The Aenean soul is defined by its understanding of humanity as poised on the brink of cosmic destiny, aware of our uniqueness in the universe, and yet haunted by the specter of extinction, the Great Filter that looms ominously in our future. It seeks to establish a new civilization that, because threatened with existential perils of collapse, is thereby driven to transcend Earth’s boundaries to ensure human survival.

Since Earth cannot sustain us without end, we must sustain ourselves off Earth or end. Faustian man famously “went to the Moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard;” Aenean man will go Mars, not because it is hard, but because it is necessary.