The Elite

Humans immigrated to Earth in two waves. Something happened to that first wave of colonists, no one knows what, but they were changed. The changes were subtle with one exception: they had forgotten nearly all of the philosophical and scientific knowledge accumulated over millennia. To say their technology was crude would be an understatement. They lived like savages.
It made things difficult for those that came later. At first they made no effort to hide the differences. They used technology...