This planet is our one and only home most of us that stepped into the Next Colony would say. We have no other choice - we must care for and protect it. And this thoughts are shadowing our steps into the new world and while we are building at the same time we are looking over our shoulders. What might be out there in the darkness, while the blood boils and ask us to go and explore, at the same time there is a silent feeling that we should be precarious about it. And while this might not be obvious for the moment, it will become so when the alliances will form and battles will spread all over the galaxy.
Indeed we all feel that our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special. Is as common as it can be and is mirrored all over the universe. But still is ours and from there on we start our colonization of the others and is an anchor in the sea of stars. And what we would do without it...probably we would get lost from ourselves and also from anything towards we are lingering on.
Our most basic common link in this world is that we all inhabit such planets. We all breath the same air and we are born with equal chances. We are all mortals, but we overcome anything that is thrown in front of us and some lucky from within are raising to build a name for themselves and for the children that shall come after us. This is not a game for mortals, but for those that want to live forever and leave an empire for the next generations.
Empires rise and fall like the lung of God. But in reality it's just the universe breathing...and with it us living a life of greatness!