Scientific and religious organizations

The scientific and religious organizations in the novel have a strict autocratic hierarchy. Ordinary scientific and technological aid workers from all over the world became "priests", while ambassadors stationed in various kingdoms became "bishops". The kings of the four kingdoms are regarded as the "archbishop" after the "Galactic Holy Spirit", while Severus Harding calls himself the "chief archbishop". The clergy cultivated in the base controlled all the scientific and technological forces of the four kingdoms, including medical system, energy system and military equipment. For example, the Star Naval Base in Narion Kingdom is an inviolable religious temple. Every starship in the four kingdoms has a technical priest, who is not only a chaplain, but also the full technical director of the warship.

In addition to the technical priests stationed in various kingdoms, the base also trains and trains "trainee priests" locally. Excellent trainee priests will be sent to the "mission school" in the base, and the scientists in the base will teach the use of technology. Of course, this kind of teaching will not teach fundamental scientific principles, but dogmatic theology in disguise. A small number of trainee priests who see through the mysterious phenomenon on the surface and question the nature of science are asked to stay in the terminal star for academic research; Others were sent back to their original places after the expiration of their studies and served as official priests.

This religion has a special inquisition, which means that the clergy class is not restricted by the secular legal system of the four countries. This inquisition also has the power to judge the secular class's violation of doctrine. In the article "The Mayor", the chief chaplain of the Star Cruiser "Winnis", the Star Navy of the kingdom of Nacreon, in the name of "blaspheming the Holy Spirit of the Galaxy", asked the Inquisition to try the captain, the commander-in-chief of the navy and the cousin of the king, Prince Rifkin, launch a mutiny to seize the command of the ship and take the lead in disarming it.

Scientific and religious organizations also have a missionary group dedicated to expanding the political control of Al Qaeda. In the fourth chapter "Shang Hong" of "Base", Shang Hong of the base controlled the Grand Duchy of Askan by economic means, and the policy of spreading science and religion was gradually abandoned. Hou Bo Marlowe, the chief businessman in the fifth chapter "King of Commerce", said: "Although the base successfully controlled four neighboring kingdoms by using science and religion, it did not eat it in the alien world."