The Rhetores

The Rhetores are a collection of 4 entities that act as impartial guides/co-leaders for the The Council of Nimonea, they are what give the Council it's authority and its power. The Rhetores work through a complex series of quantum computers placed throughout the individual planets on which they physically reside. The power comes from Paleph, the star that sits at the centre of the capital system surrounded by a dyson swarm. The Rhetores are partially entangled, each changes with one another, meaning decisions are almost instantaneously interpreted and made, this also means that each Rhetor exists not physically connected by wires or signals. At its core they are based on the “god instrument" a theoretical device devised by kel-210896, one of the early founders of the Council of Nimonea, (whose face and story are long forgotten, only their name remains). It attempts to predict courses of events based on a multitude of factors, at an atomic level the Rhetores attempt to predict what the ideal series of events are and how said cause and effect chain can be achieved, it does not predict the future, just how things can be best guided to achieve a desired outcome.

Forms of the Rhetores
The forms of the Rhetores (Kairos, Logos, Pathos and Ethos) are, in the end, the tip of the iceberg, they work in tandem with (and, in a way, are) ‘The Oracle’ which is a massive superpositional computer (the location of which is kept secret), it's superpositional nature necessitates that there must be two forms of each Rhetor, Superpositional and Ecclesiastical. With the former being able to predict all outcomes at once, this means that the Ecclesiastical Rhetores observe the process, forcing the superpositional chain of events to collapse into readable outcomes, the outcomes are selected with a treatment process, in which Logos focuses on raw data and numbers, Pathos focuses on the mortal aspect and appealing and interacting with people, and Ethos focuses on the moral aspect. This complex system, even in its basic form, is hard to explain and ultimately the decision is made to 'just trust it', something which takes new members of the council varying amounts of time to get used to. The similarity between the nature of gods (with Celestial and Common forms) and how the Rhetores operate (with Superpositional and Ecclesiastical forms) has not gone unnoticed and has resulted in a certain level of distrust of the Rhetores from the gods, but this has never resulted in any hostile actions in either direction.