Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33879334-20180626024605/@comment-2602:301:77AD:9270:C822:297D:979F:9021-20180627015401

To be fair, Behemo Prime's access to the simulation is cited as being due to a familial connection not his smarts, however he is every bit the biologist capable of creating human bodies as Second Period Behemo because he's the one who made the bodies for the gods when they transitioned to the "Third" Period.

I don't think it's a matter of "if you fulfill X requirements you become a god". I think it's just experience and whether or not things worked out that way. Behemo and Levia were "gods" simply because they were the scientists most heavily involved in the project and knowledge of them spread to the Third Period people. Whereas most of the crew died off before then. Sickle and Held just ended up being gods because they were one of the few people left, and they had conspired together to try and keep people like Seth and the demons from having much influence on the Third Period (IE, they did it just to have a handle on the situation).

It's not a matter of "qualified or disqualified", it's "things turned out this way as a result of a bunch of death and squabbling". Held and Sickle didn't even want anyone to be gods, hence the no-interference policy even after they "ascended", as it were.