A belief system born from humanity’s first encounters with the deep Void beyond Terra, where explorers reported a shared, undetectable presence that compelled continual forward motion. As subtle heritable adaptations emerged among those voyagers, the Path framed progress as an existential imperative rather than territorial expansion. Fracturing across colonies isolated, yet unified by rejection of stagnation, the Path became the philosophical ancestor of Armada’s Horizon doctrine, carried between worlds by Pathstriders and preserved as a shared cultural current amid humanity’s dispersal.