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The Church
of Crisis is a social and cultural phenomenon found in both
extreme
hider clades and nanotopias,
each with different interpretations on the 'True Works' of one "G'nt
ValParadizo", a semi-mythical baseline from around 2,000 a.t.
G'nt is known to have been a member of an early nanotopia located in an
actively maintained Jupiter/Titan trojan orbit. He had a significant
amount of research available in his lifetime regarding the early
archailects -- Solsys was a massive datapipe in those days --
shuttling data back and forth between the various colonies, just prior
to the earliest recorded creation of wormholes and the founding of the
Nexus.
His research indicated that even known S>2s with specific
capabilities in certain fields had made mistakes within those fields.
It is a matter of great dispute amongst the Crisisians (pronounced
"cry-SIS-ee-ans") and critics as to what those particular pieces of
evidence were, as there have been many "revealed texts" with details on
various "errors", many of which appear on further research to be
misperceptions or misapplications of logical theorems. An associated,
darker group, the Church of Impending Doom, (allegedly
behind some of the more pithy and dystopic discwuzitian diary entries)
indicates this confusion is a strong indication of external
memengineering and social control structures at work.
Regardless, G'nt realized he was wasting his time researching these
materials. He took it as an article of faith that his life was not
under his control, and that whatever would end that life would be
beyond his ability to influence. This philosophy, allegedly made public
via a infocast interview with the celebrity Jocosta Rose, caused three
reactions in the populace.
The great majority of the population dismissed it as utter bilge,
occasionally violently. (G'nt's physical distance from many of the
major population centers of the day undoubtedly aided his survival.)
The next largest accepted G'nt's attitude, summed up in the Crisisian
credo, "Why fight it?". These and their descendants may be found in
many nanotopias throughout Sephirotic space.
The final group was a minute minority. These sophonts took this as a
frightening warning, and scattered as far and as fast as they could
bring themselves. They are still occasionally found amongst newly
formed nests of Hiders hither and yon, often with significant memetic
drift from the original concept and/or cross-contamination with other
prototypically Hider memes.
Critics dispute this public unveiling noting that Jocosta Rose, if
such a sophont actually existed, would have been quite ancient by this
time. Other sub-sects of the Crisisians claim other routes to public
awareness, but by last estimate by the Ken
Ferjik Societal Observational
Sciences Group indicated that some 73% of known Crisisian groups follow
the Jocosta Rose Revelation as dogma.
