Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20160524151005/@comment-4960835-20160928093950

Probably.

And then you have got a "New Enlightenment" in Eastern Mirus, (mostly) upholding the old collaborative ideals even after it's collapse. It was formed after the Covenant of Mirus happened, but really became significant after the HoR, when many Olympians fled to the east in fear of their repression by the Covenant after they had aided the Hand. So what happens is whatever collaborative programs ceases to exist in the west, it would still exist in the east.

The New Enlightenment is probably also the one that (unwittingly) provoke the Eternal Empire into invading the west, as well as (again unwittingly) bringing about the east-west contact.