Holy Scripture
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Igni Ferroque
Imperium In Imperio
Gloria Deo
Land Name: The Holy Lands of the Sanctum Mafia
Group Name: Sanctum Mafia
Mafia Leader: Rex Arturas (http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/DMG2005/RexArturas.jpg)
Capo Bastone: Victoria (http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/DMG2005/Victoria.jpg)
Government: Hierarchy
Religious Affiliation: Roman-Catholic
Religious Head: Pontifex Maximus
Location: Southeast Pacific
Official Language: Latin
Unofficial Language: English
Currency: Gold Bullion
Population: 25,000,000
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Overview
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The Sanctum Mafia is a religiously affiliated group that has all but been expelled from the Dominion mainland. Not welcome at home, the Catholics that make up the group left across the seas and found a series of peculiarly shaped islands surrounded by a thin ring of land. In no time at all they claimed the land for themselves and began developing on the inner isles. Some were used for farm lands, others for cities, one was found to have gold reserves buried beneath the surface, and one very interesting one was never inhabited - almost prophetical, its unique shape was that of the sacred Fleur-de-lis. Soon followers flocked to the islands and their numbers swelled to twenty-five million, all of the Catholics in the totality of the Dominion. The government that took up rule there was in the form of a mafia family with one man presiding as the Don: Rex Arturas.
The isles were named The Holy Lands of the Sanctum Mafia and profess to be sovereign; however, the Dominion technically and legally controls the islands in the eyes of the international world, but it has no reason to want to get involved in the mafia's dealings. Only trouble, religious clashes, and death would arise if the Dominion attempted to assert supreme control over the fortress of the island ring.
The Seven Isles are surrounded by a perfect ring of land. It is only ten meters wide, but its sides, all the way to the ocean floor, are made of a strong, water resistant, material that has kept them in perfect condition since their creation (whenever that was). It is straight and flat on all sides and its sides jut two meters out of the water, making landings, for what good they would do, hard. Furthermore, there are only two little entrances for boats to go through and they are only ten meters wide and ten meters deep, so most ships, especially military ones used for launching invasions, would find such a task difficult at the very least. Since taking up residence, the mafia has installed thick, metal gates in the water entrances so that they can close them off to even the smallest boats. However, in order to make and receive deliveries of any kind, a pair of docks was built in the strip of land between the entrances so that the cargo could be loaded onto one side and then carried to the other and loaded onto another boat to be taken to the islands. Finally, to bolster their defense, the mafia constructed a unique train system around the ring that protects the islands. Built so that the ground protected its bases, tracks, and wheels, the train system runs around the ring and underground where the water entrances and docks are. In total there are four armored trains that carry heavy railguns, anti-aircraft weaponry, and large caliber machine guns in order to prevent enemy boats from coming to close.
With this position, income from the gold reserves, and a growing military arm, the Sanctum Mafia is growing more powerful every day.
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Church
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While the people of the Sanctum Mafia are devoute Catholics, the third great schism has driven them apart from the rule of the Roman Pope. Instead, the Pontifex Maximus, the highest cleric of the Mafia, is considered God's voice on earth. He wields supreme power over the Church on the isles and is often consulted by the Mafia Leader when taking actions. Thus a symbiotic relationship has developed between the leadership of the church and the leadership of the Mafia.
Beliefs
The Church's catechesis makes use of the Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed, summaries of the main points of Catholic belief. The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives a "systematic presentation of the faith" and a "complete exposition of Catholic doctrine". The Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, first published in 2005 and in English in 2006, is a more concise version of the Catechism, in question and answer form.
In addition to all of the main points of orthodox trinitarian Christianity, Catholics place particular importance on the Church as an institution founded by Jesus and kept from doctrinal error by the presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit, and as the font of salvation for humanity. The seven sacraments, of which the most important is the Eucharist, are of prime importance in obtaining salvation.
Scripture and Tradition
The principal sources for the teachings of the Catholic Church are the Sacred Scriptures (the Bible), Sacred Tradition, and Living Magisterium. In his 1943 encyclical letter, Divino Afflante Spiritu, Pope Pius XII encouraged Biblical scholars to study diligently the original languages of the books of the Bible (Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic for the Old Testament; Greek for the New Testament) and other cognate languages, so as to arrive at a deeper and fuller knowledge of the meaning of these texts, stating that "the original text ... having been written by the inspired author himself, has more authority and greater weight than any even the very best translation, whether ancient or modern." The canonical list of sacred books, and their contents, accepted by the Catholic Church are those as contained in the old Latin Vulgate edition.
There is a variety of sources for knowledge of Sacred Tradition, taught by the Church to be originally passed from the apostles in the form of oral tradition. Many of the writings of the early Church Fathers reflect teachings of Sacred Tradition, such as apostolic succession.
Nature of God
Catholicism is monotheistic: it believes that God is one, eternal, all-powerful (omnipotent), all-knowing (omniscient), all-good (omnibenevolent), and omnipresent. God exists as distinct from and prior to his creation (that is, everything which is not God, and which depends directly on him for existence) and yet is still present intimately in his creation. In the First Vatican Council the Church taught that, while by the natural light of human reason God can be known in his works as origin and end of all created things, God has also chosen to reveal himself and his will supernaturally in the ways indicated in the Letter to the Hebrews 1:1-2.
Catholicism is also Trinitarian: it believes that, while God is one in nature, essence, and being, this one God exists in three divine persons, each identical with the one essence, whose only distinctions are in their relations to one another: the Father's relationship to the Son, the Son's relationship to the Father, and the relations of both to the Holy Spirit, constitute the one God as a Trinity.
Catholics are baptized in the name (singular) of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit — not three gods, but one God subsisting in three Persons. While sharing in the one divine essence, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct, not simply three "masks" or manifestations of one Person. The faith of the church and of the individual Christian is based on a relationship with these three Persons of the one God.
The Catholic Church believes that God has revealed himself to humanity as Father to his only-begotten Son, who is in an eternal relationship with the Father: "No one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him."
Catholics believe that God the Son, the Divine Logos, the second of the three Persons of God, became incarnate as Jesus Christ, a human being, born of the Virgin Mary. He remained truly divine and was at the same time truly human. In what he said, and by how he lived, he taught all people how to live, and revealed God as Love, the giver of unmerited favours or Graces.
After Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, his followers, foremost among them the Apostles, spread more and more extensively their faith with a vigour that they attributed to the presence of the Holy Spirit, the third of the three Persons of God, sent upon them by Jesus.
Original Sin
Human beings, in Catholic belief, were originally created to live in union with God. Through the disobedience of the first humans (Adam and Eve), that relationship was broken and sin and death came into the world. The Fall of Man left humans in a state called original sin, that is, separated from their original state of intimacy with God which carried into death through the idea of the individual human soul being immortal. But when Jesus came into the world, being both God and man, he was able through his sacrifice to reconcile humanity with God. By becoming one in Christ, through the church, humanity was once again capable of intimacy with God but also offered a much more amazing gift: participation in the divine life on Earth, which will reach its fullness in heaven in the beatific vision. The sacrament of baptism is the only means for the remission of original sin.
The Church (Ecclesiology)
The Church is, as scripture states, "the body of Christ," and Catholics teach that it is one united body of believers both in heaven and on earth. There is therefore only one true, visible and physical church, not several. And to this one church, originally founded by Jesus on Peter and the Apostles, Jesus gave a mandate to be the authoritative teacher and guardian of the faith. To transmit Christ's divine revelation, the apostles were given the mandate to "preach the Gospel," which they performed both orally and in writing, and which they preserved by leaving bishops as their successors. Thus, the Catechism states "the apostolic preaching, which is expressed in a special way in the inspired books, was to be preserved in a continuous line of succession until the end of time. This living transmission, accomplished in the Holy Spirit, is called Tradition, since it is distinct from Sacred Scripture, though closely connected to it." The Church is also a fount of divine grace which is administered through the sacraments (see below). The Church claims infallibility in teaching the faith, based on Jesus' scriptural promises to remain with his church always, and to maintain it in truth through the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, Jesus promised divine protection to the teachings and judgements of the Apostles, and those who succeeded them in their teaching office (i.e. the bishops). Moreover, Jesus set up the church as the final arbiter between all believers: "And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-gatherer." In this, it bases its doctrines both on the written Apostolic record, The New Testament, and upon the oral traditions passed down from the Apostles to their successors (the bishops) through the continuous witness of the church.
Section 8 of the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Church, Lumen Gentium states that "the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic" subsists "in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him." (The term successor of Peter refers in to the Bishop of Rome, the Pope; see Petrine theory).
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 85 states that authentic interpretation of the Word of God is entrusted to the living Magisterium of the Church, namely the bishops in communion with the successor of Saint Peter. Catholic theology places the authoritative interpretation of Scripture in the hands of the consistent judgment of the Church down the ages (what has always and everywhere been taught) rather than the private judgment of the individual. The Magisterium does, however, encourage its flock to read Sacred Scripture.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "the Church's first purpose is to be the sacrament of the inner union of men with God." Thus the Church's "structure is totally ordered to the holiness of Christ's members."
Salvation
The Church teaches that salvation to eternal life is God's will for all people, and that God grants it to sinners as a free gift, a grace, through the sacrifice of Christ. "With regard to God, there is no strict right to any merit on the part of man. Between God and us there is an immeasurable inequality, for we have received everything from him, our Creator." It is God who justifies, that is, who frees from sin by a free gift of holiness (sanctifying grace, also known as habitual or deifying grace). We can either accept the gift God gives through faith in Jesus Christ and through baptism, or refuse it. Human cooperation is needed, in line with a new capacity to adhere to the divine will that God provides. The faith of a Christian is not without works, otherwise it would be dead. In this sense, "by works a man is justified, and not by faith alone," and eternal life is, at one and the same time, grace and the reward given by God for good works and merits. Faith, and subsequently works, are a result of God's grace - thus, it is only because of grace that the believer can be said to "merit" salvation.
The Church teaches that a person must be in a state of Sanctifying Grace at the moment of death in order to be saved. Sanctifying Grace is conferred at Baptism, and is lost when a soul commits a mortal sin. A mortal sin is a deliberate and serious transgression of God's law. Sanctifying Grace is regained when a person confesses his or her sin in the Sacrament of Penance. If a person repents of his or her sin before he or she dies but is unable to obtain the actual Sacrament of Penance before death due to reasons outside of the person's control, the person's sin is forgiven by nature of the person's desire to receive it.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that through the graces Jesus won for humanity by sacrificing himself on the cross, salvation is possible even for those outside the visible boundaries of the Church. Christians and even non-Christians, if in life they respond positively to the grace and truth that God reveals to them through the mercy of Christ, may be saved (an attitude often referred to, in the case of non-Christians, as "baptism of desire"). This may sometimes include awareness of an obligation to become part of the Catholic Church. In such cases, "whosoever, therefore, knowing that the Catholic Church was made necessary by Christ, would refuse to enter or to remain in it, could not be saved."
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Military
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Armada
AP-Transport 1 (Acquired 2010)
AP-Transport 2 (Acquired 2011)
AP-Transport 3 (Acquired 2012)
20x Mark V SOC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_SOC) (Acquired 2010)
6x Armidale Class (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armidale_class) (Acquired 2011)
10x Sprint Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10405355&postcount=2060) (Acquired 2012)
50x Vauntic Mod. A (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11986161&postcount=1678) (Acquired 2015)
Total Cost: 1.57 Billion
Total Crew: 576
Sky Fleet
100x Lu-45 Hawk Air Superiority Aircraft (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9708782&postcount=533)
25x Lu-27 Condor Interceptor (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10057607&postcount=887) (Acquired 2014)
20x A-7 Wraith (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11393405&postcount=3467) (Acquired 2010)
2x AC-1 Eclipse (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12815595&postcount=4533) (Acquired 2015)
200x UH-48 Highwind (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11377056&postcount=3424) (Acquired 2013)
100x UH-65 Rogue (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12815591&postcount=4532) (Acquired 2014)
1x C-57 Galaxy Lifter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10242735&postcount=1643) (Acquired 2011)
100x AH-17 Predator (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12570594&postcount=4266) (Acquired 2012)
100x AH-23 Black Panther (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10547543&postcount=2484) (Acquired (2013)
20x RQ-10 Angel (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10242789&postcount=1656)
Total Cost: 33.65 Billion
Total Crew: 1002
Holy Legion
10,000x MMPWV LV-08 (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9479870&postcount=1)
500x Legionnaire S-15 (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9570518&postcount=246)
10x Beast MBT (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11653509&postcount=3736)
10x M200 Desolator (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12815590&postcount=4531)
50x MH-1 Annihilator (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12570605&postcount=4268)
100x Blitz FV (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11393411&postcount=3469)
80x Wolverine MLRS (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11377052&postcount=3423)
Total Cost: 3.95 Billion
Total Crew: 690
1,000,000x Crusader
Dragoon - Spec Ops
Kingdom Gates
1000x Firestorm Missile Launcher (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11366504&postcount=3388)
100x 500mm Coastal Railgun (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10445386&postcount=2203)
Defensive Trains - 4xT, 800Mil, 25C
Total Cost: 26 Billion
Total Crew: 300
Crusaders
Imperator
Praetor
Vicarius
Quaestor
Tribune
Centurion
Miles Militis - Knight
Peregrinus - Crusader