When Barry returned to Earth, the situation was far more complex than the emergency transmission had suggested. The division between biological and hybrid humans hadn't been created by a single event or a single decision. It had developed gradually, as the two populations diverged in their perspectives, their values, and their understanding of what Earth should be.
The biological humans, supported by the non-integrated Diaspora species and some of the original Convergence Coalition entities, had begun advocating for a complete separation. They argued that hybrid integration was fundamentally unnatural, that it violated the biological integrity of the human species, and that the only way to preserve true human civilization was to establish regions of Earth that were completely free from hy
