Mortus Corps 5

It has been often said that space is the final frontier.  Well friend, truer words have never been spoken.  No matter how far we travel, no matter how much we claim for ourselves, there is always more out there.  It is something that most folk talk for granted, but if you stop and actually think about the virtual empire that we have carved out for ourselves, and then compare that to what is left, it is enough to really make a person feel insignificant.

It can’t be said that all of our ventures out here have been successful, far from it actually.  I would wager more people have been lost out here in the vast-nothing than anyone could ever count.  This is especially true for those earliest travelers from the Home-Worlds.  I can’t imagine the guts it took to be on those first colony ships to leave the Sol system.  Historians like to tell us that one out of every five settlers died in those days, but I would guess it was closer to three of five.

Why is all of this relevant you ask?  Well the simple truth is that you kids today have no sense of History.  And yes, I meant that with a capital ‘H’.  The thing that irks me most is that you act like everything you see on the ‘net is gospel.  Let me tell you something, I have been studying History for longer than any of you have been alive so you will listen to what I have to say even if you don’t like it.  Do you get me?

“Yes drill sergeant!”

Now when I bring up this subject most people just roll their eyes and think to themselves that I’m going to go off on another rant.  Don’t get me wrong, I can go on and on about the history of the Alliance, but damn it, this stuff is important!  If we can’t even remember where we came from how are we expected to increase what we have?  How can we expand our holdings if we can’t figure out what started it all in the first place?

Don’t worry, I am not going to go all the way back to literal beginning of our history as a people, but I am going to jump back to before the Alliance was formed, back to when there was still life on Earth.  In my years of studying this topic I have compiled thousands of hours of antique footage, and I am going to allow you maggots the opportunity to learn from them…and the first one I catch sleep is going to find them shipped out to the ass-end of the galaxy protecting nothing more than a garbage dispersal unit.  Are we clear?

“Yes drill sergeant!”