Re: Catholics in Space!

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Balentine <balentine_media@yahoo.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:31 PM
Subject: Catholics in Space!

>
> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:
> > Bif, you did see "Knights Templar" in Don's
> > description, yes?
> >
>
> For a further exploration of this theme, try George
> R.R. Martin's collection of short stories, "Sand
> Kings."
>
> It has a very nice sci-fi story about an Inquisition
> soldier off to put down heresy in the outer colonies.
>
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I was thinking along the lines of a catholic battle fleet, under the
command
of the vatican. Instead of a captain, you would have, say, a bishop in
command, and a lowly preast would be manning the systems (etc, etc).
Instand
enemies for the IF (keeps them off everyone elses backs, anyway). For
how,
you just say some planet were settled by strict catholics, and the
church
was the controling factor, but these systems had enough resources to
allow
them to build their own fleet (purely to protect against the heathens,
never
to be used against sinners <G>).