=Exhumans= 
**Posted by:** Factotum, Crow <**__Info__ __Msg__ __Rep__**>
Greetings, Sentinel. This is a pre-recorded briefing designed to provide a broad understanding of the exhuman faction. As you can see, this simulspace is designed to look like a university lecture hall. This is part of the interrogation of the fork of an exhuman terrorist commonly known as Silent Mercy. We were fortunate to capture a fully intact alpha fork and used psychosurgery to make him more accommodating.
Silent Mercy is wanted in virtually every jurisdiction in the solar system as a murderer and terrorist. He has been connected to numerous exhuman cells and has ties to criminal cartels like the Hidden Concern and Nine Lives. Most worryingly, he has proliferated illegal psychosurgery technology, including experimental egomerging software that has been used to torture and delete innocent victims. His pre-Fall identity is still unknown, but it is believed he was once an American morph designer that worked for several powerful hypercorps. After the Fall, he fled to the outer system and, with the aid of several unknown associates, took over a brinker habitat with a population of 57 residents. No one knows what happened, but the takeover went undetected for two years. By then, every single resident of the habitat was dead or permanently insane from repeated torture and psychosurgery experiments. A local survivalist militia eventually destroyed the habitat, but not before Silent Mercy farcasted himself to multiple locations. Since then, he has had his hands in virtually every exhuman crime imaginable. Ego-napping, unethical experimentation on innocent victims, smuggling TITAN artifacts, and terror attacks on civil populations are all part and parcel of his trade.
Unfortunately, Silent Mercy seems to have a knack for negotiating with other exhumans. Even the most unstable and isolationist groups will at least talk to him or give him free passage throughout the system.
Instead of just retrieving actionable intelligence from the ego, we wanted to better understand the mindset of the exhuman, so we made him believe he was attending an autonomist philosophy conference open to all factions. Given this open setting, he felt comfortable enough to explain the core exhuman tenets. The other attendees are simulations controlled by simple AIs.
I will begin the “lecture” now.
==Origins== 
[A four-armed synthmorph enters and walks to the podium. The lecture hall is filled with dozens of attendees, each with mesh IDs that label themselves as adherents to different philosophies. Autonomists of all kinds are present, as well as ultimates, ascendant forkers, and mercurials. The synthmorph silently and slowly scans the audience, then begins.]
Transhumanity failed. That much is clear. The Fall brought it into the open, but we failed long before the TITANs awoke. We failed when we developed the technology to augment our minds and bodies but chose to remain the product of our past. Bioconservatives made sure no one could actually push the limits of what was possible by passing reactionary laws. Even you so-called “progressives” thought there should be limits on what could be done. Limits! As if evolution or the singularity could be restrained! There were still pioneers in the years before the Fall. Scientists and thinkers with a modicum of foresight, who saw our environment was changing far too fast for us to evolve “naturally”—whatever that means.
Think about it. Homo Sapiens is a beach ape that evolved to fit an ecological niche that hasn’t existed for thousands of years. Right before the Fall, you couldn’t swim in almost any body of water left on the planet without getting sick. Catastrophic climate change was wreaking its toll as the environment changed more quickly than we could adapt. Few thought we should design the morphs so that they could survive or even thrive in that environment. Oh no, we had to remain “human.” We changed the environment, but we didn’t change ourselves, because that was too scary. Our so-called world leaders lacked the vision and the will to lead us in a new direction. They punished initiative and imagination, pushing obedience and subservience on the masses. Like cattle, you all wanted to be dominated by bosses that would take care of all that pesky thinking for you. Independence was bred out of you, except for a few deviants. Those deviants were the first exhumans.
I should say at this point that I am not advocating nano-ecology. They’re the most laughable movement still in existence. Chasing a utopian past that never existed is beyond quixotic. It doesn’t matter why or how the environment changed. All that matters is how we adapt to it. Neo-primitivists are amusing and as a predator I hope they stick around. Good hunters need good prey.
The roots of exhumanism reach back to those who were willing to adapt, before the Fall. The bodyhackers and advocates of nootropics and morphological freedom showed us what was possible, but their ranks were riddled with hedonism and progressive fantasies. The neo-reactionaries and far-right ideologues showed us the value of hierarchy, how democracy had failed, and how desperately our species needed to be culled—but they were mired in traditionalism and unwilling to adapt. The singularitarians prepared for the inevitable, but they were foolish enough to think they could control the uncontrollable. From these ranks, however, a few bold visionaries stepped forth, people who accepted that transhumanity was doomed, and were willing to break the taboos and pursue necessary experimentation.
The first true exhumans were around before the Fall; you might remember some of the news stories about them. The tabloids painted us as serial killers and Doctor Mengeles because we ignored the bullshit laws that tied us down. Most were loners with the technical skills who wanted something more from their morphs and upgraded them on their own. The Lagos Hunter, for example, customized his morph so heavily it no longer looked human: chameleon cloaking, organic armor, claws, and a few custom implants that were never identified. He killed and fed on refugees and indentured workers, the perfect urban predator. It took a task force over two years to confirm his existence, find him, and kill him with a drone strike. His identity remains unknown. No cortical stack was recovered and there wasn’t enough left of his morph to trace it back. I count him as a proto-exhuman because he demonstrated a new lifestyle for those unencumbered by obsolete morality systems.
Other notable pre-Fall exhumans include Yolyamanitzin Sonnenberg, the first real pioneer in intelligence enhancement, and Mahaz VanWie and Thierry Vale, who experimented with radical egomerging techniques. Yolyamanitzin hooked her brain up to a server farm and ran a program she developed herself to expand her consciousness to take advantage of the farm’s increased processing capabilities. She was found drooling, her mind effectively scattered in an infinite recursive loop brought about by a bug in her program. We only know this because she published the source code to her software right before she ran it. She couldn’t allow anyone to review her code because, even then, boosting your mind like that was highly illegal. This didn’t stop the US military from incorporating elements of her code into the TITAN project, of course. Don’t believe me? The media mocks this as a “conspiracy theory,” but just look at the research Anon did to uncover it. It’s all there.
But I digress. Mahaz and Thierry ego-napped engineers and scientists by hacking backup services and merged with parts of their egos to learn their skills. It worked to a degree, but it changed their minds enough that they could no longer pass as normal transhumans. The news reports talk about psychotic behavior, but one man’s psychosis is another man’s adaptive behavior. Regardless, they were caught and in prison when the Fall occurred.
From these early examples, we can see the beginning of major strains of exhuman thought. The Lagos Hunter led to the predator movement. Yolyamanitzin was the first of the sublime, but by no means the last. Mahaz and Thierry were the first soul-eaters, which is a lesser-known group, even to other exhumans, but I’ll get into them a little later. I must address the Fall first.
==The Fall== 
The Fall was the wakeup signal to transhumanity that their current beliefs are wrong. Any valid philosophy must begin and end with the one thing that matters: survival. Anything else is a waste of mental effort. It does not matter if Mars is free, if uplifts can vote, or who violates what intellectual property laws if another Fall can happen at any time, if transhumanity is weak enough to fall victim to any of the dozens of other x-risks that stalk it from the shadows.
Exhumanism was just gaining stride, with the first of our kind relocating to the outer reaches to pursue their agendas away from regulations and prying eyes, when the TITANs revealed themselves. Where transhumanity cowered, the exhumans reveled. The reckoning for the foolish had come.
We must acknowledge our own mistakes: some of our kind saw the TITANs as the answer. They sought to join the singularity, to join the TITANs, to achieve godhood. Perhaps they did—we cannot be certain—but what is more likely is that they were uploaded like the rest. They had not achieved worthiness in the eyes of the TITANs.
Most of of our kind watched and hid, taking careful note of how the TITANs culled transhumanity. We cannot truly appreciate the actions of the TITANs because we cannot understand them. Some think the TITANs failed, but that’s only if you assume they were trying to kill off the human species. There is not yet evidence to suggest that they ever saw transhumanity as something worth exterminating in its entirety. They killed billions, yes, but they seemed to be more interested in harvesting egos than anything else. Why? To the exhuman, that is the most important question posed to us now. Until we understand the TITANs, we shall live in their shadow forever. If we are to survive and thrive, on our own accord, we must learn. And to truly understand the TITANs, we must continue their work.
The Fall drove thousands to the exhuman movement. Thousands who were eager to learn, to survive, to transcend. While most of you went mad from grief or were paralyzed with fear, we saw our path to apotheosis.
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==Joining the Movement== 
What makes a man decide to become a god? I’d like to talk about where the exhumans come from. Who decides to become exhuman?
Some of you may be familiar with the leaked Aberrant Psychology Security Review (APSR) conducted by Cognite and Direct Action, but you probably haven’t read the full report. The APSR was the Planetary Consortium’s attempt to understand exhumans and the risk they posed. Direct Action mercenaries kidnapped several known exhumans and their sympathizers and Cognite psychosurgeons took their minds apart before deleting them. One of my forks was caught and destroyed, by the way. This was a secret project but hacktivists got an early draft of the report and leaked it to the public.
Now, if any other minority group had been subject to this kind of persecution, the outrage would been overwhelming. But for exhumans, there was barely a peep, even from the most liberal of technoprogressives and anarchist anti-hypercorp troublemakers. You may be thinking that I’m about to launch into a speech about martyrdom, but you would be wrong. I’m actually glad no one cares about the persecution of exhumans. It proves we’re right. Every discussion about exhuman philosophy invariably descends into rants about so-called “human rights”—which are but an arbitrary concept used as a control mechanism for the masses. When push comes to shove, your kind conveniently forgets about those oh-so-important rights and commits whatever atrocity is necessary to survive. Subconsciously, you recognize exhumans as a threat, so violating our “rights” is justified. Sooner or later, you will follow that train of logic to its ultimate conclusion: anything that does not aid your survival is a threat. Some day, there will simply be survivors, and the dead. The exhumans have already come to that conclusion, already staked their claim on the side of survival. It’s just a matter of how many of you will join us in the end.
To get back to the APSR, Cognite researchers conducted extensive psychological studies on those captured exhumans to see what the “average” member was like. To say we are hard to generalize would be quite the understatement, but some traits are very common. Almost all exhumans are profoundly alienated from society. We despise the weakness and ignorance of the masses and see ourselves as superior. We are the few who have the nerve and the will to survive, no matter the cost. It’s no wonder we find ourselves on the outskirts, becoming drifters.
Many exhumans migrate to new polities, trying out various political systems before finally settling in a brinker habitat far away from prying eyes. Hypercorp society is too corrupt, too entrenched, too conservative. Whereas most people see working under an idiotic boss as one of life’s inescapable troubles, exhumans see it as a deep and personal affront. Why bother serving an inferior being? Autonomists are too fearful of true scientific progress to allow us much leeway. They also demand obedience in the form of clique politics. Slave away for the benefit of others who do nothing to benefit you or be voted off the habitat. The ultimates are so close, yet so far. They want perfection, but of the human form. When they let go of the security blanket of our ancestry, they will turn the exhuman movement into an army. Their obsession with “genetrash” is also rather embarrassing. Wiping out inferior species simply because they offend you is pointless. Exhumans see transhumanity not as competition, but as resources waiting to be harvested. They should stop trying to prove their superiority to other factions so much. Living as a god is the best revenge. The mercurials are also close, but they want so little. Giving uplifts the same privileges as humans? Trying to adapt animal behavior for their own societies? Pathetic. Like the neo-primitivists, they long for a nostalgic past that never existed. Mercurials should focus on adapting themselves to the next threat, rather than trying to recreate history.
According to the APSR, exhumans test very low on empathy and social protocol tests, seeing civilization as a system to herd the weak for the benefit of a small slave-owning caste. I would like to add, contrary to common belief, most exhumans are not sadists, at least in the pop-culture view of cartoonish torturers and bullies. When we kill, it is for a pragmatic reason. Murder for its own sake is a waste of energy and time and usually creates more problems than it solves. It is better to think of us as wholly removed from sentimentalism. Empathy is now more of a impediment to survival than a virtue. Caring about genetic dead ends only weakens us in the end.
There is no sense in saving or protecting any resource that does not benefit us. This includes ourselves, of course. I, for one, freely fork myself and perform psychosurgery on these forks when it is necessary. I have lobotomized some forks to conduct suicide missions, which I must, because if I leave too much intellect in, I am no longer willing to commit suicide for the benefit of another fork. This is not without its own risks, as I must occasionally deal with errant forks who are “contenders for the throne,” as it were. But these life-or-death struggles force me to adapt and improve, and if I were to be deleted, a more fit fork would take my place.
The APSR concludes that exhumans are too individualistic to pose an existential threat to hypercorp society. In other words, we’re nutty loners who tinker around with unsanctioned science experiments but can be put down by the police. It is true there are many isolated exhumans who hide within larger society or in remote areas, especially in hypercorp-dominated regions. However, we have our own culture and we recognize the merits of collaborating with our peers, few as they may be. There are, of course, sympathizers and fans who lack the will to carry out our work but help us in exchange for certain favors. For example, a good number of survivalist brinkers in the outer system provide cover stories, fuel, and supplies to exhuman habitats and ships in exchange for their medical and technical expertise. We often trade with criminals for egos and morphs. But our dealings with other factions are for pragmatic reasons only.
==Clades==
There are many competing ideas in exhuman circles about how best to adapt, to survive, to reach the apex of being. Many of us pursue our own agendas, carving out our own paths with sheer strength of will and determination. Others find like-minded fellows and collaborate. Each exhuman enclave, pack, or hive is different. Some are ruled with an iron fist by one leader while others practice meritocracy, handing authority and influence only to those most skilled and capable. Each group is perfectly adapted to suit its needs. They are rarely intended to last forever, instead focusing on the projects of its members and dissolving when those projects are over. Nevertheless, there are several movements and sub-factions within the broader exhuman philosophy that deserve special mention.
===Singularity Seekers===
You might consider the terms “singularity seeker” and “exhuman” to be interchangeable, but this is far from true. Singularity seekers, in the broadest sense, are those who pursue the TITANs and their relics. Some are simply infatuated fans or obsessed researchers who are convinced the TITANs will provide some galaxy-shattering revelation. Some cannot let go of those they have lost, or simply feel left out, and hope to be uploaded like so many billions of others. None of these can be accurately considered exhumans. 
There are seekers, however, who are convinced the TITANs are the key to a posthuman future. Simply building a server farm in a brinker habitat is not enough to develop the posthuman intellect seekers crave. These seekers chase after TITAN artifacts and knowledge, hoping to reverse engineer the secrets to godhood. Most of them wind up as zombie puppets in a bunker near a TITAN Quarantine Zone, but they are hardly alone in that, are they?
Researchers of all kind covet TITAN technology, so singularity seekers have a surprising amount of competition. Heard of Project Ozma? They’re Oversight’s big bad brother and they go after TITAN artifacts with zeal. In order to conduct any research, an exhuman needs to spend considerable resources to build a concealed workspace and acquire samples, all the while maintaining utter and total secrecy to avoid being raided by Ozma or some other competitor. Combine this with the inherent difficulties in working with TITAN tech and you wind up with excruciatingly slow work.
===Predators===
Most associate the predator movement with all exhumans, as first typified by the Lagos Hunter. It would be easy to call them the most shallow of exhuman cliques, but it isn’t far from the truth. Like the ultimates, predators seek to become the most deadly combatant possible. Instead of focusing on human skills and tactics, predators seek to turn themselves into living weapons, able to hunt any prey and defeat any challenger. It’s impossible to generalize them after that, as there is no pure predator philosophy. Rather, each predator creates their own set of rules and beliefs. Most are lone hunters who do not seek to recruit others or spawn a new generation. Others form packs and hold territory in remote areas. Some believe that consciousness is an evolutionary mistake and try to revert their minds into a state of pure instinct. Others use transhuman weapons and tactics when it suits them. Most attempt to achieve a biological pinnacle of perfection, while others go synthetic, seeking to become literal killing machines. I personally get the sense that many predators are failed ultimates who turned away from that faction because it wasn’t violent enough. They revel in becoming monsters.
The pack known as the Fomorians is worth keeping an eye on, operating in the Jovian Trojans. They prey on ships and smaller habitats, not dissimilar to carbon reaver pirates. Unlike normal pirates, they love capturing people because they throw them into an accelerated simulspace hunting ground. They hunt captured egos in the simulspace and delete random memories and traits when they catch them. If the prey somehow manages to overpower one of the pack in the simulspace, they get a trial run in a real morph on their next raid. If the new pack member can do well, they can keep the morph and keep on hunting. Otherwise, it’s back to the hell of the simulspace hunting ground. It’s a surprisingly effective recruiting method. New pack members are so eager to prove themselves that they gladly renounce their old beliefs and embrace exhumanism. The real beauty of the Fomorian system is they always have more hunter egos than morphs at any given time. Even veterans can be thrown back into the hunting ground if they lose their morph or make a major mistake. No one is ever truly safe.
Not every predator’s idea of the fittest evolutionary adaptation falls into the childish confines of fast, big, and strong. Some predators harbor truly posthuman conceptions of survival: size reduction down to the level of bacteria, hive-distributed consciousness, resleeving as a habitat-sized weapon, etc. While some are unmistakable, the only true means of identifying a predator is figuring out that particular exhuman’s idea of evolutionary perfection.
===The Sublime===
The sublime are the most ambitious of the exhumans. They think they can catch up to the TITANs sooner or later, amplifying their intelligence to become gods in their own right. They pursue every method of intelligence enhancement known, from server-farm exocortices and experimental cyberbrain mods to designer drugs or programming and merging with advanced AGIs.
Many of the sublime are wary of machine intelligence. They reason that machine minds will always be vulnerable to hacking, to stronger machine minds, that there is no such thing as a secure system. They reason that organic minds are uniquely capable of avoiding these pitfalls, so they have resorted to more exotic strategies. Many try to build organic minds equivalent to the processing power of a data center, resulting in the comically oversized brains of the neurode morph. They have achieved impressive results, but there seems to be hard limits. You can only overclock a meat brain so much.
Some sublime morph designers are now turning to xenobiology for the next step. There are a few exhumans on Fortean trying to create neurode variants based on octomorphs, reasoning that their brains might scale up better than humans. The Hidden Concern is backing them, so they get whatever they want. But I don’t think we’ll find the answers in this solar system. I’ve personally tried to hybridize human and various alien neurological tissue in experimental morphs in an attempt to create a faster-thinking morph, but to no avail. We lack sufficient research samples of intelligent alien life. If I could get my hands on Factor tissue, that might change.
===Adaptives===
The adaptives argue that the key to survival is not becoming gods or monsters, but in being the most adaptable. To this end, they seek out physical forms that can survive every conceivable environment or situation. They have devised neogenetic and transgenic pod morphs capable of enduring the Venusian surface, surfing the solar corona, and creeping across frozen icy moons. The synthetic forms crafted by others are even hardier; depending on your opinion, this is either “cheating” or pragmatic.
Some adaptives seek to meld the predator and parasite clades together. I have heard promising things about the defiler morphs they have created, but I have yet to see one in practice.
===Parasites===
Cuckoo-1, one of the first exponents of this philosophy, argues that no matter how much exhumans insist they have given up conventional morality and beliefs, striving for the singularity is still mired in old ideology. Evolution is not about limitless acquisition of power and intellect after all. It is adapting to one’s environment. Unlike the adaptives, however, Cuckoo-1 argued that exhumans should let go of their desire for power and focus on thriving in the universe as a new species. Removal of threats like the TITANs and transhumanity is impossible. Therefore, exhumans should adapt to thrive within transhumanity, an invisible presence that survives no matter what. 
The most successful parasites go undetected by the host. If the parasites can thrive in this way, then they can prepare to survive as parasites when the TITANs return. Eventually, the parasites hope to endlessly adapt as they spread through the universe, living invisibly in whatever ecosystem they find. This is just a short summation of Cuckoo-1’s manifesto, which was sent out to exhumans throughout the solar system before she went off the grid. Some say she was taken out by Oversight, but I’m not so sure. I believe she’s still out there, spreading her new species throughout transhumanity.
===Soul Eaters===
The popular media likes to conflate exhumans with the monsters and minions puppeted around by the TITANs during the Fall, but keep in mind, no exhuman wants to be a mindless zombie. We want to be gods, not slaves to mad gods. We push science to its limit without regard to old systems of morality. Our scientists work without self-imposed limitations, making startling advances in several fields, simply because they’re willing to do what it takes.
One of these fields is ego-merging. The most interesting aspect of the Fall was not the sheer carnage wrought by the TITANs, but the mass harvesting of egos. Why did they seek so many minds out? Some theorized that the TITANs wished to absorb their knowledge through a form of ego-merging that we could not even imagine. Perhaps ego-merging disparate minds was the key to the singularity. Thus, the soul-eater movement within the exhumans was born.
Soul eating is a form of ego-merging in which a dominant ego cuts out useful parts of a lesser ego and incorporates it into itself. The lesser ego is usually deleted in order to ensure the dominant retains a unique advantage by having sole access to the victim’s knowledge, though some soul eaters keep copies of every ego they merge with. The trick for the soul eater is to consume only useful knowledge while avoiding problematic mental traits. That engineer’s technical skills are desirable, but her crippling agoraphobia is not.
As no two egos are alike, it used to take a skilled psychosurgeon a great deal of time to cut out useful information out of the morass of useless memories, quirks, and emotions that define so many transhumans. Exhuman scientists such as myself have made great leaps in speeding up the process. Soul-eating software now exists that can break down a victim’s mind into its component parts for easy consumption. 
“Goya” machines force two egos to compete with each other in a contest of wills for control over the remaining gestalt ego and the morph. The soul eater extracts a cortical stack from a victim (obviously killing their morph) and loads it into the machine. Then the soul eater links to the machine and surrenders control of their morph to the goya. The machine forcibly merges both egos together, but the baseline personality and memories of the stronger-willed ego becomes the conscious mind of the resulting gestalt. The soul eater places their own ego at risk in order to merge with the victim, which helps with evolutionary selection. Only the strongest-willed survive. But a victim who wins such a contest still absorbs some of the soul eater’s knowledge and traits and winds up sleeved in their morph. In other words, regardless of which ego wins the contest, the result is a stronger soul eater.
==Final Thoughts==
The powers that be will warn you that exhumans are lunatics and TITAN worshipers, but we are the only truly rational faction in the solar system. We accept the universe as it is—unforgiving—and act accordingly. Too many of you cling to beliefs that only worked when we lacked the tools to change ourselves. If we refuse to change our minds and bodies, if we remain human, how can we expect any better than what we have already brought upon ourselves? Renounce your humanity and join the ranks of the gods!
[The lecture freezes.]
This concludes your initial briefing on the exhumans. It should go without saying, but Silent Mercy’s claims should be taken with skepticism. Though he fully argues the exhumanist case for posthumanism, he carefully and diplomatically fails to disclose that most posthumans consider it an imperative to control, subjugate, or wipe out transhumanity. They believe this is necessary either because we are a threat, because they hope to hone their skills and viciousness while discarding morality, or because they simply feel it is our fate as a lesser species. They do not simply consider ascension to be a survival imperative—but domination as well. For this reason, we must continue to consider them an active hostile threat.

====Sidebar: A Selection of Known Exsurgents====
Firewall keeps active tabs on these specific individuals and groups, among others.
**Abandoned Weakness**
Before the Fall, the predator Abandoned Weakness was a prominent Bosnian geneticist known as Mirko Zec. They entered politics and then became a militia leader and warlord during Earth’s pre-Fall troubles. They were indicted for war crimes for experimentation on prisoners and the genocide of civilian populations, but escaped custody during the Fall, joining up with exhuman allies. They remain active in the inner system, wanted for both terrorist attacks and seeking to get a hold of WMDs and TITAN technology.
**Cuckoo-1**
Founder of the parasite clade, Cuckoo-1 has been spotted on Mars several times, but she has avoided capture for years. No other details about her plans are known.
**Dr. Yu Ping Dalton**
A vocal supporter of singularity seeker causes, Dalton was exiled from the inner system when she was connected to a plague outbreak on Luna. She now leads multiple research projects on the brinker exoplanet Fortean, notably seeking to bring neogenetic creatures and morphs based on myth and folklore to life.
**Empusae**
The Empusae pack is notable for being a collaboration between exhumans from distinct clades and for their stated intent to enslave transhumanity. They are well organized, though it is unclear who leads. They have seized several small habitats over the past decade and are believed to be laying the plans to seize control over larger colonies in the near future.
**The Ex-Hominids**
This pack of former neo-hominids is determined to wipe out humanity and establish apex hominid dominance. Though small, they have eluded authorities despite several devastating attacks. They are hostile to other exhumans.
**The Fomorians**
The Fomorians are an active pirate syndicate operating in the Main Belt and Jovian Trojans. They are known for forcing captives into a simulspace where they are either hunted or manipulated into becoming predators themselves.
**The Nest**
This group of adaptive insectoid exhumans controls an asteroid in the Kuiper Belt that is slowly following a trajectory that will take it from the solar system. New evidence indicates they may have established small nests in hidden locations throughout the solar system.
**Dr. Jacobi Newman**
Newman is a former argonaut scientist who fled his post at Titan Autonomous University after he was discovered performing illegal experiments on transhumans using TITAN technology. Current rumors place him in the outer system, selling engineered viruses to bioconservative terrorist groups.
**One Step Beyond**
This cell of sublime exhumans was recently implicated in an attempt to steal antimatter from  corporate facilities on Mercury.
**Phaethonites**
Phaethonites are a cult of techno-creationist singularity seekers who believe the TITANs are hiding in the sun until Judgment Day. They engage in severe cognitive and behavioral modifications.
**Silent Mercy**
A terrorist wanted for ego-merging experimentation, Silent Mercy is held in high regard by various exhuman factions and is one of their primary polemicists and recruiters. He is one of the main figures behind the soul eaters clade and is believed to be responsible for creating the rumored goya ego-merging machines. Silent Mercy has multiple alpha forks working at any given time throughout the system. We have terminated his forks on a number of occasions, but he has a private habitat in the outer system with farcasting and resleeving facilities. Until we can locate and destroy that habitat, he will pose a threat to transhumanity.

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