Church Space

The term Church Space refers to places and worlds under the direct control of the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun but politically independent of the Earth Alliance. Church Space is sometimes a military target of the Cylon Empire due to Cylon viewing of the Universal Church as a heretical perversion of the Cult of the Allspark. The government of Church Space is placed in a committee represented by all three clerical orders of the Church, including the Regular Priesthood, the Hesychasts, and Brother Battle. Religious freedom is theoretically permitted to non-Universal Church faiths and beliefs in Church Space, but in practice there is social and economic pressure for non-believers to convert to the Universal Church. Occasionally, Brother Battle warrior monks engage in violence within Church Space against non-believers, particularly worshippers of the Progenitors as gods and followers of the traditional, pure Cult of the Allspark.