- Season 1
101 _____
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"
CY 11942
102 _____
An Affirming Flame
"Some say the Commonwealth would have
fallen even without Nietzschean treachery.
They understimate both the Commonwealth
and the Nierzscheans."
- Yin Man-Wei
"The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth"
CY 11942
103 _____
Too 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."
- Achem Dro'hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
CY 4971
104 _____
D Minus Zero
"Here's everything I know
about war: Somebody wins,
somebody loses, and
nothing is ever the same again."
- Admiral Constanza Stark
CY 9784
105 _____
Double Helix
"Machiavelli's ideas are
basically sound ones for the
Nietzschean people.
Unfortunately,
he was an optimist."
- Cerebus Khmer
"Aphorisms"
CY 8969
106 _____
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
107 _____
The Ties That Bind
"Many say living the Way is difficult.
Is sleeping difficult?
Is waking?"
- Serenity Vikram Singh Khalsa
"Collected Works"
301 AFC
108 _____
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
109 _____
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
CY 9891
110 _____
All Great Neptun'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
111 _____
The Pearls That Were His Eyes
"Wealth is too Precious
to be entrusted
to the Rich."
- Anonymous Kalderan Proverb
circa CY 500
112 _____
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 Exortations"
circa CY 4279
113 _____
Music Of A Distant Drum
"Kludge (Klooj) - n. Disparaging
term for genetically unmodified
human being. See also 'über'"
- A concise Dictionary of Slang and Euphamism
CY 9020
114 _____
Harper 2.0
"One head cannot
contain all Wisdom."
- The Olduvai Cycle
Systems University Archives,
CY 8550
115 _____
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"
CY 8633
116 _____
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
CY 10942
117 _____
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
118 _____
The Devil Take The Hindmost
"Only those born guilty Recognize
Innocence for what it Is:
The rarest thing in the Universe,
And the most Precious."
- The Anointed, The Finder of The Way
CY 9799
119 _____
The Honey Offering
"The enemy of my enemy
is still my enemy."
- Drago Museveni
CY 8427
120 _____
Star-Crossed
"You ask why we give our Ships'
Computer normal Emotions?
Do you really want a Warship
Incapable of Loyalty?
Or of Love?"
- The Unshattered Allegiance, High Guard Frigate Artificial Intelligence Rights Activist
CY 7309
121 _____
It Makes A Loveley Light
"Come bitter Rain,
And wash from my Heart
That saddest of all Words:
Home"
- Ulatempa Poetess
"Song of My Exile"
CY 9825
122 _____
Its 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
201 _____
The Widening Gyre
"If we do not love 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
202 _____
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
203 _____
Heart For Falsehood Framed
"Love? Truth? Beauty?
I prefer negotiable securities."
- Doge Miskich var Miskich
"All About Me"
301 AFC
204 _____
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
205 _____
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
206 _____
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
207 _____
Una Salus Victus
"Requested:
One Mark V EMC unit, 1000 km of
Fullerene cable, one low-yield nuclear warhead.
Purpose:
Surprise party for foreign dignitary."
- Argosy Special Operations requisition form
CY 9512
208 _____
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
209 _____
Into The Labyrinth
"To a god, a wall is but a line on the page.
We are all naked, seen beyond seeing."
- Wayfinder Hasturi aka "The Mad Perseid"
217 AFC
210 _____
The Prince
"Absolute power corrupts absolutley.
Which is a problem.
If you are powerless."
- Drago Museveni
Crowned in Starlight Than Hegemon
CY 8433
211 _____
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
212 _____
Ouroboros
"Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind.
Knowing when the drumming stops,
They'll be no second dance."
- Ulatempa Poetess
"Rhythms"
CY 9825
213 _____
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
214 _____
Be All My Sins Remembered
"I trust fast poison
The stars to wink out
And you, my love - and you."
- Lyric from "The Void"
by Minstrel d'Becevex
CY 9905
215 _____
Dance Of The Mayflies
"Blink and its gone,
A moment, a breath,
A Dance of the Mayflies.
Just enough... For a Lifetime."
- Ulatempa Poetess
"Rhythms"
CY 9825
216 _____
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
217 _____
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
circa CY 6800
218 _____
Fair Unknown
"To venture in the Fair Unknown,
I must enter as I leave:
A traveler, alone."
- Anonymous
CY 1917
219 _____
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
220 _____
The Knight, Death, And The Devil
"A soldier's first battlefield
is always his own mind"
- Admiral Constanza Stark
CY 9762
221 _____
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
222 _____
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 9542
- Season 3
301 _____
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
302 _____
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
303 _____
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
304 _____
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
305 _____
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
306 _____
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
307 _____
The Leper's Kiss
"Walk without footprints.
Breathe without breath.
Our lives leave no trace."
- Motto Of The Assassins' Guild
CY 3455
308 _____
For Whom The Bell Tolls
"To the question of life after death:
Not whether such a thing exists,
but... What manner of life?"
- Reverend Bem
"A Wayist Practicum"
CY 10090
309 _____
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
310 _____
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
311 _____
Delenda Est
"What clings to a wall,
But travels all the world?"
- Unsolveable Riddle of Ski
Patriatch of Jull
CY 1111
312 _____
The Dark Backward
"You might say reality is
the result of complex
negotiations between the
observer and the observed.
But that is simply a point of view."
- Michio von Kerr
"The Apotheosis of Reason"
CY 11542
313 _____
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
314 _____
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
315 _____
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
316 _____
NotAired
"NotAired"
- Museveni
Crowned
8433
317 _____
NotAired
"NotAired"
- Museveni
Crowned
8433
318 _____
NotAired
"NotAired"
- Museveni
Crowned
8433
319 _____
NotAired
"NotAired"
- Museveni
Crowned
8433
320 _____
NotAired
"NotAired"
- Museveni
Crowned
8433
321 _____
NotAired
"NotAired"
- Museveni
Crowned
8433
322 _____
NotAired
"NotAired"
- Museveni
Crowned
8433