Background
A biotechnologist named Wing-Tsit Chong developed affinity symbiont neurons, allowing control over similarly bonded animals and living biotechnological structures called bitek (2058). In year 2069, the affinity gene was successfully engineered into human DNA.
Bitek habitats, living constructs made of polyp (artificial coral) in which people could live, were germinated in space. The first habitat, Eden, was germinated in 2075 and people began immigration in 2085.
In 2090, as Wing-Tsit Chong was dying, he transferred his memories to Eden's memory cells, effectively beginning the Edenist culture as his ideas and philosophy were committed to memory. Through affinity, Chong was able to continue living as a non-corporeal observer inside the habitat.
In response to this non-Christian afterlife, Pope Eleanor of the Unified Christian Church excommunicated humans born with affinity engineering in 2090, claiming Chong's soul would not continue its transcendental journey due to him cheating death.
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