Sons of the Sunless World [SNLES]

u"The star died. The furnaces did not.<br><br>SONS OF THE SUNLESS WORLD [SNLES]<br><br>Our ancestors learned that light is a service, not a right \u2014 that warmth is manufactured, metered, and owed. We do not romanticize the void. We invoice it.<br><br>We mine the fields others consider exhausted. We reclaim the hulls others consider grave markers. We run refinery cycles through downtime because the line does not observe your local night, and we deliver on schedule to clients who have learned not to ask what our costs are.<br><br>There is no ore that will not eventually be ours. There is only ore that has not yet been scheduled.<br><br>THE TITHE<br><br>Every pilot contributes. Contribution is recorded. Records are permanent. We do not offer praise for meeting quota \u2014 meeting quota is the condition of remaining. We offer something better: you will never again be the raw material in someone else's supply chain.<br><br>Vigilate, Nam Nox Venit \u2014 \u201cKeep watch, for the night comes.\u201d<br><br><br><br><br>Down where the cargo lights burn low,<br>Where veldspar sleeps in asteroid stone,<br>I hear the hum of engines below\u2014<br>A distant voice through the comms alone.<br><br>Drill to rock and lasers scream,<br>Ore like starlight starts to gleam.<br>No sky, no sun, no place to flee\u2014<br>The deep-space mines keep calling me.<br><br>Drill, drill, down we go,<br>Through the dark where cold stars glow.<br>Hear that whisper, wild and free?<br>The mines are calling, calling me."