Terranism

Terranism, was the primary religion of the Holy Terran Star Dominion and is the primary religion of the Holy Terran-Orion Eternal Dominion, it is the primary ruling religion of the Milky Way galaxy, if you count ruling as having the most followers and the most power to exert itself over others. Most of the faithful followers live throughout the Dominion but there are also many followers throughout many free star states throughout the galaxy, especially in the New Earth Union. There have been many times when senators of the New Earth Union Senate have proposed to ban the religion, calling it pure terrorism but in the end there were never enough votes to ban it.

During the Earth Civil War, Terranism rose to prominence. Gaining followers slowly in the beginning, during the first few months but soon gaining billions of more believers within the first year of the conflict alone. As the God Emperor gained more and more victories and his All Seeing Eyes spread his word from planet to planet, promising the poorest and the most disenfranchised the benefits of blessings in the God Emperor's new empire, which would become the Holy Terran Star Dominion.

The religion was founded by the God Emperor himself and convinced a small group of his original disciples to become his radical All Seeing Eyes. They spread Terranism in the early days of the religion with obscene devotion. The god Emperor convinced them without a doubt that he was in fact the god of humanity.

The religion of the Dominion has many sects and branches but they all believe without a doubt that the god Emperor is the god over all other gods and that he alone is the keeper and builder of all life. They truly believe that he created the universe and that he will give them eternal life if they are faithful and good servants to his will and follow his commandments.

Trillions upon trillions of believers go to worship at temples and holy sites every day to show their devotion to the god Emperor, many willingly give up their lives every day to be sacrificed to the god Emperor and for blessings upon their children. Holy Mechanical Devices (HMD) biotechnologies and computer chips are put into children at birth to track them as citizens of the Dominion. These (HMD)s are also used to somewhat brainwash the populace to follow the god Emperor.

Members are known by many names, including: The Faithful, the God-Emperor's chosen, Terranites, Terranite, The Lambs of Terra, The Terra Truthful, The All Seeing Ones, The God-Emperor's Roots, Roots of the Empire, Roots of the Dominion, Seeds of the God Emperor's Truth.

Within the greater religious faith of Terranism, many different doctrines and varying views have formed, In the Venusian Cadak sect, It is believed that the God Emperor of Humanity is the Terran Triune, a being three in one, represented in his physical human form, in the movements of the universe itself and its forces, and the unseen infinite otherverses that have no names, the places which have no descriptions that can be understood in human terms. The sect of Cadak, formed by Gregary Cadak on Venus in the 5th Millennium AD, after the Emperor had already been ruling his Empire for almost a thousand years.

The Zuesinites, are a sect formed from the old worshipers of Zues, who lived in the Orion Empire and Orion Ascendency, when the God Emperor defeated the Gods of Orion in the 5th Millennium AD and soon afterwards lost their ability to project their will over their former empire. After the defeat of the Gods of Orion, many of their once faithful worshipers who believed them to be the true Gods of the universe, the creators of the universe now rejected them and followed the God Emperor of Humanity. Who they called the "True God of Orion" and "The One and Only God of Humanity" as many did. They were also enamored and called him "The True Zues" and "Zura'Zura'Zura" which means "The Great Creator of Holy Storms" in one of the dialects of Orion.

The Cordorites, a sect created in the 4th Millennium AD, believe that the God Emperor is in fact the incarnation of all Gods throughout time, that he is the embodiment of all faiths and all beliefs throughout all time, this view is not common and the Cordorite sect is very small, at times attacked as close to Heretical, because the Holy Chronicle of Terra and the God Emperor himself have made it clear that the God Emperor is God, not any other, the God Emperor has implied that he has come to humanity from time to time and has said that he died for all humankind in the far ago past to bring about the salvation of humanity but that implication is not widely understood and is mostly ignored by most followers of the God Emperor who now just worship him as him, the current God Emperor in physical form, as the one who will lead them to eternal paradise.

In the 5th Millennium AD, the God Emperor formed the Unified Divine Council of Holy Doctrine and Enforcement, a council of Tribunals and Holy Deacons from throughout the Empire to bring all the various sects to an understanding and to spread the truth that all views were second to the views within the Holy Chronicle of Terra and the words of the God Emperor himself. The council advised the God Emperor to execute a number of individuals and at times entire worlds to bring the faith back into line to understand that the God Emperor himself was the supreme and only authority throughout the universe. With the Holy Chronicle of Terra the second supreme authority of all things. The advice of the council was directly responsible for the deaths of trillions of people and the destruction of dozens of worlds.