This is Vas, the last home allowed to humanity on Edana. Here we will build our Eternal Enlightened Empire, here on the old bones of a thousand follies and whatever the aelir have spared in their fury and their foolishness. Make no mistake, this is an inhospitable realm where our species has been sent to perish.

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  We will endure. As before, so now: we endure, thrive, and overcome.

  We will make this prison our home and we will once again reach for the stars that were denied us.

  Empress Catharina the First, On the path to Empire