Hope's Descent
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The Universe is a vast place, plagued with beings of unknown. Many have died trying to unify it; Grand Exarch Azaziel of the Esthenian Galactic Unification Force has been pursuing this dream, a dream of uniting all under the watchful gaze of the Titans that forged his race and the many others that dwell upon his home planet of Globalis. He doesn't share the same oppressive views of the three other Grand Exarchs of the EGUF, or even the views of the High Consul Terranus. He is a heretic by word of the inquisitors, and a traitor worthy of little more than a swift death. He finds himself amongst hundreds of thousands of likeminded individuals that are alongside him in the Solaxis, prime vessel of the EGUF's Empyrean Navy. Without this vessel, they are crippled and vulnerable to assaults from the many plagues of the universe like the vicious Nepherin, or fanatical Azali. In the depths of space, not even the Titans can hear his pleas.
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