Another Neophron, because I can't get rid of them. Also they keep me practising.

A praying Neophron priest. And with "praying" I mean "cleaning his thoughts to tackle the mysteries of the universe itself again".

The philosophy or religion of the Neophron builds itself on four aspects: Gravity, Time, Energy and Existence. (In the first days: Earth, Time, Fire and Being (funfact: The word for Earth is the same as the name of their planet in their language, Xenon)). Every aspect has it's own focus on science: Gravity works on agriculture, architecture, chemistry, biology, medicine and geosciences, Energy got physics and mechanics, Time got metaphysics, pure mathematics and astronomy, and Existence works on philosophy, politics, economics, other social sciences and philology.
In the culture of the Neophron there are scientists and priests, and while both devote their lifes to science, the priests do have a much more spiritual grasp to it. They also tend to bring the knowledge down to everyone, so that everyone has access to it, so that most of the teachers in schools and universities are priests. In the past centuries the collaboration between the aspects was... difficult, but when the Neophron started to expand into space they finally laid their disputes aside and worked together.

I wrote a text about their process in science, but only in german. So if someone wants to torture itself with it: sta.sh/0145y70ay043
(I wrote that at about 3am, so please be gentle with me...)