How much I would need to tweak scientology for it to pass as a form of acceptable Emperor worship at first glance in 40k and not be immediately labeled heresy ?
>>97924848To not be immediately labeled heresy, you can mostly get away with just re-framing the rhetoric of individual worthlessness as the weight of exogenic impulses His Light removes. However, the numerous very politically significant theological implications are going to see you routinely fucked with and the Inquisition shall arrive promptly and regularly to be damned sure fuck-fuck games with daemonhosts or grafting Eldar Soulstones onto people or whatever don't start.
>>97924848Rename him Horus, make body thetans daemons, and hint that old LRon was dark age Emps in disguise.
Simple - assert that Emperor is reincarnation of Tom Cruise. Or vice versa, whichever makes more sense chronologically.
If you just care about the authoritarian hierarchy, business mindset of expanding like a franchise(originally they wanted whole governments), or it having a paramilitary wing, then not muchA lot if you want to change the lore. Scientology lore is pretty boring because Hubbard was more into cowboys and shit, but made sci-fi because it raked more money. But he still had a little bit of schizo soul in him. David Miscavige has NONE of that schizo worldbuilding soul in him, so Scientology lost the patina it had above the scam
>>97924848I vaguely remember there being an early Dark Heresy module that was about investigating an offshoot Imperial Church sect that used e-meters and OT levels, and turned out to be actually cover for some kind of chaos something-or-other.
>>97924986How would an Inquisitor react to their interrogator coming back to him with an E-meter and reports about the thetans ?
>>9792484840K has already done a Scientology-pastiche before. Dark Heresy 1e has a small adventure about them; the Joyous Choir. They do the similar thing of measuring your thetans or whatever with a bogus tool - they're actually scanning for anyone who's a psyker. The cult itself is a front for a criminal organisation that makes a drug out of processed psyker brains. The book is called Purge the Unclean, it's the first adventure, "Rejoice For You Are True".
>>97924848Post your models.
>>97927391I don't play the wargame, I play dark heresy and I'm planing a no chaos cult for the next campaign
blaming xenos fuckery / malevolent spirits for all the world's ills would probably go over well enough, and the rest is just church swindling which already happens plenty
