The three years that followed the Feast of the Nebula Kings were not recorded in the annals of history as a time of war, but as a period of cosmic consumption. The Eternian Star-Empire did not expand through the slow movement of fleets or the tedious negotiation of treaties. Instead, it moved like an Abyssal tide, a singular, gravitational force that drew entire galactic clusters into its maw.
Aegis had reached a state of existence that the System could no longer categorize. He had moved beyond the Tiers of men and the Stages of sovereigns.
To his enemies, he was the Great Singularity. To his subjects, he was the Universal Anchor.
In those thirty-six months, Aegis had devoured the causal cores of three hundred galaxies, integrating their laws, their stars, and their histories into the fabric of the Eternian Sovereignty.
