Order, Taiyi, was one of the oldest Aeons.
It was said that when Taiyi became an Aeon, Aeons such as Destruction and The Hunt had yet to be born.
Taiyi suppressed turmoil, watched over disorder, and controlled order.
Yet this top-down order had been subsumed by Harmony.
Family needed no suppression, only understanding.
Family needed no surveillance, only support.
Family needed no manipulation, only cooperation.
Compared with order ruling over all things, family seemed a very small concept.
But what if family was no longer confined to blood ties, and instead expanded further-
As long as you shared an ideal, you could be my family.
No longer a small household, but one enormous Family.
Order could not accommodate disorder.
But family embraced everything, including order.
In the present-day Sea of Stars, the Family, a faction serving the Aeon of Harmony, had already occupied numerous star systems.
They spread the concept of family everywhere, drawing more and more people into the Family and building one free paradise after another.
Join us!
Become us!
Be happy together!
This is Harmony!
It was said that Xipe, the Aeon of Harmony, was a collective Aeon.
They wanted all intelligent life to merge into a single collective.
To form a "family."
A perfect "family."
Among family, the strong supported the weak, and the dead protected the living.
Surrender the self and become us.
People said this Aeon had a thousand faces in one body.
Their most common appearance was that of a white-haired woman with three faces, facing left, forward, and right.
When Xipe, the Aeon of Harmony, was born, they devoured the ancient deity Taiyi, the Aeon of Order.
That was why Kafka and Herta had thought of Harmony when they first learned about Taiyi in the Simulated Universe.
But there was no direct