To explain why they come in together, their fake backstory is that they're a teenage couple that escaped to the UP from the slave pits of non-UP planet, Rizak 7. They were forced to murder their own siblings to do so, but hoped that in escaping they'd be able to get help for their planet from the galaxy outside...
Only to find that no one cares. other civilizations in the galaxy are doing nothing to halt their planet's exploitation because the commodities they create aren't worth anything. Their siblings' deaths were for nothing.
Being hit in the face by such an uncaring galaxy has convinced them the only answer is the end of existence - and they've been promised that Chronoblivion has the power to reunite them with their siblings in the afterlife.
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."
Pidge and Inertia
Only to find that no one cares. other civilizations in the galaxy are doing nothing to halt their planet's exploitation because the commodities they create aren't worth anything. Their siblings' deaths were for nothing.
Being hit in the face by such an uncaring galaxy has convinced them the only answer is the end of existence - and they've been promised that Chronoblivion has the power to reunite them with their siblings in the afterlife.
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."