Summary
Humans are one of Phantom Epoch's central present-day peoples, remembered across the later age as the people of Orbos and one of the galaxy's enduring refuge civilizations. *1 *2
Public Memory
Across later ages, Orbos is treated as humanity's ancestral world and enduring refuge, which makes human history feel rooted there in most common accounts. That public memory shapes how the wider setting understands the world: as a hospitable center of settlement, politics, and survival after the collapse of older powers. *1 *3
Hidden Earlier History
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Late revelations show that humans did not originate on Orbos. Luminari explorers discovered them on a homeworld dying beneath an unstable sun, found a surviving gate there, and brought refugees through to Orbos when extinction seemed imminent. Stranded alongside the people they had saved, those rescuers helped build the refuge from which humanity endured. *2 *4 *5
Relations
Human history is tightly bound to Orbos, the broader legacy of the Vanished, and the buried truths revisited in Humanity's Refuge On Orbos. Their place in the setting also helps explain why Orbos remains one of the galaxy's key refuge worlds long after the original rescue faded into myth. *1 *2 *4