n systems, and probably the main reason for their being a Venerian identity long before the polity came into being.
===== Origins =====
The exact origins of the Church are unprovenan... t. The Church's official line is that the crew members on the original manned voyage to the planet Ven
that colonised the planet Venus in the Sol system before moving to Canaan. The United Branch Militant has long been suppressed by the RNV as subversive, however it has never the less survived and spread, albeit slowly and as a minority sect. It claims some 1... n adherents universe wide, although no-one really believed that until recently. On [[:universe:q1:dead
