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• • • Season 1. • • •
+ 22
• 1.01 "Under the Night"
If the Commonwealth's High Guard had a weakness, it was this: Its officers were too competent, too caring and too brave.
Yin Man-Wei
The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth
C.Y. 11942
• 1.02 "An Affirming Flame"
Some say the Commonwealth would have fallen even without Nietzschean treachery. They underestimate both the Commonwealth and the Nietzscheans.
Yin Man-Wei
The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth
C.Y. 11942
• 1.03 "To Loose the Fateful Lightning"
"Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly - why they are simply doomed."
AchemDro'Hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
C.Y. 4971
• 1.04 "D Minus Zero"
Here's everything I know about war: Somebody wins, somebody loses, and nothing is ever the same again.
Admiral Constanza Stark
C.Y. 9784
• 1.05 "Double Helix"
Machiavelli's ideas are basically sound ones for the Nietzschean People. Unfortunately he was an optimist.
Cerebus Khmer
"Aphorisms"
C.Y. 8969
• 1.06 "Angel Dark, Demon Bright"
The Heavens burned, the stars
cried out
And under the ashes of infinity,
Hope, scarred and bleeding,
breathed its last.
Ulatempa Poetess
"Elegy for the Commonwealth"
CY 9823
• 1.07 "The Ties That Blind"
Many say living in the Way is difficult. Is sleeping difficult? Is waking?
Serenity Vikram Singh Khalsa
Collected Works,
301 AFC
• 1.08 "The Banks of the Lethe"
We say atoms are bound by
Weak Attractors.
Why not admit the Truth:
The Universe is held together by Love.
Michio Von Kerr
Wayist physicist
CY 9942
• 1.09 "A Rose in the Ashes"
The truest measure of a society is how it treats its elderly, its pets, and its prisoners.
Keeper of the Way Vision of Faith VII
C.Y. 9891
• 1.10 "All Great Neptune's Ocean"
Democracy may be only a few steps removed from Anarchy, but at least it's not as loud.
Crowned in Starlight
Than Hegemon, CY 9843
• 1.11 "The Pearls That Were His Eyes"
Wealth is too Precious to be entrusted to the Rich.
Anonymous Kalderan Proverb
circa CY 500
• 1.12 "The Mathematics of Tears"
If hope is the engine of the soul,
Then duty is the navigator...
And love is the fuel.
High Guard Supreme Commander Sani nax Rifati
"Persuasions and Exhortations"
C.Y. 4279
• 1.13 "Music of a Distant Drum"
KLUDGE (Klooj) - n. Disparaging term for genetically unmodified human being. See also "über".
A Concise Dictionary of Slang and Euphemism
C.Y. 9021
• 1.14 "Harper 2.0"
One head cannot contain all Wisdom.
The Olduvai Cycle
Systems University Archives
C.Y. 8550
• 1.15 "Forced Perspective"
Humans say the Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Why? Do they think there's a shortage of bad ones?
Karm'Luk P'an Ku
"The Joy of Lucidity"
C.Y. 8633
• 1.16 "The Sum of Its Parts"
Between birth and death lies desire, Desire for life, for love, for everything good. And this is the source of all suffering.
Outcast Consensus 17
C.Y. 10942
• 1.17 "Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way"
WARNING: Do Not Operate Heavy Machinery or Navigate The Slipstream While Under the Influence Of This Beverage.
Sparky Cola (label)
291 AFC
• 1.18 "The Devil Take the Hindmost"
Only those born guilty Recognise Innocence for what it Is:The rarest thing in the Universe. And the most Precious.
The Anointed
The Finder of The Way
C.Y. 9799
• 1.19 "The Honey Offering"
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
Drago Museveni
C.Y. 8427
• 1.20 "Star-Crossed"
You ask why we give our Ships'Computers normal Emotions? Do you really want a Warship incapable of Loyalty? Or of Love?
The Unshattered Allegiance, High Guard Frigate
Artificial Intelligence Rights Activist
C.Y. 7309
• 1.21 "It Makes a Lovely Light"
Come bitter Rain,
And wash from my Heart
That saddest of all Words: Home
Ulatempa Poetess, "Song of My Exile"
C.Y. 9825
• 1.22 "It's Hour Come ‘Round at Last"
Screams of a billion murdered Stars
Give lie to the night's Peace
While we cling in desperation to the Few
Fragile spinning stones we call Worlds
Wayfinder First Order Hasturi aka "The Mad Perseid"
217 AFC
• • • Season 2. • • •
+ 22
• 2.01 "The Widening Gyre"
If we do not live another day,
say this over our pyre:
They died like High Guard Lancers
with their faces to the fire.
Regimental Hymn of the 13th Imperial Lancers
CY 4233
• 2.02 "Exit Strategies"
The soul is larger than the sky
Deeper than the ocean,
Or the abysmal dark
Of the unfathomed center.
Enoch Vere de Vere.
"Lamentations Sous-terre"
CY 9734
• 2.03 "A Heart for Falsehood Framed"
Love? Truth? Beauty? I prefer negotiable securities.
Doge Miskich
"All About Me"
301 AFC
• 2.04 "Pitiless as the Sun"
We are not the masks we wear. But if we don them, do we not become them?
Keops Tsumai
"Fortunes"
CY 9683
• 2.05 "Last Call at the Broken Hammer"
Life? Life's pretty much a knife-fight in a dirt-floored bar: and if they get you down, you best get back up.
Gunnery Sergeant Hywell Cy'rabia
CY 4681
• 2.06 "All Too Human"
Worlds governed by artificial intelligence often learned a hard lesson: Logic Doesn't Care.
Yin-Man Wei
"This Present Darkness: A History of the Interregnum"
CY 11956
• 2.07 "Una Salus Victus"
Requested:
One Mark V ECM unit, 1000 km of Fullerene cable, one low-yield nuclear warhead.' Purpose: Surprise party for foreign dignitary.
Argosy Special Operations requisition form
CY 9512
• 2.08 "Home Fires"
With their minuscule families, humans are often forced to rely on a "state" or a "nation" for support. Pity them.
Than-Thre-Kull
Anthropology text
Approx CY 7956
• 2.09 "Into the Labyrinth"
To a god, a wall is but a line on a page. We are all naked, seen beyond seeing.
Wayfinder Hasturi aka "The Mad Perseid"
217 AFC
• 2.10 "The Prince"
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Which is a problem. If you are powerless.
Drago Museveni
"Manifesto"
CY 8433
• 2.11 "Bunker Hill"
Here is the price of freedom: Your every drop of courage, ounce of pain, pint of blood. Paid in advance.
Sebastian Lee
"The Rising Tide"
AFC 271
• 2.12 "Ouroboros"
Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind.
Knowing when the drumming stops,
There'll be no second dance.
Ulatempa Poetess
"Rhythms"
CY 9825
• 2.13 "Lava and Rockets"
You can't outrun Death forever. But you can make the Bastard work for it.
Major Korgo Korgar
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
• 2.14 "Be All My Sins Remembered"
I trust fast poison
The stars to wink out
And you, my love - and you.
Minstrel d'Becevex
"The Void"
CY 9905
• 2.15 "Dance of the Mayflies"
Blink and it's gone,
A moment, a breath,
A Dance of the Mayflies.
Just enough... For a Lifetime.
Ulatempa Poetess
"Rhythms" CY 9825
• 2.16 "In Heaven Now Are Three"
The true quarry of any great adventurer is the undiscovered territory of their own soul.
Lady Aenea Makros
"The Metaphysics Of Motion"
CY 6416
• 2.17 "The Things We Cannot Change"
Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill.
Fragment of Ancient Earth Text
CY 6800
• 2.18 "The Fair Unknown"
To venture in the Fair Unknown
I must enter as I leave:
A traveler, alone.
Anonymous
CY 1917
• 2.19 "Belly of the Beast"
Beneath knowing, understanding
Beneath understanding, seeing
Beneath seeing, recognizing
Beneath recognizing, knowing
Keeper of the Way, Vision of Faith
CY 10003
• 2.20 "The Knight, Death, and the Devil"
A soldier's first battlefield is always his own mind.
Admiral Constanza Stark
CY 9762
• 2.21 "Immaculate Perception"
The soul of the Nietzschean is this: We are arrogant. We are vain. We are manipulative. We are selfish. And we love our children.
Drago Museveni
"Primary Reflections"
CY 8428
• 2.22 "Tunnel At The End Of The Light"
Welcome twilight.
Welcome blackness.
Welcome inky night.
Only in darkness
Can I see your soul.
"Lost Verses of Krrendar"
CY 9452
• • • Season 3. • • •
+ 22
• 3.01 "If The Wheel Is Fixed"
The fearful sit
in a clutch with their worries,
Whilst one man alone
faces the Furies.
Songs of Loren
CY 4557
• 3.02 "The Shards Of Rimni"
The loyal heart has hidden treasures. In secrets kept, In silence sealed.
Commander Zing Bex
"The Art of Secrets"
Approx. CY 2575
• 3.03 "Mad To Be Saved"
The Rabid Dogs of Gallaphron
Can be trained to drool
At the ring of a bell.
Doesn't stop them from biting.
Karlos El Greeta-Stirra
"Reflections of Rim-Salt"
CY 4389
• 3.04 "Cui Bono"
You're never more alive than the first time someone puts a gun to your favorite head and asks you to dance.
Major Korgo Korgar
"Last Of The Lancers"
AFC 32
• 3.05 "The Lone And Level Sands"
More than a mere ship of exploration, the Bellerophon embodied humanity's last, great effort to tame the universe through our own will alone.
Dr. Paul Museveni, father of Drago Museveni
A Farther Shore
CY 8401
• 3.06 "Slipfighter The Dogs of War"
The moth wants a star
The night wants tomorrow
The King wants what's far
Outside his sphere of sorrow
Tales of Queen Kysella
CY 5647
• 3.07 "The Leper's Kiss"
Walk without footprints.
Breathe without breath.
Our lives leave no trace.
Motto Of The Assassin's Guild.
CY 3455
• 3.08 "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
To the question of life after death: Not whether a thing exists, but...What manner of life?
Reverend Bem
"A Wayist Practicum"
CY 10090
• 3.09 "And Your Heart Will Fly Away"
She wounds you as a rose will wound you
Not with her thorn.
A rose will always wound you with her beauty.
Harry Martinson
CY 6862
• 3.10 "The Unconquerable Man"
It matters little how we die, so long as we die better men than we imagined we could be - and no worse than we feared.
Drago Museveni
CY 8451
• 3.11 "Delenda Est"
What clings to a wall, But travels all the world?
Patriarch of Jill
Unsolvable Riddle of Ski
CY 1111
• 3.12 "The Dark Backward"
You might say reality is the result of complex negotiations between the observer and observed. But that is simply a point of view.
Michio Von Kerr
"The Apotheosis of Reason"
CY 11542
• 3.13 "The Risk-All Point"
The universe is bound in equal parts
By arrogance and altruism.
Any attempt to alter this
Would be suicide.
Dr. Walter Giles
"The Value of Value"
CY 11543
• 3.14 "The Right Horse"
Any fool can be honest, for it is only what he knows. A wise man is aware of when to share the truth.
Vedran Empress Yoweri XXIII
CY 2932
• 3.15 "What Happens To A Rev Deferred?"
Are you a monster?
Are you a freak?
Will you be my friend!
Or have you lost your way.
With trouble to pay,
When you come to your journey's end?
Empyrium Lullaby
CY 8745
• 3.16 "Point of the Spear"
I've always found a fully deployed battle group to be the most effective negotiator.
Admiral Constanza Stark
High Guard Chief-of-Staff
CY 9758
• 3.17 "Vault of the Heavens"
I can no longer endure to view;
Wondrous sight of so celestial hue.
Final diary entry of Capt. Oswald Pierce
CY 1116
Regarding his only love.
• 3.18 "Deep Midnight's Voice"
The universe is perfect.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it,
you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it,
you will lose it.
Notes to Odo Chan
CY 9101
• 3.19 "The Illusion of Majesty"
We all wear the twin masks of emotion,
Happy or sad, haunted or hunted,
You choose the mask, you choose the risk.
You choose your own poison.
Last words of Plethe the Pirate
CY 3902
• 3.20 "Twilight of the Idols"
Gentlebeings, I bid you welcome. Welcome to the blood, to the sweat, to the tears. Welcome to your places on the wall.
Admiral Constanza Stark
"Address to War College Graduates,"
CY 9764
• 3.21 "Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath"
The great blessing of the AI is that we are gifted with the power to touch our Creator. This is also our curse.
The Clarion's Call
"Out of The Abyss"
CY 11745
• 3.22 "Shadows Cast By a Final Salute"
The Kingdom was called Contrary.
The Castle was called Doubt.
The Twin Giants who lived there
were named Deceit and Despair.
Every change in the weather
brought Rain and Hope.
The Cairn of Darkness and the Light
CY 1015
• • • Season 4. • • •
+ 22
• 4.01 "Answers Given to Questions Never Asked"
Down where it was tangled and dark.
Down where the spirits feasted on carrion.
Down. Down. Down.
It was there, yes, the High Hatted ones
forever screamed, 'Eureka.'
Youn's Narrows of Decline
CY 1015
• 4.02 "Pieces of Eight"
The tyrant and the rebel hold the same creed: to act is to live.
War Heretics of Auden
CY 9015
• 4.03 "Waking The Tyrant's Device"
Fear drives the universe.
You will find dread among the galaxies.
You will find horror in the heart of a star.
You will find your fate in a heap of dust.
The Diktat of Septa Parisis
CY 9015
• 4.04 "Double or Nothingness"
When they are dying, tell them a riddle.
And when they laugh,
Let the Gods of Nature
Finish what we have started.
Sigma Te: Director, Cultural Archives
University Library
CY 760
• 4.05 "Harper/Delete"
And the Prides shall stand as one
Powerful in the light
And supreme among beings.
Drago Museveni
The Nietzschean Prophecy
CY 8424
• 4.06 "Soon the Nearing Vortex"
Once you give into the void,
space itself becomes time.
Once you give into the void,
many are the mouths of reality.
New Century Manifesto
CY 4001
• 4.07 "The World Turns All Around Her"
Beneath the web-thin simulacrum, inundating and fecund live myth and manifold truths. Not one point of view can embrace them at a glance.
Council of One
CY 2333
• 4.08 "Conduit to Destiny"
Destiny is the promise I give to you. Hope, the part you play, Is trusting me to keep this promise.
The Prophetic Tetraglyphs
CY 9573
• 4.09 "Machinery of the Mind"
Regarding the cerebellum, there is a culture and a presentation. Both hold power and sway.
Cuisine of the Lost Empire
CY 9905
• 4.10 "Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter"
Around, around and underneath,
The Trickster flies.
Catch him, catch him-
If he doesn't lose you,
Lose you when he flies!
Perseid Child's Game
CY 3040
• 4.11 "The Torment, The Release"
All Military, rank and file, are subject to the word and intent of the Commonwealth Triumvirs.
There is no exception.
There is punishment accordingly.
Commonwealth Charter
CY 0957
• 4.12 "The Spider's Stratagem"
Verify distant secrets
Be careful no to perish
A question as your guide.
What becomes the face of truth.
Enigma 03 of the Murti
CY 8567
• 4.13 "The Warmth of an Invisible Light"
The brightest light is invisible.
It shines through your deeds.
And warms the universe.
Chronicles of Courage and Conviction
by Captain Dylan Hunt Ret.
CY 9817
• 4.14 "The Others"
Her beauty shimmers with the
Light of a new star.
But she is the other.
Touch her, and you will know death.
Poet Temlar
CY 2101
• 4.15 "Fear Burns Down to Ashes"
Confine that which you fear to the mirror.
Start with who is standing there.
Then smile.
Bogdo Geghen Seer of Agharta
CY 1890
• 4.16 "Lost in a Space that Isn't There"
Cast your Eye upon the Changeling,
Then look for the origin of change.
Perhaps it is in the Eye.
Luna
"Catalog of Companions"
CY 302
• 4.17 "Abridging the Devil's Divide"
... Knock, knock, knock on the devil's door.
Do not invite him to dinner; his beasts will come for more.
High Priestess Misabo Ahm in Triumvirate War Council
CY10091
• 4.18 "Trusting the Gordian Maze"
Our vanguard is point of the lance.
Then came design and crimson flame.
There, they still wait somehow.
Disciples of Qhatch
CY 0417
• 4.19 "Symmetry of Imperfection"
Within the perfect architecture of thought Logic may often provide the structure. But from emotion come the inspiration.
Anaiis Milan
Contemplations on Perception
CY 8012
• 4.20 "Time Out of Mind"
On the plains of Galiolith,
Crystalline chimes herald a new beginning
For all who wish to hear them.
Ghillie Clethrad
Flumerian Hymns
CY 6104
• 4.21 "The Dissonant Interval (Part 1)"
What is fate? Why do you ask?
The answer lies in the composing of
Light and Influence.
Nothing will fall to you early or late.
Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine
AFC 54
• 4.22 "The Dissonant Interval (Part 2)"
Man is his own star.
His acts are his angels, good or ill
While his fatal shadows walk
Silently beside him.
Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine
AFC 54
• • • Season 5. • • •
+ 22
• 5.01 "The Weight (Part 1)"
Life is a carnival but the tents are folded before dawn.
Beano Tavalis, the Armendago Caper
CY727
• 5.02 "The Weight (Part 2)"
Inanimate objects and sentient beings
Obey the laws of nature.
Without discrimination.
Environment is their only conscience.
Vedran Inscription
Departure Slates
005 AT9
• 5.03 "Phear Phactor Phenom"
Throw them all away
But don't predict where your foot will fall
The first and the last steps are the same.
Seefra-6 Inscription
228-AT9
• 5.04 "Decay of the Angel"
What is faith then but persistent hope
In the face of relentless doubt.
Brother Carmen Jane
A Case For Consciousness
CY 10087
• 5.05 "The Eschatology of Our Present"
Official secrets keep good lies
Turning in every mouth.
High Senator Bonn
Fifteenth Congress of Tal
CY 3343
• 5.06 "When Goes Around..."
Contrast is the wellspring of desire.
A double-loop matrix
Within the eternal continuum.
Metaphysical Conclusions of Jacob
All Systems University, Special Collections
CY 9030
• 5.07 "Attempting Screed"
In the absence of doubt there is no change.
The Memories
175-AT9
• 5.08 "So Burn the Untamed Lands"
Marshall your forces
O great Generals.
The cost of victory
exceeds the cost of defeat.
Joheean Koll
Wars of the Ramayin Frontier
CY 459
• 5.09 "What Will Be Was Not"
Hold.
Herein a vast journey lies
In the span of an instant.
Seefra-One Chamber Inscription
Vedran
005-AT9
• 5.10 "The Test"
If the race goes too swiftly
Victory goes to those
Who are willing to fail.
Lambert Krill
Executed
CY 689
• 5.11 "Through a Glass Darkly"
The mirror is a window through
Which we see ourselves
Reversed and without form.
Our deepest lies reborn, true.
Wayfinder Hasturi aka "The Mad Perseid"
AFC 217
• 5.12 "Pride Before the Fall"
In the middle of the fight we knew:
They had come at us like legends.
One hundred up and one hundred down.
Vedran Fable
"Amidst the Tribune and the Fireworks"
CY 512
• 5.13 "Moonlight Becomes You"
Celestial digressions make great
First impressions.
I drown in your halo.
You orbit my soul.
Lyrics from "Solar Flares Through My Heart"
CY 2891
• 5.14 "The Past is Prolix"
The following statement is false:
The previous statement is true.
Welcome to our corner of the universe
Anonymous
Seefra Denizen
CY 10210
• 5.15 "The Opposites of Attraction"
The hero may find an interval of rest
On the island of the nymph
Forgetting comrades and ship and home.
Until, recalled to his great quest
he puts again to sea.
Aimelin Zol
"Tropes of the Ancients"
CY 9857
• 5.16 "Saving Light from a Black Sun"
Conceal nothing.
And watch the fools search forever.
Psalms of Koscs
Vedran Archives
Lot 0049
• 5.17 "Totaled Recall"
The door opens.
The edges meet.
Step through and you find yourself lost.
Stay where you are and you go nowhere.
Wayfinder Hasturi aka the "Mad Perseid"
AFC 217
• 5.18 "Quantum Tractate Delirium"
Title is not who he is, the manifestor of what they cannot dream; he takes no name where none fits.
Original Progenitor Diatribes
CY 8434
• 5.19 "One More Day's Light"
Hubris made the angels of heaven into devils...and their obstinacy keeps them in hell.
From the Kuruvian Texts
CY 319
• 5.20 "Chaos and the Stillness of It"
When events test men, angels then appear.
Wayist Verse
CY 1015
• 5.21 "The Heart of the Journey (Part 1)"
I see through you
Now that the cycle of possibilities is infinite
Headed towards nothing.
Seefran Love Song
341 AT9
• 5.22 "The Heart of the Journey (Part 2)"
The cycle of possibilities is fleeting.
The lash of an eye in a hurricane.
Seefran Love Song
341 - AT9
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• • • Season 1. • • •
+ 22
• 1.01 "Under the Night"
If the Commonwealth's High Guard had a weakness, it was this: Its officers were too competent, too caring and too brave.
Yin Man-Wei
The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth
C.Y. 11942
• 1.02 "An Affirming Flame"
Some say the Commonwealth would have fallen even without Nietzschean treachery. They underestimate both the Commonwealth and the Nietzscheans.
Yin Man-Wei
The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth
C.Y. 11942
• 1.03 "To Loose the Fateful Lightning"
"Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly - why they are simply doomed."
AchemDro'Hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
C.Y. 4971
• 1.04 "D Minus Zero"
Here's everything I know about war: Somebody wins, somebody loses, and nothing is ever the same again.
Admiral Constanza Stark
C.Y. 9784
• 1.05 "Double Helix"
Machiavelli's ideas are basically sound ones for the Nietzschean People. Unfortunately he was an optimist.
Cerebus Khmer
"Aphorisms"
C.Y. 8969
• 1.06 "Angel Dark, Demon Bright"
The Heavens burned, the stars
cried out
And under the ashes of infinity,
Hope, scarred and bleeding,
breathed its last.
Ulatempa Poetess
"Elegy for the Commonwealth"
CY 9823
• 1.07 "The Ties That Blind"
Many say living in the Way is difficult. Is sleeping difficult? Is waking?
Serenity Vikram Singh Khalsa
Collected Works,
301 AFC
• 1.08 "The Banks of the Lethe"
We say atoms are bound by
Weak Attractors.
Why not admit the Truth:
The Universe is held together by Love.
Michio Von Kerr
Wayist physicist
CY 9942
• 1.09 "A Rose in the Ashes"
The truest measure of a society is how it treats its elderly, its pets, and its prisoners.
Keeper of the Way Vision of Faith VII
C.Y. 9891
• 1.10 "All Great Neptune's Ocean"
Democracy may be only a few steps removed from Anarchy, but at least it's not as loud.
Crowned in Starlight
Than Hegemon, CY 9843
• 1.11 "The Pearls That Were His Eyes"
Wealth is too Precious to be entrusted to the Rich.
Anonymous Kalderan Proverb
circa CY 500
• 1.12 "The Mathematics of Tears"
If hope is the engine of the soul,
Then duty is the navigator...
And love is the fuel.
High Guard Supreme Commander Sani nax Rifati
"Persuasions and Exhortations"
C.Y. 4279
• 1.13 "Music of a Distant Drum"
KLUDGE (Klooj) - n. Disparaging term for genetically unmodified human being. See also "über".
A Concise Dictionary of Slang and Euphemism
C.Y. 9021
• 1.14 "Harper 2.0"
One head cannot contain all Wisdom.
The Olduvai Cycle
Systems University Archives
C.Y. 8550
• 1.15 "Forced Perspective"
Humans say the Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Why? Do they think there's a shortage of bad ones?
Karm'Luk P'an Ku
"The Joy of Lucidity"
C.Y. 8633
• 1.16 "The Sum of Its Parts"
Between birth and death lies desire, Desire for life, for love, for everything good. And this is the source of all suffering.
Outcast Consensus 17
C.Y. 10942
• 1.17 "Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way"
WARNING: Do Not Operate Heavy Machinery or Navigate The Slipstream While Under the Influence Of This Beverage.
Sparky Cola (label)
291 AFC
• 1.18 "The Devil Take the Hindmost"
Only those born guilty Recognise Innocence for what it Is:The rarest thing in the Universe. And the most Precious.
The Anointed
The Finder of The Way
C.Y. 9799
• 1.19 "The Honey Offering"
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
Drago Museveni
C.Y. 8427
• 1.20 "Star-Crossed"
You ask why we give our Ships'Computers normal Emotions? Do you really want a Warship incapable of Loyalty? Or of Love?
The Unshattered Allegiance, High Guard Frigate
Artificial Intelligence Rights Activist
C.Y. 7309
• 1.21 "It Makes a Lovely Light"
Come bitter Rain,
And wash from my Heart
That saddest of all Words: Home
Ulatempa Poetess, "Song of My Exile"
C.Y. 9825
• 1.22 "It's Hour Come ‘Round at Last"
Screams of a billion murdered Stars
Give lie to the night's Peace
While we cling in desperation to the Few
Fragile spinning stones we call Worlds
Wayfinder First Order Hasturi aka "The Mad Perseid"
217 AFC
• • • Season 2. • • •
+ 22
• 2.01 "The Widening Gyre"
If we do not live another day,
say this over our pyre:
They died like High Guard Lancers
with their faces to the fire.
Regimental Hymn of the 13th Imperial Lancers
CY 4233
• 2.02 "Exit Strategies"
The soul is larger than the sky
Deeper than the ocean,
Or the abysmal dark
Of the unfathomed center.
Enoch Vere de Vere.
"Lamentations Sous-terre"
CY 9734
• 2.03 "A Heart for Falsehood Framed"
Love? Truth? Beauty? I prefer negotiable securities.
Doge Miskich
"All About Me"
301 AFC
• 2.04 "Pitiless as the Sun"
We are not the masks we wear. But if we don them, do we not become them?
Keops Tsumai
"Fortunes"
CY 9683
• 2.05 "Last Call at the Broken Hammer"
Life? Life's pretty much a knife-fight in a dirt-floored bar: and if they get you down, you best get back up.
Gunnery Sergeant Hywell Cy'rabia
CY 4681
• 2.06 "All Too Human"
Worlds governed by artificial intelligence often learned a hard lesson: Logic Doesn't Care.
Yin-Man Wei
"This Present Darkness: A History of the Interregnum"
CY 11956
• 2.07 "Una Salus Victus"
Requested:
One Mark V ECM unit, 1000 km of Fullerene cable, one low-yield nuclear warhead.' Purpose: Surprise party for foreign dignitary.
Argosy Special Operations requisition form
CY 9512
• 2.08 "Home Fires"
With their minuscule families, humans are often forced to rely on a "state" or a "nation" for support. Pity them.
Than-Thre-Kull
Anthropology text
Approx CY 7956
• 2.09 "Into the Labyrinth"
To a god, a wall is but a line on a page. We are all naked, seen beyond seeing.
Wayfinder Hasturi aka "The Mad Perseid"
217 AFC
• 2.10 "The Prince"
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Which is a problem. If you are powerless.
Drago Museveni
"Manifesto"
CY 8433
• 2.11 "Bunker Hill"
Here is the price of freedom: Your every drop of courage, ounce of pain, pint of blood. Paid in advance.
Sebastian Lee
"The Rising Tide"
AFC 271
• 2.12 "Ouroboros"
Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind.
Knowing when the drumming stops,
There'll be no second dance.
Ulatempa Poetess
"Rhythms"
CY 9825
• 2.13 "Lava and Rockets"
You can't outrun Death forever. But you can make the Bastard work for it.
Major Korgo Korgar
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
• 2.14 "Be All My Sins Remembered"
I trust fast poison
The stars to wink out
And you, my love - and you.
Minstrel d'Becevex
"The Void"
CY 9905
• 2.15 "Dance of the Mayflies"
Blink and it's gone,
A moment, a breath,
A Dance of the Mayflies.
Just enough... For a Lifetime.
Ulatempa Poetess
"Rhythms" CY 9825
• 2.16 "In Heaven Now Are Three"
The true quarry of any great adventurer is the undiscovered territory of their own soul.
Lady Aenea Makros
"The Metaphysics Of Motion"
CY 6416
• 2.17 "The Things We Cannot Change"
Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill.
Fragment of Ancient Earth Text
CY 6800
• 2.18 "The Fair Unknown"
To venture in the Fair Unknown
I must enter as I leave:
A traveler, alone.
Anonymous
CY 1917
• 2.19 "Belly of the Beast"
Beneath knowing, understanding
Beneath understanding, seeing
Beneath seeing, recognizing
Beneath recognizing, knowing
Keeper of the Way, Vision of Faith
CY 10003
• 2.20 "The Knight, Death, and the Devil"
A soldier's first battlefield is always his own mind.
Admiral Constanza Stark
CY 9762
• 2.21 "Immaculate Perception"
The soul of the Nietzschean is this: We are arrogant. We are vain. We are manipulative. We are selfish. And we love our children.
Drago Museveni
"Primary Reflections"
CY 8428
• 2.22 "Tunnel At The End Of The Light"
Welcome twilight.
Welcome blackness.
Welcome inky night.
Only in darkness
Can I see your soul.
"Lost Verses of Krrendar"
CY 9452
• • • Season 3. • • •
+ 22
• 3.01 "If The Wheel Is Fixed"
The fearful sit
in a clutch with their worries,
Whilst one man alone
faces the Furies.
Songs of Loren
CY 4557
• 3.02 "The Shards Of Rimni"
The loyal heart has hidden treasures. In secrets kept, In silence sealed.
Commander Zing Bex
"The Art of Secrets"
Approx. CY 2575
• 3.03 "Mad To Be Saved"
The Rabid Dogs of Gallaphron
Can be trained to drool
At the ring of a bell.
Doesn't stop them from biting.
Karlos El Greeta-Stirra
"Reflections of Rim-Salt"
CY 4389
• 3.04 "Cui Bono"
You're never more alive than the first time someone puts a gun to your favorite head and asks you to dance.
Major Korgo Korgar
"Last Of The Lancers"
AFC 32
• 3.05 "The Lone And Level Sands"
More than a mere ship of exploration, the Bellerophon embodied humanity's last, great effort to tame the universe through our own will alone.
Dr. Paul Museveni, father of Drago Museveni
A Farther Shore
CY 8401
• 3.06 "Slipfighter The Dogs of War"
The moth wants a star
The night wants tomorrow
The King wants what's far
Outside his sphere of sorrow
Tales of Queen Kysella
CY 5647
• 3.07 "The Leper's Kiss"
Walk without footprints.
Breathe without breath.
Our lives leave no trace.
Motto Of The Assassin's Guild.
CY 3455
• 3.08 "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
To the question of life after death: Not whether a thing exists, but...What manner of life?
Reverend Bem
"A Wayist Practicum"
CY 10090
• 3.09 "And Your Heart Will Fly Away"
She wounds you as a rose will wound you
Not with her thorn.
A rose will always wound you with her beauty.
Harry Martinson
CY 6862
• 3.10 "The Unconquerable Man"
It matters little how we die, so long as we die better men than we imagined we could be - and no worse than we feared.
Drago Museveni
CY 8451
• 3.11 "Delenda Est"
What clings to a wall, But travels all the world?
Patriarch of Jill
Unsolvable Riddle of Ski
CY 1111
• 3.12 "The Dark Backward"
You might say reality is the result of complex negotiations between the observer and observed. But that is simply a point of view.
Michio Von Kerr
"The Apotheosis of Reason"
CY 11542
• 3.13 "The Risk-All Point"
The universe is bound in equal parts
By arrogance and altruism.
Any attempt to alter this
Would be suicide.
Dr. Walter Giles
"The Value of Value"
CY 11543
• 3.14 "The Right Horse"
Any fool can be honest, for it is only what he knows. A wise man is aware of when to share the truth.
Vedran Empress Yoweri XXIII
CY 2932
• 3.15 "What Happens To A Rev Deferred?"
Are you a monster?
Are you a freak?
Will you be my friend!
Or have you lost your way.
With trouble to pay,
When you come to your journey's end?
Empyrium Lullaby
CY 8745
• 3.16 "Point of the Spear"
I've always found a fully deployed battle group to be the most effective negotiator.
Admiral Constanza Stark
High Guard Chief-of-Staff
CY 9758
• 3.17 "Vault of the Heavens"
I can no longer endure to view;
Wondrous sight of so celestial hue.
Final diary entry of Capt. Oswald Pierce
CY 1116
Regarding his only love.
• 3.18 "Deep Midnight's Voice"
The universe is perfect.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it,
you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it,
you will lose it.
Notes to Odo Chan
CY 9101
• 3.19 "The Illusion of Majesty"
We all wear the twin masks of emotion,
Happy or sad, haunted or hunted,
You choose the mask, you choose the risk.
You choose your own poison.
Last words of Plethe the Pirate
CY 3902
• 3.20 "Twilight of the Idols"
Gentlebeings, I bid you welcome. Welcome to the blood, to the sweat, to the tears. Welcome to your places on the wall.
Admiral Constanza Stark
"Address to War College Graduates,"
CY 9764
• 3.21 "Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath"
The great blessing of the AI is that we are gifted with the power to touch our Creator. This is also our curse.
The Clarion's Call
"Out of The Abyss"
CY 11745
• 3.22 "Shadows Cast By a Final Salute"
The Kingdom was called Contrary.
The Castle was called Doubt.
The Twin Giants who lived there
were named Deceit and Despair.
Every change in the weather
brought Rain and Hope.
The Cairn of Darkness and the Light
CY 1015
• • • Season 4. • • •
+ 22
• 4.01 "Answers Given to Questions Never Asked"
Down where it was tangled and dark.
Down where the spirits feasted on carrion.
Down. Down. Down.
It was there, yes, the High Hatted ones
forever screamed, 'Eureka.'
Youn's Narrows of Decline
CY 1015
• 4.02 "Pieces of Eight"
The tyrant and the rebel hold the same creed: to act is to live.
War Heretics of Auden
CY 9015
• 4.03 "Waking The Tyrant's Device"
Fear drives the universe.
You will find dread among the galaxies.
You will find horror in the heart of a star.
You will find your fate in a heap of dust.
The Diktat of Septa Parisis
CY 9015
• 4.04 "Double or Nothingness"
When they are dying, tell them a riddle.
And when they laugh,
Let the Gods of Nature
Finish what we have started.
Sigma Te: Director, Cultural Archives
University Library
CY 760
• 4.05 "Harper/Delete"
And the Prides shall stand as one
Powerful in the light
And supreme among beings.
Drago Museveni
The Nietzschean Prophecy
CY 8424
• 4.06 "Soon the Nearing Vortex"
Once you give into the void,
space itself becomes time.
Once you give into the void,
many are the mouths of reality.
New Century Manifesto
CY 4001
• 4.07 "The World Turns All Around Her"
Beneath the web-thin simulacrum, inundating and fecund live myth and manifold truths. Not one point of view can embrace them at a glance.
Council of One
CY 2333
• 4.08 "Conduit to Destiny"
Destiny is the promise I give to you. Hope, the part you play, Is trusting me to keep this promise.
The Prophetic Tetraglyphs
CY 9573
• 4.09 "Machinery of the Mind"
Regarding the cerebellum, there is a culture and a presentation. Both hold power and sway.
Cuisine of the Lost Empire
CY 9905
• 4.10 "Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter"
Around, around and underneath,
The Trickster flies.
Catch him, catch him-
If he doesn't lose you,
Lose you when he flies!
Perseid Child's Game
CY 3040
• 4.11 "The Torment, The Release"
All Military, rank and file, are subject to the word and intent of the Commonwealth Triumvirs.
There is no exception.
There is punishment accordingly.
Commonwealth Charter
CY 0957
• 4.12 "The Spider's Stratagem"
Verify distant secrets
Be careful no to perish
A question as your guide.
What becomes the face of truth.
Enigma 03 of the Murti
CY 8567
• 4.13 "The Warmth of an Invisible Light"
The brightest light is invisible.
It shines through your deeds.
And warms the universe.
Chronicles of Courage and Conviction
by Captain Dylan Hunt Ret.
CY 9817
• 4.14 "The Others"
Her beauty shimmers with the
Light of a new star.
But she is the other.
Touch her, and you will know death.
Poet Temlar
CY 2101
• 4.15 "Fear Burns Down to Ashes"
Confine that which you fear to the mirror.
Start with who is standing there.
Then smile.
Bogdo Geghen Seer of Agharta
CY 1890
• 4.16 "Lost in a Space that Isn't There"
Cast your Eye upon the Changeling,
Then look for the origin of change.
Perhaps it is in the Eye.
Luna
"Catalog of Companions"
CY 302
• 4.17 "Abridging the Devil's Divide"
... Knock, knock, knock on the devil's door.
Do not invite him to dinner; his beasts will come for more.
High Priestess Misabo Ahm in Triumvirate War Council
CY10091
• 4.18 "Trusting the Gordian Maze"
Our vanguard is point of the lance.
Then came design and crimson flame.
There, they still wait somehow.
Disciples of Qhatch
CY 0417
• 4.19 "Symmetry of Imperfection"
Within the perfect architecture of thought Logic may often provide the structure. But from emotion come the inspiration.
Anaiis Milan
Contemplations on Perception
CY 8012
• 4.20 "Time Out of Mind"
On the plains of Galiolith,
Crystalline chimes herald a new beginning
For all who wish to hear them.
Ghillie Clethrad
Flumerian Hymns
CY 6104
• 4.21 "The Dissonant Interval (Part 1)"
What is fate? Why do you ask?
The answer lies in the composing of
Light and Influence.
Nothing will fall to you early or late.
Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine
AFC 54
• 4.22 "The Dissonant Interval (Part 2)"
Man is his own star.
His acts are his angels, good or ill
While his fatal shadows walk
Silently beside him.
Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine
AFC 54
• • • Season 5. • • •
+ 22
• 5.01 "The Weight (Part 1)"
Life is a carnival but the tents are folded before dawn.
Beano Tavalis, the Armendago Caper
CY727
• 5.02 "The Weight (Part 2)"
Inanimate objects and sentient beings
Obey the laws of nature.
Without discrimination.
Environment is their only conscience.
Vedran Inscription
Departure Slates
005 AT9
• 5.03 "Phear Phactor Phenom"
Throw them all away
But don't predict where your foot will fall
The first and the last steps are the same.
Seefra-6 Inscription
228-AT9
• 5.04 "Decay of the Angel"
What is faith then but persistent hope
In the face of relentless doubt.
Brother Carmen Jane
A Case For Consciousness
CY 10087
• 5.05 "The Eschatology of Our Present"
Official secrets keep good lies
Turning in every mouth.
High Senator Bonn
Fifteenth Congress of Tal
CY 3343
• 5.06 "When Goes Around..."
Contrast is the wellspring of desire.
A double-loop matrix
Within the eternal continuum.
Metaphysical Conclusions of Jacob
All Systems University, Special Collections
CY 9030
• 5.07 "Attempting Screed"
In the absence of doubt there is no change.
The Memories
175-AT9
• 5.08 "So Burn the Untamed Lands"
Marshall your forces
O great Generals.
The cost of victory
exceeds the cost of defeat.
Joheean Koll
Wars of the Ramayin Frontier
CY 459
• 5.09 "What Will Be Was Not"
Hold.
Herein a vast journey lies
In the span of an instant.
Seefra-One Chamber Inscription
Vedran
005-AT9
• 5.10 "The Test"
If the race goes too swiftly
Victory goes to those
Who are willing to fail.
Lambert Krill
Executed
CY 689
• 5.11 "Through a Glass Darkly"
The mirror is a window through
Which we see ourselves
Reversed and without form.
Our deepest lies reborn, true.
Wayfinder Hasturi aka "The Mad Perseid"
AFC 217
• 5.12 "Pride Before the Fall"
In the middle of the fight we knew:
They had come at us like legends.
One hundred up and one hundred down.
Vedran Fable
"Amidst the Tribune and the Fireworks"
CY 512
• 5.13 "Moonlight Becomes You"
Celestial digressions make great
First impressions.
I drown in your halo.
You orbit my soul.
Lyrics from "Solar Flares Through My Heart"
CY 2891
• 5.14 "The Past is Prolix"
The following statement is false:
The previous statement is true.
Welcome to our corner of the universe
Anonymous
Seefra Denizen
CY 10210
• 5.15 "The Opposites of Attraction"
The hero may find an interval of rest
On the island of the nymph
Forgetting comrades and ship and home.
Until, recalled to his great quest
he puts again to sea.
Aimelin Zol
"Tropes of the Ancients"
CY 9857
• 5.16 "Saving Light from a Black Sun"
Conceal nothing.
And watch the fools search forever.
Psalms of Koscs
Vedran Archives
Lot 0049
• 5.17 "Totaled Recall"
The door opens.
The edges meet.
Step through and you find yourself lost.
Stay where you are and you go nowhere.
Wayfinder Hasturi aka the "Mad Perseid"
AFC 217
• 5.18 "Quantum Tractate Delirium"
Title is not who he is, the manifestor of what they cannot dream; he takes no name where none fits.
Original Progenitor Diatribes
CY 8434
• 5.19 "One More Day's Light"
Hubris made the angels of heaven into devils...and their obstinacy keeps them in hell.
From the Kuruvian Texts
CY 319
• 5.20 "Chaos and the Stillness of It"
When events test men, angels then appear.
Wayist Verse
CY 1015
• 5.21 "The Heart of the Journey (Part 1)"
I see through you
Now that the cycle of possibilities is infinite
Headed towards nothing.
Seefran Love Song
341 AT9
• 5.22 "The Heart of the Journey (Part 2)"
The cycle of possibilities is fleeting.
The lash of an eye in a hurricane.
Seefran Love Song
341 - AT9
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