Internal
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Internal Moral Compass: This character follows a personal code, including those that have been organised by another — for example, a warrior code or a religious creed — or one they have constructed for themselves.
Source: Lawful Neutral - This trope also covers the closely related phenomenon of "internal" religious police, a very similar group as this, but strictly working within their own religious community and having no connection to an external state apparatus, and little or no jurisdiction over non-members.
Source: Church Police -
It's more a religious cult centered around transhumanism, with an internal conspiracy to destroy both universes in order to create a new, designer-universe.
Source: Series / Fringe
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