CW:
Here they are: (nice little New Year's Morning project)
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Believers:
The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress.
Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow,
God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it
lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets
that were evil.
-- Sister Miriam Godwinson,
"The Blessed Struggle"
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Cyborg Consciousness:
Those who join us need give up only half of their humanity--the illogical, ill-tempered, and disordered half, commonly thought of as 'right-brain' functioning. In exchange, the 'left-brain' capacities are increased to undreamed potential. The tendency of Biologicals to cling instead to their individual personalities can only be attributed to archaic evolutionary tendencies.
-- Prime Function Aki Zeta-5,
"Convergence"
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Data Angels:
What's more important, the data or the jazz? Sure, sure, 'Information should be free' and all that--but anyone can set information free. The jazz is in how you do it, what you do it to, and in almost getting caught without getting caught. The data is 1's and 0's. Life is the jazz.
-- Datatech Sinder Roze,
"Infobop"
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Drones:
"Now it's day and night the irons clang, and like poor galley slaves
^We toil and toil, and when we die, must fill dishonored graves
^But some dark night, when everything is silent in the town
^I'll shoot those tyrants one and all, I'll gun the flogger down
^I'll give the land a little shock, remember what I say,
^And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay."
-- "Jim Jones", Traditional
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Cult:
Mankind has been blind for thousands of years-for all of its history. We have come to a place whose wonders are a hundred-fold more amazing than anything on Earth. Around us is clear evidence of the will of a higher power.
I bring the Vision to the blind eyes of men. I bring the Word to the deaf ears of men. I will make them see it. I will make them hear it.
-- Prophet Cha Dawn
"Planet Rising"
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Gaians:
In the great commons at Gaia's Landing we have a tall and particularly
beautiful stand of white pine, planted at the time of the first
colonies. It represents our promise to the people, and to Planet
itself, never to repeat the tragedy of Earth.
-- Lady Deirdre Skye,
"Planet Dreams"
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Hive:
Learn to overcome the crass demands of flesh and bone, for they
warp the matrix through which we perceive the world. Extend your
awareness outwards, 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"
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Morgan:
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"
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Peacekeepers:
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.
-- Commisioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
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Pirates:
The sea ... vast, mysterious ... and full of wealth! And the nations of Planet send their trade across it without a thought. Well, the sea doesn't care about them, so it lets them pass. But we can give the sea a little hand in teaching the landlubbers a lesson in humility.
-- Captain Ulrik Svensgaard
"The Ripple and the Wave"
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Spartans:
Superior training and superior weaponry have, when taken together,
a geometric effect on overall military strength. Well-trained,
well-equipped troops can stand up to many more times their lesser
brethren than linear arithmetic would seem to indicate.
-- Col. Corazon Santiago,
"Spartan Battle Manual"
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University
The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components. Behind atoms we find electrons,
and behind electrons quarks. Each layer unraveled reveals new secrets, but also new mysteries.
-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
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Caretakers:
Tau Ceti Flowering: Horrors visited upon neighboring systems must never be repeated.
Therefore: if it means the end of our evolution as a species, so be it.
-- Caretaker Lular H'minee
"Sacrifice : Life"
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Usurpers:
Risks of Flowering: considerable. But rewards of godhood: who can measure?
-- Usurper Judaa Marr
"Courage : To Question"
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[This message has been edited by Googlie (edited January 01, 2001).]
