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“Only from the darkness may we see the stars.” The indomitable Human Empire vaulted itself majestically dick-first into space. On wings of angels and the backs of warlike men and ambitious women, the unprecedented union of Earth’s disparate global powers set forth to the heavens for glory, profit, and conquest. Slowly at first, this powerful force overtook the rest of Humanity and beyond. They spread across Orion’s Arm, taking planets-like notches on their belts: voraciously consuming cosmic resources, subjugating sentient species as they found them, and annihilating some wholesale. Like a cancerous tumor, Humanity surged ever-onwards, tainting the stars unchecked—until Humanity came upon a Murai Hiveworld. Cleansing the planet of its inhabitants in a corporate-backed military action dubbed “CloudFall,” Humanity declared war on the insectoid spacefarers, expecting to crush them like bugs.  Humanity lost the war. The Murai had allies.  The year is now 50 After Origin (A.O.), 50 Standard Solar Years since the formation of the Trinity, and Humanity has been given a new lease on life. After CloudFall, the Murai and their historic trade partners, the socially-complex, mammal-like Thren formed a wartime alliance known as “The Coalition of Sister Species” to defend the Murai from Human invasion. Realizing that simply repelling Humanity would solve nothing, the Coalition resolved to end the threat of the Human Empire in its entirety. After fifty long years of interplanetary warfare, death, destruction, and despair, the Sister Species claimed the Imperial capital of Mars.The Great Transition followed for another fifty years.  After much violence and toil and uprising, Humanity rose to form the Artemisian Commune and join with the Sister Species to create the first truly multi-species stellar polity in Orion's Arm's history: the Trinity.  They stand together against the void's dangerous indifference and all sources of aggression and exploitation from without and within.  The