Voyager part.1 A Continuation of Epiphora...
Long have I imagined where the stars would take me. I began looking up at this pool of mystery with awe and wonder. My skyward eyes attempting to pierce their great depths and catch a glimpse of the hidden and unknown. Now, separated from the wreckage, I looked down now at the devastation we had suffered. The great price our people paid to lead us through into prosperity and remain themselves forever on the other side, trapped by the relentless spawn that followed us through the heavens for our young, our bravest. Our blood.
Looming among the graveyard of broken cities and towers, the Voyager Class battle citadels of heaven left in remnants, twisted together, meshed and crumbled, lifeless. Filled with shadows and gleaming tears. The remains of our entire hyper-capital navy escort rendered unrecoverable and inaccessible by the germs of this higher plane, vacuum and fire. Some remained in their entirety, but left stranded and without a working crew by the tiny pricks of undeflected force and heat. The first that let the vacuum in, the latter that seared the flesh and bone of her bounty and stripped the starry corridors of their purpose.
Of all New Eden, and all that I have seen, I knew now the monsters we fled were not of any creeping claw or gleaming tooth, but of the dark madness' and guiles that dwelled and stirred within the treacherous heart. Reflected long ago by what we thought we left behind, and remembered, by exterior facades, manifested without by the already present and complimentary and incipient primeval appetites that relish in the apogee of appeasement. The utter end of which could only stir longing again into a porous thirst that began in those that turned and who succumbed to that mutation which could only assimilate or destroy you.
New Eden has proved to me otherwise. Some say the end is always fear. I now know it is the only beginning that has no end.
A great surge of pride and sorrow overwhelmed me again as I looked on my brothers, my origin, my past, and I wept bitterly. If they could only see what monsters we gave birth to again on the other side...
