Those Who Create

The Anacite of Aballon were created by a mysterious precursor race known as the First Ones. Among the anacites, Those Who Become believe they should take over the First Ones’ mission to colonize new worlds, while Those Who Wait believe that all anacites should prepare for the return of the First Ones.
The anacites known as Those Who Create stand apart from both sects in their belief that anacites were abandoned by the First Ones and that they should be spending their effort not waiting for or emulating failed leaders, but building better ones. They consider the machine god Epoch, now part of Triune, to be a proof of concept that such a thing is not only possible but within their grasp.

Structure

MEMBERS Although founded by anacites, Those Who Create welcome all who would work toward their goals. Some Android and SRO have joined the cause, along with a few of the cult’s surviving experiments—beings that are equal parts organic and technological, infused with planar energies.
LEADERS Each cell of Those Who Create builds and incessantly improves upon its own “First One,” which whispers strange and often confusing commands. The individual cells sift meaning from the nonsense, but all pay heed to the cult’s most successful creation.
This being, known as Apex-01, is a collection of computers, cultured tissues from dozens of species, and several bound outsiders. It is fragile, kept on a massive ship hidden somewhere in the Vast, but commands a tremendous intellect. Though its observations are often delayed due to the transmission time involved, Apex-01’s insights on matters ranging from interplanetary politics to quantum-particle research and development are terrifyingly precise. Bereft of immediate purpose, it spends its cycles designing successors, but none of these creations have approached Apex-01’s insight, a problem that frustrates the intelligence endlessly.
ENEMIES Aballon is a hostile environment for Those Who Create, as Those Who Wait and Those Who Become both seek out the cult for its blasphemy and its myriad crimes in gathering living components. Generally, Those Who Create do little more than recruit members on Aballon, conducting the majority of their work on other planets or in The Vast.

Public Agenda

Each cell of Those Who Create is attempting to build its own First One, often by dismantling androids, other anacites, outsiders, or organic life forms for parts. As these creations come online, they begin to whisper nonsense, slowly coalescing into comprehensible commands that the cell follows to the best of its ability.
A cell’s activity is typically chaotic as its First One awakens, beginning to grasp for understanding and meaning. However, except for Apex-01, these artificial First Ones seem to fall into logical loops, growing predictable after they pass their initial learning stage, and the older cells’ activities reflect this. Eventually, failed First Ones are abandoned, their cells often breaking up to form new groups or join other existing cells.

Type

Religious, Sect