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

在我们这个世界之外的许多世界里，很少有名字能像收割者教派那样让人恐惧和着迷，一个神秘，仪式化的残暴思金团体，以残忍、公开地消灭任何阻碍种族进步的不明智之人为信条。据信，这支军队在很久以前就建立起来了，是一支先发制人的本土平定部队，从那以后，该教派就用宗教色彩掩盖了它的目的。成员们认为，清理行星上任何被认为有潜在危险的生命形式是他们的神圣权利，这个定义几乎完全是在该教派内部确定的。

即使在收割者教派中，第17教派也被认为有几乎超乎寻常的暴力倾向，表现出前所未有的残忍行为，以至于思金内部很少有人愿意承认他们的存在。令他们的思金同胞特别反感的是收割者-17对过量泰矿注入的嗜好，远远超过了其母体种族生存所需的量。这种疯狂的自残，一种宗教狂热，使他们的许多成员在拥有巨大力量的同时，也发生了奇怪的突变。即使在他们自己的社会中，收割者-17也被放逐了，他们继续犁着自己的血腥的犁沟……接下来，他们将前往地球。

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