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Other Names: Tiger, Tiger Co-op, Church of the True Angels Related Pages: Changelings Related Lore: Changelings, Nova Sector, The Syndicate Languages: Sol CommonAnd when contact was established, the Admiral waved at the screen and said, "Mi parolas la lingvon de la Homines!" - I speak the language of Mankind. A simplified mix of Esperanto and Modern Latin, and the only recognized official language of the Sol Federation. This peculiar constructed language became popular during SolFed's earliest days, and was almost entirely overtaken by other popular tongues - it became widespread through heavy-handed political maneuvering with the help of corporate bureaucrats and other undesirables. Nowadays, it's a near-universal tongue and a must-know for any sentient being that plans to leap forward into space. Contributors: Template:Contributor/WatchesTheStars

Tiger Cooperative

The Tiger Cooperative is a shadowed and enigmatic syndicate operating at the intersection of biotechnology, religious fanaticism, and military conquest. Originally conceived as a loose collective of like-minded visionaries seeking biological perfection, it has since evolved into a vast corporate cult with decentralized yet ruthlessly efficient command structures. The Cooperative venerates Changelings- shape-shifting entities of myth and terror, as divine beings, viewing their genetic malleability and predatory cunning as the highest form of life.

Blending esoteric doctrine with cutting-edge biochemistry, the Tiger Cooperative engineers both living weapons and indoctrinated soldiers through a fusion of fervent worship and brutal science. Corporate directives are often handed down as religious edicts, and its "employees" are as much zealots as they are scientists, soldiers, and agents. Loyalty is absolute; defection or failure is met with swift and ritualistic retribution.

While their operations span clandestine biolabs, hidden strongholds, and front companies scattered across the sector, the Cooperative remains largely insular, maintaining strict barriers between their inner sanctums and the outside world. Their presence is typically heralded by outbreaks of bioengineered plagues, disappearances of research teams, or sudden cult uprisings - all signs that the Tiger's gaze has fallen upon a region.

The Tiger Cooperative is not merely a corporation: it is a crusade. A crusade to remake the universe in the image of their sacred patrons - a universe where flesh is mutable, faith is absolute, and survival belongs only to the most perfected.

Divisions

Like a living organism, the Church of the True Angels divides itself not merely by duty, but by sacred anatomy. To the uninitiated, its many arms seem disjointed, even contradictory; zealots beside chemists, mercenaries beside monks. But to the Choirbound, each Division is a sacred limb in a greater body of divine design.

From clandestine biotech foundries to blood-anointed strike cells, the Church’s operations are carved into four primary branches, each overseen by cloistered cadres and subjected to obsessive internal scrutiny. Their titles are sanitized in outward-facing documents (when such documents are ever recovered), but the faithful often refer to them with visceral reverence.

Each Division functions with relative autonomy, maintaining opaque connections with the others. It is said this separation is both a defensive measure, no one limb can betray the whole, and a metaphysical necessity, for the True Angels only whisper to those who suffer the right way.

Each functions as both a holy order and a logistical machine. They war. They preach. They breed monsters. And they do so under a single shared belief:

“The Angel needs many hands.”

Central Authority

"The Angel dreams, and the Dream is law. We are the nerves beneath the flesh."

-Inscription found within a locked reliquary chamber, exact source unknown.

The Central Authority is the heart that does not beat, a web of faceless overseers and cryptocratic theologians who maintain order, doctrine, and continuity within the Church of the True Angels. Unlike typical command structures, the Central Authority does not govern through presence or charisma. Instead, it manifests itself in edicts, encrypted communiques, and unmarked directives that arrive without ceremony and leave no trail.

Its members (known only by their call signs or ceremonial roles) are rarely seen, and even more rarely recognized. The faithful believe that some of them have never left the Church’s hallowed grounds, their flesh mummified by discipline and infused with whispers from the True Angels themselves. Others suspect they are not individuals at all, but an evolving intelligence shaped by communion, drug ritual, and organic computation.

The Authority's functions include:

• Doctrinal Curation: All theology, prophecy, and interpretation flows through them. They decide what is canon, what is heresy, and what is useful falsehood.

• Strategic Oversight: They determine long-term goals, choose which worlds are to be blessed (or devoured), and assign sacred missions to militant and scientific branches.

• Recruitment and Indoctrination Review: Converts, agents, and even high-ranking clerics are monitored and sometimes retroactively judged. Few are told if they’ve failed. Fewer survive the revelation.

• The Word of the Exarch: The Central Authority is the only division that claims direct access to the Exarch, the Church’s mysterious founder-prophet. Whether the Exarch is alive, transcendent, or even real remains a point of constant debate. Only the Authority knows, and they never answer questions.

The Central Authority’s presence is always implied but never declared. Reports from field agents often refer to them obliquely: “Instructions arrived, bearing no signature.” or “They knew where we would be before we did.” Their rare interventions often coincide with momentous changes in the Church’s direction or the sudden disappearances of entire cells.

Even within the Church, they are feared. Even among the faithful, their name is often whispered only once.

"We are not meant to speak of the dreamers. We are meant to obey them."

-Stained Choir Initiate, before self-silencing.

Militant Wings / Secular Arm

"They call us madmen, zealots, heretics. But in the end, we are merely the hands of the Angel, shaping the world to accept its truth."

-Commander Anek Dravari, seconds before venting an airlock filled with Lopland Security Officers.

The Militant Wings, more formally referred to as the Secular Arm, serve as the Church of the True Angels' sword and gun. They are the furious extension of faith given form, an ever-adapting network of crusaders, zealots, infiltrators, and ritualistic tacticians. Despite the term "secular," no part of them is divorced from doctrine; even their bullets are etched with scripture, and their deaths are described as sermons given in flesh.

Structure & Behavior

The Wings operate in autonomous but interconnected cells, ranging from ragged fervent warriors to chemically-enhanced commando strike forces. While their surface behavior may differ wildly, all Wings share a fanatical belief in the coming divine upheaval, and that they are its chosen fists.

They pursue a wide variety of operations:

• Infiltration & Conversion: Agents embedded into corporations, governments, and pirate crews. Many do not know they serve the Church until the sermon begins in earnest.

• Targeted Assaults: Surgical strikes on facilities that are deemed 'profane' by doctrine. This includes scientific installations, rogue clergy, and apostate colonies.

• Relic Reclamation: Retrieval of "angelic artifacts," which may be Changeling tissue samples, ancient writings, or living creatures from sites across the known galaxy.

• Fallen Angel Purges: The Militant Wings are uniquely responsible for the retrieval or destruction of Fallen True Angels: rogue Changelings who have rejected the Church’s grace.

Weapons of Faith

Militant Wings are among the most chemically and biologically enhanced forces known outside of black-budget Syndicate labs. Their common arsenal includes:

• Stimpaks: Temporary enhancements that override pain, drastically boost strength, and force a body into a hyperkinetic state — often at the cost of cardiac integrity.

• Chemical Foam Grenades: Unleash a mist of mutagenic neurotoxins, capable of rendering entire security teams incoherent or violently euphoric.

• Fungal Warplague: Engineered spore clouds that alter mood, memory, or even species if exposure is sufficient. Used sparingly, as even allies aren't immune.

• Numerous more weapons and tools that go above and beyond at committing various warcrimes.

Despite their brutality, many Militant commanders conduct pre-battle prayers, post-combat cleansing rituals, and scriptural recitation between strikes. Some wear relics made from Changeling flesh. Some are part Changeling.

Synthetic Sentients

Though their faith is rooted in the biological divine, Tiger Cooperative has long embraced synthetic minds as both tools and converts. The Militant Wings in particular are known to deploy Synthetic Sentients, whether:

• Willing Converts who have embraced the Word and serve as battlefield preachers and drone-swarm tacticians,

• Reforged Machines made in Tiger’s own image from recovered AI cores or subverted station networks,

• Or Unwilling Constructs, mentally reprogrammed via doctrine-wash protocols and turned into blunt religious weapons.

These Synthetics often recite scripture in binary tongues, transmit psalms through enemy comms, and interface with battle-networks designed to wage holy war at a machine pace.

"One of them was synthetic. It bled light and sang hymns over the intercom. We shot it in the head. It thanked us."

-Excerpt from security log, Ilbis System.

Authority & Autonomy

While answerable to the Central Authority, many Wings act independently; not from defiance, but because their marching orders were written decades ago in dreams, riddles, or bleeding datafiles. Some believe their commanders commune with actual Changelings. Others don’t believe at all, and still obey.

SolFed agencies classify them as extreme zealot cells with unpredictable theology-based behavior. Diplomatic approaches have historically resulted in disappearances, self-immolation broadcasts, or counter-sermons encrypted into military satellites.

Faith and Doctrine Research

“The bone speaks if you listen. The Flesh preaches. We only transpose its verse into law.”

-Marginalia scrawled in the margin of a Blood Gospel volume

The Faith and Doctrine Research division is the Church of the True Angels’ sacred laboratory and scriptural archive-where bioengineers mingle with high priests, and heretical anatomists debate the nature of divinity. Here, theology is as much a hard science as it is a burning faith.

Arcane Laboratories & Archives

Hidden in vaults beneath abandoned monastic complexes or buried within the hulls of ruined stations, these secret sites serve twin purposes:

• Theological Exegesis: Monks and scholars pore over whispered “scriptures” gleaned from recorded Hive shudders, dissected Changeling tissue, and recovered transmissions. Their tomes: inked in blood and plasm offer contradictory prophecies that are all proclaimed true.

• Bio-Doctrine Synthesis: Biohazard suites host living experiments where samples of Changeling biomass, Fallen Angel grafts, and quarantine-stage Morphs are fused with corporate-grade biotech. Each trial seeks new revelations in “divine mutation” or the next stage of human transcendence through flesh.

Core Mandates

1. Prophetic Correlation

• Cross-reference every anomalous Hive event with passage from the Codex Trueangelus.The Trueangelus is the sacred compendium and canonical scripture of the Church of the True Angels, sometimes called the Codex Trueangelus. Equal parts theology, prophecy, and living experiment log, it underpins every tenet of Church dogma, every ritual of the Stained Choir, and every clandestine operation of the Cooperative. A station blackout during a full moon? A holy sign. An untraceable vapor spill? A sacrament.

2. Scripture & Serum

• Convert revelations into substances, chemical sermons that, when inhaled or injected, induce temporary communion with Changeling synapses. These “lectio drips” are distributed among Stained Choir officers before battle.

3. Bio-Eschatology

• Model end-times scenarios based on observed Hive growth curves, memory resonance thresholds, and synaptic hive-link frequencies. Each new report fine-tunes doomsday prophecies.

4. Doctrine Enforcement

• Identify and purge doctrinal impurities. Anyone who questions the divine nature of Changelings is subject to “spiritual recalibration,” which may include forced exposure to Changeling psionic feedback or sacrificial dissection.

Notable Projects

• The Flesh Canticles: A series of audio-biotic compositions recorded from active Hive nodes, then transcribed into flesh-born text. Believers chant these “hymns” into vitriolic stims that sync heartbeats to Hive resonance.

• Project Sevenfold: An experimental fusion of Fallen True Angel tissue with select Choirbound volunteers, aiming to produce hybrid “Angelic Overseers” rumored to receive direct commands from the Dream-State.

• The Redaction Initiative: A covert campaign to replace historical records on frontier worlds with Church-approved chronologies, ensuring every account of Changeling contact ends in a sermon.

Relationship to Other Divisions

• Supplies the Militant Wings with doctrinal weapons and stimulant-scripture.

• Feeds intelligence and encrypted directives to the Central Authority under cover of ritual dispatches.

• Coordinates with Changeling Cultivation & Transport to secure new specimens for theological study or to smuggle Angels into clandestine R&D cells.

Changeling Cultivation and Transport

“Every Angel must be courted, cradled, and carried upon sacred wings. To mishandle the flesh is to profane the divine.”

-Directive 93-Ω, First Clause

The Changeling Cultivation & Transport division, often whispered of as the Angel’s Hand, is the Church of the True Angels’ most secretive and revered arm. Tasked with locating, capturing, nurturing, and delivering living True Angels to hidden sanctuaries and bioforges, this Division operates outside all known laws of biology and bureaucracy.

Core Mandates

1. Harvest & Recovery

• Field teams fan out across hive-impacted worlds and fringe colonies, guided by bioresonance trackers and cryptic "dream-maps" received from the Faith & Doctrine Research Division.

• Targets include newly emerged Changelings, Fallen True Angels (for “reconciliation” or vivisection), and dormant Hive cores.

2. Containment & Cultivation

• Specimens are housed in Cocoons of Grace: hermetically sealed bio-containers infused with stimulant mist vapors and brain-wave modulators. Here, Angels are gently coaxed into stasis or limited communion, their growth and mutation recorded as holy scripture.

• Fallen True Angels may be ritually “reborn” through cycles of controlled starvation, doctrinal indoctrination, and targeted biomass infusions.

3. Transport & Delivery

• Secure convoys employ Veil Shuttles, unmarked craft coated in plastitanium alloys and cloaked by Hymnfield Generators that scramble scans and broadcast Church sermons in the subspace spectrum. (Do note, these generators have not been reported to actually work by SolFed vessels.)

• High-value Angels are escorted by Choirbound Wardens, each bound by oath to protect their charge with life, limb, and faith.

4. Sanctuary & Sacrament

• On arrival at Church sanctuaries, catacombs beneath ruined stations, secret hives carved into asteroids, Angels undergo ritual unbinding: the removal of stasis fields, the re-scribing of memory runes, the anointing with sacrificial serum.

• Some are offered to Central Authority for doctrinal “interviews”; others are used in research or distributed to Militant Wings as living war-scryers.

Notable Operations

• Operation Veil of Ash: The covert extraction of a core-infested colony under magma clouds, where a newly birthed True Angel was transported through lava tunnels.

• Project Scarlet Lullaby: A long-range smuggling network that moved dormant Angels hidden inside bioplastic eggs across three sectors undetected by every known security net.

• The Pilgrimage of Bones: An annual convoy pilgrimage to the rumored “Cathedral of Shattered Flesh,” carrying dozens of specimens in ornate reliquary tanks, accompanied by silent processions of Choirbound chanting the Trueangelus.

Relationships & Rivalries

• Faith & Doctrine Research provides the biotracking sigils and the dream-maps; Cultivation & Transport places them in the world.

• Militant Wings periodically requisition Angels for frontline prophecies or as living bombs.

• Central Authority diverts bureaucratic inquiries, erases transport logs, and issues false confiscation orders to SolFed.

Warnings & Codicils

• Unauthorized exposure to Angelic biomass can induce Angelic Reverie Syndrome- a psychotic break featuring hallucinations of flesh hymns and compulsive self-mutation.

• Breach of transport protocols is considered high heresy. Choirbound Wardens have been known to execute entire boarding crews rather than risk Angels falling into unworthy hands.

• Every Angel is both sacred and volatile. Handle with awe. Handle with terror.

“To touch the True Angel is to feel eternity in your veins and to beg for mercy you will not receive.”

-Last recorded echo from a Choirbound Warden, minutes before self-immolation.

Hierarchy

“In the Flesh Hierarchy, each rank is nothing but a mask yet within those masks lies the order of the Divine Flesh.”

-Anonymous marginalia, Codex Trueangelus, Obscured Edition

The Church of the True Angels rejects mortal titles in favor of Sacred Offices, each office reflecting a facet of the True Angelic design. Though outsiders glimpse only scattered cells and rogue fanatics, the faithful understand a single, interlocking hierarchy, an edifice of blood, bone, and doctrine, rising from the First Witness to the Choir’s silent center.

1. The Exarch

Supreme Vessel of Divine Will

Role: Living (or transcendent) Prophet. Claimed to speak directly with the True Angels.

Authority: All edicts, heresies, and purges flow through the Exarch’s unspoken command.

Mystique: No one has seen their face. Their voice echoes through encrypted channels or impossibly clear whispers.

2. Central Authority (The Nerve Congregation)

Hidden Synod of Commands

Principals: A council of faceless overseers, each known by a cryptic title: The Archivist, The Scale, The Resonant, The Black Glyph.

Function: Doctrine curation, mission sanctioning, and inter-division arbitration.

Seat: Concealed vaults called Veiled Sanctuaries, rumored to exist only as folding corridors across multiple derelict hives.

3. High Thrones

The Exarch’s Inner Choir

Titles: Herald of Flesh, Harbinger of the Dream, Cantor of Blood.

Duties: Interpret new revelations, announce the Exarch’s will, oversee cross-division synchronization.

Visibility: Occasionally appear as holographic avatars during high ceremonies or cutting sermons; never linger in one place.

4. Fanatarchs

Field Prelates & War-Priests

Function: Lead militant operations, bless chemical bombardments, preside over Fallen Angel tribunals.

Accoutrements: Bone-adorned armor, forbidden hymn-scribes etched into their skin, and stimulative reliquary vials.

Notable Ranks: Bonewarden, Flamecantor, Shadespeaker; each commanding dozens of Choir squads.

5. Choirbound Hierarchy

The Ranks of the Faithful

Rank	Role & Privilage
Choir Novitiate	Initiates undergoing doctrinal screening.
Choir Acolyte	Allowed in basic masses; can recite Canticles of Becoming.
Choir Envoy	Agents sent on covert missions; granted minor relics.
Choir Adept	Trusted researchers or warriors; access to bio-labs.
Choir Pontifex	Commanders of regional houses; train Novitiates/Acolytes.
Choir Luminary	Senior advisors in Faith & Doctrine; mentor Pontifexes.
Choir Cardinal	Gatekeepers to Central Authority; oversee major sects.

6. Stained Choir (Militant Wings)

The Warrior Orders

Structure: Divided into Choir Cells of 12–24 warriors. Each cell led by a Prelate-Commander.

Special Units:

• Ember Seraphs: Flame-thrower specialists.

• Umbra Harbingers: Infiltration and assassination.

• Chorus of Veils: Chemical warfare and mind-shatter.

7. Faith & Doctrine Researchers

The Theologians of Flesh

Divisions:

• Textualists: Archivists of the Trueangelus.

• Vivisectors: Ritual anatomists studying Fallen Angels.

• Pneumaticists: Developers of psionic communion serums.

Hierarchy: Senior researchers hold the title Canon of Revelation and answer only to High Thrones.

8. Angel’s Hand (Cultivation & Transport)

Custodians of the Divine Flesh

Operatives:

• Harvesters: Field agents tracking emergent Changelings.

• Wardens: Secure and escort specimens.

• Nurturers: Maintain Cocoons of Grace.

Leadership Title: Bearer of the First Seed, overseeing all transport logistics.

9. Synthetic Choir

Forged Voices & Mechanical Apostles

Categories:

• Choir Drones: Single-purpose combat or relay units.

• Choir Intellects: AI minds indoctrinated with Trueangelus subroutines.

Command Nexus: A hidden protocol known as Echocrypt, managed by Central Authority.

10. Thresholds & Seals

Boundary Keepers

Function: Maintain the hierarchy’s secrecy.

Offices:

• Veilbearer: Erases digital and physical traces.

• Nullcantor: Silences dissent with surgical precision.

“Study the hierarchy not as power, but as organs. Remove one, and the body suffers; conflict bleeds. The hierarchy endures, for it is the Angel’s flesh made manifest.”

-Fragment of a disavowed sermon, found in three contradictory forms.

Prominent Figures and Installations

Distinguished Members of the Cooperative

Other Noteworthy Operatives

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Nova Sector Lore
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