The Human Initiative

Continuation

The next group to be placed is The Stagnant, the beings at this stage are place holders rather than actual people. With no aspirations for anything more, this group is complacent and almost exemplary for a galactic workforce, content with existence they stray not from paths laid before them, neither a societal negative or positive, but rather as economic stabilizers. The Stagnant seem to be the most important group, but have the least influence.(Note: A minority in this group leave this status within a lifetime)

After The Stagnant comes The Elevators, those placed here are the most positive E3 has to offer, composed solely of drive and aspirations, The Elevators move culture forward in discrete, and boisterous ways. The Elevators disrupt the system put in place by The Regressors, which keep most Elevators low in social circles, the only downside to The Elevators is that once their potential has been met most seem to evolve into Regressors, and no longer drive humanity forward.(Note: Elevators can easily subscribe to substance abuse.)

At the bottom of this pyramid is The Lost, comprised of mutations, and the ill these are the outcasts of current E3 society, most through no fault of their own listed here purely based on mental or physical ailments, are condemned to wander in search of their place on a planet big enough to share. These people once had a place in the other three groups until an event changed their being state, and left them altered or by human standards "broken." The existence of this class is another example of primal traits still being exhibited within the species, a displacement of status based on physical or mental capabilities after an altercation within the world should not be reflected entirely on the individual, but also of the environment at the time of incident, and leeway should be given. (Note: on this basis the species in a societal standing is thirty thousand years behind estimates.)

Earth culture is oddly pleasant, from their movies to their music to their art, humans are very passionate and emotional creatures, more emotional than our parental genes, but a pleasant mutation nonetheless, it should also be noted that of the cultural phenomena that food plays a very important role in almost all E3 traditions. Possibly tied to the early days of our food scarcity testing, it seems to have indirectly caused long term effects on cultural development, causing it to be a larger part of their cultural identity than initially anticipated, but overall this seems to have no negative effects except overindulgence. (Note: overindulgence appears to be a common shortcoming of the species in its entirety.)