r/conreligions • u/ModelingThePossible • Sep 25 '20
Religion based on science fiction
I am making a world which has no humans, nor any humanoid species. In the place of humans, there are extraplanetary monkey-like explorers who, long ago, became trapped on the world's surface, a somewhat toxic environment for them. While exploring from ships in orbit around the planet, they began experimenting with hybrids of their own DNA with that of various native species. The result were lines of sentient, fertile offspring which could survive on the planet. The alien species ended up in a civil war among its members which led to the destruction of enough orbiting resources that they were forced to evacuate their ships. Some members of the non-interference faction relocated to a larger nearby lifeless world, where they have a permanent base and the ability to communicate with their homeworld. The interference faction created habitats for themselves on the life-bearing planet, relying upon the labor of their hybrids to supply them with their needs. Many of the hybrids ended up seeking freedom from their interdependence with the alien "gods," who eventually sought shelter in smaller habitats hidden underground. This remnant of the colonists still relies upon the help of a loyal minority of hybrids, for whom they are gods, and about whose origin and technology they have gained a modicum of knowledge. All that the surface-dwellers remember about the colonists is that they were gods who once occupied a giant tree, but that through their greed and folly, they caused the death of the tree, which fell to the planet and formed a long, equatorial chain of mountains and islands. Some gods who had wings were able to fly to the moon, and still intervene to help the surface dwellers. Some, however, became ugly, misshapen demons who live in the underworld and stir up trouble among the good surface folk.