Randall Carr

Randall Carr was a member of the Circle, the militant Unitologist sect, and its second-in-command beneath Jacob Arthur Danik. His command came apart on Tau Volantis when a new flesh cult tore the surviving Unitologists apart, and he ended his life having lost his faith entirely.

The Circle#

Randall Carr served the Circle, the militant arm of the Church of Unitology led by Jacob Arthur Danik, as its second-in-command. He was among Danik''s men through the campaign that brought the sect to the frozen world of Tau Volantis in pursuit of the Markers and the end the Church called Convergence.

Crisis of faith on Tau Volantis#

After Danik deactivated the alien Machine and resumed Convergence, Carr stood with the other surviving Unitologists, joining hands to await the end. When Isaac Clarke and John Carver reactivated the Machine and destroyed the incomplete Brethren Moon, the failure broke Carr''s faith. With Danik dead and his men beginning to fall to an aggressive form of insanity, Carr ordered a mass recall of every survivor on the planet to the derelict CMS Terra Nova, where he hoped to jury-rig the ship''s ShockPoint Drive and flee to Earth.

The flesh cult and death#

Carr''s men, however, began to go mad and gather around a charismatic leader who preached a new Church built "not of brick and mortar, but of flesh and blood." This self-styled prophet and his followers ritually mutilated themselves, sawing off body parts as offerings to the approaching Brethren Moons, a practice that stood against the usual Unitologist belief in the body as a sacred vessel. Carr and a small number of his men tried to hide from the cultists, but one by one they either killed themselves or were captured and forcibly converted.

Carr was captured after his leg was broken. Though he managed to resist the madness, he wrote one final journal entry in which he admitted that he had lost all of his Unitologist beliefs and now hoped only that, once the cultists killed him, he would simply pass into oblivion.