From what we know grimoire, the Awoken in the Reef are the decedents of humans who had fled Earth during the Collapse, but can we find out anything else about that? If you seen the movie "2012" then we can get some ideas. In that movie, the world leaders find out the world will be flood in a year so they start the construction of 3 ships that would insure Humanities survival. However, the project was expensive so they have wealthy people from all over fund their project in exchange for a ticket on the ship. When the flood came, only the rich, the scientists, and the political leaders had survived. I imagine that the first Awoken were also rich merchants, scientist, and leaders. How did the Awoken survive so long in the Reef? Well it was already provided for them by their ancestors. Why does the Queen have a treasure room filled with gold. of all the things to bring to space, nothing is more useless than gold. The Awoken views are similar to that of how rich can view the rest of world in our own society. "We are a beautiful creation," she said. "And we must keep ourselves very safe."- Grimoire Awoken 2. "The City, these— people. They are not like us. They do not understand their place in the world. And do not listen when I speak it."- Petra Venj Grimoire. If you listen to guards in the reef, you'll receive a variety of insults as if your a lower being. The Awoken I believe may feel threaten by Guardians for they have powers the Awoken can only dream of, but more info is require here. Thank you for reading