Community of Elijah

The Community of Elijah is a religious–sovereign association consisting of the human–Theogiorickan Community of Elijah in Theogiorick and the Community of Elijah on Indigo.

It has its origin from the arrival of the Kaiser Ayreon to Zeta Yll Exuun in the mid-late 1600s. The Kaiser Ayreon had travelled for much longer time than expected to reach its destination, with a journey taking some 80 Norton years, around 1670. As such, the original crew had died, while the next two or three generations took on charge of the ship. When arriving at Zeta Yll Exuun, the crew and their mission had become religious in nature, focusing on Elijah Ayreon as a messianic figure. In the following decades, hundreds of thousand members of the local species of Zeta Yll Exuun had joined, becoming a radical and somewhat extermist association disrupting the homogeneity and harmony of the local culture. Facing the prospect of genocide, the Community decided to leave the planet to "return" to "Elijah's Star" (Atos) and establish themselves there. They thus set off with an armada of 53 ships, including the Kaiser Ayreon (though updated). With the updated warp technology, the journey to Atos was much shorter, only a few months. While arriving at Micras, 40% of the ships and their passengers perished in an attack by Raspur Pact forces. Facing the prospect of genocide and annihilation once again, the remaining Elianists agreed to the Armistice of Theogiorick, which would allow them to live, despite under several conditions, in separate communities in Theogiorick and on Indigo.