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
quotation
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
far horizon probe
The outer surface of your light-cone is a monument to all your sins. - Ebirax 0x8002626D, Clairvoyance-class far horizon probe
governance
We are, undeniably, tool-using creatures. Eldrae sómintár. More, we are undeniably creative creatures, builders and makers – eldrae mahavár – who build in order to have tools, and have tools in order to build. An endless cycle of creation. Observe, too, the lesser Flames: the problem-solving ingenuity of the bandal, the hunting
assassination
“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
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