At the start of this century, this group was actually two conventions: the Celestial Masters and the Explorators. The former focused their sights on the heavens while the latter explored the surface of the Earth. With the reorganization, it was determined that these missions were not far enough apart to warrant seperate conventions and they were combined. Always being very close anyway, this wasn't as painful as it could have been, and the Void Engineers settled into their new existence. However, as the rift between the Masons and the Royal Society has widened, the convention has found itself being torn apart again.
Those of the convention who had been with the Celestial Masters tend to ally themselves with the scientific members of the Order, in the Royal Society, as befits their mathematical and astronomical leanings. However, many of the members who had been Explorators hold a fair degree of sympathy for the cultures they have helped to assimilate and are generally more tolerant of alternative ways of looking at the world than their more scientifically-minded brethren. This has led to conflict between the two former conventions, such that the they are suffering now the pain of unification which they initially avoided.
The Explorator side of the convention makes its home in the British Museum, where it tends the artifacts, fetishes, and relics of dozens of cultures, some long forgotten and some still in existence. The Celestial Masters, on the other hand, tend to congregate at Burlington House, at the headquarters of the Royal Astronomical Society. The former generally counts itself among the members of the Masonic convenant while the latter is, of course, firmly rooted in the Royal Society. As they have in the past, the two groups resolve (or fail to resolve) their differences among themselves, rather than join the public forums for debate between the two groups.