If you can wield technology your ancestors never dreamt of and use that power in a way they would be proud.
If you can utilize your birth planet without destroying it yet still take all that you need.
If you can kill labor without killing ambition.
If you can create administration's without giving birth to tyranny.
If you can think is a collective without losing individuality.
If you can expand your reach without diminishing your integrity.
If you can unravel nature without thinking yourself smarter than her.
If you contain the elements without subverting them.
If you can build your homes on distant worlds while still taking care of the home you evolved on.
If you can safeguard for future generations without forgetting those who came before.
If you can accept your violent pasts while still fostering your galactic future.
If you can spread across the Stars without your empire spreading too thin.
If you can take to the Galactic stage without forgetting your lines, then yours is the cosmos and everything that's in it.
- exurb1a
