Sanados – Page 106 – Lost world…

Screams of a …

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

Love? Truth? Beauty? I prefer negotiable securities.
– DOGE MISKICH VAR MISKICH, “All About Me” 301 AFC

We are not the masks we wear.

But if we don them, do we not become them?
– Keops D’ao Tsumai, “Fortunes” CY 9683

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, C.Y. 4681

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

“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, C.Y. 9512

With their minuscule families, humans are often

forced to rely on a “state” or a “nation” for support.

They might as well dig their hives in sand.
– Fragment of a Than-thre-kull anthropology text, approx CY 7956

To a god, a wall is but a line on the

page. We are all naked, seen beyond seeing.
– WAYFINDER HASTURI a.k.a. The Mad Perseid, 217 AFC

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Which is a problem.
If you’re powerless.
[“Manifesto” CY 8433]
– Drago Museveni

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