Church of the Stellar Divinity

The Church of the Stellar Divinity is a religious organization with interstellar reach.

Description (Specifications)

The basic belief of the Church of the Stellar Divinity is that all stars are gods, conscious beings of transcendental power. If a man worships his sun, lives a good life, and follows the teachings of the church, his soul will acquire spiritual mass, and upon his death will be drawn into his sun, where it will join with the deity.

History & Background (Dossier)

Offshoot Sects

Church of the Stellar Truth:

This denomination, viewed as a cult, had its origins in Vilani faiths with influence drawn from the Solomani Hypothesis. Its popularity has varied widely over the centuries. The Church of the Stellar Truth casts the Ancients as divine servants of the stars, sent forth by them to seed life throughout the universe, focusing heavily on spreading Humaniti to as many worlds as possible.

Pavabidian Hersey:

The church on Pavabid subscribes to what is known as the Pavabidian Heresy, claiming that a star-god sometimes sends part of its consciousness to inhabit the body of a man, who is called the "Son of the Star" and who is therefore divine and infallible. The first Son of the Star was Pavabid, who conquered his world in a religious war and renamed it for himself. A further tenet of the Pavabidian church is that the stars are not brothers, but enemies; people from other stars are enemies of God, and contact with offworlders is therefore forbidden to all except a faithful few.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

The church is popular in the Imperium, where it makes few demands on a worshiper's life and doesn't compete with the government.

It is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:

• Deneb Sector
  • Deneb itself is a major centre for the Church, hardly surprising since the system's primary is one of the most impressive stars in Charted Space. The local variant of the Church often considers Deneb's natives the "chosen people". This doesn't go over well with other worshippers, who consider the Denebian branch of the faith a bit holier-than-thou.
• Spinward Marches Sector

World Listing: 1105

This religion is known to be found on the following systems and worlds:

18 of 18 World articles in Church of the Stellar Divinity

Abbayi  •  Aksofouta  •  Collace  •  Dekha  •  Deneb  •  Dysitin Prime  •  Horosho  •  Luni  •  Northammon  •  Nye  •  Orwelle  •  Palompi  •  Pavabid  •  Prosser (CM 1502)  •  Rickamil  •  Slae  •  Trexalon  •  Zivije  •  

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References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Classic Traveller Double Adventure 6: Divine Intervention
• EXTERNAL LINK: Traveller TNE Mailing List Deneb Library Data: The Last Lexicon Part 1 published 16 October 2001 by Peter Gray
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science