The Fading Stars, Traveller rpg setting

Narquel is an industrial world with a well-developed manufacturing sector. This planet’s state religion is known as the Panamica Orthodoxy, a radical offshoot of the Panamica creed. In its original form, the Panamica creed interwove the gentler tenets of Judeo-Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, and various animistic traditions of old Terra. The new Panamica Orthodoxy is essentially militant pacifism: all sophonts must submit to the infinite wisdom and goodness of the Unknowable One and its secular ministers. Narquel’s last Theocrat was deposed by his Council of Ministers, who now rule as the Theocratic Administrate. Their desire to convert the universe is being conducted with a particularly aggressive flair, and some observers wonder if the ministers of the Administrate are simply using the creed of the Orthodoxy as a shield for their own political adventurism. Narquel was classified as a puzzle world by the Third Imperium due to its confusing and often illogical laws and restrictions based on the Panamica creed. For example the populace follow strict vegetarian dietary rules vegetarian though there is a vast array of synthetic foodstuffs; in fact fresh food is exceedingly rare.   

In 1127 IY the Ecclesiasty of Narquel was founded as a free and holy state. The Ecclesiasty successfully combines the spiritual duty to convert with the secular desire to expand. Now uniting three worlds under its banner, the Ecclesiasty looks to bring other industrial, particularly shipbuilding, worlds into its embrace. The Ecclesiasty fully controls the adjacent world of Quelleff and has recently taken over the planet Sadiishumar. It correctly perceives resistance from worlds of Soyuz and Gasudarsk, which have contracted with the shipyards at Neto to build military ships for themselves. The Ecclesiasty operates a high-tech squadron of Clergy class starships that it classes as destroyers though other states call them light cruisers or even monitors as well as its own home grown warships.

Info source: Astrogators' Guide to the Diaspora Sector (GDW)

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