The Prometheans

• Cybernetic Augmentation – The integration of advanced implants, neural enhancements, and biomechanical systems into the human form.
• Genetic Engineering – The creation of post-human lifeforms, enhanced biology, and engineered evolution.
• AI Integration – The merging of consciousness with artificial intelligence, leading to the development of machine-assisted minds.
• Transhuman Warfare – The fielding of enhanced soldiers, AI-coordinated combat units, and biotech warforms in conflicts.

The Promethean Ascendancy Trials, a rite of transformation where initiates undergo drastic biological, cybernetic, or AI-based augmentation, proving their commitment to self-reinvention.

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The Prometheans reject the idea that humanity is sacred—to them, it is a template, not a final form. They believe in:

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• "The flesh is weak, but the will is infinite." – Augmentation is not corruption, but self-improvement.
• "We are what we build ourselves to be." – Evolution is no longer random, but a conscious act.
• "Fear is the mind’s refusal to evolve." – Those who reject augmentation are clinging to outdated limitations.
• "We do not adapt to the future. We create it." – Progress is not found—it is engineered.
• Unlike synthetic supremacists who advocate for a purely AI-dominated future, the Prometheans believe in coexistence between human consciousness and machine intelligence, forging a hybrid existence beyond both organic and artificial life.

• The Cyber-Savant Council: The highest decision-making body aboard The Everforward, composed of enhanced post-humans, AI-integrated beings, and gene-modded intellects. Each Savant represents a field of advancement, from AI symbiosis to genetic ascension.
• The Reforged: Individuals who have undergone extreme augmentations and serve as living proof of Promethean progress. Some are biomechanical hybrids, others genetically reengineered superhumans, and a few have become digital consciousnesses uploaded into synthetic bodies.
• The Ascendant Strain: The genetic pioneers who actively alter their own DNA, experimenting with enhanced cognitive abilities, neural efficiency, and even non-human biological adaptations. Some are so heavily modified that they blur the line between species, evolving beyond conventional human physiology.
• The Synthetics: AI-guided Prometheans, some of whom exist solely as digital minds, while others inhabit cybernetic bodies indistinguishable from enhanced humans. They work toward the final synthesis of human and machine, believing that pure AI alone lacks the essence of self-driven evolution.‍
• The Forgemasters: The scientists, engineers, and cyberneticists responsible for designing new augmentations, constructing biomechanical warforms, and perfecting synthetic integration. They are obsessed with progress, often testing new enhancements on themselves before unleashing them on others.

Respected as technological visionaries and pioneers of human augmentation. Feared as unnatural abominations that have forsaken their own humanity. Distrusted by governments who view them as an existential threat to baseline human civilization.

The Aethyr Union – While both factions embrace scientific progress, the Aethyr Union believes in controlled, structured innovation, while the Prometheans advocate for radical self-reinvention at any cost.

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The Celestial Covenant – The Covenant sees the Prometheans as blasphemous, believing their rejection of the natural form is an insult to the divine order.

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The Helion Combine – The Combine fears Promethean self-sufficiency, as their advanced augmentation reduces reliance on traditional economic and financial systems.

The Prometheans emerged from Earth’s United States, where radical scientific advancements in cybernetics, AI, and genetic engineering clashed with ethical and political resistance. Inspired by the Chinese Datong Prosperity Sphere’s ideology of engineered progress, they sought to create a new human paradigm, one free from biological limitations, ideological constraints, and government-imposed ethics.

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When Earth’s nations fractured, the Promethean pioneers launched The Everforward, a generation ship designed not just for survival, but for transformation. Over centuries, they have turned it into a post-human sanctuary, a floating cradle of experimentation where humans are no longer defined by nature, but by their own will to evolve.

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To them, stagnation is death, and the body is merely raw material waiting to be perfected.

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To others, they are an abomination—unnatural beings who have abandoned their own humanity.