By approximately 3700 A.F., the first generations born within VIREON had reached adulthood. This marked a major historical threshold because a significant part of the civilization now consisted of independent adults whose entire lives had unfolded after the Fall of NEX and within the protected environment created by VIREON.

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For these generations, the catastrophes that had shaped their parents belonged primarily to history. They could learn about NEX, NULLIS, AETH-01, the cavern survivors, the founding ELE-410 population, and the difficult years during which VIREON had expanded, but they did not carry those events as personal memories. Their relationship to the past was therefore fundamentally different from that of the survivors.

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Their adulthood also introduced new perspectives into the civilization. These individuals could question structures created before their birth, develop relationships without the divisions inherited from older populations, choose new areas of work or study, and interpret the purpose of VIREON according to experiences formed entirely within the city.

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The older generations remained important sources of knowledge and memory, but they were no longer the only population capable of shaping the civilization's future. Authority based solely upon having survived earlier events gradually became less meaningful as individuals born in VIREON accumulated their own experience, expertise, and responsibilities.

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By 3700 A.F., VIREON therefore possessed something no refuge could claim. It had produced an adult generation that did not remember arriving there because it had never lived anywhere else.