While returning back to the normal life in The Pass I understood two things.
First: the territory of law and relative safety is limited only to the city perimeter. Everything that is outside the walls brings death. Or money. City ruins, abandoned military bases, and scientific laboratories even today present a source of artifacts from the previous age. And as long as some people pay for them other people will risk their lives for glory and money.
Second: the people. The Wave has changed everything. The Earth became absolutely different, and the people could not remain the same. Those who survived the Wave became strangers on the new Earth. They fought, suffered, starved, worked all the time to adjust to new conditions of existence. They changed. Their home, the last habitable continent, was rapidly releasing from the thousand-year ice and glaciers to give shelter to the new forms of life. The world has changed and the people have changed with it.
The survivors of “Eden”, the largest shelter of scientists, were able to save and even develop the knowledge of the lost civilization. The laboratories that had been built before the Wave continued to work but the priorities were different. The Ecology became the modern bible of the survivors and the main goal was to save and restore biosphere of the planet. Their ancestors called themselves Homo Ecоlogycus or simply - Eco.
Many scientists from “Eden” left it soon after the Catastrophe. These were people who didn’t want to keep the heritage of their ancestors and start the life from a new page. Their philosophy was openness to all new things. Led by Professor Skvachinskim, one of the pioneers of psi-energy, they founded a new settlement away from "Eden". All who couldn’t find their place in the crowded shelters, who didn’t want to obey the pre-war administration, all came here. At the same time, having lost access to traditional technologies and equipment, having refused from the old ways of society organization, from law and morality in the traditional meaning of those words, the migrants faced incredible difficulties. Struggle for survival became the major goal of the Limbo inhabitants for a long time. Without protection of the shelter the settlers changed faster than the others. These changes affect not only consciousness but also the genome. Over time it became obvious that a completely new kind of man appeared on the planet. It was named Homo Novus or Noo. 
There were also those, who were not able to get into "Eden" and who were not interested in the philosophy of changes and starving freedom of the Limbo. Those, who continued to repair the equipment, watch the hydroponic plants and spend their hard-earned pennies for rent of tiny cells in the Ark, the commercial shelter of the Trust. Those, who many years dreamt nothing but about a piece of bread and a glass of water for themselves and their families. They also changed but with indefatigable pertinacity continued to call themselves Humans or Homo. Probably because this name was the last thing they had…
Tomorrow I am going to leave the perimeter, so today I pray. For me, for all people on this planet, no matter how different they are.
