Despite centuries of terrible research by terrible people, sophotechnology has not provided either protein or machine intelligences with any viable technique to sandbox evil.
Istar Essenye, wakener
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He has a mind of metal, and wheels. Of course he does. He's a difference engine. overheard early in the Era of Steel and Steam If there is to be a rapprochement between us and the Republic – and such a thing is, I think we must all concede,
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(Random things said with no other place to go, so I shall save them and post them in eights from time to time.) Good, in the moral sense, is difficult and may be impossible to define objectively. I prefer to concern myself with ethical correctness, which is at least calculable.
bombardment of Firital
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
Akisko Deteis
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