You brought the field all standing with your courage and your luck
But unknown to most, you're lying there beside old General Brock.
So you know what it is to scale the Heights and fall just short of fame
And have not one in ten thousand know your name
But unknown to most, you're lying there beside old General Brock.
So you know what it is to scale the Heights and fall just short of fame
And have not one in ten thousand know your name
—Stan Rogers, "MacDonnell On The Heights"
For every hero commemorated, a thousand martyrs die unmourned and unremembered.
Listen: Whatever happens, you will not be missed.
Prepare for the worst, because that is where you are heading.
— Imperial Guard Proverbs, Warhammer 40,000
"The Milky Way galaxy is a big place. So big, in fact, that attempting to tell its story would be a job for God, or maybe Robert Jordan. It's the smaller stories that interest us, the galactic mega-epic is just an out-of-focus backdrop for individual heroes and villains."