First published at 17:38 UTC on September 1st, 2022.
The appearance of the object in the Oochorrs UF-J c11-0 area of the Elite Dangerous Galaxy has tounges wagging - is it an invasion fleet, a mother ship, a portal or the Fargod? The Order of the Far God, more commonly known as the Far God cult, was …
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The appearance of the object in the Oochorrs UF-J c11-0 area of the Elite Dangerous Galaxy has tounges wagging - is it an invasion fleet, a mother ship, a portal or the Fargod? The Order of the Far God, more commonly known as the Far God cult, was a radical religious sect that formed sometime in 3304 in the Core Systems. It had no formal name, and its members openly worshipped the Thargoids as heralds of a divine being they called the Far God. One of the numerous fringe religions with apocalyptic beliefs that arose during the second conflict between humans and Thargoids, the enigmatic Order of the Far God attracted a significant following across multiple systems in Federation and Alliance space. While ostensibly harmless, the cult's members have garnered disdainful and violent reactions from the mainstream galactic community, and its unusual beliefs have been the focus of scholarly interest.
Meanwhile, independent pilots tracking leads provided by Aegis's Eagle Eye array uncovered vital clues explaining the disappearances of the Far God cultists. Two compounds belonging to the cult were discovered in the Etain system: "The Prophet" at Etain 4 C, and "The Sanctum" at Etain 4 A. Both sites had recently been attacked by Thargoids, and while there was no indication of survivors, personal audio logs recorded by the cultists revealed that they had retreated from their hive-chapels elsewhere and gathered at these secluded locations to be placed into cryogenic stasis while awaiting the arrival of the Far God and their expected ascendancy. The cultists came from various walks of life, and had joined the cult for a wide range of reasons; one member, Nathan Summers, was even an undercover FIA agent who lost contact with his superiors. Given the Thargoids' penchant for abducting escape pods, it is possible that they also abducted the Far God cultists in their cryo-stasis "crypts".
Followers of the Far God cult primarily worship a divine being called the Far God, who is bot..
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