The Great Races retreated into their own small, safe areas of space, abandoning what they could no longer hold by force.
The time that followed, now known as the Dark Years, was a period of economic, cultural, and intellectual collapse. Slowly, the strength of great civilizations failed as their economies crumbled and as knowledge and technology was lost in the destruction and strain of long war.Īnd so the Age of Twilight ended in a slow whisper. 'The Twilight Wars continued for centuries, but no race was powerful enough to seize the throne and risk suffering a similar fate as the Emperor.
