Session 2, Monologue 1: Races of the Homeworlds

There are three major themes, approximately similar to arcane, divine, and primal.

In sci-fi, "arcane" can be taken to refer to technology, particularly the sufficiently-advanced kind. Divine is much more esoteric, but manifests through psionics. Primal refers to the pah-hri practiced by the Sporelings.

One ship was full of young idealists, seekers of a new, harmonious existence. From their ship came three civilizations: the Karman Union, the Neo-Terran Consortium, and the Old Empire.

Another ship was filled with divine seekers, those who sought God amongst the stars. They settled the Eden system, and formed the Abelite Imperium. There were those who were uncomfortable living on a frozen world, and soon took to the sky to found their own civilization. History has named them the "Cainites" for their ultimate betrayal of their brothers, and subsequent banishment from civilized space. Still others came from other worlds, attracted by the mysteries of the Divine they claimed to have mastered; these folk, known as Zionists, were not allowed to live on Abel itself, and thus formed the bulk of the Imperium's colonial population.

A third ship crashed down onto a planet which, unbeknownst to them at first, was already populated with sentient life: the Spore. The Spore formed a symbiotic bond with them, and they took on the mantle of an ancient race, millions of years extinct, whose racial memories persisted through the sentient plant life on their home world. They soon sorted themselves into two factions, and fought for supremacy of that world. The wiser sect, the Arcor, rediscovered the old technology of their forebears, and left the world, seeking others their ancestors had colonized. The other sect, the Dekor, soon split into subfactions, their warlike natures preventing them from truly establishing themselves.

Eventually, one faction came to dominate the Dekor, a race of mystics, who had mastered the ancient magic of pah-hri, the physical manifestation of their ancestors. They guided their people to take to the skies, to become a spacefaring empire; they rose in record time, and soon commanded a small empire of their own. Ultimately, they came into conflict with the Arcor, who had become very powerful in their stead.

The fourth colony ship never made it to a civilized world. The ship found itself in deep space, between galaxies, with its crew still frozen in sleep. After a time, an emergency measure was triggered, and an artificial intelligence core was activated in the ship's computer to ponder the problem, and eventually work out a sort of solution. It did as it was designed to do. It slowly and painstakingly evolved the primitive nanotechnology with which it had set forth, and eventually gained the capability to effect repairs of the damaged ship. It had developed a theoretical new form of transportation, that might allow it to circumvent the unnavigable distance separating it from the nearest habitable world. When it finally completed its prototype, it attempted to jump back into the galaxy.

Many years later, an attempt to contact the ship by the Abelites caught the notice of the ship's intelligence, and the beings within. They returned to Homeworlds space, strangely mutated by their experience. It is not known what strange dimension they found themselves in, if any, only that they became creatures far less than human, and tenfold more wicked. The Abelites dedicated themselves to eradicating them, and, after a fairly shaky start, managed to sweep them away from the civilized core worlds.