The consolidation of the Kyros Hegemony had provided more than just territory; it had provided a graveyard of ancient power. For Aegis, the victory at the Home-Star was not the end of his journey but the catalyst for a fundamental metamorphosis. While the empire's engineers repurposed chrome hulls and diamond palaces, Aegis retreated into the deepest sub-space pocket of the Citadel, a place where the laws of reality were thin and the influence of the Great Abyss was absolute.
He had spent five centuries in the first acceleration and another five in the second, but his understanding of the Abyssal Law had always been a struggle of containment. He had treated the Abyss as a tool, a weapon to be wielded.
But as he sat in the absolute silence of the void, he realized his error. The Abyss was not a weapon; it was a hunger. It was the primordial state of the universe that sought to return all things to the singularity of the beginning.
The Milestone: The Birth of Devour
