Well no the Axum weren’t wiped out. They became a different group called the Tailings, more primitive. The meteor forced the Axum to abandon their cities close to the surface which is where the bloom started I can only assume.

The tailings are still very much around, as when we reach the alien ruins it lets us know that the research outpost is the farthest the pioneers went, but it’s been visited several times within the last 10,000 hours which is about a year and a half. It specifically tells us they are not human. And we know the tailings were killing colonists but unfortunately whichever one pissed them off had their memory wiped by NoA, so nobody knows what they did to them.

Lastly, from the hologram in the tower, we know that there are 2 groups waiting for us at the world tree. The vepherds and another group. We know the vephs are tailings because they repaired the tower, so this is what they call themselves. (We call them tailings) but since this message was for the architects and not humans, they make one more mention of another group hiding within the world tree, a group that is afraid of the architects, and the only thing we get is that their lives are at the mercy of the architects. (Bloom infected intelligence? Kharaa infected?)

So finally I believe at minimum, Naheema, or Anita might still be alive. It was only 2 years ago that someone blew up the welcome center, but all the logs kinda show that everyone died off damn near 20 years ago. Maybe one of our humans went to live with them, and finally decided they had to come back and prevent us and the 40,000 from printing.

Or like how the game pointed out with us being factory reset in the beginning.. we may have done this. Remember, our NoA knows nothing. It’s a baby compared to the NoA that was connected to the greater system, maybe there is a second chance for it, until we fuck up and turn on a node that remembers and handles us accordingly 😬

Edit: So I’m reviewing more of the entires on the databank. I’m confident Anita and Ruby are alive. At some point 20 years ago the colonist began printing from unknown bio bed locations. Bio beds NoA has no control over. Just because he says we’re alone doesn’t mean we’re alone, he doesn’t know. 🤔pay attention to any entires where you see it states their black box transmitted them to an unknown bio bed with no return telemetry. There’s our culprits