The Ascendant Faculty
The Ascendant Faculty is the most influential old-school Genevolver research establishment. Its members believe forced biological advancement remains one of civilization's greatest tools and that excessive ethical restriction risks freezing life in whatever imperfect form history happened to leave i
The Ascendant Faculty is the most influential old-school Genevolver research establishment. Its members believe forced biological advancement remains one of civilization's greatest tools and that excessive ethical restriction risks freezing life in whatever imperfect form history happened to leave it.
The Faculty points to surgery, disease research, engineered tissue, contributions to the Core, and even the civilization descended from Alvas's uplift experiments as evidence that dangerous research can transform the world. Its critics point to Mutamons.
The Faculty is not one villainous conspiracy. Some members are careful physicians, some ambitious academics, and some genuine monsters protected by prestige and useful results. What unites them is the belief that progress must remain possible even when progress is ugly.