Restored High Guard
After the Nietzschean rebellion which laid waste to the Commonwealth, Captain Dylan Hunt attempted to rebuild his government, and a new High Guard was formed. Initially composed of standing navies and marines from the restored Systems Commonwealth's member worlds, the new High Guard is gradually inching its way up to the level of the old, though it is expected to take decades (if not centuries) to reach such levels.
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“Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
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—William Gibson (b. 1948)
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—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)