Something that would be surprising to most people a few hundred years ago, the end of Humanity didn’t come from some great disaster. It didn’t come from nuclear war; it didn’t come from an alien invasion, or from plague or famine.
It didn’t come from a meteor or a volcano, and it most certainly didn’t come from the loss of fossil fuels.
It didn’t come from religious extremists, even if they did their best to try.
And it didn’t come from societal or economic collapse.
No, it came from Love.
Well, to be truthful, it came from Love, curiosity and imagination.
When we encountered aliens for the first time, we stared down the barrel of each other’s guns for a while. They were just as afraid of us as we were of them at first, but then we moved on. We learned to live side by side, and soon enough we did more than that.
Some kinky scientists decided they wanted to make Human-alien hybrid babies, and they succeeded. We always succeed when we really want to, and trust me; humanity has always wanted to fuck an alien.
So we did.
A few decades later, we had become largely one people, and hybrids were commonplace. They became accepted as any other part of humanity, and we moved on.
Then came the splicers. People wanting to try something new decided they wanted to manipulate their biology, and as always when humanity wants something, we get it.
A few decades later, the story was the same as it was with the hybrids.
Splicers became commonplace, and if you wanted anything done all it took was a quick visit to the clinic and boom! Cat ears, tentacles, tails, even wholly new designs, you name it. Done fast, cheap, safely and reversibly.
Then the cyborgs popped up.
People, looking at the splicers, thought to themselves: How can we make ourselves better?
Well, some genius realized that with proper nanomachines and cybernetic implants we could be better, faster, stronger, smarter, and as a plus it helped us transcend the limit of aging.
Suddenly, people could become pretty much immortal, in addition to geniuses in their own right. We loved it, and soon enough cyborgs were our family, neighbors and best friends.
Just as with splicing, all we needed was a pop down to a clinic and suddenly we had laser eyes, internal jetpacks, you name it.
Then came the uploading of minds into computers.
We always wanted immortality, as far back as Humanity has existed, we’ve always wanted to live forever, and now we could.
With the cybernetics we already had, transferring our minds to the cloud was easy. Suddenly we had all the time in the world. We can’t get sick, nanites and splicing gets rid of that. We can’t age, cybernetics and mind uploads took care of that.
We had transcended our past limits.
It was a glorious age for humanity.
It is a glorious age for humanity.
Except we aren’t human anymore. We’re cyborgs, splicers, hybrids, and so much more.
We are the Solari, and together we shall spread the light of Sol all over the universe.