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CHAPTER THREE

  All but the most stubborn have accepted that the fact that the Darkness is real. Some of our most gifted have worked tirelessly for years to penetrate it, and they believe finally they have begun to catch brief glimpses of what is shrouded. They believe that we may not be alone, that perhaps other beings also resist the Darkness. Let us hope, for we have also glimpsed the Enemy within.

  - Journals of Aemilia XVII, Sacrator Primus of the Sacerdotes Vacuum (673 to 698 P.D.), recorded on the refuge world of Mokupuni in 691 P.D. (331 years after the Fall of Man.)