Ye shall be as gods

"And the serpent said unto the woman, "Ye shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." - Genesis 3, 4-5 (KJV)

---

Amongst an immortal populace, capable of creating life, sapience, and transforming dead worlds into utopias lush with life, there was a range of opinions about humanity's true position in the Universe. The discovery of the mobius patterns only accelerated this, and, after contact was first made with alien civilizations, that this seemed to be a unique, irreproducable discovery did little to dampen such opinions.

Or arrogance.

The overwhelmingly vast majority of the Solar System's populace was generally happy with their lot, lacking the cares and concerns that their ancestors had. Some, however, felt - and still feel - that humanity had gone too far, while others did not believe the children of Gaia have gone far enough.

Several competing philosophies developed.

Amongst the Abrahamic faiths, still a dominant set of religions, the above verse divided those not among the content into four polarized camps.

• The most well-known are the exiles, those who broke away from civilization, rejecting the arcologies and the alpha strain, they returned to a natural lifestyle. Rejecting even agriculture, they quickly lost track of their origins, and by the time of the Purge, few were aware of human history or science - merely the dangers it posed.