Temple Avesti

The Temple Avesti are a rogue, unofficial faction within the Universal Church of the Celestial Sun that targets perceived enemies of the Universal Church, particularly the Cylon Empire and the Dalek Empire. On rarer occasions, the Avestites conduct raids into Hutt Space, the Ferengi Alliance, and the Klingon Empire. They are based mainly in Church Space. Avestites are drawn mainly from the laity and from the warrior monks of Brother Battle. They less often hail from the Regular Priesthood and the monks of the order of Hesychasts. Temple Avesti also conducts occasional acts of violence against followers of non-Universal Church faiths in Church Space, particularly people who actually worship the Progenitors as real gods and followers of the traditional, pure Cult of the Allspark. The Church Patriarch and the Holy Synod have repeated officially condemned the Temple Avesti and occasionally removed priests and monks from the official Universal Church orders. The Avestites relationship with Space pirates is mixed, sometimes allying with but more often opposing the forces of piracy. Avestites often use flamethrowers as weapons, seeing the flames as the cleansing, holy fires of the Pancreator/Celestial Sun/Allspark.

During the time of the Intergalactic Wars, the Avestites committed acts of terrorism against the Earth Imperium, Mantis Lords, the True Church of the Celestial Sun, and the Drule Supremacy. They remained active in the Lionheart Kingdom and on the planet of Holy Terra after 3035 A.D.