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There was an organization of sorts, descended from a group of airship pirates that once ravaged the skies of the Ring. Known as the Order of the Prism, they created vast underwater establishments, protected by aquatic hybrids they aptly named Guardians, where they planned conquest and conducted military testing. Easily the most powerful order known to humanity on the Ring, the Order of the Prism conquered many lands using powerful airships and arranged with the residents of other lands to sign agreements to join the Order, which could make use of them if needed. The Order was responsible for revolutionizing human warfare on the Ring as they were the first to develop fully militarized and weaponized airships. Along with this power came a need to destroy all competition. The majority of the Order's leaders were extremely skeptical about the motivations of the recently settled Architects, whom they believed would not settle with only having claimed two fifths of the Ring. The Order acted before that question could be answered by the Architects themselves, and we will never know truly what they wished to do on that front. And

When you hear that the Architects created a celestial body, you wonder why they didn’t just move to another planet. The problem was, they were in danger of something. What that thing was is not known, but it is clear that they wanted to move away from whatever this was, and the best place to hide was somewhere remote. The planet they found was, however, unsuitable for proper settlement, so they set up a base there and began work on the Ring instead. You might also wonder "Why a ring?" There is quite a practical explanation for that; lack of time. Even though the Architects' technological prowess far exceeded what was known to many other races, the "cataclysm" they were running from was too powerful for even them to stop. Building a massive, fully spherical structure the size of a planet would take many, many years, and plenty of millennia would have to pass before it would be completed. The Architects would still need an absolutely massive and expansive space to fit most of their species on, but they couldn't afford to take more than a single millennium before the cataclysm would reach them. A gigantic ring's underside could contain a huge amount of land while requiring the minimum possible time to complete, an ideal plan for the species's salvation. Even with all of this information that has been deduced, it is unsure to say if the Architects truly planned to dominate the entire Ring with their species, or if we were somehow a pawn in their plans.

There is evidence that shows some of the earliest major life on the ring was likely in the form of giants. Giants are a huge part of the human culture that had made up the ring; many myths, folktales and legends revolve around them. Human excavators have encountered the fossils of what they believe to be these giants buried deep under deserts and muddy swamps. But the terms ‘giants’ does not imply a humanoid appearance; for the fossils that have indeed been discovered have varied strangely in structure and general size. Humanoid spines have indeed been found, but so have non-humanoid rib cages. Was this type of life what the Architects had in mind for the first execution of the Ring’s creation? One theory is that the Architects had originally meant to genetically engineer giants as the Ring’s main animal species, but what would be the purpose of making them giants? Would that not hinder the development of the Architects species, at least considering that they are believed to be smaller than the giants? Another theory, the most widely accepted, says that the giants were the original natural occurrence caused by the Ring’s temporary ecosystem instability, and that they were eradicated by the Architects before the next stage of their plans could take place. This is possible, yet still strange, for if bones of these giants have been preserved, they must have lived long enough on the ring to naturally die out in rather large numbers as opposed to being obliterated by the power of the Architects, which would surely be clean enough to disintegrate bone so not to disrupt the Ring’s terrain. The origin of these giants remains a mystery, but one thing is certain - they have died out since, and to public record have not been seen alive by a single human soul.

The plague has twisted our once glorious brothers.
The first strain was released by the Architects into a select handful of testificate villages. It was slow to spread, at first. Then, the corrupted testificates wandered far from their original homelands and took the remnants of the human race by utmost surprise. Their eyes had been turned towards the sky in light of recent warring with the Architects, and they therefore did not expect a new threat to come from the ground upon which they stood.
Alone, they are hardly a menace; they clamber slowly and are beaten back easily. But in a horde, they overpower any group of survivors; they destroy doors in their path and eat alive all pure forms of at least somewhat intelligent life that they can come across. They possess an uncanny amount of intelligence for what is left in them. Unlike folk tales of such creatures, which often describe them as dumb beasts that have little directional sense, the zombies of the plague can find their way through mazes and around walls to seek out their prey.
They have a major weakness, however: they can only rely on the dark to hunt. Oddly, when exposed to the sun’s rays, they burn alive from the inside out. Sometimes they have the sense to hide under shade or dunk themselves in water, but it is still quite strange that the Architects would have a rather major flaw in their development of the plague. Although it could also be an intentional side effect used by the Architects to easily eradicate them once their usefulness has degraded…
Some experimenters have discovered a way to cure the virus from at least the testificates, through a supposedly long and material-costly process, but there have been no reports of this method working on human zombies. Other, more desperate ones have found the flesh of such slain zombies to be the only, albeit absolutely rotten and sickening, form of food they can find. Such a pity to see us turned into mindless, savage monsters craving our own kind’s flesh...