Lore: Skeletons in Vanu's Closet?

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Recently on Redditside there was a very well written post on the Vanu Sovereignty's position and potential were they to succeed in conquering Auraxis. It essentially promised a paradise beyond what we are likely even capable of imagining: no more war, starvation, or death. No one to force you to do anything you don't want to. Just an eternity to live, learn, and enjoy the universe around you.

To say it sounded too good to be true would be an understatement. Solving every single one of mankind's problems was treated as if it was just something they could do in their sleep with nanite technology. And to them, it was an inevitability. No where was there even a hint that things might not be as they seemed. For a faction that espouses the virtues of the scientific method and logical thought nowhere did they even factor in the idea that there might be some sort of price associated with all of that potential. Skepticism, mankind's scientific and logical compass, seems stunted within their ranks, replaced with dogmatic, shortsighted fervor to rush toward a future that may be much darker than they believe.

There are even implications that the man whose ideas founded their movement, Henry Briggs, was lead to suicide by the visions that he received. What was it that he saw? He supposedly spoke directly to Vanu, so what did he learn? Is it not possible he and the rest of the VS are being manipulated by forces beyond their comprehension? Perhaps Briggs had a revelation that Vanu doesn't have humanity's best interests in mind; that they are merely pawns in some alien scheme? Could the guilt of leading his followers into the arms of a new, much more powerful tyrant than they've ever known before have lead him to take his life out of shame?

All I'm saying is that we don't have all the answers. What I find disturbing is that this doesn't seem to bother the self-proclaimed "scientifically minded" Vanu Sovereignty. Vanu may have some skeletons in his xeno-closet that we're unaware of, but the VS have been blinded by their ambition. Surely I can't be the only one who feels that way?