Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170616170008

The Cult of Vulcan (who's followers are known as Vulcanarii) is a cult dedicated to progress, knowledge, and the obtainment of all information in the galaxy. They believe in the 'perfect form' one that can retain all knowledge learned and can ponder the meaning of the universe, this is of course in the form of machines and cybernetic enhancements.

The followers of the Cult of Vulcan are well founded in the Empire as the Empire provides protection and the cult provides weapons, technology, and manufacturing worlds (forge worlds). Within the Empire the Cult manages the industrial might of the Empire from the forge worlds they are also the Empire's finest weapons developers and scientists.

But they do not only dwell within the forge worlds. In a religious and at times fanatical approach they explore the Universe looking for new worlds, species, and most importantly tech. They cult believes that only through the obtainment of all knowledge in the Universe may the members of the cult ascend too godhood an the Universe made pure.

For this purpose the Cult has entire fleets of 'Explorator' fleets dedicated to find and chronicling new worlds and species they are generally accompanied by missionaries (The cult is buddy buddy with the church after all)

The Cult practices cybernetic enhancements that allow cult members to obtain and retain greater knowledge. The cult as stated before worships machines in a way, but this does not mean they worship things like AI for AI are seen as false and soulless, merely slaves to the cult. This stems from the Cults belief that the touch of the flesh must be present for one to obtain all knowledge. Things like emotions, free thought, and one's 'humanity' so to speak are holy and not to be removed or even worse replicated.

Here are the basic tenets of the cult:

1. Knowledge is a manifestation of divinity

2. Progress is something to be continued not stopped or delayed

3. True Sentience is the base form of intellect

4. Only through Understanding can Comprehension be reached

5. Comprehension is the key to all things in the Universe

6. True Comprehension can only be reached with all knowledge i the Universe being obtained

7. To remove Free Will, Emotion, or one's soul is to lose all sense of Comprehension

8. False Sentience can only be tolerated as servants of the cult and nothing else 