“If you’re right about something, that gives you the authority to act on it, to stand and not back down. The consequences don’t matter—the world will catch up eventually.”
― The Lost Colony
― The Lost Colony
“defeat a superior enemy without ever firing a shot—and keeping everyone alive—there’s a simple way: erase everyone’s memories. An army can’t fight if they can’t remember what they’re fighting for.”
― The Extinction Trials
― The Extinction Trials
“Do you think what’s happening in this solar system hasn’t happened a million times before? Your own history is a guide to what’s happening here. Countless times, your own species has invaded new lands. You’ve displaced other species. Caused mass extinctions. And it’s not limited to the plants and animals of your world. You have murdered and hunted your own people. Forced mass migrations from lands you desired—relocating those deemed less worthy of natural resources you coveted. When a more advanced group of people needed the resources, they took them. We are simply doing what you’ve done to your own people, playing by the same rules.”
― Winter World
― Winter World
“Yours is a pre-singularity civilization that is unreliable and prone to violence. Our course of action was obvious. You were deemed not to be a threat.”
― Winter World
― Winter World
“sometimes something bad had to happen to spark something good.”
― The Photographer's Saga
― The Photographer's Saga
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