Singularity Priests

The Singularity Priests are a religious order in the distant future of humanity from the Lightstep Universe.

Background
Founded on the planet, "Hope Harbor" a planet that was host to strange mineral life-forms called the Shard. The Shard though dormant are called the tears of the Mother Queen by the priests. In reality they are creatures that ruthless colonize worlds.

The priests are a fatalistic cult, though despite knowing centuries ahead of what these creatures have done to countless words merely accepted the inevitable destruction of their world. The priests remove themselves from the world that it became nothing more than a stream of binary data through their sensors, numbing the anxiety of the end.

Religious leaders are referred with the title 'Honorable'. They hold their faith in their beliefs to be paramount, and deny any other interpretation of their scripture. This denial extends to ceasing to rely on their natural five senses. The priests encase themselves in levitating sarcophagi that make them deaf and blind to outside contact or hearing and reveling in the Harmony of the Void as they call it. They 'see' and 'hear' via digital senses as they preach their beliefs. Through technology or natural ability, Singularity Priests have a strange ability to make gravity bend to their will.

When the Lighthouse, a monolith-like asteroid arrived and roused the Shard from their dormancy, the Priests welcomed survivors into their sanctuary for safety. However the safety they offered was a quick execution of a singularity. Their madness ended when one their own turned against them having redeveloped a sense of emotion for the physical world, with the aid of Jazzman and January they managed to stop the cult.

Templo now free to find his own destiny allowed himself to join the Radio Pirates.

Appearances

 * Lightstep 003 (2019)