To explain why they come in together, their fake backstory is that they're two widows from the planet Turabeau that found friendship and solace in each other after losing their original spouses to the horrific pain plague that wiped out most of the population. After seeing them suffer and die while begging for death, they lived their days in quiet despair... until meeting each other and finding a like-minded individual with a nihilistic outlook.

They've now decided to join the Catastrophists hand in hand to pursue the oblivion they know was always inevitable. Together.

They're handed brown robes because apparently this cult wants to be a giant stereotype and are led through the dimly lit hallways to a cultist with purple skin, a shaved head, and a glowing eye on his forehead.

The cultist gestures for them to sit in front of him. Armed cultists with blasters stand to the left of the Legionnaires. The wall opposing them, on the right, is blackened with blaster fire and rutted with holes, making it clear that the price of failing this test is high.

"You'll have to speak to Brother Maynard first. He's an empath. We've found telepathic screening isn't the most reliable, due to the Scipos sending undercover officers that are stronger telepaths than the ones we had working for us. But empaths can sense emotions, they can check to make sure our initiates aren't lying about what they feel, that they feel the misery and nihilistic emptiness that that we know is the ultimate truth."

They're urged to sit.

"You must open your hearts to me," says Brother Maynard. "Tell me why you've come to us. Let yourself feel why you've come to us."