However, this soon had a telling effect on the first children born into the Resistance. Constantly on the run, they grew accustomed to a semi-nomadic life. The new society spent its early days hiding in remote asteroid fields, fleeing the United Empire retaliatory forces. At some early phase of the United Empire's interstellar expansion, (the exact time is unclear) the Resistance hijacked a colonization ship and fled the Terran Solar System to form their own, less oppressive society. They objected to the corporate greed and authoritarian rule inherent to the Empire.
The Pilgrims, then called the Resistance, began as a group of unhappy United Empire scientists, intellectuals, and other dissidents.