His Divine Shadow had ruled with extreme authority from The Cluster, acting as a religious figurehead, as well as the supreme military commander. He existed in a sequence of human bodies by parasitically passing his essence to a new human host when the former host could no longer serve. The former host's brain would then be removed, and it became one of the Divine Predecessors, a much revered advisor. Unbeknownst to his worshippers, he was an agent of the last surviving member of the Insect Civilization, which was destroyed by the Brunnen-G. That survivor (correctly) assumed that he would be more successful in wiping out humanity by getting it to destroy itself. He worked towards humanity's destruction by starting a religion centered around himself (his possessed human bodies), gradually b