Prophecy is, by definition, inerrant. The Gar’tor’at has not failed; it is history and memory which have failed.
–CFO Emmanuel Grippe, proceedings of the Second Deviancy Council

A parliamentarian and cleric, Emmanuel Grippe first gained recognition within the church with the canonization and subsequent suppression of his treatise, Retrocausality: The Heirodynamics of Assisted Ineffability.

He was most well-known in the Viridia system for his sponsorship of the 5243 (s.y.v.p) Greenling relocation project, initiated after a postlacunal harmonization squad reported a marked increase in local Barometz fanciers. While the project was outwardly a failure, it accomplished his likely goal—the curtailment of widespread amicable Greenling-human interaction, hypothesized as the source of several cultural and technological innovations linked to increasing difficulty with the church’s Inerrancy Assurance missions throughout the Evyl Nebula.

As the public’s faith, and Parliement’s power, began to wane, his writings became increasingly erratic; In 5300 s.y.v.p he published an elaborate argument, from mitochondrial DNA analysis, that the inhabitants of the Viridia system could not be acting in contradiction of prophecy, as none of them would be born for millenia. His concluding call for a major military campaign to terraform the “barren” system as a preserve for the endangered Santrangian Magma-Frog went unheeded.

—Heichner Kzolknov