Pretty much. I would rather describe the Advent Rebels like a zombie horde but Al Quaida is also well thought of lol.

The Al Qaeda connection is lost on me.

Yes Teun-A-Roonie you get what I am trying to say.  They are the Fanatics of the Advent. I believe that is the real split between the Loyalist and the Rebel Advent.  They are the Terrorist Nation of the Game.

I would say the rebel advents are simply having their PMS and when it clears up things will go back to normal

More than likely the corruption in the unity has something to do with whatever is chasing the Vasari, the loyalist Advent are actually weakening the defenses of the 3 races to make way for whatever is chasing the Vasari and the Advent Rebels see this or at the least feel it.

While that's possible, wouldn't you think a bigger influence would be the formerly non-Advent that have joined the Unity forcibly? Or, even if they weren't forced to join... you have telepaths in the same room with prisoners of war. Before the war, everyone was of the same goals and aspirations, now... it's gotta be complicated.

I would concede that maybe what set them on the path to attack now is probably related, though.

When I play Rebels it isn't to long and my only ships are my Titan, Capital Ship, and Pirate vessels.  You might have some thing with them being like the Protestants. But I did not see any power to bring in entire planet back to life.  Yes, they have had suicide bombers before in ship wise. Now it is a planet size. Your not a Martyr in any religion if you commit suicide. I still say the TEC Rebels are Pirates and that Advent are Sins Terrorists 

They decided to ally with the pirates for their own gain, but they really just want to commit genocide, or close to it, on the Vasari and Advent. Pirates don't have that sort of ideology, they only care about money.

Also, are you playing the most recent beta? I think the pirate ships suck now, they aren't that good and now cost resources as well. Sure they don't spam your fleet supply but still.

Not a planet, but they can bring back their ships back to life (or they are supposed to, that tech isn't working right.

On the seeker vessel yes, but the loyalists have that ability too.

No? I thought anyone who died for their religion was a martyr (at least in the eyes of that religion). Maybe most Christian martyrs didn't kill themselves directly because they thought their god would send them to hell for it, but many clearly did things they knew would get themselves killed. Romanus of Caesare (and many others during the great Persecution), Jan Hus, and perhaps even Sir Thomas Moore certainly knew their actions would very likely lead to their deaths.

Other religions do not necessarily have this taboo on suicide however. In paganism suicide was a common fate for those who picked the wrong side in political disputes (Cleopatra), or occasionally was ordered by the state as a more noble way of execution (Socrates and Seneca for example). Al Qaeda certainly thinks their suicide bombers are martyrs.

The seekers ramming enemy ships were kamikazes, not suicide bombers.

The difference? One is a soldier trying to take his enemies with him, the other is a terrorist out to incite shock and fear.

Speaking of which, terrorists tend not to aim their "terrorism" at military assets, which almost all of the things you've listed so far do (including Wail of the Sacrificed.) The reason being is that the common people and the government are far more effected by an act of extreme violence against civilian populaces, like say, ramming a plane into a tightly packed building, or dropping two nukes on civilian cities, than they would be by someone blowing up a military base.

The entire point of terrorism is to inflict fear and horror and force your enemies to surrender or conform to your demands, how you do it is mostly irrelevent, but always involves extreme violence.

The Advent Rebels are just using their power of life and death as a military asset, they can revive capital ship crews by implanting them into new bodies, they can bring entire ships back to life on the battlefield, their ships willingly allow their Titan to use them to repair itself.

It's safe to say that for the Advent Rebels, dead doesn't mean dead.

However, if you want a real example of Advent Terrorism, look at Mass Hysteria, or hell, planet bombing in general across all 3 races. It's treated as trite in game, but think about what's actually going on there for a minute.

Edit - ... Did I really just make a post about terrorism on the Sins forum of all places?

That gives me an Idea... I could spend not too much supply to make a whole lot of scouts, and then send them to sacrifice themselves, after inflicting as much damage as possible first.  Imagine you are on of the scout ships...

"Shields down Captain, and the hull is taking heavy damage!" yelled the low-level acolyte.  The captain closed her eyes.  "It's time," she thought.  She reached out with her mind to her crew, feeling the bright auras of power that marked the women, and the slightly dimmer ones that marked the men.  They all went slack in the physical world, but in the physic realm they were concentrating fiercely.  They all drew their power up, and the air began crackling from all the energy.  Then they released their hold on their physical bodies, and died.  All of their power was released.  The ship, being programmed for this, blows it generator to add to the explosion.  A nearby frigate is torn apart, and then two more.  A fourth is irreparably damaged, and limps away before exploding in a brilliant flash of light. 

The lingering spirit of the Captain is satisfied, and fades away.

Across the battlefield, another Captain thinks, "It's Time".

I fancy myself a writer.  What do you think?  This is what is going on inside the scout ships before they use Martyrdom.

Sterilize themselves? Where do you get that from?

I don't know if they are more zealous, the loyalist are clearly more determined to convert others. Their titan says something like "We will make their minds join us" or something.

Rather I think the Rebels have indeed sensed something wrong, and unlike the loyalist they believe that they need to discover the source of this more than converting others or getting revenge on the TEC. In doing so they seemed to have reached another level of transcendence that gives them their extraordinary power over life and death.

That said, we have absolutely no details as to what this problem in the unity is. Your guess that its the recently assimilated people into the unity is as good as anyone elses guess. But I personally think that it has something to do with whatever is chasing the Vasari, and as they are coming closer they are managing to disrupt the unity, either as a result of being telepathic as well or perhaps some side affect of their technology. But again, we know absolutely nothing about this issue.

Well, we don't know for sure, as this tech doesn't work. But the tooltip says destroyed ships will respawn at your homeworld, and their are two research levels that increase this by 5% each, so maxed out it sounds like whenever one of their ships are destroyed there is a 10% chance it gets revived at the home world.

I agree with what you are saying that it is ether the hostility absorbed into the Unity. Or more likely it is just the paranoia of over zealot lead psychics.  The power over life and death has been in the game the whole time.  level 6 and beyond of the Colonies Capital ship.  Once again Tel A ban of the Sin Universe.  You talked about terrorism not being on military targets. I think of 911. As well as terrorist attacks on US soldiers. I have friends out there that are US military people. So don't tell me terrorism can not be against military. As well killing of an entire planets population as your bomb. That is Terrorism.

my understanding of the tech is that its not tied to immediate deaths. ie, i just lost a frigate, i will now roll to see if it returns to life... its more like returning armada or truce amongst rogues in that every so often, you get ships. trouble is, where to bring them? however, i dont see any reason why the tech cant be made to work the way alot of people seem to think it does, via the on death-chance-to-resurrect method. can anyone think of a reason why you might not want to do it that way?