You were enticed by Starfleet's lies of bold new worlds, but a great many were wary of...

You were enticed by Starfleet's lies of bold new worlds, but a great many were wary of their promises. Why would we join a primitive allegiance when it was them who stood the most to gain? Years of infighting rotted our decency, replacing it with fear, anger, violence, civil war. The Federation refused to choose a side. Abandoned us to face decades of our own self-annihilation. Hope of Solum was dead. Until decades later, the sky tore open and hope returned. I remember seeing the Protostar arrive through the wormhole with my own eyes