I have begun to wonder if this Darkness played some part in our ancestors losing contact with Earth and the worlds of the First Dispersion so many centuries ago. It is possible that internal war, the War of Confederations, actually extinguished many of those worlds, but surely not all of them. Our Empire of Man sprung from but a single colony world, and surely others would have followed suite. But where are they? Why cannot we See them? This Darkness troubles me more and more every day.
- Secret Journals of Licinia VII, Sacrator Primus of the Sacerdotes Vacuum (322 to 339 P.D.), recorded 339 P.D. (28 years prior to the Fall of Man.)