Origins of Humanity

The truth of the matter, for those who dare.

Humans are dead wrong about the origin of the world, but they also deliberately obscure their own history through a series of bad organizational choices. They did not originate on this planet but in fact crashed here on the Fergana and during their long-term attempt to repair the ship, managed to lose track of the fact that they had not always been here.

The following article is an essay crafted by Cytherea, an Orphan Scion schoolgirl whose prose style is fairly entertaining. As such, it is currently being used as a summary for the primary information known about human origins.

Once upon a time, Humans lived and prospered on the surface of Thaiterra, breathing freely and spreading out across the planet. People got to live wherever they wanted, go a hundred miles away if they felt like it, and have pets.
Then they botched it. They really, really botched it.
Teachers say that people got greedy, that they started taking too much, and doing things that they shouldn't do just because they wanted to. Other teachers said it might have been because only a few people decided to be greedy, or that they just didn't think about the consequences to doing some really scary science. We don't know the answer, because it was destroyed with the rest of the world.
The Fergana Disaster was pretty bad. No one knows exactly what it was, but it destroyed most human life on the planet, changed the plants and animals, and altered the atmosphere. Worst of all, it slowed the planet's rotation, or possibly moved its orbit, depending on who you ask. The days and nights were wrong, the air was wrong, and a lot of people died.
But not the people who built Tholaren Dome. They were able to make a bubble to live in, with all the food and water and air they needed, that hadn't been changed by the Disaster. They made the Fergana Charter, to decide how they would live, to make sure that the people in the Dome didn't make things terrible again.
Eventually the Weinadi and the Garruw became dominant, taking their place on a planet that officially liked them better. They survived and thrived and grew. Meanwhile, humans decided to stay just in their little bubble forever, to make sure that they didn't do anything else to mess up the world.