Complex sentence: The colonists awakened with the implanted memory of having just been created by God as the first humans; they were programmed to regard the command staff as "angels" and "Archangel Langhorne" as second only to God.
Split into simpler sentences: The colonists awakened with the implanted memory of having just been created by God as the first humans. They were programmed to regard the command staff as "angels" and "Archangel Langhorne" as second only to God.