The more we learn the less we know

Things have been chaotic lately. First I have been busy with the establishment of a Starbase for the Society. Once that was settled, research and mining various databases for information has taken much time.

I had established a few leads but the reformation had removed much information from the period I am investigating. I'm sure this is for good reason but it increases the challenge of my search somewhat. To that end I searched a number of sources for sites of significance to both the Blood Raiders and the Sani Sabik.

This I have had to do carefully. The last thing I wish to do is cause any alerts or flags by the Theology Council and Ministry of Internal Order for looking too hard at heretical texts or information on Galnet. I am a loyal and Pious man and have no desire to cause any such disruption. As such I am careful in my search terms and the way I couch my requests with any Archivists.

However I did start to raise some leads of a site of significance to the raiders. The site named "The Cauldron" seemed to appear in a number of recently intercepted messages and in writings going back into antiquity. All I could find about it seemed to indicate a high level of excitement about what went on there and the writers always seemed in awe of the activities. They were always couched in terms of holy significance and religious epiphany. It rested in the Araz Constellation, which again matched my belief that my search is tied with the exodus of the first Sabik. Throught the Constellation are many sites that link back into the past and some that continue to be used to this day, thousands of years later. I thought this site was promising and must give me some information on my search at the very least.

I raised my crew and voyaged to Araz and searched for the location. This took some days but at last I was able to detect a number of raider vessels coming and going from a site. It had strong magnetometric readings indicating a large station of some kind and metals indicative of an ancient structure. Awaiting a relatively quiet period I warped into site and was amazed and disgusted by what I found.

Rather than a site of a repository of heretical artifacts and information I was disgusted to discover the site was that of a giant fighting arena. From what I can tell captives would be made to fight to the death and then the blooders would take the victor and perform some act of barbarity in line with their sacrilegious beliefs. I despaired that these creatures would hold such an act so highly and obviously this has been going on for centuries at least. In my anger I destroyed the ships guarding the facility and wrecked as much damage as I could on the hell hole itself.

The Cauldron, a forsaken place of debauched slaughter

I returned to Amarr Prime to pray in the Basilica to cleanse myself of the horrors I had seen. For all that I am learning and discovering on the beliefs of these accursed people each time I am still horrified when I meet the level of depravity they are willing to go to. I begin to fear if I am mistaken, how could such Holy artifacts be in the possession of such evil? I must believe that the current depravities of the Raiders are somehow separate to that at least of the ancient Sabik and that my goals lie forgotten somewhere far from their grasp.