“The only truly automatic weapon is one which you can leave on the shelf and ignore entirely henceforth, only to occasionally hear about your enemies mysteriously dying.”
– “To Sleep, Perchance To Kill”, Ostár Sargas-ith-Sargas
“We should not hate our enemies. Hatred is a poison which, like acid, eats away at the integrity of the spirit, to the destruction of those who indulge it. Rather, we should seek to understand our enemies, such that we may encompass the regrettable necessity of their annihilation with a
It’s known that the eldrae (and Imperial culture generally) place a premium on rational belief, but they also place a great amount of value on preserving extant diversity of beliefs and opinions inasmuch as they can be reconciled with rationality. Given this, what do they make of Aumann’s
The figure clinging to the side of People’s Security Observation Platform Number Three would have been barely noticeable even to a careful observer. The ambioptics of his chameleon cloak, whose electrostatics held it still and in position against the satellite’s hull, perfectly reflected the appearance of that hull
Probably the ugliest of these weapons was the windblade, a product of Merianvard artificery. A windblade resembled, in form, a smaller version of the Variasotec double scimitar without its hilt: i.e., two opposingly curved blades joined in the center, and sharpened to a razor’s edge. No hilt was
Perhaps they would have been more successful had their god spent more time teaching them how to stand, rather than how to kneel. Gen. Cassian Amarens, 13th (“Winter Wolves”) Imperial Legion, after the final assault on Firital
They call me a warmonger? Then they are correct. Pacifism in the face of evil is concession to Entropy; therefore I mong war. Therefore it is the policy of this branch to mong war. And therefore we intend to go on monging war until the last tyrant in the universe
This is a little pastiche of Plutarch on Alexander the Great that I hacked together as a brief illustration of attitudinal differences. I like it enough to share it: “Alphas smiled when he heard from his astronomers that there were billions of worlds in the heavens; and when his friends
The outer surface of your light-cone is a monument to all your sins. - Ebirax 0x8002626D, Clairvoyance-class far horizon probe