Imperial Rogue Trader [I.RT]

u'<font size="14" color="#bfffffff"></font><font size="24" color="#ffffff00"><b>The Imperial Truth</b><br><br></font><font size="18" color="#bfffffff">The Imperial Truth was the rational, atheist philosophy that guided the Emperor\'s conquest of Old Earth, and the formation of the Imperium through the Great Crusade. At its heart, the Imperial Truth held that the universe was rational, that knowledge defeated fear and brought freedom from the terrors of the Age of Strife. With this assertion went the denial of\xa0the irrational and the superstitious, as well as the abandoning of faith in powers and principles beyond the knowable. In the unified Terra and Imperium of Mankind, there could be no mysteries of the soul, no sorcery, no gods. Those who clung to their ignorance were cast down, their lies silenced in the pyre\'s roar. The terrors of the past had grown in the shadow of\xa0superstition and false belief.lf\xa0Mankind was to survive its rebirth, it could not tolerate the delusions of\xa0the past. That there were other dimensions, alien races and mutants who wielded psychic powers was not denied, only that they were supernatural. That some might call these phenomena \'sorcery\u2019\xa0or attribute them to gods, were simply the symptoms of\xa0incomplete understanding. With a foundation built upon the tenets of\xa0the Imperial Truth, Mankind achieved greatness, and though it was not destined to last, for two centuries the Great Crusade was beyond reproach in its methods and in its glorious elevation of Mankind to the dominant species of\xa0the galaxy. </font>'