The Proscribed was a term used by the Pius Dea to designate their opponents, including political dissidents and religious heretics and apostates. They were the target of Inquistions within the Senate, military and greater society organized by the sect which controlled the government bureaucracy of the Galactic Republic during the Pius Dea Era. They were exiled or imprisoned and their assets were seized for pontifical auction. Their families were also barred from political and military life for three generations, allowing the Pius Dea to monopolize the state machinery.