"As one surveys this ocean - vast and cold, will we reach across to that distant shore? Pinpoints of light - the billion suns that shine like beacons from afar... Strange, silent universe - forlorn, ever silent universe. Eternal universe - this dark, never ending universe. Mysterious universe - bright, shimmering, iridescent universe." Pursueing the quest for a new hope, their future a straw for which they grope...