Thousand Moons' Creed

## History

Over centuries, the lunar faith of Satellism has spread far and wide throughout Coalition space, with a broad diversity of traditions and beliefs, yet it was always very decentralized, with no singular voice to speak for them - while specific worlds might have had a locally influential Satellist figure, the faithful had no greater say in the grand scheme of the Coalition's bureaucracy, leading to a lot of inequality and inconsistency for the faithful between different worlds and systems.

At the beginning of the 6th century, a message was sent across the Expanse to all worlds with Satellist presence, a call to unity by a figure today known as Thousand Moons' Slavomir. Slavomir, claiming to bear evidence of an ancient pact that would grant the Moonfaith a Representative on the Coalition stage - some disbelieved and dismissed him, but many rallied behind him as well, including planetary priests, pious governors and the common folk alike. In 511, Slavomir and other Satellist figures held the first Great Lunar Council on the newly-constructed and still young Station Theia, where the Thousand Moons' Creed was first established and recognized by the Coalition.

In the wake of the War, the generally-benevolent Creed has been put to a difficult test - while it doesn't shy away from violence, much of TMC's leadership condemns a lot of the atrocities committed by their opponents, swearing not to repeat them - yet these oaths and other strictures have often come at the cost to the Creed's military operations, with some commanders being forced to break them, and certain parties suggesting to make amendments to the Codices to give the federation more wiggle room in these tough times.

## Law and government

Although individual states of the Creed are a panoply in terms of local law, customs and culture, they're all informed to one degree or another by the Lunar Codices and the tenets of Thousand Moons Satellism, the Creed's state religion - freedom of religion exists in most Creed states in one form or another, whether towards other branches of Satellism or faiths such as Chorism, but followers of other beliefs rarely make strides within the Creed's political hierarchy, and many important political positions are also held by ecclesiastical figures.

The seat of Creed government and religion is not on any natural world or moon, but on Station Theia, a deep-space station, where the Thousandfold Assembly - Creed's political, military, economic and spiritual leaders - gather every so often to discuss policy, strategy and dogma.

Theia is also an important pilgrimage site, for it was specifically located such that all the most important holy moons are visible from the station's many observatory-temples, and where it physically would not be possible to directly observe them, clever augmented reality technology still lets the faithful see digital visualizations of more distant or obscure moons.

Creed's combat vehicles (including mechs), known as rovers, are produced in moon forges and blessed by Satellist priests to the twin moons of Severyn and Samara and operated by pilots referred to as Champions, who proudly walk, drive and fly them into battle all across the Pearlescent Expanse.