wanderers of the abyss

Warning. Some memetic danger. 

Vena. Follower of the Minus Vector (???). Believer in the 'Organic Pathways', not designated by the Artificial Minds. Destroyed at least three Prophets.

Kasst. Presumably designed by ZOTIA. Still alive due to prolonged cryosleep. Self-inflicted memory loss. Presumably in possession of a powerful artifact from Ares. 

Samtharn. Amputated her right arm, 'to activate the Celestial Door' on planet Zeoss. Lost limb replaced by some kind of holographic device.

Oriasn. 'I am just a mirror image of Nsairo. He was killed during the First Pilgrimage. I was born of his absence. I have to continue his work. The journey must not be stopped.'

Sol. Once a very powerful and well-known person. Burned beyond recognition. Able to communicate (and commune) with stars. Discoverer of the Sentient Uranium Cube. 

Aanix. She awaits the coming of the Tertiary Vectors somewhere in the Dead Worlds. Believer of the Nightmare Union - that the world needs to collapse into all three aspects of the Triangle before the third wave of Vectors will be revealed. 

They are cursed to travel. They will live on, to witness the end. 

mind engineers

• Mind Hackers, or Mind Engineers, or Soul Engineers - all these names apply to the same (hypothetical) group of individuals.
• It is just an unproven concept - a paranoia-fueled hypothesis claiming that there are some entities that constantly reprogram humans.
• The hypothesis doesn't specify if the Mind Engineers are independent individuals or belong to single organization with broad and detailed plans.
• Some claim that they are 'digital beings' - maybe Artificial Beings that failed to reach godhood.
• All Mind Altering / Mind Reprogramming is part of the Grand Social Experiment. No one knows what is its goal or who's behind it (if anyone is).
• It may be just an effect of the most advanced Memetic Virus ever:

1. Theory One: the Virus affected individuals became the Soul Engineers. They are the hosts of the infection. The reprogrammed ones are unaffected.
2. Theory Two:  the Hackers are unaffected - in fact, they or their predecessors had designed the Virus. Now they spread it to alter people's minds.
3. Theory Three: the Virus was designed to greatly enhanced mental (and maybe psychic) abilities of its designers. It all went horribly wrong and it took over. Now both the Engineers and their victims are infected (maybe by two separate 'levels' of the Virus - 'the weak' one reprograms the victims of mind manipulation, while 'the strong' controls the Hackers).

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