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[InnerSphereNews]

Sun. Apr 15, 3049: The Exituri on Shiloh under investigation for rampant abuses of minors under the guise of “discipline and learning.”

[Listless Nomad]

Ghost?

[Roh]

Do I detect a youth brainwashing scheme?

[MajDisaster]

No Blood No Foul. Unless someone died then its justsomeone getting their knickers in a bunch

[Thorn Hallis]

The Exituri were among the first groups to leave Terra during the Exodus and the first to do so for purely ideological reasons. Shiloh was chosen to be their homeworld because, in 2138, it represented the farthest reaches of space to which the Human Sphere had extended.
Shiloh was, in fact, perfect for Exituri purposes. Dry, marginally fertile, cold during the day from raging winds, hot at night from the heat stored in the rocky grounds, Shiloh is a physical anomaly best suited for religious ascetics.

One of the basic tenets of the Exituri relegion is taken from the Bhagavad-Gita, which says that one's faith should not be presented to foolish strangers who might make fun of it. (This is a rough paraphrase of a language centuries dead.) Consequently, the Exituri, who appear so fanatically devoted to the doctrines of their religion, would not actually tell anybody their beliefs. For one to find out enough to decide whether or not to join the order, therefore, one must have already joined.

Members pray periodically throughout the day, and face Terra as they do so, indicating strong Moslem influence. There apprears to be a strong messianic strain in Exituri that is inconsistent with Hinduism. Various members of the tribe carry religious medallions in the form of crucifix, Star of David, and pentagramm, indicating possible Christian, Jewish, or Pagan roots. They have seasonal festivals reminiscent of pagansim, and they greet friends and strangers alike with the greetings "Sholom Aleichem" or "Salaam Alaikem", which translates as "Peace be with you" in Hebrew and Arbic, respectively.

The original Exituri pilgrims were quite clear about their intentions to get away from Terra and its "corrupting influences", so that they could raise their children in accordance with their extremely strict moral code. Generation after generation, Exituri children have rebelled against the strictness of their upbringing. Shiloh society undergoes periodic reforms, when the moral strictures are eased somewhat for a few years, followed by an inevitable, severe crackdown by the religious authorities, who insist on literal interpretations of their spiritual tenets. A larger proportion of people emigrate from Shiloh then from any other world in Marik space. Even so, those who leave the Exituri faith never tell outsiders what the doctrines of the religion are.

- From Faith in the Inner Sphere, by Rev. Dr. Horace DuShane, Atreus University Press, 3021

Edited by Thorn Hallis, 15 April 2012 - 08:39 AM.

[Hollister]

From what little i have read so far. They are a organization in the Free Worlds league that uses spies and goons to, sabotage, commit crimes, fruad, and blackmail people to get there way.

Though i could be wrong

Only thing i could find on them.

http://www.sarna.net...voll_Bitterkeit

Edited by Hollister, 15 April 2012 - 08:44 AM.

[Korin Orrel]

Good synopsis Thorn. Thanks!

Can anyone confirm that these kids are being trained to perform criminal acts?

Also, who is doing the investigating?

[Cold3y3s]

I wonder what happened to Ghost, this is the longer than I've ever seen him take...

[MajDisaster]

Korin Orrel, on 15 April 2012 - 09:41 AM, said:

Can anyone confirm that these kids are being trained to perform criminal acts?

Also, who is doing the investigating?

And there is the cruix of the problem.

[Felicitatem Parco]

Since when is it "abusive" to have my kids scrub the BattleMech when I get home from training? They have plenty of fun doing it, especially when they get to dangle from the harnesses and stuff.

[whiskey tango foxtrot]

Kool-Aid anyone.....???

[Talon Thorn]

I for one refuse to pilot a mech built by child laborers in some backwater sweatshop.

[HighlandWolf]

Listen, not everyone thinks that kids need safety equipment when working with fusion reactors, some people think that that is just pampering the kids too much. When these people were kids they had to walk to school 10 miles each way every day uphill both ways, in snow, with no shoes on, in threadbare clothes carrying sacks of coal which they mined each day for the family fire which 27 children huddled around every night just to keep themselves warm because their homes had no doors or windows chewing on bits of bark to keep themselves nourished.
Well, thats what i heard anyway, the chatter ...heard it from a pilot who knew this technician who says he heard it in a conversation in a bar over in Solaris between a couple of jocks who knew this dealer in "misplaced" items.

well, thats what i heard

[damoonrulz]

Apparently they were overseen by Sandusky