Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Grayson was settled in the
year 988 P.D. (Post Diaspora; equivalent to 3091 on present-day
calendar) by the Reverend Austin Grayson and his followers, all
members of the Church of Humanity (Unchained) . The settlers'
intention was to start a new life totally free of technology and
live the way the Bible said people should live. This dream was
foiled before their ship even landed because Grayson has an
unusually high concentration of heavy metals in its soil which
made anything indigenous poisonous. As a result technology was
necessary just to survive. After the Rev. Grayson's death his
doctrine about life totally without technology was abandoned.
Adopted in its place was the view that technology in and of
itself was not un-Godly, but the way it had consumed Man's life
on Earth was. Not all Graysons could accept this
reinterpretation, and over the course of several hundred years a
political rift developed between the Moderates (those willing to
employ technology to a limited e