rise to power and his ties with the church, it had stopped offering that service to political criminals.

The church also handled the transition of transgender individuals, not only giving them a new identity but also handling the medical aspects.

Male Gasans convicted of rape on Saturn and Jupiter could strike a deal with the church. If they sincerely repented for their crime, they could be reintegrated into society. However, they had to have their testicles and penis removed.

The availability and legality of the churches plastic surgery services varied from place to places. Although very strong on Jupiter and Saturn, its services were generally offered instead by state medical services on Uranus and Neptune, and on Mars, they were forbidden.