The Remote The Remote were an unpredictable species produced by a Faction Paradox experiment . Biology . Faction Paradox fitted the Remote agents with receivers that broadcast media directly into their nervous systems and biodata . The Remote were also rendered sterile , and were only able to reproduce using remembrance tank s . The remembrance tanks were also directly connected to the media , so with each generation , the Remote became more and more a part of the image - intensive culture fed to them by their receivers . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) History . The 26th century . Many human colonies in the 26th century were heavily dependent upon and connected to their medianet s , regarding the broadcast images and celebrity icons as more important than the actual politics of their world . During the War , Faction Paradox attempted to take advantage of this fact by influencing the media of said colonies , but this effort was interrupted by the House Military ' s Second Wave , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) which wiped out planets like Ordifica where the Faction was seen to have influence . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) Refugees from these planets , evacuated by the Faction , established new colonies in safe zones of the Spiral Politic . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) One group was relocated to Anathema in 1799 and sent towards Earth . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) Self left Giordano Bruno with the Remote on Anathema . ( PROSE : " De Umbris Idearum " ) The Faction intended to use the Remote as unpredictable shock troops against the Great Houses . However , when sent to fight the Houses on planets like Simia KK98 , most of the Remote were killed by the House Military . This drove the Faction to cut ties with the Remote under the " Viewers and Listeners Protocol " . Freed from Faction control , the Remote spread their forces throughout the universe and , enabled by time travel technology , they became the unpredictable warriors they were always intended to be . They were notably unbound from the Protocols of Linearity , which allowed Compassion to be born during the War but travel in a pre - War timeship . However , the Great Houses were able to neutralise the " Broken Remote " by manipulating their media . North American warrior tribes . After abandoning the Remote colonies , Faction Paradox began Remote experiments in many other cultures , most notably 19th century Native American warrior tribes like the Kiowa , the Paiute , the Cheyenne , and the Arapaho . Like the 26th century human colonies with their celebrity loas , the warrior tribes were ideal because they believed in " dakina " spirits , they used ceremonial self - mutilation , they fetishised bones , and they used prolonged ritual torture as a means to achieve a communal altered state of consciousness . As a plus , the tribes already had fast and reliable communication through the peyote dream runners , and they historically had exhibited the ability incorporate invaders ' technologies into their lives ; like the Remote , the Native Americans came to personify their weapons , which they considered to be living extensions of the wielder . Results of these experiments included Catch - the - Bear ' s War Bonnet , the Screaming Skull rifle , and the Nunaha ' wu . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) City of the Saved . Human Remote were resurrected in the City of the Saved . Many gravitated towards Teletopia District . ( PROSE : " Of the City of the Saved . . . " ) One Remote known as " The Prof " attended Allisheer St Marx ' s masked ball in AF 291 . ( PROSE : " Of the City of the Saved . . . " , " Unification Theory " )