Post by Adriano The Fabulous Fennec on Sept 30, 2014 14:00:26 GMT
"idea of them using technology almost as magical, unholy relics necessary to defeat the "infidels""
=> That perfectly fits my thoughts.
"Small note, Minerva doesn't use fossil fuels any more. They do however have the tech to make biofuels."
=> Okay, so maybe they have stocks of biofuel, which are very interesting for the priests.
"Maybe instead, these people view OIL as the Earth's blood, being shed for/gifted to them to defeat the infidels. The caucuses do have a lot of oil, maybe they've established some oil harvesting/refining there? All under the guise of a mystical religious rite, of course."
=> Great idea ! I can see it perfectly :
Ordinary people don't know how to drive a car or what is a cellphone, and so on, they only know basic things like how to make bread, etc.
But when ordinary people enter the "temples" (in the location where the oil is refined, harvested, and where the weapons are built, and where the cars are repaired, etc) they work doing what the priests say to them to do and they listen to the office of the priests.
I see it like a mass where instead of eating the body of Jesus they harvest the blood of Earth (oil) and build weapons from the body of Earth (metal). Priests are truly dictators. But people follow them because they are the only one with knowledge. they keep the knowledge in the temples.
So the temples are factories, in fact.
=> That perfectly fits my thoughts.
"Small note, Minerva doesn't use fossil fuels any more. They do however have the tech to make biofuels."
=> Okay, so maybe they have stocks of biofuel, which are very interesting for the priests.
"Maybe instead, these people view OIL as the Earth's blood, being shed for/gifted to them to defeat the infidels. The caucuses do have a lot of oil, maybe they've established some oil harvesting/refining there? All under the guise of a mystical religious rite, of course."
=> Great idea ! I can see it perfectly :
Ordinary people don't know how to drive a car or what is a cellphone, and so on, they only know basic things like how to make bread, etc.
But when ordinary people enter the "temples" (in the location where the oil is refined, harvested, and where the weapons are built, and where the cars are repaired, etc) they work doing what the priests say to them to do and they listen to the office of the priests.
I see it like a mass where instead of eating the body of Jesus they harvest the blood of Earth (oil) and build weapons from the body of Earth (metal). Priests are truly dictators. But people follow them because they are the only one with knowledge. they keep the knowledge in the temples.
So the temples are factories, in fact.
