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KLUDGE (Klooj) …

KLUDGE (Klooj) – N. Disparaging term for genetically unmodified human being. See also “Uber”

A Concise Dictionary of Slang and Euphemisms
– C.Y. 9021

One head cannot contain all wisdom.

– The Olduvai Cycle

Humans say Hell is paved with good intentions.

Why? Do they think there’s a shortage of bad ones?
– Karm’Luk P’an Ku

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, Why Existence?

Warning: Do not operate heavy machinery or navigate the slipstream while under the influence of this beverage.
– Sparky – Cola (Label)

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 C.Y. 9799

The enemy of my enemy
is still my enemy.
[C.Y. 8427]
– Drago Museveni

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

Come bitter Rain,

And wash from my Heart

That saddest of all Words:

Home
– Ulatempa Poetess, -Song of My Exile- C.Y. 9825

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

If we do not live another day,

say this over our byre:

They died like High Guard Lancers

with their faces to the fire.
– Regimental Hymn of the 11th Imperial Lancers, CY 4233

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