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| − | '''Origin of the Council of Apostles''' (Reformed)
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| − | The Amarr Empire had until the foul machinations of Emperor Zaragram III functioned as a slavocracy ran by a body of senate like religious representatives, called the “Council of Apostles”, who elected the Emperor, as a figurehead monarch to a life time term of service as one among equals with the “Council of Apostles” in running the Empire in accordance with their faith. When the “Mad Emperor” began to dismantle the balance of power away from the slavocracy in favor of a theocracy, being traditional pure True Amarr slavocrats the House of Gheinok stood with the “Council of Apostles” resisting the transition to a full blown theocracy. The fight was historic as the traditionalists resisted the movement away from rule by the “Word of God” to rule by a "Divine Emperor", to True Amarr slavocrats granting divinity to a fellow human being was nothing short of blasphemy, and it brought the Empire to the verge of civil war. The sudden assassination of Emperor Zaragram III shocked both sides of the raging debate, as tempers and passions cooled during the official mourning period for the Emperor the possibility of civil war receded. For the slavocrats the damage was done, Zaragram's death slowed the erosion of the Council of Apostles' power but despite their best efforts they were unable to regain their former status. Stifled by the appearance of too zealously trying to undo the now legacy of the deceased Emperor Zaragram III, and further weakened by the change in their popular political fortunes fostered so deftly by a few powerful houses that portrayed them in popular media as power hungry, unsophisticated, and bordering close to disloyal, they were finally completed disbanded under Emperor Heideran V.
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| − | Emperor Heideran V, himself a former member of the Council of Apostles, but having succeeding in the election to Emperor consolidated power to himself with the backing of the five most powerful families in Amarr. The slavocrats of the entire empire had been replaced by a political artifice of theocracy by the five most powerful houses of Amarr who pronounced themselves the only heirs to the throne. With the deification of the Emperor further overt political opposition was termed religious heresy, and all the holders beneath the top five houses were effectively silenced and locked out of real impact on the administration of, or the direction taken by the empire. For most of the large to midsized holders it was a bitter pill to swallow, the dream that one day a member from their house could rise to prominence based on their faith, performance, and merit to be a candidate for Emperor was forever revoked. If not for the Imperial Navy's unswerving apolitical allegiance to any legitimately elected Emperor there might have been civil war.
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| − | Soon thereafter, as guests of the House of Gheinok on Naga IV a large cross section of the now deposed Apostles hatched their plan to reform and reconstitute the Council of Apostles from among the Holders, who under the so called “Moral Reforms”now were barred from the Imperial throne. In true faith to God and solemn allegiance to the Empire as it should have remained they were reborn a clandestine hardline harshly conservative body wholly committed to overturning the artifice of theocracy bolstered by the “Moral Reforms” that had facilitated the removal of their powers that when eliminated would enable them to rule once again as a Council of equals with a legitimate elected Imperial Emperor jointly administering a representative slavocracy.
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| − | '''Council of Apostles (Leadership)'''
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| − | Led by Apostle Dante Gheinok, flying under the capsuleer call sign of “'''Slaver Filth'''”, a pure True Amarr descendant of the House Of Gheinok, and a fully vested member of the “Speakers of Truth” adjudicating and educating in the Aridia Judicial Region as the senior adjudicator and dean of education.
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| − | Apostle Dante Gheinok is a member of the House of Gheinok who are vassal constellation Holders in the Amarr Empire, controlling the six systems of the Fabai constellation in the Aridia region, at the far end of a small but extremely wealthy out of way low security space fiefdom strategically bordering Khanid region which houses the expansive Khanid Kingdom holdings, and the Null security space of Delve region now predominately controlled by the largest capsuleer Alliance in all of New Eden the Goonswarm Federation, it's remote location has successfully kept them far from the prying eyes of Imperial loyalists since the reign of Emperor Zaragram III. Blessed with four temperate planets in the six systems of the Fabai constellation, and coupled with their aggressive enslavement of all but the True Amarr or Khanid, the population of their holdings number in the billions. The enormous reserves available to the House of Gheinok coming from two ice belts, two hundred thirty seven moons, and forty nine planets has enabled them to become a stable regional military, industrial, and economic power house. Since the foundation of the Amarr Empire when Amash-Akura unified Amarr under one religious banner a member of the House of Gheinok has been a member of the “Speakers of Truth” Order, established as a firewall to protect the slavocracy by checking the power of the Emperor, and advancing the faith, word, and will of God by educating the young Amarrian children of regional holders. An unintended but nonetheless quite fortunate consequence of the founding of the “Speakers of Truth “ Order had resulted in the Aridia region tradition of Gheinok “Speakers of Truth”, for all the generations of it's existence, mentored and educated the future leadership of the Aridia region with a virtually unconscious predisposition to a favorable view the House of Gheinok that further solidifying their regional strength and influence.
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