Gods
For we are gods, and we are lonely, so we shall create…
Avrana Kern at the very beginning of her project, before the destruction of the Old Empire, compares humanity to gods after they discovered ways to influence evolution and artificially create life on uninhabited planets. Her large plans falter after a rebellion happens on her home planet, a rebellion against this artificial creation that goes against nature.
Like Sleeping Beauty
Dr. Kern’s space station is under attack and everything except her gets destroyed. She manages to escape in one of the chambers and is left flowing in space and time. Dr. Kern believes that humanity will soon come to her rescue, that humanity can’t move forward without her - something that is not far from the truth, as her future will show.
They had to know that they must come and collect her, wake her like Sleeping Beauty. After all, she was Doctor Kern. She was the future of the human race, right here. They needed her.
Monster
On one of his contemplative moments about the tragic fate of the Earth they left behind, and the uncertain future of the last of the humanity on Gilgamesh, Holsten is awakened from his daydream by someone sneaking up to him. For a moment he feels taken back to the nightmare of the Earth with its monsters. But it wasn’t a monster that woke him up, it was only Guyen. It is an appropriate comparison of the ship’s self-proclaimed captain because Guyen will prove himself to really be a monster threatening humanity.
Shepherd of humanity
In his power-hungry mission to become immortal, a part of the computer system of Gilgamesh, Guyen creates a god-like existence on the ship. The generations born on the ship see him as a divine being, a savior. To try to convince Holsten that his intentions are pure, he describes himself as the shepherd of humanity, taking them to their one true home.
