THERE IS NO LEAVING THIS PLACE - there's no reason we're here, there's no grand plan.
Not for us, not anymore.
That's alright - I mean, it's not, you all know this, we all know this, but we must understand that that's all there is, that nobody's followed us down.
Nobody sees through the geologies and crust above us into this darkness.
Nobody.
So I'll ask, if I can, that you make peace, and I'll ask, if I can, that with that peace you'll build newly with the rest of us.
Work.
Take solace in each-other; find beauty in what is here, and remember that
there is no leaving this place.
Work and see the fucking elephant.
Welcome to New Virginia.

Molly Ibsen-Möller, First Captain of the Charter Polities
June 03, 1904
Monthly orientation for the newly fallen