Quote:

Live In truth
Have Faith
Repent Of Sin
Give Proof of Humility
Love Justice
Be Merciful
Be Sincere
Endure Persecution

The Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Ancient Terra

Vive segun la verdad
Ten Fe
Arrepientete de tus pecados
Da prueba de humildad
Ama la justicia
Se Piadoso
Se sincero
Resiste la persecucion

Los caballeros de la Orden de San Juan de Jerusalem, Tierra Antigua.

Quote:The crippled sleeper ship Hispania arrived in Omicron Alpha almost 800 years ago. Its passengers named the planet Malta -- a harsh place of acidic oceans, gray skies, and vast plains covered in a species of tall, thin, orange grass. They later learned that the grass could be rendered into a narcotic substance, that they called Cardamine.
Eventually the Outcasts -- as they came to think of themselves -- began limited exploration of their system. As pilots wandered farther and farther afield in search of resources, many became seriously ill. Upon planetfall, the crews mysteriously recovered.
Doctors were baffled. By chance, they made a genetic scan of a critically ill pilot and made a startling discovery. His genetic codes had been altered. Outcast DNA contained strands identical to that of the orange grasses that covered the planet -- from which Cardamine was derived. Trace amounts were present in everything on the planet, from the air they breathed to the water they drank. Once pilots made lengthier journeys away from Malta, their bodies went into shock, followed by death.
The Outcasts were now truly separated from the rest of humanity -- changed so that they could never expand beyond the planet on which they had landed. They needed the Cardamine now, like air or food or water. But with the origin of the sickness solved, they could at least compensate by carrying supplies of Cardamine with them and resume their exploration of their surrounding systems.
When they encountered the rest of the Houses in the seventh century, a new strategy emerged. The Outcasts would deliver the poison that would rot the other Houses from the inside out and grow rich from the profits of their trade.
Today the Outcasts conduct a lucrative drug-smuggling operation using the network of Jump Holes to escape detection and transport their product into the heart of the House systems. The Outcasts remain relatively few in number; a crash in the birth rate seems to have been another side effect of their genetic modification.
A new development has been Cryer’s continued efforts to create a synthetic version of Cardamine that would be approved as a legal medication within Liberty. This poses a direct threat to the Outcasts' source of income. The Atka Research Station, with nearby access to Edge Nebula clouds, is the most immediate threat to the Outcasts. The location of the base within Corsair territory has brought the Outcasts into conflict with their ancient brethren.

[color=#FF0000]Our Mission
[font=monotype corsiva][color=#FF9900]We, the Hundred and First Outcast Guard, pledge our blood to defend the orange grasses of Malta and the air our children breathe. We are the ramparts upon which the hordes will fling themselves and die; we are the shield and the breastplate that protects the true Children of Hispania. We are the sword and the spear upon which our foes, the fallen children of Crete and those who cannot embrace the Orange Light, shall draw their last breaths as they slide through their hearts.

[color=#FF0000][font=Mistral]This is Our Pledge.
[font=Mistral][color=#FF9900]For The Orange Dream!





For You See...

[color=#FF0000][font=Monotype Corsiva]We are born out of the Chasm of the Razgriz Black Hole in Omicron-85.
We are the Knights of Malta, the Guardians of Outcast Space.
We are the Ghosts of Razgriz!

[color=#FF9900][font=Monotype Corsiva]We are not human because we had been given a gift and can see further into truth than any man. Human beings are infants dabbling in the loam of an expansive ocean that stretches beyond the horizon.
The Cardamine has let us see this.