Humans are the only known sentient biological intelligences. They originate from the Milky Way Galaxy and have dominated it totally, even traversing the neighbouring galaxies too. Humans are obssessed with finding life and found no hint of anywhere else in the universe. They are extremely tennacious and, at the right technology level, able to inhabit and manipulate the dimensions of space time.

Their limitless potential is sadly framed by the fact their behaviour as a species operates within in a tiny arc of obsolesence. Patterns of expansion then strife are cyclical and exist super imposed in and upon themselves over and over and over: simply put all civilisations and technologies humans make eventually cease.

Humans exist in three forms:

1) the indigenous humans (i.e. the varied feral humans living as post collapse remnants - a few dozen worlds spread across 4 galaxies)

2) the illúme who inhabit duty stations on those worlds and also live aboard the seven remaining deep space space stations

3) The almost extinct higher humans, all but died out during the collapse they exist as the 8th monastery and are exceedingly rare. approximate population: 3,000.