My name is Ashley Williams. I'm not famous; you wouldn't have heard of me. If you looked at me, you'd never know the extreme circumstances that took me from a small colony to the heart of the Council races. The things I've witnessed over this journey have shocked me, awed me, and changed me. I'm not the woman I was; I've been changed. But in the wake of everything that's happened, the galaxy itself has been changed as well. I can't hope to know how all this will work out, or what long-lasting repercussions these events will have. No, the only thing I can hope to make sense of is how it has affected me, and those around me. This is my story.