All-Mother was a title used to address the senior religious figure within New Eden, a rural human settlement on the planet Terralysium. As the central leader of the faith, the All-Mother was an important figure within the colonists who was also responsible for retelling the legends that described how their founders had been transported from the First Earth. (DIS episode: "New Eden")
History and specifics[]
When New Eden and the sister settlements built across Terralysium were founded from several hundred humans who were marooned on the planet after mysterious circumstances transported them from Richmond, Indiana in the twilight hours of World War III. Believing themselves to have been saved from the perceived destruction of their original homeworld, the individuals that later generations knew as the 'First Saved' went on to build multiple agricultural communities that dotted the surface of their new environment, including New Eden, which raised itself from the lands around the white church that the survivors had been teleported inside. (DIS episode: "New Eden") However, since the colony was founded from adherents to various doctrines - including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, and pagan faiths - an issue arose concerning which of the various entities should be credited for their salvation. So instead, the colonists merged their different beliefs into one single scripture which, though difficult to piece the divergent collection together in a manner that honoured the unique practices of each, came to circulate the idea that angelic beings rescued them from the nightmare that was the third world war. Though this doctrine worked to maintain the peace, over the next fifty years, dogmatic arguments erupted at times. At first sporadic, after five decades, the desperate focus on survival left the religion at risk of tearing itself to shreds. To avert this splintering, the position of All-Mother was created to symbolise the union and it was under their leadership that the singular faith of New Eden was at last founded. As a leader inside the community, those who held this title were also confidants for their people and to withhold secrets from even the All-Mother was seen as something that was near unthinkable. (Star Trek Adventures RPG module: Discovery (2256-2258) Campaign Guide)
Amesha presides over her duties as All-Mother in 2257.
The position of All-Mother continued to remain intact when inadvertent first contact occurred between the people of Terralysium and the United Federation of Planets, an intergalactic union included Earth as one of its founding members, which occurred during the year 2257. At that time, the holder of this position was a woman named Amesha, who would lead her people wearing crimson robes that seemed to indicate her office. Though Amesha and most of her people were unaware of this fact, three strangers who claimed to have ventured to their settlement from the north were in fact the Starfleet officers Christopher Pike, Michael Burnham and Joann Owosekun, who later departed from Terralysium without disrupting the nature evolution of the human colonists, believing it was essentially a pre-warp society. (DIS episode: "New Eden")