Pentateuch was first terraformed during the Second Republic by the great Doramos himself. This world sussequently attracted various mystics and back-to-nature farmers. The mystics included Gjartin pagan goddess worshippers, some of the more liberal Hesychast monks in the Universal Church, and adherents of other faiths. After the Fall of the Republic in 4000, the Universal Church quickly moved in to take over Pentateuch, and it was ruled by the most hard-line elements of the Church's Urth Orthodox, Brother Battle, and Avestite sects. This led to a centuries-spanning, on-and-off war between the Church and the Orthoclast Party, with the Orthoclasts often utilizing terrorist and geurilla tactics and the Church using Brother Battle units and flame-gun-wielding Inquisitors. In more recent centur