The Dark Star Observers

Bel'Zanar, the immense artificial planetoid that lurks at the edge of the Sol System, is powered by the Dark Star; a tamed black hole wrought at the height of the Old Ones Empire long ago. Fed by a constant stream of matter the Dark Star gives life to Bel'Zanar, powering its industrial might and granting the station its military power.

The Dark Star is an old and complex machine whose maintenance is performed by the religious order of the Dark Star Observers; a mysterious sect devoted to nurturing and worshipping the Dark Star who they see as a divine God. The rulers of Bel'Zanar, the Mesitori, see the Observers as insane relics of a past best forgotten yet accept without them, Bel'Zanar would perish. Thus the Observers serve as the Third of Three, the religious power of Bel'Zanar alongside that of the military and the ruling nobles.

Within the Sacred Inner Sanctum which houses the Dark Star the Chosen of the Observers gather to watch and intrepert the voice of their God. This is considered the highest calling amongst the Observers, a position only the most faithful, pure and devoted may attain. They sit crossed legged in a great ring around the Dark Star, clad in white and fed intravenously so that they may devote their life entirely to this most sacred of tasks.

These most high ordained suffer for their devotion as their eyes are burned from their sockets. Yet still, they see their God and and hear its whispers and speak it in an incomprehensible babble to outsiders yet to the faithful are part of the Dark Star's Eternal Hymn. It is the duty of the Observers to study the Hymn and interpret its meaning.

There is some speculation that there is more to the Dark Star than would first appear. Some amongst the Mesitori believe it not to be a Black Hole at all. What it is, they do not know and fear delving too deep into that mystery lest they anger the Observers and trigger a schism between the Trinity that would likely destroy Bel'Zanar. There is also the fact that on more than one occasion the seemingly insane and incomprehensible ramblings of the Observers have revealed insights into events to come and aided Bel'Zanar in both great and small ways.