The Luminate Tribe is a large, relatively prosperous, Tribal community within the Core Region, founded almost directly after the end of the Great War from the remnants of a research facility studying the effects of various forms of lighting and how such lighting could affect human interaction. Their tribes populace suffered, or perhaps benefited, from a gene that caused the majority of their populace to grow to heights of 7ft as a 'normal' height, either through a natural environmental change or one influenced by the radiation in their area. The tribe, around 2281, due to attempts to avoid any conflict or confrontation between itself and the New California Republic, alongside food shortages in their area due to lack of arable land, was forced to search for a new home further out in the was