“You have the right to talk to me about Rakistan? What right do you have to preach to me about your idiotic religions worshiping your failed divided goddess, clinging to hope—ha! There’s the word!— that her fragmented mind has somehow survived through the worms? I’ve studied the worms myself, much harder than you or any of the others in your pretentious shadow of a religion-tribe ever have. You Museum Despair are filth! Filth tainting the surface of pristine Rakistan!”---- Lyla Raek to Sheina Hinata

Yikes. That’s not very nice, Lyla. But… who are the Museum Despair? Who is this Divided Goddess they worship? And how did they get there?

After the fall of the Imperium, there was suddenly a large amount of war criminals and hard-line doomers in the custody of the new governments that had to be dealt with. Complicating this fact was that most of them were underage, and therefore ineligible for execution. However, a solution was proposed: with the new no-ship technology discovered in the Padishah Kaiserin’s cache, they would be sent to start a colony on the harsh desert planet of Rakistan while it was being oxygenated by the massive sandworms the Tyrant left behind.

The Museum Despair, as they were called, took it upon themselves to preserve their ancient traditions and rituals and saw moderate success as a tourist attraction. Despite this, some criticized the Museum Despair as only a vestigial relic to satisfy the morbid curiosity of visitors and also claimed they had deviated from their original values into a sort of crude imitation. Despite these criticisms, the Museum Despair persisted, eventually evolving their own pseudo-culture revolving around the desert. They came to worship the sandworms in the Rakistani deserts as their deity, believing that the spirit of Jalib Alyas resided inside the creatures.

It was considered a great honor for the Museum Despair when one of their own, Sheina Hinata, capable of limited communications to the sandworms, was selected for the no-ship voyage of the Krasnyi Fujisaki. There, she developed a special interest in Haika, the resurrected flesh of her Divided Goddess.