Imagine there's no Talisman, it isn't hard to do

[Fyron]

and its difficult to run intel on you

That facility does not work. What I think it does is to make the system that the Fate Shrine is in less likely to be selected as the target of a random project (when you select random planet, random ship, etc.), but that is it. It is no harder to succeed against a system with a fate shrine (even when the ability is modded up to 100 or so) than it is against a normal system. There is 0 effect on targeted projects.

There is also the Nature Shrine, which increases all planet values. I personally think this is the most powerful non-Talisman aspect of the Religious trait, as it is a lot cheaper to research (IIRC) and much more effective than normal VIPs.

[ July 16, 2003, 19:33: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]