[@6slyboy6]
Well, that is why the empire would make sure that these "radical Fanatics" are silenced, their existence purged and all memory of them wiped clean . I wasnt planning on making them a large scale "people´s front" but rather a small, elitist sect, using technology and strategy to survive, and slowly build up their power against the empire. 

The puplic would either not know about them, or think about them as ideological fanatics...similar to modern day tinfoil head conspiracy theorists!