Temple Tendency - Tenets, Goals and Heretical Beliefs: At the core of the Temple Tendency lies the absolute belief by its members that they are the true and pure worshipers of the God-Emperor of Mankind. Furthermore, they are convinced the current Ecclesiarchy and its version of the Imperial Creed is a heresy of the highest order that has usurped the faithful and damned the souls of countless billions by perpetuating a faith that is a tainted lie.This belief, warped and poisoned by the passage of millennia, informs all they do in what they regard as the battle for the Emperor's soul. To the the Tendency, the current Ecclesiarchy is a heresy and all who are part of it should be put to the flame. All those that acknowledge the authority of the Heretic usurpers are also Heretics and so have cast themselves into service to darkness.Thus does the Tendency believe that only by the return of the Temple of the Saviour Emperor to its rightful place as the ruling body of the Imperium can the ignorantly damned billions gain repentance, and only the purging of the heretical Ecclesiarchy can save Humanity. Guided by these convictions, the Temple Tendency's activities work to further three goals for the perceived salvation of all:The Preservation of the True - Those who maintain the ways of the Temple of the Saviour Emperor are few in number, and preserving the faith of those few comes before all else. The members of the Tendency are often linked by blood or fealty to a noble lineage that has passed allegiance to the Tendency down the generations. The sect is acutely aware that, if discovered, a single member of their faith can quickly lead to the discovery of the others by the way of family association or background. To counter this inherent weakness in their structure, the Tendency has evolved thorough and rigorous methods of protection, concealment, and misdirection that can baffle all but the most sophisticated and subtle of enemies. Given the Tendency's small size, any depletion in its ranks weakens its ability to work towards its other goals, and so the Tendency will go to the most extreme and extraordinary lengths to preserve its security and anonymity. Assassination, misdirection, planting false evidence, rebuilding identities, and even provoking atrocities and open warfare to distract those who might discover the Tendency are all tactics employed by it.The Return of Might and Majesty - The Temple Tendency's central aim is to return the control of the Imperium's political and military might to the hands of the pure and the true -- meaning themselves. Such a grand goal could only be truly achieved by the overthrowing of the Imperium as it currently exists. Therefore the Tendency works towards gathering military and political power to its service through the placement of its members and manipulation of the organs of Imperial power through infiltration, blackmail, and bribery. It slowly erodes, where it can, the influence of the Adeptus Ministorum and the cohesion of the Adeptus Terra.The Return of the Temple of the Saviour Emperor - Ultimately, all of the Temple Tendency's energies are channelled to one end -- the overthrow of the Heretics who have suborned the Ecclesiarchy and led the Imperium astray. The protection of those who still keep the pure and true worship of the Emperor alive, the gathering of military power, and the subversion of other organisations of Imperial power are all but steps to this final goal. The Tendency knows it will have to win victories in small pieces -- a soul, a city, a planet, a sector at a time, and that millennia of failure and bloodshed lie ahead. This knowledge has done nothing to blunt the potency of the Temple Tendency's dedication to this ultimate end.