Holy Engineers Union
Powering the Under Sea above and below takes more than a team of engineers working all day and night. It requires a dedication of faith that inspires people to push themselves beyond their limits. This is what the Holy Engineers Union provides: one-part scientific excellence and one-part religious fervor.
Members of the Union are easily recognized by the dirt brown leather hoods they wear and the religious symbol they display on every surface available. The image of the Holy Engineers Union is the Church of Darwin superseded by a silhouette of a bridge crossing in front of a stone tower. It appears painted and stitched into their clothes, painted on their tools, and carved into their flesh. Every project the Union works on is anointed by priests of the faith, marked with the symbol, and treated as a religious relic.
This devotion pushes members to sacrifice whatever it takes to ensure that the equipment they craft in the name of the faith always works at peak ability. Members have been known to work for days at a time, to work until their fingers bleed, and to die laboring rather than allow their equipment to break on their shift. Engineering is not labor for these people. It is worship.
The Union is led by Curie Tina Maria Polschend, a Nation of Accensor and priest of the Church of Darwin. The Curie pushes her followers to evolve themselves and their community through advancement of the mind. Under her leadership, the Union is rumored to actively protect and adopt psionically inclined individuals, treating psionic ability as an evolutionary step to be encouraged. This policy has made enemies within the Under Sea and drawn attention from the Fallow Hopes at North Gate.
What keeps the Union and its psion charges alive is leverage. The wind and water turbines that produce electricity for the Under Sea run because the Holy Engineers Union maintains them. The settlement depends on that power, and the Curie has ensured that dependency remains absolute. If control ever shifted, the wholesale slaughter of psions and Union members would be immediate.
During the Infection Farm operation, the Union provided technological resources, engineering expertise, and key personnel for the combined strike against the Iron Works' life-extension programs. Their understanding of medical machinery and organic systems proved essential to reproducing the Flinty Farms experiments, though the collaboration required working alongside the Fallow Hopes, a faith that under normal circumstances would condemn everything the Union stands for.
Members of the Union are easily recognized by the dirt brown leather hoods they wear and the religious symbol they display on every surface available. The image of the Holy Engineers Union is the Church of Darwin superseded by a silhouette of a bridge crossing in front of a stone tower. It appears painted and stitched into their clothes, painted on their tools, and carved into their flesh. Every project the Union works on is anointed by priests of the faith, marked with the symbol, and treated as a religious relic.
This devotion pushes members to sacrifice whatever it takes to ensure that the equipment they craft in the name of the faith always works at peak ability. Members have been known to work for days at a time, to work until their fingers bleed, and to die laboring rather than allow their equipment to break on their shift. Engineering is not labor for these people. It is worship.
The Union is led by Curie Tina Maria Polschend, a Nation of Accensor and priest of the Church of Darwin. The Curie pushes her followers to evolve themselves and their community through advancement of the mind. Under her leadership, the Union is rumored to actively protect and adopt psionically inclined individuals, treating psionic ability as an evolutionary step to be encouraged. This policy has made enemies within the Under Sea and drawn attention from the Fallow Hopes at North Gate.
What keeps the Union and its psion charges alive is leverage. The wind and water turbines that produce electricity for the Under Sea run because the Holy Engineers Union maintains them. The settlement depends on that power, and the Curie has ensured that dependency remains absolute. If control ever shifted, the wholesale slaughter of psions and Union members would be immediate.
During the Infection Farm operation, the Union provided technological resources, engineering expertise, and key personnel for the combined strike against the Iron Works' life-extension programs. Their understanding of medical machinery and organic systems proved essential to reproducing the Flinty Farms experiments, though the collaboration required working alongside the Fallow Hopes, a faith that under normal circumstances would condemn everything the Union stands for.
A Church of Darwin engineering order that maintains the Under Sea's power infrastructure, combining scientific excellence with religious fervor and harboring psions under the Curie's protection
