Libertatem

Throughout it's history, humanity was a curious species. From it's creation, it strived for higher and higher goals. In exploration, technology, and war. The Nicholean Empire, at on point in history, managed to achieve greatness in all three categories. It once ruled the universe, controlling first a gigantic occupation zone to rule them all, and then a network of them, along with protectorates, vassals, and puppets. Now, it's greatness was nothing larger than a distant memory, consumed in two decades of a war for the survival of the Galaxy, in which, for the galaxy to survive, it was destroyed by it's former slaves.

How was this empire born? How did they reach their heights? And most Importantly, what came after? The other questions will have to be answered later, but what came after, for better or for worse, can be described with a simple Latin word- Libertatem.