The Back Story
Thousands of years in the past, back to the after events of the Brunnen-G war against the Insect Civilization, one last surviving insect managed to escape the chaos (given the Insect Civilization's renowned resilience and deviousness) and found refuge deep inside a neighboring planetoid (also known in the near future, to be The Cluster). It was from there that the insect managed to survive by passing its own essence to an unfortunate member of a mining expedition. Then the insect spread its influence throughout the galaxy, passing from one host to another. Eventually, having achieved absolute dominance, the insect consciousness ordained itself as His Divine Shadow, an imperialist theocratic leader and supreme commander.
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