Oh, Lafe! How is my favorite Earthling other than Denzel Washington.

I'm back home on Seagius because it is Vargan Day.

Lido's Vargans to you, my friend.

You don't know what Vargan Day is, which is great because I get to explain it to you now.

Settle in cupcake.

I'm using that word right, right?

Cupcake?

I mean, I know it's a tiny cake, but you also call people that, right? Like in a condescending way?

Pretty sure I'm right about that. Anyway, now I want cake. Anyway,

Vargan day life. Three intrepid souls many, many years ago,

Farron Yonger, Elieux Sears, and Lowen Regan. Remember those names?

At the dawning of the original coalition, they left the planet on a ship called the

Vargan. It was the first mission of its kind, an open-ended one. They were to set out into the Andromeda and send back data on the

wider universe and keep doing so until they exhausted all their resources.

They never returned. No one knows why, but since space is always trying to kill you, the assumption is that it was some sort of space thing.

You may be saying to yourself, why are they celebrating a failed mission?

Well, I will tell you why.

The planets of the original coalition first made contact hundreds of years ago.

They had never met each other, but using some sort of process that involved

quantum entanglement they figured out how to communicate. They all worked together to build the

bargain. Erk provided the ship's AI, Garion provided the interior systems,

Greden and Sep su provided stellar cartography, and Vapis designed the engine.

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