Opening the last of the trilogy LOL:

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide.  - unknown from China, cited many times.



To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods. - Warhammer 40k.opening.