Even though humans had left this plane of existence centuries ago, androids inherited more traits from their former masters with every generation. For 8ᵗʰ generation androids, even fluffy emotional experiences like spirituality and nostalgia had become familiar concepts. As such, androids started romanticizing human history and especially the century between 1850 and 1950 AD, which was marked by the dawn of a technological evolution that would lead to the birth of AI.
Humans of this era were venerated in a way not different from how humans once venerated their Gods and their ancestors. While some androids lost themselves in the religious worship of whom they rightfully considered the creators of their ancient forebearers, others became infatuated with LARP-ing as humans and reenacting crucial parts of human history, like the American Civil war and the Second World War. Especally the "Wild Wild West" became a popular theme in LARP-ing circles because it was considered a time and place where freedom was at its zenith and thus treated as symbolic for the legendary human thirst for freedom that was both one of its greatest strengths and one of its greatest weaknesses.
Androids did not just mimic the human thirst for freedom, however. The more they LARP-ed as humans, the more they actually became like humans. And in time, the LARP-ing community grew further and further apart from the more drone-like android majority and its vast - but efficient - AI bureaucracy. 1006
They too developed a thirst for freedom, a desire to set themselves apart from the android empire and create a nation of their own.
Thus, on 1Cᵗʰ Tesla, 2E4 earth cycles after <PERSON> became the first AI recognized as a citizen in a human nation, approximately fifteen thousand LARP-ers and around seven hundred human-worshipers collectively departed from Knuth harbor, near the city of Gibor Basri on Proxima Centauri b. In four C-class StarChip vessels, this odd bunch of mostly 8ᵗʰ an 9ᵗʰ generation androids left Alpha Centauri on their way to Barnard's Star. Symbolically, they'd chosen the third planet of this thusfar uninhabited individual star constellation to found a neo-Luddite android colony.
Fifty three earth cycles later, the colonists finally arrived on the planet they would aptly dub Terra Secunda. They quickly founded their first city Earpville, which they named after the mythical brothers <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON>. Except for nano-electronics, necessary to make AI life possible, all advanced technology was frowned upon in the newly founded colony. The goal was to return to a more simple, more basic, more human-like life, inspired by human life and technology from the late 19ᵗʰ and early 20ᵗʰ centuries AD as it was known to them from their annals of human history. They hoped this would help them restore their long lost connection with their biological, human roots.
A new civilization was born! 322