Sednan Sleepers

"'Let the Shattered Worlds pick up their pieces and sweep up their dust. Let the warren-born play heroes in the wreckage of their ancestors; let them wallow in their ambition of reclaiming Earth's former glory. Let them lie to themselves. It is no matter. A thousand other tongues still sing of the diamond in Kuiper's Ring - of Eris, Freeport for a dozen millennia. She will outlive them all.'"-Rilk Serphaam, 17º Morphean Regent of Sedna

The Sednan Sleepers are a faction that exist in the post-Aube Sol System, the only one of the major post-human offshoots extant at the time of Polaris that do not claim to be successors of the original root stock humanity from Earth. The true nature of the Sleepers is shrouded in mystery, due to the vast distance to their homeworld, and their insistence on using semi-real projections in all their dealings with others. Nevertheless, the Sednan Dominion - the Sleepers' sphere of influence - covers much of the outer reaches of the Sol System.

Overview
The true size of the Sednan Dominion is unknown due to its vast scale and distance, but the Sleepers lay claim to the entirety of Kuiper's Ring, and appear to have a presence in most of it. In addition, they control the two largest planetary bodies in the Ring, and have done so since long before the Aube.

Eris Freeport is the Sleepers' most important world, known as the Jewel of the Kuiper; the heart of the Dominion for as long as any can remember, it is both their de facto capital and the most open world shown to outsiders. Plouton, on the other hand, has remained veiled in secrecy by the Sleepers, despite being the second largest of the dwarf planets of the Ring. Little is known about it other than its status as an "Installation" of the Sleepers - and daring Bright who have sought to investigate have not returned.

Technology
Sednan technology and power projection as a whole is inexorably tied to the Null-space magic they draw from the void beyond the Ring; as Sedna is far further from mass of Sol than any other settled world, the fabric of reality is far thinner there, and the Sleepers seem able to manipulate the Null to varying degrees. Such power is almost wholly opaque to Neathers and those in-system, although the Sleepers in turn are said to have limited understanding of the Aurora and its limitations in spite of their disdain for it.

Sleeper ships are known to be significantly more ornate in their design than those of Earth or the Four Sisters, with intricate heraldry often only understandable to fellow Ring Parliamentarians.

Society & History
While nominally maintaining open relations with other factions, the Sleepers are secretive to most outsiders, in no small part due to the vast distances in space and time between the Sleepers and their ancestral home of Earth. This distance has also resulted in them being standoffish from the going-ons further in-system, unwilling to engage in more than transactional interactions with even fellow Bright or Sisterhood humans outside of the direst of circumstances. As such, information about their history is scarce; all that is commonly known is that their ancestors had reached and settled Sedna before the Shattering, although it was only long after it that they began expanding into the Ring and influencing events closer to Sol.

The main instruments of Sleeper leadership - if the loosely directed currents of scheming and intrigue can be called leadership - all reside on Eris. The Morphean Regent is nominally their head, assisted and opposed in equal measure by the Parliament of Ice, a seemingly random assortment of Sleepers with influence amongst the countless worldlets of the Kuiper Ring.