[Jmenschenfresser]

2414.9
My stomach is grumbling. I think it's the stress and exhaustion and lack of a steady diet of something substantial. I'm a monk, so I am supposed to be able to handle times of persecution.

I am leaving the Tribunals and the Insanity behind in fear that I too might lose my life. The recent cleansings have taken many good friends of mine. Tallik, while not dead, is unable to leave Xiban I. He is watched round the clock by secret police of the Tribunals. What are the Tribunals? History must know. I personally don't know how long they've been worming their way into positions of authority. But I do know their elite come from an underground order of pious monks, who left the homeworld in the early years of colonization. I doubt any of their rhetoric concerning those races which are infidels and that aren't come from real conviction. They are power hungry. They are hate filled. May the Almighty strike them down for their blasphemy!! They've perverted the Holy Text! They've mistranslated and cut its meaning to suit their purposes. And now...they seek the death of those who know the difference in what should be and what is. I pray constantly that Tallik will find a way off of Xiban I, but he is in Her hands now.

I would to Pellwain, but because of the High Council's new agenda, I fear we may be at war with the Farzah before the year is out. We are heading to the two worlds on the outer rim of the Norak Continuum. Here the local officials are tolerant to those the Tribunals are persecuting. They will retain us till this has passed, or until the Elders decide to send a fleet out this far and crush this defiance. But until the course laid is completely seen, they will not risk ships on a few disgruntled intellectuals and powerless theologues like myself.

We will take up communications with all empires in an attempt to coordinate operations against the Tribunal government. Hopefully, we can incite enough Norak, enough Priests to rise up and retake power, and it won't have to come to the complete destruction of the Norak empire in order to change things.

I only escaped because I disguised myself as a first degree priest and caught a military freighter to Organtrix. From there I was able to find a ship, organized by a group of local dissenters, heading to the outer rim. I've come to find out that all the passengers aboard are in the same boat I am...literally and literally. The brain drain back on Xiban I fear will drag us back 100 years. We've already lost just about every capable diplomat. The Tribunals don't trust those who've stayed too long with other races. That is why I was targeted and that is why they want to remove Pellwain. Tallik is suspected because of his incredible knowledge of Norak weaknesses militarily. They'll never let him leave Xiban alive.

I've been out of the loop for the Last few months. For certain, I cannot predict what is happening. Not until I reach the outer rim and regain contact with the excommunicated. However, I fear that already the Tribunals are moving against the Jraenar. The reason I am officially excommunicated is because I refused the position of double agent/diplomat within the Jraenar empire. Right as the Tribunals gained the upper hand in the High Council, the Council was about to vote in favor of a trade agreement with the Jraenar. I have it on good authority that members of the Council were threatened and bought...anything to strike down the Jraenar treaty. I do not know what they plan. I only know that if they are allowed to carry on, the entire galaxy will fall into war.