The Declaration of Destiny

Nijibutu's small following grew into a socio-political movement, with the Declaration as its founding document. The movement officially registered itself as a political entity in the year 632 of the Persean Era, naming itself the Preservers of the Destiny of Humanity. Its members were initially referred to derisively as "Divine Righters". Membership in this group was never very significant; the vast majority of the people felt their ideas were extremist at best and downright ludicrous at worst. But the 10% or so of the population that did join over the next several years were quite zealous in their belief of the movement's principles. Over the years, the movement had gotten several members elected into strategic positions, allowing their quasi-military coup in the year 649PE to be successful.

The Legacy

When the Preservers of the Destiny of Humanity came to power on New Terra, with Karan Nijibutu installing herself into a position she called "First Human", the Declaration of Destiny was formally recognized as the Founding Document of the "new order": a polity that declared itself to be the New Terran Hegemony.

Over the past 400 or so standard years, the Hegemony has attempted to fulfill the document's "prophecies" by instituting a variety of laws and cultural practices that clearly define New Terran Humans as the only first-class citizens of the Hegemony. Humans of the Firstfall Collective or Persean Republic have limited rights and privileges, but are clearly "second class". The T'ka'an are not strictly persecuted; they are merely tolerated where necessary; but they enjoy almost no freedoms, rights, and privileges. Other sapient species are similarly treated if they are not belligerent. Any hostile or criminal action by a non-Human is dealt with swiftly, with the offender sometimes exiled back to their home region, and other times simply "disappeared".