In 2211 Humanity embarked on its Journey to the stars. A century later, we were already caught up in an existential war against a shadowy enemy. A thousand years later, we were still fighting. The Thousand Years War reached from the earliest years of human interstellar exploration to the establishment of a stable confederation of human civilization spanning dozens of star systems and hundreds of disparate planets, moons, and freestanding deep space stations. Yet everywhere humanity went, the ene