Background on the Scrin Cult of Reaper

Throughout the many worlds beyond our own, few names have inspired as much fear and fascination as the Cult of Reaper, a mysterious, ritualistically violent Scrin caste that takes as its creed the brutal, public extermination of any being unwise enough to stand in the way of the race's advancement. Believed to have been established in eons past as a first-strike native pacification force, the Cult has since cloaked its purpose in religious overtones. The members regard it as their divine right to cleanse planets of any life forms perceived as potentially dangerous, with that definition determined almost entirely within the cult itself.

Even within the Cult of Reaper, the 17th sect are considered almost preternaturally violent, displaying acts of unparalleled cruelty such that few within the Scrin wish to even acknowledge their existence. Of particular distaste to their fellow Scrin is Reaper-17's penchant for excessive Tiberium infusion, far beyond that which its parent race requires to survive. This deranged form of self-mutilation, a form of religious zealotry, has left many of their members as grotesquely mutated as they are immensely powerful. Outcasts even within their own society, Reaper-17 continue to plow their own bloody furrow...one that will next lead them to the planet known as Earth.

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思金收割者教派的背景

在我們這個世界之外的許多世界里，很少有名字能像收割者教派那樣讓人恐懼和著迷，一個神秘，儀式化的殘暴思金團體，以殘忍、公開地消滅任何阻礙種族進步的不明智之人為信條。據(jù)信，這支軍隊在很久以前就建立起來了，是一支先發(fā)制人的本土平定部隊，從那以后，該教派就用宗教色彩掩蓋了它的目的。成員們認為，清理行星上任何被認為有潛在危險的生命形式是他們的神圣權利，這個定義幾乎完全是在該教派內部確定的。

即使在收割者教派中，第17教派也被認為有幾乎超乎尋常的暴力傾向，表現(xiàn)出前所未有的殘忍行為，以至于思金內部很少有人愿意承認他們的存在。令他們的思金同胞特別反感的是收割者-17對過量泰礦注入的嗜好，遠遠超過了其母體種族生存所需的量。這種瘋狂的自殘，一種宗教狂熱，使他們的許多成員在擁有巨大力量的同時，也發(fā)生了奇怪的突變。即使在他們自己的社會中，收割者-17也被放逐了，他們繼續(xù)犁著自己的血腥的犁溝……接下來，他們將前往地球。

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