The Church of the Resin Heart is an organisation inside of Disciples of Logos. Operating out of the Isles of Logos on Partizan, it claims to be the true inheritor of the prophet Logos Kantel's religious mission.
The “resin heart” in question is a 3-foot large object pulled from the sea 400+ years ago and displayed as a relic by the Church.
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SBBR sold the Church two troop units stolen from Apostolos, which were used to defend the pilgrims that The Rapid Evening escorted along The Prophet's Path. However, these same mechs made it easier for their escorts to pin the disappearance of Gur Sevraq on Apostolos when they decided not to deliver him to Crysanth Kesh. As a result, the Church distrusted The Rapid Evening, and came to understand the extent to which their leader could be used as "a political pawn in a move that will send a whole lot of people to die", i.e Kesh's offense against Fort Icebreaker.
Following their prophet's disappearance, the Church's head of security (Avar) sent Valence a letter requesting their help, and so SBBR traveled to the Isles of Logos. After Valence spoke psychically to Gur Sevraq, the group's fears were somewhat assuaged, and they began to consider SBBR allies.
The Church were present at the formation of Millennium Break on Fort Icebreaker, where their restored prophet preached revolution as an interdenominational issue:
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I am a rector to one of three faiths that might be called heretical by the other three, all of which are gathered here on this deck. This deck, of an Apostolosian superweapon, stolen and commanded by a scion of Stel Kesh, who has turned it into her fortress, a fortress operated by former prisoners, standing side by side with beer-brewing Nidean monks, and Columnar technicians.
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We are driven by this one understanding: that history looms, not the way an ominous shadow casts over the land, but like a machine that weaves. It pulls threads together alike and not, according to pattern, material, and process. And as it stands, the Divine Principality will weave this age, this so-called Perfect Millenium, forever.
And so here is our outrageous idea, slipping from incoherence into necessity: we will work the loom of history ourselves. We will set the pattern, pull the cloth, slide the shuttle, and bring together each of our different threads into something that to look at it once complete is to see something so essential it is hard to image the world before it. A future unlike the past, a yet unnamed tomorrow. Together we will break this millenium.”
During evacuation negotiations before the Red Light fell over Oxbridge, The Witch In Glass agreed to take members of the Church aboard The Reflecting Pool as refugees.
The Friends Of Gur Sevraq[edit | edit source]
Distinct name for the current membership of the Church who follow the teachings of a new prophet and miracle-worker, Gur Sevraq. They teach the value of and need for open communication between regular members of the principality, and dream of a galactic-communications network which would allow people to send messages between worlds in a matter of seconds or minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. The Friends believe establishing this will lead to change and “progression” sweeping through the Principality.