User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore Sheet: The United Republic of Humankind/@comment-4867780-20150626073051/@comment-26322734-20150627005945

Yep, you've got it. Also right. It simply converts materials into other materials at the subatomic level, and combined with intricate teleportation it isn't hard to find raw materials. That and there's a lot of smaller things in empty space. In quantum voids, particles randomly appear all the time. So it isn't that difficult to say, make a sandwich out of oxygen. Well, that's why people are always changing and different factions are being made. To them, perfection is synonymous with "what you wish to be". That said, not everybody follows Al Kai Doru. Some believe it to be a vain philosophy and simply settle with what's "good enough". Most humans, however, strive to find their own personal (and, admittedly, superficial) image of perfection. Not everybody has the same idea for what's perfect, and the overall definition changes from person to person in this world. I guess the best I can say is that the true process of following Al Kai Doru is not being perfect itself, but persuing it to the best of your ability. It's a "the journey matters more than the destination" type of thing. With that being said, the United Republic do still have secrets of the universe not accessible to them and a few problems. They want to expand to take the whole galaxy, but bitter rivalries with old empires and civilizations keep them from doing that. Within the United Republic's territory, psionic powers are being discovered, but the field of study as a whole is largely unknown. Eldritch abominations seem to arise from trans-dimensional sources. And then there's the Outsider Corps (see Drayse) fighting inter-universal threats. MAGNUMOPUS was made to make mankind completely invincible. They're already at the top, but they want more than that, y'know? MAGNUMOPUS itself sees its very purpose of existence as protecting humankind's best interests (what it believes their best interests to be, at least). As long as humanity isn't a single, godly organism ruling the universe, humanity's interests are threatened; that's how MAGNUMOPUS sees it, at least. That's how he justifies his existence.