“While it is the current trend to think back on the early days of our civilization as barbaric and primitive, considering the propulsion drive hadn’t even been rediscovered yet, I cannot stress enough that we wouldn’t be the Unified Stations if we did not have the groundwork laid out for us by such luminary monarchs as Alexis I and Alexis III of Station Aelon.
Without them the concept of passenger freedom would still be a punchline to the jokes told by stewards and stewardesses in parlors and banquet halls.”
—Dr. D. Reven, Eighty-Third Archivist of The Way
“For Evil is not hidden, but staring us in the face. To hide from it is to shame oneself and our Dear Parent Helios. We must look straight at Evil and declare to ourselves, and the System, that only Helios can sway us. And when swayed, it is for Good alone.”
—Book of the System 9:14, The Ledger
“Family. That is who we can and must trust. But what defines family? Blood? Lineage? Close quarters? Are we not all family on a station? Perhaps trust comes first, then family sorts itself out.”
—Journals of Alexis III, Mistress of Station Aelon and its primes