[ Oh good god. That explains a lot and. Wow. Okay, where does he even start. Going from 1915 in Anno Domino to 0079 in the Universal Century would be... a lecture of several days, so he'll condense it. Maybe it's better to not touch on some of this anyway. It's all very... you got a big storm coming.
Garma actually sits up properly now, so hey! There's that! ]
To make a long story short, in my time we've migrated a large part of the Earth population to Space Colonies because mankind polluted Earth so much that remaining on the planet risks rendering it entirely uninhabitable. The people sent out were largely the then-poor, while the privileged were allowed to remain. The colonies were not independent, leading to large economic dependence and continuing bad living conditions.
Yet there was a branch of philosophy that cropped up in space that proposed that going to space and ridding ourselves of the ties of gravity would actually trigger mankind to finally change once more and turn to the next stage of human evolution. These proposed new beings were called Newtypes and would exhibit psychic ability leading to better performance as well as increased understanding of one another. Instead of continuing down the same self-destructive path mankind has taken on Earth, life in space would advance us to a new and more enlightened species.
[ Okay, phew, that was already a lot and he feels he barely scratched the surface. Garma runs a hand through his fringe. ]
What Wesker proposed was roughly equivalent to this. He also thought of mankind as stagnant and self-sabotaging, believing that the changed conditions of the Shimmer would trigger a transformation to lifeforms that are more advanced and will change for the better.
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[ Oh good god. That explains a lot and. Wow. Okay, where does he even start. Going from 1915 in Anno Domino to 0079 in the Universal Century would be... a lecture of several days, so he'll condense it. Maybe it's better to not touch on some of this anyway. It's all very... you got a big storm coming.
Garma actually sits up properly now, so hey! There's that! ]
To make a long story short, in my time we've migrated a large part of the Earth population to Space Colonies because mankind polluted Earth so much that remaining on the planet risks rendering it entirely uninhabitable. The people sent out were largely the then-poor, while the privileged were allowed to remain. The colonies were not independent, leading to large economic dependence and continuing bad living conditions.
Yet there was a branch of philosophy that cropped up in space that proposed that going to space and ridding ourselves of the ties of gravity would actually trigger mankind to finally change once more and turn to the next stage of human evolution. These proposed new beings were called Newtypes and would exhibit psychic ability leading to better performance as well as increased understanding of one another. Instead of continuing down the same self-destructive path mankind has taken on Earth, life in space would advance us to a new and more enlightened species.
[ Okay, phew, that was already a lot and he feels he barely scratched the surface. Garma runs a hand through his fringe. ]
What Wesker proposed was roughly equivalent to this. He also thought of mankind as stagnant and self-sabotaging, believing that the changed conditions of the Shimmer would trigger a transformation to lifeforms that are more advanced and will change for the better.