Sapias Nova

Sapias Nova, or "New Wise", is a human supremacist terror organization who believe all synthetic life is an abomination and must be "cleansed" from existence.

Rise
With the announcement that machines had achieved human intelligence, many people grew naturally afraid and confused, wondering if such an accomplishment would lead to mankind's extermination by a superior intellect. What started as rampant speculation and biased fear-mongering, quickly devolved into groups of humans wanting nothing to do with the now established Synthetic race living among them. Exploiting fears of a synthetic takeover after artificial life was granted human rights, a new more militaristic faction calling itself Sapias Nova, called for a complete political takeover of human colonies.

Originally a non-violent organization, Sapias Nova advocated removal of the Synthetic race by political action as opposed to force. The Sapias Political Party quickly gained power on several key colonies, such as Veris and Ujjuma and the ship building hub planet Midway. Since the colonies were not unified under any one law, Sapias Nova quickly used their elected leadership to pass laws targeting Synthetics by stripping Synthetic citizens of their citizenship and rights of property ownership, marriage, and planetary occupation status. With their citizenship revoked, many sentient synthetics became instant refugees, with many traveling to more welcoming colonies such as Terra Alo and Opportunity. However, many synthetics chose to stay, with many being born and raised on the worlds they now had to leave. Some of these Synthetic groups decided to form paramilitary organizations to resist Sapias Nova rule. Some of these groups would go on to found the Singulus. These Synthetic organizations resorted to violence and terrorism to advance their political agendas.

A Vicious Response
Now facing full rebellion on most of worlds it controlled, Sapias Nova moved to eradicate all Synthetic life from its space. To facilitate this goal, Sapias Nova sanctioned government sponsored brutality such as using live ammunition to disperse peaceful Synthetic protests, backing and funding human terrorist organizations to carry out bombings and massacres against Synthetic rural villages and towns, and conducting barbaric and brutal experiments on sentient Synthetics in the name of scientific research. When it was discovered Sapias Nova was responsible for such atrocities, the remaining Synthetics left on Sapias Nova controlled worlds resorted to terrorism of their own.

On the Sapias Nova capital world Veris, a small group of Synthetic terrorists managed to sneak a small nuclear device into the densely packed city of Winston and detonate the device. The blast killed 4 million people and reduced the once vibrant and bustling city to radioactive rubble and smoke. Enraged, Sapias Nova ordered its small fleet of warships to reduce every Synthetic town and village to craters. Those that survived the onslaught were quickly rounded up and summarily executed in mass graves. Synthetic life became extinct on all Sapias Nova controlled worlds.