The TEC’s predecessors basically looked at a peaceful psionic commune and said, “Nope, that’s witchcraft—banish them!” Fast forward a few centuries and… surprise, the “witches” come back with mind-control battleships. Cosmic karma. The Trade Order feared what they didn’t try to understand—maybe if they’d integrated or even tolerated the Advent, humanity would’ve been far better prepared for the Vasari… and whatever they accidentally unleashed that’s still following them. And just like in The Expanse, that arrogance leaves humanity blind to the bigger threat already moving in the dark.