Ebandon Earth

<br>The outermost darklands - tomorrows frontier.<br>Worlds and worlds - their destiny lies to be conquered...<br>The vast gulf of starscapes - the limitless reach,<br>what profits for man, what futures are destined to be?<br><br>Immense decay, the world a ravaged place,<br>decreed by fate, now abandoned.<br>The sun casting its wan light across the forlorn world,<br>a fathomless color the heavens.<br>Now brittle and torn, the wreckage of nature,<br>the rat and the cockroach prevails.<br><br>Immemorial mountains worn down to shallow hills,<br>dead seas whisper tales of ancient glory,<br>when shimmering cities reached to the sky - and perished...<br>Few traces of life, the desert devouring the land.<br>Neither stone upon stone, nor flesh upon bone,<br>the marrow of Earth has been eaten by man.<br><br>Order of silence, wan, maroon dawn,<br>vast mausoleum, burialground.<br><br>...as shimmering spaceships reached to the sky - and vanished.<br>A long way to travel, Aquila and beyond,<br>deep into the realms of unknown, mankind is finally breaking its bonds.<br><br>Migration and conquest - leave the old Earth behind,<br>make war to the universe - new races and gods<br>to curb and subalter.<br>Forward, Mankind - out and away.<br>Starborn nemesis - the future our prey.<br>War, conquest - out and away.<br>Worlds and empires - subjugate our destiny.<br><br>Order of silence...<br>Life has moved on to another world, Aquila and beyond.<br>Life has moved on...