**Station Type:** [[Beehives|Beehive]] (S-Type Amor Asteroid)
**Allegiance**: Independent ([[Brinkers|Brinker]]/Techno-Creationists)
**Primary Languages:** Wu
The residents of 3200 Phaethon are adherents of a particularly odd Techno-Creationist splinter cult. Like other Techno-Creationists, the Phaethonites believe that the Fall was a divine portent, and that the future of transhumanity lies in transforming themselves to a future ascension with alien beings. Unlike other Techno-Creationists, the Phaethonites are full-on singularity seekers, and believe they are destined to meld with the TITANs. More bizarrely, they grasp onto a conspiratorial belief that the TITANs are currently hiding within the sun, watching and waiting for enlightened transhumans to reach an unspecified level of development/enlightenment, at which point the TITANs will reach out, snatch them away, and absorb them into their collective consciousness. To this end, the cult engages in severe cognitive modifications and Skinner-esque behavioral adjustments. To outsiders, the Phaethonite ideology is uncomfortably close to exhuman, and the cult remains closely watched by several inner system powers and Firewall. The Phaethon asteroid’s orbit also comes quite close to the sun, with a perihelion of only 0.14 AU— less than half the distance of Mercury. It is actually an extinct comet, the parent of the Geminids meteor shower in fact, and has a diameter of 5.1 kilometers.

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