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  Chapter 2

  I am not sure what troubled us more when we first detected the disturbance – the thought that the Umpala were capable of doing this thing, or the thought that one of our own had. Princess Calista had been our greatest prodigy, and now words cannot express how great our disappointment. So much talent, so much power, and yet so much desecration. In the far reaches of the Empire, our best and brightest felt the reverberations in the Void that day Calista defiled it.

  - Journals of Marcia XII, Sacrator Primus of the Sacerdotes Vacuum (359 to 373 P.D.), recorded on the refuge world of Mokupuni in 368 P.D (1 year after the Fall of Man.)