The Pathfinder Project

The Pathfinder project was the name that ancient, and highly advanced Humans known later as "Terrans" gave to their mission to create a network of Tachyon gates across the galaxy. The mission would pave the way to colonizing other planets, and eventually traveling to other galaxys, connecting, and expanding their great empire throughout the universe using The Center gate.

The Pathfinders
The Pathfinders, or later known as The Gatebuilders, were the humans involved with the Pathfinder Project. They set out into the galaxy to construct the Tachyon gate network.

The Kyn'ai Upsurge
In rare instances, after the construction of the Tachyon gate network had begun, a number of babies born developed certain abilities that could not be explained, other then while pregnant, the mother traveled using the Tachyon gate network, and midstream, the unborn babies DNA was altered in a way that gave them, among other thing, the ability to manipulate mass and gravity with there minds. The people that developed these abilities were given the name Kyn'ai, and were thought of as an abomination throughout the Human empire. In time a law was made that no pregnant woman was aloud to travel using the Tachyon gate network, and any woman found to do so was put to death. To avoid the ridicule and fulse accusations, most Kyn'ai kept there abilities a secret, and therefore never fully learned how to control or use them, except for one man named Zachary Weaver who was born and lived in almost total seclusion on an otherwise totally uninhabited planet with his parents, who kept his abilities a secret. Being able to develop and better control his abilities, Zachary grew into a powerful Kyn'ai and gathered and led others like him to the planet which he grew up on, and taught them how to properly use their abilities.

The Pathfinder Plague
For fast, and precise construction of the Tachyon gates, advanced Nanobots were programmed by the Pathfinders for constructing the network. During the construction, some of the nanobots, due to exposure to tachyon energy, began showing signs of sentience, and infected the Pathfinders like a plague, rewriting their DNA and linking them together mentally, creating a completely new cybernetic species, who took the name "Pathfinders" as their own.This new species, being cybernetic, were able to take control of all advanced human technology, and use it against them to either assimilate, or destroy them. To fight back, the remaining humans were left with only outdated ships, weapons and technology that was incompatible with the wireless network connecting all modern technology. Being unable to form a proper resistance against the Pathfiders, the great human empire fell, and their home planet of Earth was taken from them, along with most of the planets they had colonized. The humans that were left escaped through The Center gate, and destroyed the gate on the other side, making themselves refugees in another galaxy, and losing almost all recorded history and knowlege of their people.