Cultists belong to Church of Cthulhu, a secretive organization that left all planets in known space hundreds of years ago in a mass exodus. The reason for this mass exodus was learned from an ancient journal discovered in a secret compartment of a file cabinet recovered from the DSEC Military Camp, previously known as the West Crater. The Cultists are also members of the Cult of Shut'thend led by Decca, and whose family had owned not only the Church of Cthulhu, but many churches since the early 1500s. It was learned that the grand exodus from Earth and elsewhere was to Monria, where it is speculated that a new City of R'lyeh was built in the deep abyss, and where Cthulhu resides in a death-like sleep. Decca and the Cultists are desperately searching for the book of dark magic that will allow Decca to conduct a ritual of incantations that will cause Cthulhu to awaken. This can never be allowed to happen, which is why our battles against the Cultists are fierce. During the initial excavation of Monria after being discovered by the Deep Space Extraction Corporation (DSEC), several artifacts were uncovered bearing the Church of Cthulhu's logo, and revealed a network of underground tunnels that were defended by the Cultists. The first encounter with the Cultists proved to be extremely lethal to the DSEC security team as only one team member survived. According to the survivor's testimony, Cultists seemed to employ powerful mindforce-ranged attacks as their weapon of choice. There is no doubt that their capabilities are technologically advanced and not fully known as yet, which is why we must at all times proceed with caution.