Thread:Paladinluke/@comment-4960835-20171206075803/@comment-24726562-20171207034904

Hey there,

I wasn't planning on having the monoculians being introduced to Spodism and converting: rather, the monoculians would have developed their own religion in isolation with its own canons and rules. Only after attaining first contact with another, devoutly spodist empire would they identify as spodist due to the canons being almost identical and having little to no conflict. The canons were written by the prophet Jehario and his apostles in around the 10th century CE.

Considering the short distance between the Monoculian homeworld and that of the BoS, it is possible that the BoS had known about the 'funny little eyeball people' inhabiting the planet of Vulan, but I would prefer it if direct intervention was not issued in the fiction. However, considering the massive attention Jehario had achieved in his lifetime, a private research group of the BoS could have stepped in around the time of his death and revived him in a miraculous fashion, possibly to use him as a guinea pig or interdimensional test project. I plan on having a 'second coming of Jehario' occur in the future (2840s?), so it might be a novel idea to have the group of BoS scientists and their new accomplices/test subjects/victims/hostages to go universe hopping and never return until the second coming.

As for political reasons, the Monoculian empire is a recent member of the Uniate League, so the MTC may not be that much of a threat and may even be viewed as a possible enemy due to their heretical views.