Ancestors - First Ancestors: The First Ancestors are mysterious beings of myth and legend who supposedly were responsible for the creation of Kin society and the first Leagues of Votann many Terran millennia ago.It is possible that the Ancestor Cores retain records of all Kin history since their earliest days. If such information survives, however, it is likely buried beyond recovery. Accordingly, even the perennially thorough and practical Kin have been forced to accept that -- after a certain point -- their ancient histories blur into myth and legend.The Leagues of Votann are named in  honour of the legendary entity called Votann, who is also known variously as the "Primal Ancestor," the "Gilded One" or the "Stonemind," amongst others. In some Kin myths, Votann was not one being but many, and is sometimes depicted as a group of gleaming golden figures or a wheel of graven stone faces.In other myths, Votann fashioned the first crucibles, then raised the Kin up and sent them sailing into the dark void -- before oceans of fire and flesh rose to swallow them. Some myths speak of Votann as the eldest and wisest of the First Ancestors, themselves little more than ill-defined, shadowy presences shown in many different forms in Kin depictions -- both humanoid and otherwise -- where they are depicted at all.With typical pragmatism, the Kin accept that their myths are too contradictory, allegorical and suspect to be cited as possessing a definite basis in fact. None of this troubles them overly. Steeped as they are in tradition and dour realism, the Kin feel less need than Humans to don the armour of faith. They are not frightened by the inexplicable.Instead, they accept reality as they see it to be; if there are matters in their ancient past of which they have no understanding then -- unless those matters suddenly become relevant to their present -- the Kin set them aside. Of course, the psychoactive Kin known as Grimnyr continue to interface with the Ancestor Cores in the hopes of asking the right questions to unlock portions of their ancient history. Most do this more out of simple curiosity and a desire for completeness, however, rather than being motivated by some existential need.For all this, there are certain articles of lost history that all Kin deem indisputable fact. They call these the "First Truths." It is a First Truth that their earliest Ancestors departed the Kin homeworld -- almost certainly pre-Imperial Terra during the Age of Technology -- millennia ago aboard fleets of sublight, interstellar generation ships known as Long March vessels.It is a First Truth that the Kin were a cloned people from the beginning, and that the robotic Ironkin have been with them since those earliest days. It is a First Truth, also, that the First Ancestors of the Kin set out in their Long March vessels as miners, prospectors and void-dredgers, charged with exploiting the riches of the heavens.When the Kin under the direction of the First Ancestors chose to enter and inhabit the hazardous region of the galactic core, it was the First Ancestors who were responsible for the introduction of the majority of the stable, genetically-engineered mutations known as cloneskeins into the Kin genetic pool. The cloneskeins were intended to better adapt the Kin to their new enviroment allowing them to work harder and more efficiently and better defend themselves.