There was once a great game called Alpha Centauri, and here are some of my favorite quotes from it (some are pretty thought-provoking as well):
Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?
Col. Corazon Santiago
\"Planet: A Survivalist\'s Guide\"
Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?
Sister Miriam Godwinson
\"But for the Grace of God\"
Man\'s unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
\"For I Have Tasted The Fruit\"
The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain. What it {can} do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
\"Nonlinear Genetics\"
You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre, and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take you in, but may we ask this question--will we too catch the planetdeath disease?
Lady Deirdre Skye
\"Conversations with Planet\"
Organic Superlube? Oh, it\'s great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it, though--it\'ll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets.
T. M. Morgan-Reilly
Morgan Metagenics
\'Abort, Retry, Fail?\' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we\'d remind them: if you see this message, {always} choose \'Retry.\'
Bad\'l Ron, Wakener
Morgan Polysoft
Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
Have you drunk your fill?
Lady Deirdre Skye
\"Conversations with Planet\", Epilogue
Information, the first principle of warfare, must form the foundation of all your efforts. Know, of course, thine enemy. But in knowing him do not forget above all to know thyself. The commander who embraces this totality of battle shall win even with the inferior force.
Spartan Battle Manual
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth\'s final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
Commissioner Pravin Lal
\"U.N. Declaration of Rights\"
I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I\'d settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan
MorganLink 3DVision Interview
A handsome young Cyborg named Ace,
Wooed women at every base,
But once ladies glanced at
His special enhancement
They vanished with nary a trace.
Barracks Graffiti
Sparta Command
Of course we\'ll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us.
CEO Nwabudike Morgan
Morgan Data Systems press release
What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn\'t think too much about that.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
\"For I Have Tasted The Fruit\"
No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.
Lady Deirdre Skye
\"Conversations with Planet\"
Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort. Children not only shape our future; they determine in many ways our present. Men and women work harder knowing their children are safe and close at hand. And never forget that, with children present, parents will defend their home to the death.
Col. Corazon Santiago
\"Planet: A Survivalist\'s Guide\"
Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours--the works. People need heroes. They don\'t need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.
\"Mythology for Profit\"
Morgan Stellartots Keynote Speech
In the great commons at Gaia\'s Landing we have a tall and particularly beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first colonies. It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth.
Lady Deirdre Skye
\"Planet Dreams\"
It will happen, and it will happen in our lifetimes. Fusion Power isn\'t just the future. Fusion Power is now.
T. M. Morgan-Reilly
Morgan Metagenics
You are orphans, earthdeirdre, your homeworld already buried so young among the aeons. Yet now you fill the skies where we watched a million sunsets with flame and contrails, paying no heed to the hard lessons the universe has tried to teach you. Are you a breath of life to invigorate a complacent world, you earthhumans, or an insidious cancer which must be excised?
Lady Deirdre Skye
\"Conversations With Planet\"
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED
I hold a scrap of paper in the darkness and light it. I watch it burn bright and curl, disappearing into nothingness, and the heat burns my fingers. Where has it gone? What has it become? I cannot shake the feeling that I have witnessed a form of transcendence.
Commissioner Pravin Lal
\"The Convergence\"
