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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 399178" data-attributes="member: 7737">Excellent. The Empire of a Million Worlds dominates the universe. The Citizens of that empire taste the fruits of that domination. Their interests are protected by the Invincible Legions, an army so vast and powerful that its mere appearance is enough to enforce the Emperor's will. An army that need not fight to be effective.Then one day, a world at the far reaches of the Portal Lattice falls to an enemy, an enemy who also destroys the permanent Portal. What impudence! A single Invincible Legion - more than enough to handle any threat - is sent through a temporary Portal. They march to meet the enemy, row upon row of soldiers in glittering armor and gleaming weapons, deploying in perfect step like a bright parade.The Invincible Legion is defeated.Rage shakes the Empire of a Million Worlds. No enemy has dared oppose its will before. This enemy shall be crushed into dust. Further legions are gathered from across the universe. In a matter of days they are ready.By this time a half-dozen additional worlds have fallen from the Portal Lattice.Nervous laughter echoes in the halls of the Palace of Infinity. At last! say some, At last an emeny worthy of opposing the Empire! We shall have a splendid little war, then. Across the land the call goes out: the Legions need you! Join us and march to glory in the service of the Emperor!By this time holes begin to appear in the Lattice as single worlds here and there fall to the enemy. Transportation is disrupted, but makeshift routes consisting of multiple temporary Portals spring up to ensure that the Palace of Infinity wants for nothing. The price of quail eggs from Cestus Prime rises tenfold, and local nobles chuckle that they will have to cut back to eating them every other day. The new Invincible Legions are deployed to the key worlds of the Empire to prevent any disruption of the Emperor's diet.The Lattice fails. Across the universe, the Million Worlds are each... alone. Alone as they have not been in a thousand generations. Alone in the face of an enemy powerful enough to tear apart the Portal Lattice.And now, we meet our PCs....</blockquote>

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