What is purpose? Without purpose what is will, without will what reason is there to have purpose? To have neither is to have no purpose, for I am what I am and I have reason. I am leashed to powers, to beings beyond me and I accept it. My will grants me reason, guides me and that is something that cannot be allowed. I am Retribution, for my will is my reason and that is dangerous.

A Single Child, the survivor of a Colonial Massacre. On Earth who can't say where he is from but is raised nonetheless as a human. Bound to serve the Federation, this child becomes something that the Arachnids fear, people praise him for victory, hope and most of all he's something more. This Child becomes an Ideal: Humanity's stand against the Universe. He leads, they follow.