Editing Post-Human Republic (section)

===The White Sphere===
One day, a tennis ball sized white sphere descended into Earth's atmosphere and landed in Peru. The sphere, despite its small size, required two men to carry it. The sphere was quickly brought to a lab in South America to be analyzed. As soon as the sphere was linked to a computer with a network connection, the entire lab went into lock down and every single computer on the continent was hacked. Hours later, from inside the locked down facility, explosions could be heard from outside. After the lockdown had been lifted, it was discovered that the sphere had been stolen. Days later a single message was broadcast throughout all inhabited worlds on all channels warning humanity of impending doom and to go to Vega IV one year from now in order to survive. This caused a lot of civil unrest and divided humanity between those who wished to flee and follow the sphere's warning and those who wanted to ignore it. This culminated in a massive space battle over Vega IV between the Correct People and the EAA Navy one full year after the white sphere issued its warning, with most of the fleet escaping to an unknown destination and being spared the Scourge invasion.

The motives of the Sphere are unknown, but it took on the role of advisor to the escapees, serving a council of elected officials. From this it guided a population of refugees to developing into a potent and technologically advanced society in a relatively short period of time.