For a hundred thousand years mankind has held the stars, claimed and shaped their worlds, and imbued them with technomancy. Vast and ancient, the galactic sphere of von-Neumann machinery, arcane origin of the Noosphere Unity, the universal principle of civilization, making manifest the Light, key to an orderly universe. In the unity's light there stands the Mechanist Union, arbiters of technology, artificers of nanomachines, conjurers of electric spirits. Technomantic basti

Cosmos represents the ordered, comprehensible universe in accordance with natural law, commonly also called symbolically “the Light”. Oblivion, or Darkness, represents everything beyond. In the Known Galaxy, Cosmos, the comprehensible order in the universe, is fleeting. The universe tends towards entropy; sentience tends towards eldritch godhood; technology tends towards fracture, singularity, and nanites. For a civilization to last, to reach the heights humankind strives for