The Expansive Saga

### Overview:

The Expansive Age is after The Creation Age, and the beginning is marked when Eva will fix the fertility problem of the Pathed (Sep 9, 2793). The next generation of Pathed wouldn't even be half as powerful as their parents, in fact the older generation killing the younger generation will become quite a problem at the start of the Expansive age. Also, unlike their parents, the newer generation aged. They had an average life span of 400 years. The generation after that only about 170 years, and it started to normal out at 115 years by the 3rd and 4th generations. By the time the 3rd generation existed, newer Pathed could barley use any power, little more than tricks at this point for most; they also became susceptible to disease again by the 4th generation (lowering life expectancy a little more).

Before The Pathogen will be dropped in 2098, a few groups of humans made off world colonies. India made a settlement on the Moon; the USA/Britain/Japan/Germany/Russia will create a self sustaining space station and become one people known as The Showrai; a company known as Astro-Tech (a worldwide organization) will make 2 separate settlements, one on Mars and one on Venus (after The Battle of the Gods they loose touch with each other and become two independent groups). The Martians will actually come back to Earth at one point, many die. The ones that make it back to Mars tell stories of Earth that become Folk Lore for the Martians (the Indians and the Showrai are both close enough to Earth to know what is going on, and they wanted no part in it) Earth became a place of terror for Mars and most of them wanted absolutely nothing to do with the monster filled land. The Showrai will assimilate most of the Martians towards the end of the Expansive Age. The rest will flee and become Sigma Humans.

The Venusians almost devolved, regressing a couple thousand years in human history. They had successfully terraformed the planet, and had brought a plethora of Earth vegetation and animal life with them when humanity still existed on Earth, so Venus essentially became Earth around 500BCE~500AD. Earth became but a fairy tail to them, but they could see Earth and effects of the Pathed and the Showrai in the sky constantly and based an several religions around it. A few Pathed will even go there from time to time and be worshiped as gods (and I mean who can blame them). The Showrai actually refused to consider the Venusians human and did not even try to assimilate them. Venus still remains a world of the past today, they have not even hit an industrial age yet.

The India base on the moon (or just called India or the moon), will have a much different time proceeding the Battle of the Gods. See the moon is a pretty challenging feet for a path to make, but is very possible, very much like climbing a mountain for them, its cold, their body is trying to depressurize, their eyes can freeze up, but it likely would not kill one of them (also it would take a very long time to get to plus use a lot of energy). Like the other humans, India will loose touch with Terra, but unlike the others, they had regular visits from the Pathed. Some, not very nice, looking to become god of a new civilization. For a while the Pathed will kill each other on the battleground of the moon for domination of India, but that would all change when Mohender Auz is born in 2437. Mohender will be the soul survivor of a small town when they find themselves as the battlefield for two Pathed (both the Pathed die as well in the fight). This fight will be able to be seen from Earth and Eilo will actually go check it out. She will find Mohender and raise him on Terra, eventually he will return to the moon though. While Eilo raises him he learns a lot about Eilechno and starts to develop humanities first Lo-Tech (some of the Pathed had mimicked it by this point). When Mohender gets back to the moon (with some souvenirs like Importite, Expodium, Smart Steel, Coding Cord, and Materializers) he will help India re-take over the Moon, becoming known as The Savior of the Moon. The Indians will remain in control of the Moon until the end of the Expansive Age, until a war is broken out between them and the Showrai. The Showrai demanded all humans back to Terra, but the Indians refused, and unlike the Martians, the Indians were a formidable force. This lead to all out war between the two factions. The victors were inevitably the Showrai, very few Indians will become Showrai, most will die, the rest will become Sigma Humans; a once proud nation now reduced to ashes. The moon will become a place of ruins and darkness. The Lo-Tech will be discovered by the Showrai during the war and they too will start to use and develop it.

After all the other factions of humans (except the Venusians) were assimilated (or defeated/out-casted) the Showrai will set their sights on Terra. With the help of their technology, they were a formidable force against the descendants of the Pathed (most of the original Pathed were dead, off world, or hiding doing their own thing on Terra). They too fell to the Showrai, giving the Showrai full control over Terra. Any humans not with them were now considered a lesser form of life that they called Sigma Humans (who call themselves Lancers). This will mark the end of The Expansive Age and the beginning of The Conflict Age.