 Group number, GOI-004, The Church of the Broken God. Membership, three known factions, estimated 300,000 worldwide. Resources, $1-5 billion annually. Anomalous capability. Status active. Description, The Church of the Broken God is an anomalous religious organization which worships mechanization and believes flesh and life to be inherently evil or broken. Though its origins are unknown, broken God-related artifacts have been recovered from archaeological digs dating back to the Greek classical period, and Church dogma asserts its existence predates the appearance of life on earth. Central to their theology is that their deity has been scattered, dispersed, or otherwise rendered inert. Through the use of technology, often anomalous, Church followers seek to bring together the components of the body of God, thereby allowing the divine a physical form to utilize and bringing about some sort of techno-organic apotheosis. Several SCP objects have been attributed to this group since its discovery. Personnel may reference items indexed under Broken Underscore God for a restricted list. The current leader of the oldest extant denomination of the Broken Church, GOI-004A, is an individual identified in records as His Holiness Robert Romero, builder of the Broken God, who apparently gained the title in 1946. Footnote 1 Spanish nationalist records from 1938 mention a civilian mechanic by the name of Humberto Romero, who received several governmental citations for miraculous feats of engineering and mechanical repair in service to the state. Whether or not this is the same individual, and his whereabouts during the Second World War is unknown. While this sect continues its efforts to reconstruct their deity, the religion as a whole has at some time in the past century undergone a major schism. Two significant breakaway movements from the original Church have entered into a major theological conflict. The Cogwork Orthodox Church, GOI-004B espouses a formal literal religious iconography known as standardization, whereby adherents submit to anomalous mechanical enhancement with the stated goal of remaking themselves in the image or plan of their deity. Due to the extent of their mechanical augmentation, members of this sect often emit audible ticking or tapping sounds and have been referred to disparagingly as tickers by members of the other two sects. Cogwork Orthodoxy deliberately adheres to technological norms of the late industrial revolution and regard the mass production of analog, steam, and clockwork-driven machinery as a form of prayer. Orthodoxy doctrine is highly centralized and regulated by a group of unknown composition, known as the Patriarchs. This body issues detailed production orders and design documents which form the core of the group's extremely extensive holy writ. Orthodox belief decries the use of electronic or digital devices and views distributed information sharing and decentralization as tantamount to the dissolution of divine knowledge. The Church of Maxwellism, GOI-004C represents a modernized, computation and network-oriented means of worship. No central organizing church body is known to exist, however, interviews and covert surveillance have determined that all known cells are in regular contact with one another and capable of coordination. Maxwellists favor small-scale body modification through the use of advanced cybernetics and organ enhancement. While artificial limbs or reinforced skeletons have been observed, Maxwellist implants focus primarily on communication, data storage and networking capabilities and sensory enhancement. Maxwellist doctrine interprets the broken god as a fragmented deity, which exists as disparate data present in the linked technology and cultural zeke guides of the digital age. Members approach the divine by embracing their unique traits and sharing their knowledge and capacity for the good of the collective church. By connecting all minds through computer networks, they believe their deity can be recompiled as the aggregate will of humanity. Due to their use of computer fan noise as a meditative aid, members are often referred to as hummers by members of the other two factions.