>Summary: You are the SOLSTICE, the final remnant of the treasonous 12th suppression fleet. Retrieve your scattered crew and seek redemption.Break out the Blackhorses+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You remember your own birth.
You remember the rapture of first-fusion burn; the breakage of interstellar gas upon your magnetized prow.
You remember the first cohort of ancillaries you had received, their genetic patterns transliterated into binary and etched into wafer-thin storage cells.
Before you departed, they had shown you static-laced images of the dead-orphan planets - the asteroid chains ringing those blank-empty spaces in the great dark.
"Resistance is not immunity. Do not make our mistake."
"Do not listen to it. Do not reason with it. Do not comprehend its form."