^ Star Chart ; found in the Guardian Folio
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Destiny [Bungie] | Original Game [Ghost/Limited Edition]
[top text] TYPVS ORBIS TERRARVM
[bottom left text] THESE WORLDS WERE ONCE OURS
QVID EI POTEST VIDERI MAGNVM IN REBVS HVMANIS, CVI AETER- NITAS OMNIS, TOTIVS QVE MVNDI NOTA SIT MAGNITVDO
[translation: bottom left text] What among human matters can seem great to him to whom all eternity and the extent of the whole universe are known
[bottom center text] PER AUDACIA AD ASTRA
[translation: bottom center text] Through boldness to the stars
[bottom right text] Then we dug in the unforgiving ground. We prayed for water and for food. The brave among us ferried broken stone out of
the blighted lands, and we built new walls - new temples - low and crude, familiar and comforting and safe.
But the eternal star song swept over us again, silent and swift
as a confession. Our bones ached with the memory. Our
blood stirred. We could not deny our destiny.
And so we began anew
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