DETERMINISTIC CHAOS
There was once an Empire that spanned the galaxy and sought to defeat the natural tendency of the universe towards decay. But no civilization is invulnerable, and the Empire fell. It has left hellscapes, ruins, and valuable wonders from a lost age scattered throughout its splintered successors and the hardscrabble survivors of a galactic-scale apocalypse, seeded the precursors to a trillion small conflicts.
For historians and utopians, the term used is "tragedy." But for people like you - freelance commanders of powerful starfaring war machines - there is opportunity where others see loss.
The Empire may be gone, but some of its core ideals live on. Existence breeds conflict, managed or unmanaged. The only moral arc nature has bends towards meaningless decay. And if you believe in anything, if you wish for anything but being forgotten and discarded, the only way to etch your values onto the universe is to fight for what you believe in.
There was once an Empire that spanned the galaxy and sought to defeat the natural tendency of the universe towards decay. But no civilization is invulnerable, and the Empire fell. It has left hellscapes, ruins, and valuable wonders from a lost age scattered throughout its splintered successors and the hardscrabble survivors of a galactic-scale apocalypse, seeded the precursors to a trillion small conflicts.
For historians and utopians, the term used is "tragedy." But for people like you - freelance commanders of powerful starfaring war machines - there is opportunity where others see loss.
The Empire may be gone, but some of its core ideals live on. Existence breeds conflict, managed or unmanaged. The only moral arc nature has bends towards meaningless decay. And if you believe in anything, if you wish for anything but being forgotten and discarded, the only way to etch your values onto the universe is to fight for what you believe in.