He then opened the academy's sect registration portal on his datapad.
The registration form was straightforward. Sect name. Founding member ID. Initial membership list, minimum two additional members. Mission statement, optional field that most sects left blank but that he looked at for a moment before deciding it was worth filling in.
He typed the name.
He entered his member ID.
He left the membership fields for the other two members blank for now, marking the sect as pending formation pending membership confirmation, which was a valid registration state that held the name and reserved the founding credit for forty-eight hours while the founding member finalized the roster.
In the mission statement field, he typed four words.
****From nothing to first.*****
He looked at it for a moment. It was accurate. It communicated the direction without overexplaining it. He submitted the registration.
The academy system processed it and returned a confirmation.
