Marked From Birth
With the First-Hammer in their possession and the Sovereignty-Harbor fully operational, the Union ceased to be a civilization merely surviving the void; they became the source of its future. They realized that the "Outer-Empty" was not just a vacuum of matter, but a vacuum of "Meaning." To fill it, Elen initiated the project of Manufacturing New-Gospels. These were not religious texts, but "Physical-blueprints-of-Being"—massive, "Soot-Inscribed-Slabs" of "Neutron-Steel" that contained the fundamental "Laws of Friction" and "Axioms of Effort."