"The night grew darker amid negative correlation between decreasing light and the increasing frequency of screams. Childhood nightmares of death in space had never left, the terror, the horror, of seeing the enemies eyes before watching your own corpse floating into its final abyss.

At the age of 9, the new breed of capsulers left for the Republic Military School, most would never return for finding the one reason that realised the nightmare. Several survived, to become the grandfathers of New Eden.

I still have nightmares, I awake screaming but not in horror like I did when I was 9 years old. I know now that it was my eyes you saw just before it went dark.... for what have I become..."

-- The EVE Awakening (2003)