Aftothysian Movement

The Aftothysian Movement is a non-governmental activist organization dedicated to the opposition of extraplanetary human colonization.The Movement is broad in scope and has many sub-factions with different notions of what the Movement's actual aims and methods should be, but all are unified in the opinion that humankind should remain anchored to Earth and should leave the rest of the galaxy untouched.

While the majority of the Movement's actions are nonviolent, Aftothysian extremists have been known to commit various forms of ecoterrorism. These acts often include sabotage of supply lines from Earth to offworld colonies, attacks on remote shipping lanes, or even direct armed assaults on exoplanetary colonies. The Aftothysian Movement is quick to disavow the actions of these extremists as rogue elements acting without official sanction of the Movement, but these acts occur with such frequency that many view the Aftothysian Movement as little more than a terrorist network barely hidden behind a mask of legitimacy as an environmentalist group.

Despite their own stance that humanity should restrict itself to its own homeworld and leave the rest of the universe alone, most of the Aftothysian Movement's activity takes place outside of the Home System, the rationale being that, in order to pursue their goal of restricting humanity's expansion, they must go wherever humanity goes. Their headquarters and the majority of their operations are located on Showalter, where they make constant efforts to slow the expansion of humanity's fastest-growing exoplanetary colony and to preserve the unique local flora from deforestation.

Members of the Aftothysian Movement have been known to attack vessels traveling to and from the colonies on Samrat, contributing to the planet's significant piracy problem.