The Gene War

At the creation of telepathy, the first telepaths controlled the minds of whoever they wanted until the ordinary humans fought back. History named the resulting conflict The Gene War. It nearly burned Homo sapiens to the ground.

The Gentle Hand coalesced to fight the Archons. They turned the tide of the war. They defeated the Archon mind controllers, then discovered their problems had only begun. The power to telepathically control other humans posed far too great a danger to simply let the Archons reintegrate into society. But no one had the stomach to simply execute them all.

Exile solved the problem.

Using the very first Faster Than Light space vessel, the Gentle Hands sent the Archons and their pig-human hybrids to an exoplanet that appeared habitable from Earth. Given no knowledge of where in space they were, no knowledge of how to build starships, and no residual knowledge of how to find Earth, the Archons and and the hybrids were well and truly stranded.

They could never threaten Humanity again…