:C451_Sanctuary:

When the Children of Shell changed from a religious movement to a Corporation, the press of that period underestimated the cultural revolution in progress: for the first time in centuries, a cult was returning to having political and economic weight. The members of the cult, called Spirals, founded the Sanctuary: a place where faith and science could merge, with the goal of reaching the Gift that their faith craved most of all: immortality. However, it soon became clear that the sect was more interested in gaining control of the Conglomerate city, through a bloody war with the other Corporations, rather than illuminating the path of the faithful.