An old message with a crusty voice.
Starlight Haven Parish
Population: Insignificant (0-5k)
Chapel Priest: Father Adamn Elliott
The Monastario Ordo Fratrum Minorum <Location: Taranis>
Abbot Nando Occitus had claimed the order was thousands of years old. Brought to the rim areas from Earth millennia ago, they had found renewed purpose after reflecting on the consequences of the scream. As their predecessors had left Earth thousands of years ago in search of new areas and peoples...perhaps even other life forms. They would leave the safety of their isolated monastery; a virtual fort built into the side of a deep canyon on an almost entirely uninhabited planet in a forgotten system in search of new people and places...a pilgrimage of sorts, perhaps even a trial for some. Finding their beliefs and purposes aligned with the Order of the Eternal Exodus and that members of the order liked to visit the monastery as a ritualized "trial", they had aligned with the larger and more popular religion. and without the support of a sponsor, their small order would never have survived.
Regardless of their current circumstances as an insignificant subgroup in a religion that many felt was already irrelevant, they continued their original mission and gave service to their new stewards. As they always had, they rescued lost and unwanted children, nurtured and trained them, and then sent them out into the world, or maybe the other one, or the station to represent the order and the church, but also to repay the debt they owed. Survive and be grateful.
Adamn doesn't talk about the order or reference his origins. Not many people will have ever heard of the monastary he was raised in, not even higher-ups in the OEE. He seems familiar with most of the common religions, their representatives on the station and can accommodate requests tailored to them at the chapel.
Career Experience
Adamn’s first assignment as a priest after his exceedingly long apprenticeship was as a combat medic and chaplain on a small terrestrial exploration vessel on Veridian. Not having a choice about his servitude, he never had a positive attitude about the assignment, its parameters, or command. The tour ended in no commendation, no reprimands, while in actuality there had been equal numbers of both.
His second assignment was to a mining facility on Kala to assist a parish priest in a small town, or mining village really. Once there, Adamn discovered the parish priest had died years ago. Adamn stayed for several years and filled in as best he could. Occasionally helping in the mines or with patrols, he grew to know the community well. While not particularly happy in the mines, Adamn became a part of the community and was more content than he had been in the past.
And then the mines were raided. It was a larger-than-normal assault force of pirates raiding for fuel or the minerals that you needed to produce the fuel. The raid had proven more difficult than the pirates expected and hostages ended up being taken. Even today, the locals aren't sure exactly what happened. All they know is Father Adamn walked into the storage bay where the meeting had been arranged. There was shouting, gunfire, a couple of explosions and before the locals waiting outside could react, the bay doors opened and the hostages walked out, apparently unharmed.
The pirates, and Father Adamn were nowhere to be seen.
"He walked in and shot two of them. They shot back but missed and hit the canister causing it to explode. They started yelling at each other and then he...he...he traded himself for our release."
Away without leave
Adamn had just "known" what to do. He walked straight into the docking bay the pirates from the Shadow Fleet were holding up and started shooting. During the firefight, there was a good amount of shit-talking, then banter, then negotiations being thrown back and forth. The pirates agreed to leave if Adamn would come with them as a chaplain and medic.
Disturbed by how oddly things had worked out, Adamn just went along with it. After several years of working on the same ship, he found himself on Starlight Haven. After a night of drinking with the captain, the right words just seemed to flow out of him. He confessed that he wanted to reopen that old run-down chapel on the station and found the captain in just the right mood to accept his "resignation" without repercussions.
Adamn hasn't heard from the Abbott in years, maybe even a decade, but then again the Abbott doesn't know where he is, and doesn't know him as "Adamn".
Once the chapel was repaired enough to be funcional, Adamn assigned himself to Starlight Haven as the parish priest. The Abbot does not know where he is, nor do the people from the mining community. No one from his past has any expectation that he is alive and none of them were ever close. If someone were to track down the pirates he ran with, they would suggest that he might be found in Starlight Haven, but that would be a very expensive piece of information.
Father Adamn has been in Starlight Haven for several years now, but is still considered something of an outsider. His chapel sees little traffic, but is slowly growing as a church. While not many weddings or funerals are requested, a quick blessing before sailors depart into the darkness of space is a regular occurrence.
Attitude
Given to the monastery as an infant, he has known no other life but that of the priesthood. Never excelling or gaining notice for his intellectual or physical skills, he went through his training and apprenticeship without notice. As a member of an obscure sect of little importance, Adamn had never been fully included in the OEE and would probably have never been promoted past a mid-rank in the order, never given his own parish.
Believe in mysticism or don't but the Ordo Fratrum Minorum had taken him in when even his own parents didn’t want him. They raised him, provided for him, and demanded much from him. They were all that he knew until they sent him out into the world...to learn and to pay off that debt. For Adamn, all the years he spent on Kala and Veridian and with the pirates had more than paid that debt. Adamn does not resent the Order, his sect, the debt he had to pay to the order, and in a sense to gain his freedom from the pirates. He is happy in his current situation and is slowly warming up to some people around the station...to whom he now owes a debt.
Dreams or Nightmares
Sunken skin gripped her bones; leather, hollow, and patched with colors ranging from decaying flesh to a rotting greyness. The woman looked like what would happen if you unwrapped a mummy. Her eyes belayed a wisdom and sadness that was deeper than the sands that surrounded them and her name was…
Adamn awoke again, left hand immediately grasping the old rosary he wore around his neck like jewelry. He leaned back into his bed as the alarm went off. It was like this most mornings or afternoons. For some reason, his dreams always woke him just before the alarm.
<Adamn Elliott. Hardened middle-aged priest, whose not that old…late 30s – early 40s. He’s a realist in a religious costume. He knows the “rules” of religion very well and can be very convincing when he wants or needs to be. Can handle a gun, can talk his way out of a situation, can staunch a wound and keep you alive long enough for a real doctor to arrive. >
<<Adjusted several parts in the story to better sync with the description of Starlight Haven et all. >>
Father Adamn Elliott
Stats Skills
Str 9 Talk (0)
Dex 13 Notice (0)
Con 15 +1 Heal (0) {Healer. 3d6 drop lowest skill checks)
Int 12 Shoot(0) {Gunslinger. draw as on turn action. add shoot level to dmg}
Wis (7/14)18 +2 Telepathic Contact(0) {Wild Psychic. 1pt Effort}
Cha 9
Saves
Phys 14 Evas 15 Mental 13
AC 15 HP Max 5
Items
Submachine gun
Woven Body Armor
Medkit
Lazurus kit x 2
Lift x 2
Bullets for gun (120)
Antique Rosary (Earth origin, but Adamn doesn’t know that)
25 credits
