Raythlish Cultist

Among the Lantus there are rebels – ones who fervently believe that the Arboreum is unendurable and must be broken. They are zealous believers in the philosophy Rylith set, that life is “sacred,” and must be spread throughout the cosmos wherever it may take root without pause.

Unfortunately for the lives already occupying that cosmos, the sacred doesn’t extend to them.

The Raythlish are interstellar eco-terrorists, eviscerating civilians and planting thorn bushes in their still living corpses. They are physiologically adapted by a radicalised Warden who believes that sentient life is a kind of imbalanced, imperfectible disease, and that intelligence is an inherited original sin that should be stamped out to prevent it from taking advantage of the endless arboretum that Rylith envisioned the cosmos to be. A Raythlish’s primary goal is the extermination of said sentient life to preserve the galaxy wide garden they seek to create.

A Raythlish’s naturally pristine white exoskeleton is a corrupted black; their personal ecology replaced with biological weaponry and sharp thorn blades. They are tortured individuals living a severely delusional and paranoid existence; torn between the realities that they are themselves the murdering, violent, intelligent beings they say is toxic to life; but yet they are also the promoters of that life and its fiercest guardians. It is likely that these Brea were born Rejects, and the radicalised Warden who adopted them also indoctrinated and twisted them into this monster they’ve willingly become. They hate the Lantus and everything they represent. The Raythlish Cult is freedom – the Lantus is death.

The Lantus Star Harrier Saturnalia-Gale fell to the Raythlish rebellion, ever since having vanished into the stars. It appears at random around distant worlds, seeding any planet remotely habitable with Xeriscape Platforms before jumping away again. This brute force process of waterless terraforming creates a carpet of plants and eventually synthetic wildlife that force the world to accept biology. It spreads rapidly over the world within centuries and over the next few millennia, aided by comet harvesting drones in space, creates a world ready for human habitation.

The Raythlish however sabotage this process, using deadly synthetic life that attacks on sight, dangerous pathogenic fungi and parasitic plants that infect human bodies, and then patrol the worlds with tribes of warriors who sacrifice the corpses of the dead as nutrients for sacred bone trees.

A Raythlish not among their people must be re-educated and surgically restored to survive.