Human Divergents

Prototype Divergents
The first prototypical Human-Divergents appeared roughly 300 years before Space-Time Pinching:pinching was perfected to a level of practical usability for Humanity, as a top secret military project utilizing genome modification to produce a line of enhanced super-soldiers, developed in the United States as an experimental means of countering rapid military technology developments by the Sino-Russian Union.

The European Union, with contributions by the United States private civilian sector in conjunction with the UK, India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland and Israel would set their sights on the stars, forming the United Earth Syndicate:UES or United Earth Syndicate:"United Earth Syndicate", after intensive surveys had discovered many new nearby habitable systems. These powers would put forth combined efforts to eventually colonize Mars and construct many large-scale stations in orbit with Mercury in the name of resource acquisition, with the eventual goal to test prototype FTL systems, more efficient, practical STL forms of propulsion, and new-age hull patterns.

The US and Sino-Russian Conflict's Fallout
The US and Sino-Russian "Second Cold War" would end as both parties would elect to join this new endeavor into space, the stipulation being that they only be allowed to enter into the UES after dissolving their national identities and provably destroying large scale military resources and industries as overseen by new designated UES representatives. Human-Divergent super-soldiers as a project would die, but the existence of these soldiers and their modifications would come under public scrutiny after being revealed as one of the United State's stronger and arguably more controversial military assets, with US government officials refusing to execute their modified legions in the face of public outcry. A wide-scale, world-wide movement would go underway, seeking these soldiers' independence and safety, along with the classified techniques involved to create them becoming public domain, in the name of bettering Humanity as whole.

Many individuals of this H-Div generation would find themselves employed as supremely helpful and capable specialists in space at the UES's requests, but unable to sire future generations due to specially inhibited reproductive systems, their kind would eventually grow old and fade away with time.

Divergent Technology Revisited
Approximately 200 years before the first truly functional combination of Einstein-Rosen Bridge Stabilizers:ERBS, Gravitational Mass Compression Drivers:GMC, and sufficient Antimatter production facilities are constructed, civilian sector science teams from around the world would introduce their own combined take on Human Divergents with a strict moral code in place, introducing subtle changes to the human genome to offer healthier children, children with specific traits, allowing parents to meticulously define what their child would be born as. These modified children would be able to pass their traits to their own children, introducing a healthier, longer-lived form of Humanity. Along with this offer, the same world-wide gene-clinic would offer targeted retrovirus solutions to individuals suffering from radiation and micro-gravity ailments in space, essentially vaccinating human beings against many of the major ardors of prolonged space-habitation.

The Release of Divergent Innovation into Public Domain
Around 150 years pre-FTL hallmark, genetic experimentation would structurally devolve somewhat, with a greater leniency being allowed for genome recombination; shadier, more obscure and private companies would begin offering "toy" model H-Divs, H-Divs with frivolous and wild changes to their appearances- For pleasure, fun, or an "improved aesthetic"; for those willing to pay the price, morally, and monetarily. Multiple global movements in protest of such "immoral" and "obscene" human phenotypes emerging would sweep Earth, followed by movements once again fighting for the personal freedoms and individual agency of this new classification of Human being.

Divergents in Positions of Governance
The UES, while fixated on the stars and seeking to utilize Humanity's combined efforts to make reaching out to them a possibility, would seek to install a system of governance using representatives allocated based on tested qualifications and afterwards, public approval. Providing them the system and agencies needed to monitor public supply and demand, these individuals would have the power to make executive decisions and confer among other representatives for trade negotiations to settle resource and domestic issues among partitioned populations.

While devoted towards the maintained unification and peaceful existence of Humanity, the new generation of UES politicians would look at heavily modified toy H-Divs as... Degenerates... Not suited for representative positions. This injustice would, yet again, invariably lead into many world-wide protests, and eventual widespread off-world migration of (now quite large) H-Div populations to new colony worlds after the invention and successful deployment of FTL technology.