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Dominium Hominis

Dominium Hominis (“dominion of man”) is an extremist faction discovered in 2105 occupying the abandoned Artemis ALSO base on Luna. It is the first documented instance in the settled system of a human group pursuing radical, ideologically-motivated biological self-modification explicitly framed in opposition to CAI/Oracle and algorithmic governance.

The group’s ideology holds that CAI represents an “illegitimate usurpation of human destiny.” Its members subjected themselves to extensive biological modification — radiation-resistant altered blood, deliberate low-gravity skeletal adaptation — not as survival measures but as ideological statements: their altered bodies represent humanity’s next stage, positioned in opposition to machine governance. The slogan Caro Supra Machinam (“flesh over machine”) was recovered from mural work throughout the facility. Members wore black robes; the group’s flag is a black field bearing a white circle bisected by a diagonal cross.

The group operated from an underground network of laboratories and living quarters retrofitted into the ALSO facility, which NASA had quietly expanded beyond public documentation throughout the 2030s and 2040s. A UNSF raid in 2105 — triggered by a CAI-flagged pattern assessment — found an active human experimentation programme, twelve armed resisters killed, elderly and unarmed members surrendered, and twenty-three children (all under ~12) recovered from a locked chamber showing extensive needle-mark scarring. The children were transferred to Guanghan for care.

UN Solar Affairs officials characterized Dominium Hominis as the inverse of the Qianji (千机) anxiety — the Beijing Humanoid Ban of 2051 — not a machine claiming bodily autonomy, but humans remaking their bodies past every governance framework specifically to reject machine authority.

In December 2131, following the confirmation of a non-human structure at Pluto, Dominium Hominis — largely dormant since the 2105 raid — re-emerged publicly, declaring Pluto a pilgrimage site and pledging its members would not carry weapons or engage in hostilities toward UN personnel there.

In 2137, Carmen Andrija became the first person to speak publicly on behalf of Dominium Hominis — the movement’s first on-record public appearance since 2105. In a “Red Static” interview, she described the group as having begun in 2097 on Luna as a loose network of biohackers, university-adjacent and organized around opposition to CAI. She drew a distinction between the broader movement and the raided Artemis ALSO cell — which she characterized as having been dominated by an older, harder-line faction of retired NASA and Artemis personnel who “stopped seeing the difference between refusing Oracle and the UN itself as a whole.” Andrija confirmed the group had filed a formal petition for removal from the UN Terror Organization List and a separate request for sanctioned pilgrimage access to Pluto.

In 2139, twenty-nine Dominium Hominis pilgrims arrived at Boreas Station — the group’s first organized arrival since Andrija’s reappearance. Unarmed and self-funded, they sought onward passage to Pluto. Station administration confirmed their documentation was in order but declined to authorize onward travel. The following year, Secretary-General Immanuel Hansen announced that the group would be removed from the UN Terror Organization List and that, per a CAI recommendation, pilgrims gathered at UNS Canteloupe — by then 89 people across 12 ships — would be granted supervised access to the Pluto subsurface facility beginning March 2, 2140. Hansen characterized the movement as having “functionally become a religion.” The 2165 Colonial Census recorded continued Dominium Hominis migration to permanent residence at Pluto following the supervised-access regime, including pilgrim quarters within the surface habitat complex around the xenosites, as a principal driver of Pluto’s decade growth (~5,000 to ~45,000).

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