If you're interested in the lore then Myelin and Byf on YouTube are going to be great places to start. In short; The Awoken are descendants (and some original crew) of human colonists who were aboard one of the Exodus ships. Their ship was thrown into a singularity during the confrontation of light and dark paracausal forces throwing them out of time with the rest of the solar system and whose influence altered them physically as well. I think that's about as brief as I can get that for ya.