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; Sid Meier's ALPHA CENTAURI
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; Background Story & Character Quotations
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##Opening Quotation
#OPENING
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden.
He drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden
of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to
keep the way of the tree of life.
^
^ -- The Conclave Bible,
^ Datalinks
##Biogenetics
#TECH0
The interlocking web of life amazes us. Each creature has its niche,
and each niche maintains the overall balance. How have the spirits
accomplished such a thing? By threads so tiny they cannot be seen,
interwoven with four pattern-giving strands.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "Mysteries of Life"
##Industrial Base
#TECH1
Our first priority must be and must remain industrial infrastructure.
Without industry to supply its needs, modern civilization has no hope
of survival. As long as Unicorp supplies those needs, it is a necessary
link in the chain of survival.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ "Inaugural Address"
##Information Networks
#TECH2
Those who dismiss the power of ideas do not understand the true basis
of wealth, and those who dismiss the power of freedom do not understand
the nature of ideas.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "A Handbook for Prosperity"
##Applied Physics
#TECH3
Salvaged optical equipment from Unity stores, refitted for a heavier
power draw and with an expanded gas excitation chamber, may well
have potential for real military applications. Further testing is
recommended.
^
^ -- UN SciDev internal report
##Social Psych
#TECH4
The turmoil of the last days of the Unity mission gave us a
precious gift -- because more than ever before, we learned how
humans will act and react when their core beliefs about authority,
morality, and knowledge are questioned. This has allowed us to
finally begin to understand the dispositions, when put to the
brink of disaster, of the human mind.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Foundations of Dynamic Will Theory"
##Doctrine: Mobility
#TECH5
Superior firepower, while useful, is not the essence of victory.
This firepower must be delivered to where it can destroy the
ability of the enemy to make war. When the mobility of the State's
forces is superior to that of its enemies, it can engage when and
where it will, and fight only those battles which are to its
strategic advantage.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "Civics, Order, and Insurrection"
##Centauri Ecology
#TECH6
Our survival and success on this world depends on our ability to
recognise and then cooperate to develop that which is useful here
into the requirements of our own survival. Before the hostility of
this world, there is no margin for error and no room for those who
do not pull their own weight.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ "Inaugural Address"
##Superconductor
#TECH7
Our work has reproduced this material, which is so refined in
substance and nature that the very flows of power through it recieve
not the slightest of hinderance in their motion. In that many of
the works we set our hands to require the unimpeded progression of
current, I can say that we are assuredly blessed by GOD in our
creation of this material.
^
^ -- Father Jeromy Aquinas,
^ Order of Saint Thomas research report
##Nonlinear Mathematics
#TECH8
Mathematics is not simply the step-by-step assembly of enough
lines of logic to prove a given final result. The best mathematicians
are able to think dozens of steps ahead, not only to solve a
problem from any given step in the process, but to build an intuitive
sense of the process from the knowledge of the individual steps.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "A Scientific Primer"
##Applied Relativity
#TECH9
How can Einstein's theories be applied to the real world? Well,
we know that every atom is in motion only in the sense that it
differs in velocity from every other. To itself, each atom is still.
And knowledge of this has allowed photon armor, and frictionless
surfaces -- both of which apply the stillness to the outside world.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "A Scientific Primer"
##Fusion Power
#TECH10
As this world is the mother of life, so also is the great sun of the
heavens its father. It is the light of the great sun that spills
life into the womb of the world, bringing the plants and fungus upon
which all other life rests from seed to sprout, according to their
spirits of their own growth, and granted the fire of life by the fire
of the great sun.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "Mysteries of Life"
##Silksteel Alloys
#TECH11
Silksteel, like its namesake, spider's silk, combines strength with
flexibility, minimising the amount of damage it takes from force that
does not overcome it completely. These qualities are also those required
of those who would lead the State, who must simultaneously impose and
maintain order while responding to unexpected external events and
remaining internal sources of chaos.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "The Collected Letters"
##Advanced Subatomic Theory
#TECH12
At the quantum level, seamless waves transform themselves into
particles depending on the situation. Waves, like crystals,
exist in a field which "learns" a pattern and sticks to that
pattern consistently from then on. Thus, as we discover
progressively smaller constituent particles of matter, the
question remains -- how much of what we perceive and catalogue
existed in any real sense, prior to our discovery of it?
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Cosmos"
##High Energy Chemistry
#TECH13
The techsmith Phillip showed me how he carefully forged the
alloys for the armor of the warriors of his tribe using a
makeshift plasma furnace hooked up to the portable generator at
the center of the village. With meticulous care, he baked one
layer of breastplate alloy over another, using a hand torch to
blast off any impurities between bakes to ensure the next
layer grew properly.
^
^ -- Professor Mikaela Ellton of Monrovia,
^ "My Travels Amongst the Tribes"
##Frictionless Surfaces
#TECH14
Hasn't Zack given up on this stuff yet? Yeah, I know. The slidey-
stuff is built in. Frankie, go take care of him for both of us, I
know you can. Matter of fact, take this and use that instead. If
it really works, the blood won't stick.
^
^ -- Dame Snow Hart,
^ audio-diary
##Nanometallurgy
#TECH15
Until now, the ocean's surface has been a formidable barrier. But
now we have the tools and the will to make it our own. Despite the
predictions of old Earth, space was not the final frontier after all
-- but if we can master this frontier, Unicorp will unquestionably
surpass its competitors.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ confidential memo
##Superstring Theory
#TECH16
In its endless quest to explain reality without a Creator, secular
science has abandoned any pretense of common sense. To believe that
matter extends through several additional dimensions, and then to
postulate that these dimensions have no purpose, no effect on the
observable world, is beyond arrogance. The LORD works through beauty
and simplicity, and it makes no sense to think otherwise simply
because this thought squares with a convenient theory.
^
^ -- Father Jeromy Aquinas,
^ "Errors of Secular Humanity"
##Advanced Military Algorithms
#TECH17
Local tactical superiority may be useful to the State, but
only insofar as it contributes to global strategic superiority.
If in losing the battle the war is won, then the State has
more effectively secured order than if it loses the war in
order to win the battle.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "Civics, Order, and Insurrection"
##Monopole Magnets
#TECH18
An arterial system of heavy freight transport utilising the new
methods devised by District Manager Reynolds will permit the
transport of equipment, personnel, and raw materials to Unicorp
project sites, and should be prioritised HIGH by district managers,
in conjunction with regional operations officers.
^
^ -- Unicorp Engineering Corps internal directive
##Matter Compression
#TECH19
The lab report title was a dusty, dry volume: 'repeatable matter-accretion
effects from photo-electro-neutrino exchange'. I skimmed the bulk of it,
until I saw the holoshots of a one-cent-thick plate coming away from a direct
concussive wave with little more than a scuff mark. That's when I knew I had
a breakthrough on my hands.
^
^ -- Manager Pyotr Leeson, Unicorp R&D,
^ Argyle Media special interview
##Unified Field Theory
#TECH20
Dude, I TOLD you it all tied together!
^
^ -- "Crazy Zack" Hoffman,
^ research report
##Graviton Theory
#TECH21
In my mind, the products of gravitic manipulation, where the very pull
of Planet is negated, form the best possible symbol of the victory of
man over nature.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ Argyle Media special interview
##Polymorphic Software
#TECH22
Sometimes, I load up the version history of codemaps for our
weather tracking programs, color-code the code blocks, and
watch it change on replay. It's almost psychedelic.
^
^ -- "Crazy Zack" Hoffman,
^ "A God in the Machine"
##Applied Gravitonics
#TECH23
The efficiency of energy delivery provided by gravitic acceleration
of projectiles, combined with the effective range and accuracy
provided by the muzzle velocity of such projectiles and modern sensors
systems, renders gravitic mass accelerators (GMAs) the most effective
conventional weapons available on Planet. Any data recoverable from
Cartel corporate datastores on designs or means of manufacture of GMAs
is rated an Alpha-2 intelligence priority.
^
^ -- UN IntSec internal report
##Plasma Dynamics
#TECH24
Civilization teaches that control is power. In this, it is mistaken.
Control is a forcing of direction, but power itself is natural and
without form, and the wisdom of a shaman lies in working with this
chaos that is power.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "The Spirits Speak"
##Quantum Power
#TECH25
Quanta are not simply isolated particles. Each quantum is also a wave
that resonates with other waves. Even in isolation, each quantum is a
point surrounded by a horde of 'virtual' particles which affect its
momentum and course. With the proper coaxing, these 'virtual particles'
can be extracted from the 'real' quanta, and be harnessed as energy
themselves.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Technologies of the Third Millenium"
##Singularity Mechanics
#TECH26
As one approaches the center of a black hole, eras pass in seconds,
and at the singularity itself, time "breaks down." The temptation is
to say that a singularity's colossal lifespan takes place in an instant.
This is problematic, because unlike photons or any particles,
singularities vary in mass over time. They are literally a fusion of
innumerable particles in one point, and if the parts can meaningfully
be said to exist anymore, they cannot be distinguished from one another.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Cosmos"
##Controlled Singularity
#TECH27
"Here, in my hands... The ultimate power... A black hole. EUREKA!
I'VE DONE IT! IGOR, BREAK OUT THE CHAMPAGNE!"
"Er... I'm not Igor, boss."
"Shh! You're ruining my moment!"
^
^ -- Camera footage,
^ "Crazy Zack" Hoffman and Lewellyn Hawking
##Temporal Mechanics
#TECH28
The great mystery of time is not why things change with the passing of
years but why so much is so stable for so long. Not only do the fundamental
particles of matter stretch out temporally, forming discontinuous points
in space while they create unbroken lines in time, but as time passes, all
changes follow a guaranteed and predictable pattern -- the laws of physics.
Given that more chaotic and unstructured worlds are imaginable, one must
wonder why it is that this world preserves its order naturally.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Cosmos"
##Probability Mechanics
#TECH29
The work of the spirits is all around us, evident in every supposed
coincidence. The civilized suppose chance to be random, but the wise know
that it is through the uncertainty of chance that the spirits' will is made
manifest in the world.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "The Spirits Speak"
##Pre-Sentient Algorithms
#TECH30
As the feedback mechanisms for our programs grow more advanced, their
adaption to new input will look more and more like learning, the way a
person does it. And that could make all the difference in the world.
^
^ -- "Crazy Zack" Hoffman,
^ "A God in the Machine"
##Super Tensile Solids
#TECH31
Silksteel was only the beginning. Our hope is that substances of amazing
tensile strength will be able to be manufactured within the next century,
which will make possible massive engineering projects previously the sole
province of imagination.
^
^ -- Unicorp R&D,
^ classified report
##Planetary Networks
#TECH32
In the vast expanse of the planetary networks, we see both the promise
of GOD and the strivings of the base ego - for where else could all
be seen as truly equal, and where else is there such ease in indulging
selfish whims?
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "De Homis Naturalis"
##Digital Sentience
#TECH33
Masada Infosystems is pleased to report the first full purpose-designed
artificial intelligence has been verified by independent observers from
the infotech R&D divisions of CBM Corporation, Hououji Sciences, Weismuller
Industries, and Lin Industries. This intelligence, dubbed "Primus", runs
on a special dedicated mainframe attached to peripheral sensory I/O devices,
and has been verified to be capable of relevant conclusions on randomly-
chosen subjects advanced by the independent observers.
^
^ -- Masada Infosystems press release
##Self-Aware Machines
#TECH34
In this false life we see the ultimate affront of human hubris and
human ego against the domain reserved to GOD alone, and it is not
long that His ultimate judgement shall be stayed from the lands of
men.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Dies Irae"
##Doctrine: Initiative
#TECH35
The Cartel's budgetary realities do not permit it to waste resources in wars
of attrition. If we are to be victorious, we must use our technical resources
and control of the pace of engagement, or else we shall be overwhelmed- and
our most effective means of control of the pace of engagement means a focus on
the establishment of a navy which can control paths of approach to Cartel
territory.
^
^ -- VP of Security Phillip Rickenbacker,
^ address to Cartel Board of Directors
##Doctrine: Flexibility
#TECH36
"Civilization" and "normality" stifle. They break dreams.
They cage lives. In order to break free from this cage, we must
be prepared to face those who would rather remain caged, in
combat if necessary. And we must be swift, versatile, prepared
to use any means to attain freedom.
^
^ -- Dame Snow Hart,
^ "A Practical Revolution"
##Intellectual Integrity
#TECH37
Although it is true that those who are inconsistent and
selective in their thought are in one sense self-serving,
self-consistency and clarity are nonetheless far more truly
useful in the long run.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "A Handbook for Prosperity"
##Synthetic Fossil Fuels
#TECH38
The great petroleum reserves of Earth were a bountiful gift
from GOD to His children, and the lack of these reserves on
Planet have been a test unto us. It is in our humility before
the handiwork of GOD that we turn to His gift to us as the model
for our own works, for His imagination is greater than anything
that we may devise on our own.
^
^ -- Father Jeromy Aquinas,
^ Order of St. Thomas research report
##Doctrine: Air Power
#TECH39
The sensation of flying, man - the ramjets behind you and
the sky above you and the sky below - man, there's nothing
like it.
^
^ -- Kristy Cooper,
^ aerospace pilot, the Dame's Militia
##Photon/Wave Mechanics
#TECH40
Quanta change their behavior based on observation. A beam of
light, sent through two slits in a barrier, will refract like a
wave unless and until the researcher examines the constituent
particles themselves -- at which time the refraction stops, and
the beam behaves as a stream of particles. By carefully timing
this species of recording to the microsecond, an intricate
algorithm can determine the constitution of a light beam and
thus control light itself.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Technologies of the Third Millennium"
##Mind/Machine Interface
#TECH41
Reunification is within our grasp. Our claims are proper by law,
but only now do we have the strength to convince those for whom the
demands of law are not enough. Now all that remains is the execution,
although that in itself shall be a task not easily accomplished.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "The Collected Letters"
##Nanominiaturization
#TECH42
We can build our products smaller, cheaper, and more efficiently than
those clunky motors Unicorp puts out- of COURSE they'll ban them! That,
of course, still leaves us quite enough markets for our products,
domestic and foreign both.
^
^ -- CEO Alisa Taggart of Taggart Transport,
^ Argyle Media special interview
##Doctrine: Loyalty
#TECH43
The survival of the State is predicated ultimately on the loyalty
of its soldiers. There is no other force and no other condition
that can preserve the State against those who would seek its
destruction.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "Civics, Order, and Insurrection"
##Ethical Calculus
#TECH44
We are told that morality is the domain of the heart, that ethics
are impenetrable to reason. This is not and cannot be true. There
are guiding principles which direct our moral thought, those
principles have relative value, and that value can be recognized,
quantified, analyzed, and accounted for.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "The New Social Compact"
##Industrial Economics
#TECH45
Although conditions on our new home are different in many ways,
the fundamental principles of market economics still hold true,
and those with the proper foresight can still take advantage of
this knowledge.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "Address to the First Investors"
##Industrial Automation
#TECH46
Until such time as true mass-production methods allow us not
merely a scrabbling for the necessities, but a consistent supply
of that which is needed, humanity has no chance of supporting more
than a token population on Planet.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ "The Unicorp Solution"
##Centauri Meditation
#TECH47
Is it possible that we were once so deaf as we were on Earth? All
of the world has a song that can be heard by those who listen, and
the wise, the shamans of the tribes, can sometimes hear more --
words borne on the music of the world. I have heard her myself.
There is a great world-spirit in this place, and I will not be
the one to rouse her to anger.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "The Spirits Speak"
##Secrets of the Human Brain
#TECH48
How small a thing is the human will next to the glory of GOD!
Where the one may be mapped and studied, seen through the lens of
soulless technology, the other is eternal and ineffable, and stands
round about as a bulwark against the wickedness of the world
and those who take refuge in their worldly ego.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "De Homis Naturalis"
##Gene Splicing
#TECH49
The mechanisms of agricultural production are based on the
structure of life. If we control this structure, we can overcome
the shortcomings of our crops that depended on Earthly conditions,
and ensure that harvest yields will be enough to form a solid
foundation for the society we are to build- and damn those who
denounce such alterations as hubris!
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ "The Unicorp Solution"
##Bio-Engineering
#TECH50
The usage of genejack labor, and all the other products of Man's
arrogance in holding that new life itself is merely another labor
of his hands, unheeding that here they trespass in the domain of
the will of the LORD GOD, is abomination and anethema, and
those peoples who condone such wickedness are utterly accurst
in the eyes of GOD.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Dies Irae"
##Biomachinery
#TECH51
Human nature, without the ordering influence of the State, is prone to
chaos and anarchy, which leads ultimately to the death both of the
individual and of the larger society. The State ultimately must seek to
overcome the natural human tendency to variation in order to achieve
the security of the State, as unchecked variation is the first step to
chaos.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "Civics, Order, and Insurrection"
##Neural Grafting
#TECH52
The ritual seemed endless. Finally, however, the shaman pronounced
the candidate ready, and helped him sink into a trance. The chirurgeon
neatly opened an incision in his patient's head, and began to slowly
make room for the device he was implanting. After some hours, he would
be ready to begin connecting the individual neurons to the wire inputs.
I had been told that not all survived the procedure. But, my guide
assured me with pride, those who survived were warriors.
^
^ -- Professor Mikaela Ellton of Monrovia,
^ "My Travels Amongst the Tribes"
##Cyberethics
#TECH53
If these past hundred years have taught us anything, it is that
information is the truest currency. Unlike energy, knowledge has
an unlimited supply -- and thus it is now the duty of government to
record and disseminate as much information as possible.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "The New Social Compact"
##Eudaimonia
#TECH54
I have a dream... Alright, old speech references aside, I really
do have a dream. That we can all find our own way, all be able to
care for one another, all be able to love one another. That we can
all get along like, if you can pardon the phrasing, one "big happy
family". I want that. I want it for all of us. I really do think
we can attain it, too.
^
^ -- Dame Snow Hart,
^ "Freedom"
##The Will to Power
#TECH55
Could so noble a goal as the unification of humanity be achieved
without those with the will and the resolution to see it done?
I think not.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "The Collected Letters"
##Threshold of Transcendence
#TECH56
The time will come when we know the will of the world-spirit as well
as we know our own hearts; this the spirits have whispered to me. Is
this not a dream to aspire to?
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "The Spirits Speak"
##Matter Transmission
#TECH57
One moment on one side of the lab and across it in the next? Now THAT
was just COOL.
^
^ -- "Crazy Zack" Hoffman,
^ research report
##Centauri Empathy
#TECH58
When we arrived here on this world, we did not yet know her generosity,
and our scarcity of the old tools of Earth gave us great hardship. But
we discovered means to find all we might need here on the world, and
in living close to the world we soon began to feel her spirits around
us. In the loss of the control old Earth had prized so highly, we had
found something better - the wisdom of this world.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "On the Birthing-Time"
##Environmental Economics
#TECH59
Chiron is not simply a copy of Earth, and many of the specific
strategies of Earth business must be adapted to Chironian conditions.
The scarcity of rich power sources, the smaller population base, the
greater investment needed for usable land - all of these issues must
be carefully studied, and addressed.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "Self-Order on Chiron"
##Ecological Engineering
#TECH60
Why should we be bound by the limitations of Planet? We did not
design it, but we have the ability to redesign it. To not do so is
the same scale of foolishness as drinking unboiled river water
because that is how we found it.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ "The Unicorp Solution"
##Planetary Economics
#TECH61
In the end, the growth of trade and the specialisation of production
will permit prosperity unprecedented in Chironian history, and the
Cartel is uniquely situated to become literally indispensible to the
continuation of this prosperity.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "Self-Order on Chiron"
##Adv. Ecological Engineering
#TECH62
In the past five years we have erected no fewer than four deep-crust
drilling stations and the associated geothermal collectors and ore
seperators, and we can continue to seek out ideal locations for other
such operations. This is what Unicorp stands for, and your execution
of policy is fully to my satisfaction.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ address to top management
##Centauri Psi
#TECH63
The world-spirit reaches out with her thought, and the worms bear
the seeds of her displeasure. In attention to her, we see that
thought is not so closed to the world as some would say.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "The Spirits Speak"
##Secrets of Alpha Centauri
#TECH64
This world was a mystery upon mysteries in those days, though she is
a mystery still.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "On the Birthing-Time"
##Secrets of Creation
#TECH65
If humans can alter the quantum states of particles by perceiving them,
what happens to those that are not perceived? Are they still part of
the universe, simply unseeable to our eyes? Or has the universe indeed
changed as it appears to? The answer to this question has broad
ramifications, for it determines whether our actions truly affect only
our place in the universe, or the universe itself.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Foundations of Dynamic Will Theory", Epilogue
##Advanced Spaceflight
#TECH66
There's that word again. Freedom. The freedom to be able to move
through space as easily as we do on land, or through the water is
another aim. Something else to shoot for. To be free to move where,
when, how.
^
^ -- Dame Snow Hart,
^ "Freedom"
##Homo Superior
#TECH67
Despite the continual evidences which GOD has shown, which
should lead men to humility and to obedience, human arrogance
before GOD continues to grow. The claim that man was "like unto
GOD" was the first temptation of the devil in the very first
days of our race.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Dies Irae"
##Organic Superlubricant
#TECH68
Zack thought up the name, didn't he? Frankie, go take care of Zack,
both fists. In the meantime, it should be an incredible thing. Y'know,
less breakdown in the stuff keeping machines running. Who'm I kidding.
I'm gonna' go help Frankie with Zack. Interview the science-dude
over there.
^
^ -- Dame Snow Hart,
^ Argyle Media special interview
##Quantum Machinery
#TECH69
Exploitation of quantum effects has provided us with an
unprecedented new source of power, and more refined applications
of these effects will undoubtedly provide us with commercial and
industrial opportunities previously unimagined.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "New Technologies and New Horizons"
##Life Extension
#TECH70
Life itself is holy in the eyes of GOD, and the proper goal of
technology is the service and preservation of life.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Stellae Cognitae"
##Nanomatter Editation
#TECH71
For we are entrusted here with the power of Creation,
Let us exercise it in humility and wisdom, O LORD!
Let us not stray into the paths of temptation,
But submit our power always to Thy will and the way of righteousness.
^
^ -- The Nanotechnology Litany
##Optical Computers
#TECH72
Integrated circuits are made smaller and faster every year. If
simple improvements in efficiency can bring us the revolutionary
changes the Information Age has experienced thus far, what might we
expect if we transcended the finite speed of electrons and made our
computations with photons instead?
^
^ -- Historian Adam Gieseler,
^ "The Knowledge Revolution"
##Industrial Nanorobotics
#TECH73
The economic history of humanity is dominated by the continued
development of means of capital to multiply the productivity of labor,
causing economic growth which itself leads to rising standards of
living. So long as the conditions that encourage the innovation that
leads to these new applications of capital obtain, economic growth,
and thus, the growth of real standards of living of humanity, can only
be slowed, not defeated.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "Self-Order on Chiron"
##Centauri Genetics
#TECH74
As GOD granted Man dominion over the beasts of Earth, that Man might
find life, so also is Man granted dominion over the beasts of Planet,
so long as we walk in humility and faith.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Stellae Cognitae"
##Sentient Econometrics
#TECH75
If the market is guided by an invisible hand, then the science of
sentient econometrics is what shall provide us the language to
speak to the Titan whose hand that is.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "New Technologies and New Horizons"
##Retroviral Engineering
#TECH76
This technology extends both an olive branch and a sword. The branch
of life, we extend to those who by their deeds have shown loyalty and
fidelity to the United Nations. The sword of death, we reserve for the
disloyal, the traitors to the mission that brought us here and to the
principles of law and unity that underlie our continuing mission to
bring all humanity together.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ speech to the citizens of Fort Garland
##Satellite Reconnaissance
#TECH77
We have previously been bound by the limitations of conventional
armies, but no longer. The development of a coherent rocketry
program will allow us to deliver firepower to targets behind enemy
lines, with no risk to our own assets, and makes possible the usage
of military tactics once unthinkable when weapons were required to be
within a relatively short range of those who use them. I expect that
this shall help tilt the balance of power once more in our favor.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "The Collected Letters"
##Progenitor Psych
#TECH78
And I stood before him, and I sang unto her, and it appeared to
listen. His very countenance rippled like the sea, and the sound
of my own voice came back to me, distorted. For a moment I thought
she was mocking me, or it was nonsapient and mimicking me. Then I
understood: the sounds were not important; it was how I affected
his sounds and how she affected mine that transmitted the message.
^
^ -- Prime Function Aki Zeta-Five
^ "One Future"
##Field Modulation
#TECH79
The Progenitor race appears to sense, and possibly even manipulate,
local fields an untrained human cannot perceive without mechanical aid,
including at the very least electricity and magnetism. This sensitivity
creates entirely new worlds of artistic endeavors for the race-or it may
be developed into a powerful combat awareness that can foil any attempt
at surprise.
^
^ -- Prime Function Aki Zeta-Five
^ "Alien Analysis"
##Adaptive Doctrine
#TECH80
War is war; destruction is destruction. You think this is obvious.
But war is not destruction, it is victory. To achieve victory, simply
appear to give the opponent what he wants and he will go away, or join
you in your quest for additional power.
^
^ -- Datatech Sinder Roze
^ "Information Burns"
##Adaptive Economics
#TECH81
Humans : correct in making the leap from wealth as currency to wealth as
energy. But logic failure : wealth ultimately is extension of desire, fluctuating
with emotions and state of mind. Desires : when all are supported in purely adaptable
system, true wealth is achieved.
^
^ -- Usurper Judaa Marr
^ "Human : Nature"
##Bioadaptive Resonance
#TECH82
I saw the alien phalanx coming toward us, and I calmed my mind as Kri'lan had taught
me. And what I saw next to the phalanx was a shadow regiment, half-formed from the
resonance around them. I cursed the aliens...with power like that, each one could fight
as many, and I thanked Planet for sending us the betrayer.
^
^ -- Prophet Cha Dawn
^ "The Betrayer and I"
##Sentient Resonance
#TECH83
And here we tinker with metal, to try to give it a kind of life, and suffer those who
would scoff at our efforts. But who's to say that, if intelligence had evolved in some
other form in past millennia, the ancestors of these beings would not now scoff at the
idea of intelligence residing within meat?
^
^ -- Prime Function Aki Zeta-Five
^ "The Fallacies of Self-Awareness"
##Secrets of the Manifolds
#TECH84
Kri'lan taught me of the resonance and how to feel it. After much training, I could
see -- the very surface under our feet, Planet itself -- is a living, fluctuating nexus
of energy, violent, beautiful and quite unstable. And I could also feel its
cousins -- distant mirrors on the other side of the space-time continuum -- the
far-flung Manifolds.
^
^ -- Prophet Cha Dawn
^ "The Betrayer and I"
##N-Space Compression
#TECH85
Humans : there is no space inside rocket. Progenitor : space exists around all things
with mass. Space : "here". Inside rocket : "there". Secret: bring here to there.
^
^ -- Caretaker Lular H'minee
^ "Secret : Space"
##String Resonance
#TECH86
To understand a thing is to know the manner by which it might be destroyed. A fundamental
understanding of the basic building-blocks of the Universe is essential, then, to the total
destruction of everything.
^
^ -- Foreman Domai
^ "One Tool, One Thought"
##Transcendent Thought
#TECH88
^ Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
^ Have you drunk your fill?
^
^ -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^ "Conversations with Planet", Epilogue
##The Human Genome Project
#PROJECT0
To map the very stuff of life; to look into the
genetic mirror and watch a million generations
march past. That, friends, is both our curse and
our proudest achievement. For it is in reaching to our
beginnings that we begin to learn who we truly are.
^
^ -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
^ "Address to the Faculty"
##The Command Nexus
#PROJECT1
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
##The Weather Paradigm
#PROJECT2
I shall not confront Planet as an enemy, but shall accept
its mysteries as gifts to be cherished. Nor shall I crudely
seek to peel the layers away like the skin from an onion.
Instead I shall gather them together as the tree gathers the
breeze. The wind shall blow and I shall bend. The sky shall
open and I shall drink my fill.
^
^ -- Gaian Acolyte's Prayer
##The Merchant Exchange
#PROJECT3
Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary,
but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need
as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards
of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep
thrumming of our common pulse.
^
^ -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
^ "The Centauri Monopoly"
##The Empath Guild
#PROJECT4
Symbols are the key to telepathy. The mind wraps its
secrets in symbols; when we discover the symbols that shape
our enemy's thought, we can penetrate the vault of his mind.
^
^ -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^ "Our Secret War"
##The Citizens' Defense Force
#PROJECT5
As the writhing, teeming mass of Mind Worms swarmed over the outer
perimeter, we saw the defenders recoil in horror. "Stay calm! Use
your flame guns!" shouted the commander, but to no avail. It is well
known that the Mind Worm Boil uses psychic terror to paralyze its
prey, and then carefully implants ravenous larvae in the brains of
its still-conscious victims. Even with the best weapons, only the
most disciplined troops can resist this horrific attack.
^
^ -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^ "Our Secret War"
##The Virtual World
#PROJECT6
What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no
more than information before the senses, data fed to the
computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received
the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and
you shall become master of the output.
^
^ -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
^ "Essays on Mind and Matter"
##The Planetary Transit System
#PROJECT7
As distances vanish and the people can flow freely from place
to place, society will cross a psychological specific heat
boundary and enter a new state. No longer a solid or liquid,
we have become as a vapor and will expand to fill all available
space. And like a gas, we shall not be easily contained.
^
^ -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^ "But for the Grace of God"
##The Xenoempathy Dome
#PROJECT8
I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing
to listen. These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays:
taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering.
Can a planet be said to have achieved sentience?
^
^ -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^ Arguments in Council
##The Neural Amplifier
#PROJECT9
Against such abominations, we organize our defenses on the
principle that one strong and able mind can shield the many.
^
^ -- Spartan Battle Manual
##Maritime Control Center
#PROJECT10
It is altogether fitting that we who have sailed the deeps of
space now return again to the sea. This is in many ways a water
planet, and it can be ruled from the waves. With sea power, rugged
terrain can be bypassed and enemy strongholds isolated. Once
naval superiority is achieved, Planet is ours for the taking.
^
^ -- Col. Corazon Santiago,
^ "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
##The Planetary Datalinks
#PROJECT11
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"
##The Supercollider
#PROJECT12
^ God does not play dice.
^
^ -- Albert Einstein, Datalinks
##The Ascetic Virtues
#PROJECT13
Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they
warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your
awareness outward, beyond the self of body, to embrace the self
of group and the self of humanity. The goals of the group and the
greater race are transcendent, and to embrace them is to achieve
enlightenment.
^
^ -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
^ "Essays on Mind and Matter"
##The Longevity Vaccine
#PROJECT14
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
##The Hunter-Seeker Algorithm
#PROJECT15
If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have
no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy
is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the
formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot
discern it nor the wise make plans against it.
^
^ -- Sun Tzu,
^ "The Art of War", Datalinks
##The Pholus Mutagen
#PROJECT16
^ We welcome you, earthdeirdre and earthwheat and earthtree as
^ honored guests, for you add great power to our ancient song--
^ planetfungus and planetworm and planetmind sing and play
^ here, and you are welcome among us.
^
^ -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^ "Conversations with Planet"
##The Cyborg Factory
#PROJECT17
^ 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
##The Theory of Everything
#PROJECT18
The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the
cradle forever.
^
^ -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
^ The Father of Rocketry, Datalinks
##The Dream Twister
#PROJECT19
^ Mary had a little lamb,
^ Little lamb little lamb,
^ Mary had a little lamb,
^ whose fleece was white as snow.
^
^ -- Assassins' Redoubt,
^ Final Transmission
##The Universal Translator
#PROJECT20
And the Lord said, "Behold, the people is one, and
they have all one language; and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them, which
they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and
there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech."
^
^ -- The Conclave Bible,
^ Datalinks
##The Network Backbone
#PROJECT21
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
##The Nano Factory
#PROJECT22
Industrial Grade Nano-Paste, Planet's most valuable commodity, can also
be one of its most dangerous. Simply pour out several canisters, slide
in a programming transponder, and step well away while the stuff cooks.
In under an hour the nano will use available materials to assemble a
small factory, a hovertank, or enough impact rifles to equip a regiment.
^
^ -- Col. Corazon Santiago,
^ "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"
##The Living Refinery
#PROJECT23
We estimate that during the next mission century most of
Planet's industries will be moved off-planet to Nessus Prime and
other orbital facilities. Many of our industries will benefit
greatly from the low gravity environments available in space,
particularly those involving genetically engineered microbes.
^
^ -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
^ "The Centauri Monopoly"
##The Cloning Vats
#PROJECT24
We shall take only the greatest minds, the finest soldiers,
the most faithful servants. We shall multiply them a thousandfold
and release them to usher in a new era of glory.
^
^ -- Col. Corazon Santiago,
^ "The Council of War"
##The Self-Aware Colony
#PROJECT25
Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud
we have become, and how blind.
^
^ -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^ "We Must Dissent"
##Clinical Immortality
#PROJECT26
And the Lord God said, "Behold, the man is become as
one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth
his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and
live forever, we must send him forth." Therefore the
Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till
the ground from whence he was taken.
^
^ -- The Conclave Bible,
^ Datalinks
##The Space Elevator
#PROJECT27
In one moment, Earth; in the next, Heaven.
^
^ -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
^ "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
##The Singularity Inductor
#PROJECT28
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"
##The Bulk Matter Transmitter
#PROJECT29
And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this
machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever,
leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair?
^
^ -- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
^ "We Must Dissent"
##The Telepathic Matrix
#PROJECT30
^ From the delicate strands,
^ between minds we weave our mesh:
^ a blanket to warm the soul.
^
^ -- Lady Deirdre Skye,
^ "The Collected Poems"
##The Voice of Planet
#PROJECT31
Imagine the entire contents of the planetary datalinks, the sum total
of human knowledge, blasted into the Planetmind's fragile neural
network with the full power of every reactor on the planet. Thousands
of years of civilization compressed into a single searing burst of
revelation. That is our last-ditch attempt to win humanity a reprieve
from extinction at the hands of an awakening alien god.
^
^ -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
^ "Planet Speaks"
##Ascent to Transcendence
#PROJECT32
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"
##Manifold Harmonics
#PROJECT33
Manifold harmonic fields : within, the true nature of the universe becomes
apparent. Layers : within layers. Worlds : within worlds. Inside : the heart
of everything opens, and everything opens to it.
^
^ -- Caretaker Lular H'minee,
^ "Resonance : Power"
##Nethack Terminus
#PROJECT34
By creating a planetary network, mankind on Planet now has the ability
to share information at light-speed. But by creating a single such network,
each faction has brought themselves closer to discovery as well. At the speed
of light, we will catch your information, tag it like an animal in the wild,
and release it unharmed-if such should serve our purposes.
^
^ -- Datatech Sinder Roze,
^ "The Alpha Codex"
##Cloudbase Academy
#PROJECT35
In one dimension I find existence, in two I find life, but in three, I find freedom.
^
^ -- Foreman Domai,
^ Cadet Induction Ceremony, Mission Year 2216
##Planetary Energy Grid
#PROJECT36
"The ancient Chinese had a name for it: Feng Shui. We call it energy flow. It is the
same thing, the same thought: energy is everywhere, but only a fraction of it is tapped
by humans for their purposes. Now the Progenitors have taught us that we can tap not only
our own latent abilities, but the latent abilities of the Universe itself."
^
^ -- Prophet Cha Dawn,
^ "Planet Rising"
##Headquarters
#FAC1
To be successful, the State must be directed. Armies, laws, offices
of public order, and all the other assets of the State are
ultimately limbs, which must respond to and be obedient to the mind
which orders the State. Lack of leadership or unskilled leadership
both ultimately lead to chaos and to anarchy.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "Civics, Order, and Insurrection", Introduction
##Children's Creche
#FAC2
The society obedient before GOD shall not neglect the care of its
children, but rather shall it nurture and guide them, that they
may join with the larger society in its obedience to GOD and not
become lost.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Stellae Cognitae"
##Recycling Tanks
#FAC3
Old stuff goes in... Then the oom oom and the heat and then-- New
stuff comes out! And it's less material and it's less energy and...
Old in, new out. Old in, new out.
^
^ -- "Crazy Zack" Hoffman,
^ "Science for Stoners"
##Perimeter Defense
#FAC4
As I approached the encampment, I was stunned by the way my guide was
able to direct me through impenetrable thickets and impassible terrain.
But perhaps most amazing was an apparently safe stretch of flat land,
where sinkholes lay in wait to swallow the unwary. Concealed by a layer
of soil knit naturally together by the same grass and vines that covered
the rest of the meadow, these traps would have utterly fooled me if not
for the careful prompting of my companion.
^
^ -- Professor Mikaela Ellton of Monrovia,
^ "My Travels Among the Tribes"
##Tachyon Field
#FAC5
And the power of GOD shall protect you, though you see it not, and
not all the power of the enemy shall avail them against His might.
^
^ -- Archbishop Giuseppi Salieri of Antioch Nova,
^ public address during siege by Anarchist forces
##Recreation Commons
#FAC6
Who among you proud remembers the least of your people? If you do
not forget the hungers of their soul, then they shall remember you in
the hour of your darkness. And even these, the least of our brethren,
are members of the kingdom of GOD.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Stellae Cognitae"
##Energy Bank
#FAC7
All new colonization teams are to include materials for THREE (3)
Class A reactors and the appropriate transmission cabling and routers
for six km of primary power conduits. No interruptions in the operation
of industrial assembly following the establishment of a stable power
source will be tolerated.
^
^ -- Unicorp Internal Protocols
##Network Node
#FAC8
The greatest revolution of the last century has been the vast
increase in the storage and transmission of information. The days
when knowledge could be hoarded by elitist scribes are long past, and
these new developments go a long way toward truly democratizing
information.
^
^ -- Historian Adam Gieseler,
^ "The Knowledge Revolution"
##Biology Lab
#FAC9
To correctly honor the spirits of the life around us, we must understand
and respect that life. It is lack of understanding that is the great
blindness of the civilized world. To understand a thing properly, without
the blindness of separation, is to love it. Therefore, let all of our kin
understand the means by which the spirits manifest in the world, even as
they honor their mysteries.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "Mysteries of Life"
##Skunkworks
#FAC10
When the skunk emerged from her hole after weeks and weeks of preparation,
she didn't smell so bad anymore. However, the fieldmice didn't like the
look in her eye, and the wolf was worried that the great gun strapped to
her back wasn't going to be used in the kindest of ways.
^
^ -- "Frankie" Collins,
^ "Kid's Stories for Grown-Ups"
##Hologram Theatre
#FAC11
The State must be certain that its policy is universally understood
and universally accepted. Not only the traditional vehicles of news
and speeches, but also fiction, entertainment, and speculation must
be geared to reinforce the loyalty of the populace to the State.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "Civics, Order, and Insurrection"
##Paradise Garden
#FAC12
It's really nice here. Can hardly believe the old Dame thought it up.
Over there, you can see a few of the guys having a beer. Me? I prefer
writing. See, big closed rooms so it's quiet, and they've got seats so
a few people can get together and jam. It's like an island of
tranquility in a sea of noise... Dude, I've gotta' write that down.
^
^ -- "Frankie" Collins,
^ "Memoirs"
##Tree Farm
#FAC13
The native life of Chiron, although accessible to our biochemists
as a source for base chemical nutrients, is largely useless for
building and structural materials, purposes far better suited to
native Terran trees. It is fortunate, then, that with careful
investment we can maintain a source of Terran timber for harvest
and exploitation.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "Self-Order on Chiron"
##Hybrid Forest
#FAC14
When the trees take in the essence of this world, you can hear
them sing to the world-spirit. Were that it were so effortless for
humans to know such wisdom!
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "The Spirits Speak"
##Fusion Lab
#FAC15
The economic value of controllable fusion power cannot be overstated.
Where once we have suffered famine, we soon shall feast, although the
initial capital investment shall be steep.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "Self-Order on Chiron"
##Quantum Lab
#FAC16
Quantum phenomena require a fundamentally different system of investigation
than larger-scale objects and events. At the quantum level, all barriers
break down, and what is actual becomes a matter of probability. That the
barrier between observer and observed would dissolve as well, and measurement
of a phenomenon without changing it become impossible, is thus not surprising.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Technologies of the Third Millenium"
##Research Hospital
#FAC17
As the economic means of any society grows, so does also the demand for new
and useful methods of medical treatment. Stagnation in medicine provides a
limiter for the alleviation of the suffering of human life, and, furthermore,
leaves a society vulnerable to new developments in disease for which it has
no response.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "Self-Order on Chiron"
##Nanohospital
#FAC18
The next great leap in the preservation of human life came by applying
nanoengineering techniques to the molecules at the lowest levels of
cell structure. When genetic engineering could be performed by nanorobots
on demand to any specifications, any antibody could be manufactured in an
instant, and true safety from degenerative disease was achieved.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Technologies of the Third Millenium"
##Robotic Assembly Plant
#FAC19
We excel in traditional methods of industry, yes, but the new generation
of industrial robots introduced by Cartel firms mean that they now have
integrated components factories that can fit on a desk, and full factories
with greater efficiencies than ever before. We must acquire and implement
this technology by any means necessary, or risk losing our pre-eminent
position in heavy industry.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ planning session transcript
##Nanoreplicator
#FAC20
The new technology of nano-industrial paste- a suspension of microscopic
programmable robots capable of assembling materials to an extreme degree
of precision at the molecular scale- will allow new manufacturing methods,
and new products, that will help to drive the next phase of expansion of
living standards on Chiron.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "New Technologies and New Horizons"
##Quantum Converter
#FAC21
Although energy-to-mass conversion is necessarily a power-hungry process,
the gains possible in creating otherwise scarce elements necessary for the
fabrication of the products of modern industry render it a recommended
addition to the industrial structure of major operations.
^
^ -- Unicorp R&D,
^ classified report
##Genejack Factory
#FAC22
A labor force with human dexterity, but with superhuman endurance
and tolerance for tedium- they're the best thing that's ever
happened to my operation.
^
^ -- Anonymous Unicorp mine manager,
^ Argyle Media interview
##Punishment Sphere
#FAC23
The fear of retribution is quite possibly the most powerful
motivating force known to humanity, and the State can exploit
this, if properly prepared.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "Civics, Order, and Insurrection"
##Hab Complex
#FAC24
I, for one, am glad to see the new residential and commercial
expansion around the core facilities of our bases. In a small way,
it reminds me of the vigor and energy that Earth once enjoyed.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ Argyle Media special interview
##Habitation Dome
#FAC25
And even as the LORD has commanded, we have been fruitful, and
multiplied, but there are those who have forgotten that this
command was due to the sacredness of life in the LORD's eyes.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Dies Irae"
##Pressure Dome
#FAC26
The successful engineering of sea-based habitats has now provided
us with a whole new set of exploitable resources, and the establishment
of operations to take advantage of this must now be considered our
next priority.
^
^ -- CEO Young Kwan-Yong,
^ planning session transcript
##Command Center
#FAC27
It is not merely our courage which lets our warriors strike true,
though without their valor the training and the direction of the
war-chiefs that brought them to where they were needful should
have been in vain.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ personal correspondence to Cardinal Julius Cerutti
##Naval Yard
#FAC28
The oceans of Planet provide us with a natural strategic opportunity.
They provide swift mobility to the prepared and a formidable barrier
to the unprepared- and that strategic differential can be exploited
in our favor.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ "The Collected Letters"
##Aerospace Complex
#FAC29
The United Nations must maintain air superiority. I expect you to
develop the critical industries necessary for our air force, and
I expect you to cooperate with MilSec and PubInt in the recruitment
process for our pilot cadre. If we fail, the ability of the United
Nations to assert its position will be unacceptably compromised.
^
^ -- Commander Marie du Lac,
^ memo to Secretary Rosseau of IntDev
##Bioenhancement Center
#FAC30
See, cybernetics is a good thing, because we really do need to
defend ourselves. And one great way to do this is to enhance our
soldiers. I swell with pride every time I see this facility...
Heehee! I feel like Doctor Moreau! Wait, was that thing still on?
Oh shi--
^
^ -- "Crazy Zack" Hoffman,
^ Argyle Media special interview
##Centauri Preserve
#FAC31
The reasons for preserving Planet's life in its native state do not
end with the humanitarian. The amount of information contained in
one chromosome of DNA is simply staggering. Add to that all the
learned behaviors and techniques which each organism possesses, and
the cost in terms of knowledge of unchecked devastation of ecosystems
is revealed to be vast.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "The New Social Compact"
##Temple of Planet
#FAC32
The world-spirit speaks to our shamans, teaching us what her will is.
It is a harmony and a peace that we achieve in obedience to her, one
which grants us all wisdom.
^
^ -- High Chief Joseph,
^ "The Spirits Speak"
##Psi Gate
#FAC33
The reason why the human psyche reacts so badly to normal matter
transmission is still hotly debated. What is known is that in any
transmission of humans and psi-active animals, special precautions must
be taken to prevent psychological damage. With further research, the
reason behind this phenomenon may become apparent.
^
^ -- Dean Adam Gieseler,
^ "Technologies of the Third Millenium"
##Sky Hydroponics Lab
#FAC34
tomatoes in space, potatoes in air
food for the children, land for the playground
can both be done, can both be had
where and when we are?
^
^ -- "Frankie" Collins,
^ "Erratic Drums"
##Nessus Mining Station
#FAC35
Same shit, different rock.
^
^ -- Unicorp Foreman Kim Albert,
^ personal correspondence
##Orbital Transmitter
#FAC36
Once the infrastructure for space launches has been established, the
creation of a system of data and communications satellites will be
possible, along with solar collectors that will not suffer the interference
of Chiron's atmosphere. Communications, information, and power-
these are driving forces behind the improvement of economic efficiency,
and clear evidence that the reach to space is a practical, not merely an
idealistic, endeavor.
^
^ -- Director Nathan Weismuller,
^ "Self-Order on Chiron"
##Orbital Defense Pod
#FAC37
When at last GOD unleashes His wrath upon the sinful peoples of Planet,
it shall be as destructive and as inescapable as the great fiery meteor
He unleashed on the reptiles that once ruled Earth, and no handiwork of
human cunning shall bar it.
^
^ -- Cardinal Julius Cerutti,
^ "Dies Irae"
##Mass to Energy
#FAC38
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"
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