Supreme Watchmaker

The Supreme Watchmaker is, according to the beliefs of the Church of Besainted Pelagius, a deity, providing "divine inspiration" to Pelagius himself. Through the Watchmaker's "temporal presence", all of Pelagius' technology is considered holy.

According to Pelagius, the Terran Confederacy also possessed knowledge of the being, fearing the scope of Pelagius' own knowledge and hence sending a ghost agent to terminate the movement (said ghost failing and becoming indoctrinated).

Trivia
The concept of the Supreme Watchmaker may have been taken from that of the "Blind Watchmaker", a concept often used in the debate between evolutionary theory and creationism. Alternatively, the Watchmaker being akin to a "machine god", inspiration may have been taken from the concept of Deus Ex Machina-the "God of the Machine."