"We don't know who they were, or why they spread throughout the galaxy, but they must have been powerful. A vast civilization with a presence on a hundred million worlds, reaching far past the furthest reach of our probes and explorers. Their technology is mostly lost, but what few relics exist are astonishing - a perfect fusion of form and function, simultaneously tool and art. I must have them."
"I have mobilized ships and crew: explorers, salvagers, wanderers, pirates, even the Vulkaren navy. I don't care what motivates them - money, power, fame, they shall have it so long as they bring me these relics. They will comb the galaxy, searching for the remains of lost cities, temples, abandoned stations around burned out stars, all searching for the resting places of these cat-faced gods, searching for their relics, their Schema. With the might of an empire they forged these tools. So with these tools shall I forge my empire."
-The Annals of the King, GY2374