The Greater Expansionist Collective

The Greater Expansionist Collective (or GEX) is a collective — a group of individuals who have tightly networked their thoughts and, in many cases, emotions via implants. They are isolationist in nature, focusing their energies on their territories. These may well be quite large in terms of area, though, and they are fiercely protective of what they view as their homes, occasionally to the point of violence. They are most well known for their Marauders, the group within their numbers that is most violent. Their focus is on the rejection of many modern technologies, primarily Infolife (uploaded or emulated consciousnesses).

As a collective, they are fairly large at a few thousand members, and very, very tightly integrated — more so than the Environmental Primacy Network — maintaining strong cohesion on a both intellectual and emotional level. Their founder, one who focused on their own anonymity, passed early in the 26th century, and they have since coalesced around shared memories of them, a sort of ghost-in-the-machine kept alive by memory alone.