Conference of Cycle Families

The Conference of Cycle Families is the legislative body of the Community of New Goëtia.

Composition

Each cycle family sends one representative to the Conference, which meets each year in Gathering Place. The current number of representatives in the Conference is six. The Conference elects a President as the first order of business every year.

Turfed Cycle Families
Colors Back Patch	Name	Father/Mother	Membership	Established	Notes
	Cliffbase CF	Alfred Priestly Jr.	Full Members: 234 Auxiliary: 1,204	1661	Oldest family, traditionally male-dominated.
	Gateway CF	Greta Klooney	Full Members: 56 Auxiliary: 926	1662	Second oldest family, traditionally female-dominated.
	New Guard CF	Tyler Dreadson	Full Members: 368 Auxiliary: 1,576	1672	Founded in response to modernization, mostly 1st and 2nd generation Goetics.
	Crophaulers DF	Jermaine Fairy	Full Members: 67 Auxiliary: 1,109	1675	Merged with the Oxen NF in 1704 and adopted the Oxen patch as part of their colors in memoriam.
	Troglonauts of Cibola	Bear "Cubby" Nosering	Full Members: 32 Auxiliary: 898	1675	Privateers in the Cibolan Sea, now operate globally.
	Gladius Demonist Society	Cooperson Bull	Full Members: 62 Auxiliary: 1,498	1675	Merged with the surviving Bloodhound members and adopted the Bloodhound patch as part of their colors in memoriam.
Nomadic Families
Colors	Name	Road Captain	Membership	Established	Run
Jacket Left Arm Patch	Eagles NF	Edward	Full Members: 93 Auxiliary: 61	1663	Serves as a police force now.
Jacket Right Arm Patch	Gorillas NF	Ray	Full Members: 509	1673	Paramilitary. Goes where needed. Membership open to any Goetic. Gorillas members retain their full membership in their turfed or nomadic families.
Former Cycle Families
Colors Back Patch	Name	Last Leader	Membership	Years Active	Reason
	The Saints CF	Jeff Michaelson	Full Members: 265 Auxiliary: 5,912	1661-1671	Unrepentant practitioners of the Old Ways.
Jacket Left Arm Patch	Tigers NF	Gerald	Full Members: 7 Auxiliary: 6	1663-1679	Made redundant in the Reconciliation and integrated into the Oxen NF.
Jacket Left Arm Patch	Horses NF	Darren	Full Members: 5 Auxiliary: 2	1663-1689	Cliffbase and Navigators. Dissolved after their run was unclaimed as part of the Gateway Western Expressway agreement
Back Patch	Storm Petrels NF	Russ	Full Members: 27 Auxiliary: 13	1675-1689	Between Troglonauts and Crophaulers. Made redundant due to the Gateway Western Expressway agreement. Most joined the Oxen.
Jacket Left Arm Patch	Wolves NF	Les	Full Members: 27 Auxiliary: 13	1663-1690	Between Gateway and Gathering Place. Low membership, struggled to maintain family cohesion. Dissolved and joined the Eagles.
Jacket Left Arm Patch	Boars NF	Francesca	Full Members: 12 Auxiliary: 25	1663-1690	Between Cliffbase and Gateway. Low membership, struggled to maintain family cohesion. Dissolved and joined the Eagles.
	Navigators CF	Alan Paulson	Full Members: 154 Auxiliary: 3,867	1662-1696	Destroyed in the Sky Riots, surviving members joined other families.
Jacket Left Arm Patch	Swift NF	Penelope	Full Members: 39 Auxiliary: 6	1663-1700	Mostly killed in the Athlonic massacres. Survivors joined New Guard CF or Eagles NF.
Back Patch	Oxen NF	Daryl	Full Members: 81 Auxiliary: 36	1674-1704	Dwindling membership and lack of transportation and roads in New Goetia. Merged into Crophaulers DF.
Back Patch	Bloodhounds NF	Henry	Full Members: 12 Auxiliary: 25	1675-1700	Most members died on the Goetic Trail. The dozen survivors joined Gladius.

President

The President of the Conference acts as the Community of Goetia's head of government and can be empowered by the Conference with any range of duties or responsibilities. Failure to serve as President satisfactorily will result in failure to be elected, shame brought to the president's cycle family, and even possible exile from the Community.

Actions of the Conference

Each conference keeps minutes and these minutes are available to all members of the community. Records have been kept from every annual meeting, including the informal Family Conferences that founded the Community itself and established the Goëtian taboos necessary to keep the Community safe and hidden. The major decisions of each annual Conference are listed below.

Year	Major Decision	President	Text
1514	Foundation	Father Jay	It is hereby decided among these Fathers and Mothers assembled in this place of gathering, that after unknown years of wandering the world, adrift on the sea, cast out of towns, our brothers and sisters burned, tortured, killed, raped, beaten, degraded, exiled for no reason but our choice of religion; we hereby decide to run no more. We will settle here, and in the hinterlands around this place, and keep ourselves secret from the world.
1547	Missionaries and Lost Ones	Mother Lauren, Gateway Family	We shall welcome our lost brothers and sisters into our families, we shall impart Missionaries to scour the world for those who are lost.
1548	Taboo on Mating	Mother Lauren, Gateway Family	Mating among the Goetics shall, by necessity of scarce resources and our need to remain hidden, be strictly limited to the annual meeting of the Families at the Place of Gathering.
1549	Taboo on Co-Mingling	Mother Lauren, Gateway Family	The Families shall consist of only one gender, to prevent unintended pregnancies; to repeat last year's decision for all Goetics to understand: We have scarce resources and cannot grow our population or sustain many children while we hide from the world.
1550	Punishment for Mating	Mother Lauren, Gateway Family	The biological father of any child conceived outside Gathering Place shall have a choice of two punishments: physical castration or branding and exile from the Community. A message from Mother Lauren: "Please, please please please please stop having sex. We are going to starve with all these new babies."
1651	To Settle the Ruins	Father Richard, Navigators Family	We have noted the disappearance of our neighbors and that they have left pristine cities neatly vacated. Our families shall move into the outskirts of this cities and establish permanent compounds.
1652	Cycles	Father Richard, Navigators Family	We encourage any mechanically minded Goetics to scavenge the Green for automobiles, preferably motorcycles, so we may spread farther.
1653	Highway Patrol	Father Richard, Navigators Family	The highways between our compounds are dangerous. Any Goetics who yearn for the open road shall be allowed to associate themselves as a new family with the authority and responsibility to patrol a stretch of highway between two compounds. The families living at each terminus are bound to provide food and shelter for these brave nomads in exchange for travel protection.
1661	Missive to the World Community	Father Alfred, Cliffbase Family	My name is Alfred, and I live four days away from Gathering Place, with others like me, at the base of a cliff. Some call it Basecliff, others call it Cliffbase. I have been selected to speak for my people this month, and attend to their religious needs. I am the 2,016th Priest selected according to your Nortonian months. By consensus, The Community has decided we can no longer hide ourselves as we have done for generations. We can no longer live hidden in the hinterlands. Our faith and worship practices drove us to this new homeland, Goëtia. We have missionaries in your countries, seeking out more like us, and the missionaries send them back to Goëtia. We have settled here and made a comfortable, albeit crude, life for ourselves. We are joined, somewhat regularly, by immigrants from your countries who felt persecuted for their faith. Thus we have incorporated self-sufficient technology into our simple lives. We learn of the outside world by each new immigrant, and we are troubled by what recent immigrants tell us. The Community welcomes them and assigns them to live in a new family. It is taboo to ask from where a Goetic came from. Our former lives are not discussed, and over the years, we only remember our time in Goëtia. Some are natively born in Goëtia, conceived during the Scheduled Time at Gathering Place when the Deacon determines our population cannot be maintained by immigrants. Carefully planned, we have maintained a small population and been able to remain hidden this way. We have been happy to remain undisturbed until now. The Community has felt compelled to come forward, and we declare ourselves to be a nation. As a nation we will establish ourselves over time and protect our way of life. We worship demons, worship ourselves, and worship each other, as gods of our own lives. We have, with serious consideration, begun to develop Gathering Place into a town of constructed buildings and will, in time, establish ways for un-recruited demon-worshipers to join us here to continue to build and modernize the Community. We are not unfamiliar with the trappings of statecraft, and we will soon begin to 'play the game' that we have resisted for so long. We would seek friendship with other nations that would, first and foremost, respect our demon-given right to be left alone. Be yourself, Priest Alfred
1662	Rapids Changes	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	The missionary to Malarboria returned and spread the good news, that Kizzy Drakland would come to rule the community as their living goddess. This prompted a burst of civic pride, and the construction pace of Gathering Place as a city increased. Family compounds began to transform into villages with the cycle families acting as governing councils. New and expanded editions of the Grimoindr, Kizzy's personal notes on the major demons she extracted from Demonsfall. Various Goetics have already pledged themselves to the incoming cadre of demons that they expect Kizzy to bring with her. Devotees usually find themselves elevated to positions of authority within the local families, or those already in power are expected to pledge themselves to a demon to ensure prosperity for their family.
1663	Population Growth	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	In the interest of growing our native population and raising growth to a sustainable rate, the Cycle Families may be composed of members of all genders, and no person may be denied admission into a Cycle Family, as full or auxiliary, based on their gender. Mating shall be permitted at all times, not just while at Gathering Place.
1664	Formal Claim to the MCS	Father John Babbit, The Saints CF	A formal claim for the turf around Gathering Place shall be lodged at the Micronational Cartography Society no earlier than 23 Friedeber 1664.
1666	Final Map of Goetia	Father John Babbit, The Saints CF	In the year '666 it was decided by the Conference to finalize the turf of each family. Kizzy Drakland was presented with the map and asked to present it to the MCS for approval.
1667	Expulsion of John Babbit	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	The former leader of the The Saint Cycle Family, known as John Babbit, was expelled from his own family, and in accordance with tradition, is persona non grata among all cycle families who wish to maintain association with this conference and the Community. John Babbit was found to be a conspirator and saboteur from a nearby island whose real name was Johan Johansson. He conspired to derail Goetia's admission into the MCS for reasons presently unclear.
1669	The White Plague	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	Accusations against the Community regarding spreading The White Plague are flatly and categorically denied. The mere concept of bioterrorism is repugnant to the Goetic Community, who values all life and the pleasures that come with it, and should any Goetic be found to aiding, abetting, helping, or otherwise harboring such criminal activities, they shall be crushed to death under the spinning tire of a motorcycle.
1671	Expulsion of The Saints CF	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	The rumors of John Babbit and his brain-washed sympathizers have been found to be true. The entire Saints Cycle Family is declared to be systemically flawed, corrupted, and dangerous to the safe, sane, and consensual practice of demon-worship that the Community embraces. The turf of the Saints CF is hereby left to the Green and all former Saints members are refused entry into Gathering Place.
1672	The New Guard Cycle Family	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	An organization of Goetics have appeared before the Conference and presented the conference with a set of bylaws for a new Cycle Family known as New Guard, based in Gathering Place. New Guard presents itself as the new face of demonism as demon-worshippers from around Micras have continually flocked to Goetia, and most choosing to settle in Gathering Place, which by tradition was maintained by all other cycle families. By granting the residents of Gathering Place their own registered family, The Community embraces the new way of demonism and embraces the future. The Conference approved the new family and formally registered it.
1673	Taboo of the Old Ways	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	The Old Ways, or the Old Guarders, are hereby repugnant to the Community. Any and all Goetics and demon-worshipers who profess or defend the Old Ways are to be expelled from the Community immediately. Practitioners of the Old Ways who are actively dominating another sentient being shall be asked once to release their submissive, if they refuse, they shall be put to death on the ground they stood and left as carrion. There will be no reprisal against a true Goetic who kills a Old Guarder. The Gorillas Nomadic Cycle Family is hereby established to carry out this decision.
1673	Taboo of Kizzy Drakland and John Babbit	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	Kizzy Drakland is no longer our Demon-Queen, nor shall we ever have another queen or king. She is declared a heretic to the true ways of demon-worship. Her continued existence is an affront to the New Guard and our Community. Her actions jeopardize our peaceful religion and contradicts the Goetic belief of individual sovereignty and perverts the collective autonomy of our families by subverting it into an abusive power structure. The actions of John Babbit are included in this Taboo. Any Goetic who kills Kizzy Drakland and/or John Babbitshall shall receive the eternal thanks of this community, shall not need to barter for food or shelter for their life, honorary membership in all cycle families, and the customary title of International Master/Mistress Demonist.
1679	Reconciliation	Father Alfred Priestly, Cliffbase CF	The Families of the Northern Coordinating Council are granted automatic membership in this Conference. Tolerance of the Old Ways is extremely Taboo and will result in exposure, public humiliation, forfeiture of Family memberships, and expulsion from the Community. Integration with the new families will allow a new era of demon worship.
1684	Taboo of Vanicism	Father Jack Dreadson, New Guard CF	After consultation with Father Vernon Dreadful after he attended the Council of Tassity, the Conference of Cycle Families adopts the findings of that Council, and classifies the Old Ways as Vanic. Investigations from 1667 have concluded that John Babbit, who was found to be a conspirator name Johan Johansson, was from the Vanic island of Humlebaek, and thus a Vanic infiltrator. The Community notes that some Vanic leaders have been declared "daemonic" by certain organizations. Vanic worship is repugnant to this Community, and any Goetics found to be worshiping Vanic "daemonics" will have their head crushed under the spinning wheel of a cycle.
1687	Modernization	Father Jack Dreadson, New Guard CF	The roads and borders of the Community are to be re-aligned. Several small nomadic families will be dissolved. The Community agrees to abide by the terms of the Gateway Western Expressway Agreement.
1688	Taboo of Ignorance	Father Brad "AJ" Forme, Troglonauts of Cibola	The College of Transportation Engineering is granted full recognition by the Community. It is located in and under the protection of the Crophaulers'.
1689	Taboo of Wastefulness	Father Brad "AJ" Forme, Troglonauts of Cibola	The Troglonauts shall build up a flotilla to seek out unclaimed resources in the freshly ruined port cities on the coast of the Inner Cibolan Sea. Using the profits from our mining exports, the Community shall purchase 5 Minute-class gunboats and one Vista-de-Nada-class frigate from Natopia for the stated purpose of "patrolling the Inner Sea and maintaining stability in our western sphere, so as to prevent interruption to SATCo mining and transport operations under our responsibility."
1702	Taboos of Idealness	Alfred Priestly Jr, Cliffbase	If any Goetic is found to not be dedicating 10 of their waking hours per day to the success and survival of the Community and their fellow Goetics, that Goetic shall be expelled from the Community and marched to the frozen shores of Caplona and left there. The Conference delegates the necessities of survival to committees, namely for building shelters (chaired by a New Guard member), planting crops (chaired by a Crophauler member), raising livestock (chaired by a Gladius member), planning craftworks (chaired by a Troglonauts member), and recording the histories of those lost along the way (chaired by a Gateway member). A steering committee (chaired by a Cliffbase member) shall coordinate between them.
1703	Taboos of Mating and Co-Mingling	Alfred Priestly Jr, Cliffbase	The supply of food is not yet sustainable, therefore the parents of any child born shall be expelled from the community. The child shall be raised without shame of their parents taboo. All domiciles shall house a single gender to prevent unintentional mating. A committee on population control (co-chaired by members of Cliffbase and Gateway) will review applications for procreation.