HUMANITY: OFTEN OUTNUMBERED, NEVER OUTGUNNED

When mankind first breached the rim of this sector, we did so not as supplicants, nor as wide-eyed explorers hoping for mercy from the dark. We came prepared to bend the dark to our will.

For it was the Great Emperor Tiberius Soule XI – known to history as The Armorer of Man – who decreed that never again would humanity be left begging for the tools to defend itself. His Directive of Perpetual Armament, ratified upon the founding of the Imperium, ensured that every man, woman, and child born under his dominion carried within them the sovereign right and embedded culture of force multiplication. From the humblest agrarian colony to the fortress worlds girdling the Imperial Core, each citizen was educated, equipped, and empowered to stand against the void’s unnumbered horrors.

Thus, when humanity spread to these distant frontiers, we arrived carrying the old truth written into our genes since the first sharpened stone:

We may be outnumbered. But never, ever, outgunned.

For in the end, the Emperor knew: mercy cannot be begged for in the cold dark. It can only be purchased – at the barrel of a gun, and by the will to use it without hesitation.