Cold and dark, with little and less between stars. Uninhabitable planets outnumber the garden worlds, and even there you will find plants and animals too dangerous to consider taming. In dark space there are nightmares you cannot imagine, until they are upon you.

[Dreams were best left to the young and the foolish. Maybe in another lifetime he could have admired the beauty the galaxy had to offer. Instead, he had known only war, and there was nothing to admire about it in the least.]