The Astral Archive #146

Teria, the Grand Strategist: "Not long into the wars, one of the Grand Strategists of the Dominion named Teria calculated that almost no matter what effort it put into the struggle, the empire would be crushed by the pressure from the Watchers within a thousand turns of the Calendar. Most considered her conclusion to be born of fear and lost faith, but the old High Patriarch understood well what it meant. He made sure that measures were put into place that would allow his successors to be able to continue the fight for a long time, even from a position of inevitable defeat, hoping that some desperate, final plan could be found and put into motion."