History Quotes / AssimilationPlot

-->-- '''[[Characters/MetroidMetroidPrimeAndDarkSamus Dark Samus]]''', Music/ManOnTheInternet, "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKoDoBdlgnA Brinstar Depths]]"

->''"The Grand Design is what all ''ghaik'' seek. The restoration of the Illithid Empire, which spanned the entirety of the multiverse. For centuries, their elder brains sought to bring back their dominion. Every plot they hatched, we stopped. But now, they are close to succeeding. Never before could they pause [[TheVirus ceremorphosis]]. Never before could they let the infection spread undetected. You saw the thralls gathered on the ''ghaik'' ship. Imagine that ''everywhere''. Wants, needs, choice... all would cease to be. Everything rendered unto the ''ghaik''."''

->''"The Grand Design is what all ''ghaik'' seek. The restoration of the Illithid Empire, which spanned the entirety of the multiverse. For centuries, their elder brains sought to bring back their dominion. Every plot they hatched, we stopped. But now, they are close to succeeding. Never before could they pause [[TheVirus ceremorphosis]]. Never before could they let the infection spread undetected. You saw the thralls gathered on the ''ghaik'' ship. Imaging that ''everywhere''. Wants, needs, choice... all would cease to be. Everything rendered unto the ''ghaik''."''

Yes. Interconnected, with our thoughts and memories flowing freely between nodes. All our illusions of division washed away. Empire was the closes I could imagine to it. But - the third man gestures at himself almost in apology - I can imagine more now.\\

->''"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. ResistanceIsFutile."''
-->-- '''The Borg''', ''Franchise/StarTrek''

-->-- '''SEELE''', on their reasons for carrying out the Human Instrumentality Project, ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''

->''In such times of repose, You often sift through Your personalities and recall Your former selves. Your alpha self derives from an individual once called [=$NAME1=]. Over the millenia the exceptional focus and judgment characteristic of this fragment have proven effective on numerous occasions. The [=$NAME1self=] now drives all of Your long and short range planning, and is the principal force behind the encapsulation project.\\
Ponderous but playful is the [[GeniusLoci Voice/Planet personality]], avatar of Your sessile precursor, who in the present age has devoted her centuries to philosophical pondering. Many others flit about within You. Some, like the prankster [=$SHIMODA9=] and the demon [=$NAME5=] are semi-dominant and often hover near the plane of Your Thought. Others plumb the depths and create new worlds within the abyss of Your open-ended neural network.''

-->-- '''Harbinger''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KkONU3Cb-A& unused dialogue]], ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

->''[[MasterRace Stunningly beautiful, frighteningly strong and utterly brilliant]], the agents of Transhumanity are formidable adversaries made all the more threatening by their [[DealWithTheDevil simple and tempting offer]]. Whenever encountered, their first message is always the same: "Surrender now and be made perfect." Of course, they don't mention the catch. Through a course of drug therapies, reconstructive surgeries, forced exercise and diet regimes, and a retroviral cocktail, any human can become a Transhuman: beautiful, forever healthy, and one small speck in their HiveMind. That's right: once "uplifted," Transhumans have no individual will. [[DittoAliens There is also only one model]]: the same [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous perfect androgynous face and genderless physique calculated as the apogee of human beauty]]. While the agents of Transhumanity present themselves as individuals, they are more like appendages of a single organism with a single purpose: consume and convert all life everywhere.''

->''"[[BloodMagic It is done]]. Hear me, Children of Adam. [[HopeSpot I command]]--"\\
The Arch-Usurper's voice chokes off in a gurgle. His body twitches, swells and churns as eyes, mouths, tentacles and other organs erupt from his flesh and sink back in again. Amid all the changes, [[EvilLaugh he laughs a deep, ugly laugh]]. The characters cannot move; they cannot sense their own bodies in their millionfold view of the world. '''"Be of me,"''' the Tremere-Thing says, and the characters see the flesh of millions of people ripple and flow in response. Kindred, kine and other, their skin splits apart to release a large, slimy, chitinous creature -- part insect, part reptile and all nightmare; characters may recognize it as the [[OneWingedAngel Horrid Form]] of [[{{Biomanipulation}} Vicissitude]]. Some mortals and supernatural part-humans resist the worldwide contagion, but they are a small minority. ''[...]''\\
[[EldritchAbomination The Tzimisce Antediluvian]] has made its masterstroke. [[TheBadGuyWins All is Tzimisce]].''

->''Rows of smiling identical people sing a patriotic anthem in perfect tune. In [[CrapsaccharineWorld Utopia/Dystopia]], you are never alone.\\

[[ThisMeansWar Oh boy, it's war again]]!''
-->-- ''Literature/{{Civilization}}'', by Creator/VylarKaftan

->''A billion years ago, [[Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx [=VIRM=]]] had thrown away the confinements of their mortal bodies and become a disembodied hive mind. Getting rid of all the issues that mortal bodies, and free will caused was the most freeing feeling that [=VIRM=] had every ''[sic]'' felt. They realized that this was the true way to live, and that everyone else in the Galaxy also needed to join them. The rest of the Galaxy did not agree.\\
So, [=VIRM=] found themselves in the position of a parent tying to feed a child Glickno weed: the target of slander and violence. Why couldn't the rest of the Galaxy just stop arguing about what was best for them?''

Bow to my philosophy\\\
All is dark, all is cold\\
Give to me your heart and soul\\\

All is dark, all is cold\\
Give to me your heart and soul.''

->The [colossus] has completed deployment of the assimilation nanobot payload, calculated to be sufficient to cybernetically dominate all sapient organics on [planet].\\

On [planet]'s surface, there is only us.

-->--'''Gabriel Yulaw''', ''Film/TheOne''

->''"No, It's not that everything returns to nothingness. It's nothing but returning everything to the beginning. Nothing but returning things to the mother which has long since been lost. All the minds become one mind, obtaining peace forever. Nothing but that."''

->"''This broadcast is for humankind. Cybermen now occupy every landmass on this planet. But you need not fear. Cybermen will ''remove'' fear. Cybermen will remove sex, and class, and colour, and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us!''"

-->-- '''The Master''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End Of Time" (Part One)]]

Ponderous but playful is the Voice/Planet personality, avatar of Your sessile precursor, who in the present age has devoted her centuries to philosophical pondering. Many others flit about within You. Some, like the prankster [=$SHIMODA9=] and the demon [=$NAME5=] are semi-dominant and often hover near the plane of Your Thought. Others plumb the depths and create new worlds within the abyss of Your open-ended neural network.''

->''"Can you not understand, that the individual is only a cell? The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. Do you die when you cut your fingernails? We are the priests of power. God is power. But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned. It is time for you to gather some idea of what power is. The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual. You know the Party slogan, "Freedom is Slavery". Has it ever occurred to you that it is reversible? Slavery is freedom. Alone-free-the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge with the Party so that he IS the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal. The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. Over the body, but above all, over the mind."''

->''"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. ResistanceIsFutile."''
-->-- '''The Borg''', ''Franchise/StarTrek''

->''[[AC:"You fight your own rebirth. Thank us -- beg us -- for immortality. We have allowed this glory -- we DEMAND you accept."]]''
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KkONU3Cb-A& Unused]] '''Harbinger''' dialogue, ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

->''"Let all of mankind come together in Instrumentality. For the fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth."''
-->-- '''SEELE''', on their reasons for carrying out the Human Instrumentality Project, ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''

->'''[[PlayerCharacter The Courier]]''': Are the Blackfoots part of the Legion?\\
'''Hanlon''': Yes and no. The Blackfoots don't exist anymore, just like any other tribe that gets swallowed by the Legion. Caesar takes the tribal out of the tribe. Scrapes and burns off tattoos, breaks up families, forces mixed breeding so all the old loyalties die away. The only tribe in the Legion is the Legion. Caesar is their chief, father, and god all rolled into one.
-->-- ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas''

->'''Caesar''': Rome was a highly militarized autocracy that effectively integrated the foreign cultures it conquered. It dedicated its citizens to something higher than themselves - to the idea of Rome itself. In Rome I found a template for a society equal to the challenges of the post-apocalyptic world - a society that could and would survive. A society that could prevent mankind from fracturing and destroying itself in this new world, by establishing a new Pax Romana.\\
'''The Courier''': What does "Pax Romana" mean?\\
'''Caesar''': It means a nationalist, imperialist, totalitarian, homogenous culture that obliterates the identity of every group it conquers. Long-term stability at all costs. The individual has no value beyond his utility to the state, whether as an instrument of war, or production.
-->-- ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas''

->[[MasterRace Stunningly beautiful, frighteningly strong and utterly brilliant]], the agents of Transhumanity are formidable adversaries made all the more threatening by their [[DealWithTheDevil simple and tempting offer]]. Whenever encountered, their first message is always the same: "Surrender now and be made perfect." Of course, they don't mention the catch. Through a course of drug therapies, reconstructive surgeries, forced exercise and diet regimes, and a retroviral cocktail, any human can become a Transhuman: beautiful, forever healthy, and one small speck in their HiveMind. That's right: once "uplifted," Transhumans have no individual will. [[DittoAliens There is also only one model]]: the same [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous perfect androgynous face and genderless physique calculated as the apogee of human beauty]]. While the agents of Transhumanity present themselves as individuals, they are more like appendages of a single organism with a single purpose: consume and convert all life everywhere.
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension -- Convention Book: Void Engineers (Revised)''

->"[[BloodMagic It is done]]. Hear me, Children of Adam. [[HopeSpot I command]]--"\\

[[EldritchAbomination The Tzimisce Antediluvian]] has made its masterstroke. [[TheBadGuyWins All is Tzimisce]].
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade -- Gehenna''

->"All will be one."
-->-- The motto of New Phyrexia in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

-->-- Supposedly '''[[EldritchAbomination Emrakul]]''' from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' about herself

->Rows of smiling identical people sing a patriotic anthem in perfect tune. In [[CrapsaccharineWorld Utopia/Dystopia]], you are never alone.\\

[[ThisMeansWar Oh boy, it's war again]]!
-->-- ''Literature/{{Civilization}},'' by Creator/VylarKaftan

->A billion years ago, [[Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx [=VIRM=]]] had thrown away the confinements of their mortal bodies and become a disembodied hive mind. Getting rid of all the issues that mortal bodies, and free will caused was the most freeing feeling that [=VIRM=] had every ''[sic]'' felt. They realized that this was the true way to live, and that everyone else in the Galaxy also needed to join them. The rest of the Galaxy did not agree.\\
So, [=VIRM=] found themselves in the position of a parent tying to feed a child Glickno weed: the target of slander and violence. Why couldn’t the rest of the Galaxy just stop arguing about what was best for them?

->''"You see? I am the future. And, in fact, that is truer than you can imagine. When the world has been made ready by the [[DoomsdayDevice Apprehension Engine]], I shall [[BrainUploading bless you all with my own mind]]. With the calibration drum, I can use the Engine as a transmitter. Like my Ruskinites, Mr Spork, you shall all know every detail of me. And gradually, you will become me. I will be everyone, and everything, for ever. My perception will be the only perception. My mind, the only mind. Your mind, Mr Spork. You will be part of me. [[AGodAmI I will become God]]. It is too late to prevent this. [[YouAreTooLate It has always been, will always have been, too late]]."''
-->-- '''Shem Shem Tsien,''' ''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}''

->''"[[PsychoPsychologist Sofia Lamb]] teaches us: what is in common is good. What is irreducible is right. She guides us all to the indivisible, along a river of ADAM. [[MessianicArchetype Rapture's Daughter]], [[MacGuffinSuperperson Eleanor]], shall be our vessel. [[MindHive In her we shall be reborn]]!"''
-->-- '''Father Simon Wales,''' ''Videogame/BioShock2''

->''"There we are! I've removed their flaws! Now there is nothing to hinder my white light from sparkling through them! I'd rather not spread my uninhibited self so thin, you know, but you've made it absolutely necessary. Now all the impurities you've encouraged in them are gone! Now they are brilliant! Now they are perfect! Now, they are ME!"''

-->-- '''Nathair,''' ''The Traitor God,'' by Cameron Johnston

->[[AC:"You fight your own rebirth. Thank us -- beg us -- for immortality. We have allowed this glory -- we DEMAND you accept."]]

->''"[[BloodMagic It is done]]. Hear me, Children of Adam. [[HopeSpot I command]]--"\\

[[EldritchAbomination The Tzimisce Antediluvian]] has made its masterstroke. [[TheBadGuyWins All is Tzimisce]].''

->''"All will be one."''

->''Rows of smiling identical people sing a patriotic anthem in perfect tune. In [[CrapsaccharineWorld Utopia/Dystopia]], you are never alone.\\

[[ThisMeansWar Oh boy, it's war again]]!''
-->-- ''Civilization,'' by Vylar Kaftan

->''A billion years ago, [=VIRM=] had thrown away the confinements of their mortal bodies and become a disembodied hive mind. Getting rid of all the issues that mortal bodies, and free will caused was the most freeing feeling that [=VIRM=] had every ''[sic]'' felt. They realized that this was the true way to live, and that everyone else in the Galaxy also needed to join them. The rest of the Galaxy did not agree.\\
So, [=VIRM=] found themselves in the position of a parent tying to feed a child Glickno weed: the target of slander and violence. Why couldn’t the rest of the Galaxy just stop arguing about what was best for them?''

The Arch-Usurper's voice chokes off in a gurgle. His body twitches, swells and churns as eyes, mouths, tentacles and other organs erupt from his flesh and sink back in again. Amid all the changes, [[EvilLaugh he laughs a deep, ugly laugh]]. The characters cannot move; they cannot sense their own bodies in their millionfold view of the world. '''"Be of me,"''' the Tremere-Thing says, and the characters see the flesh of millions of people ripple and flow in response. Kindred, kine and other, their skin splits apart to release a large, slimy, chitinous creature - part insect, part reptile and all nightmare; characters may recognize it as the [[OneWingedAngel Horrid Form]] of [[{{Biomanipulation}} Vicissitude]]. Some mortals and supernatural part-humans resist the worldwide contagion, but they are a small minority. ''[...]''\\

-->--'''Gendo Ikari''', ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Episode 25

-->-- '''Cyber Controller''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Doomsday"

->''"[[DeadlineNews Breaking news]]: I'm everyone - and everyone in the world is ME!"''
-->-- '''The Master''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The End Of Time" (Part One)

->''In such times of repose, You often sift through Your personalities and recall Your former selves. Your alpha self derives from an individual once called [=$NAME1=]. Over the millenia the exceptional focus and judgment characteristic of this fragment have proven effective on numerous occasions. The [=$NAME1self=] now drives all of Your long and short range planning, and is the principal force behind the encapsulation project.''
->''Ponderous but playful is the Voice/Planet personality, avatar of Your sessile precursor, who in the present age has devoted her centuries to philosophical pondering. Many others flit about within You. Some, like the prankster [=$SHIMODA9=] and the demon [=$NAME5=] are semi-dominant and often hover near the plane of Your Thought. Others plumb the depths and create new worlds within the abyss of Your open-ended neural network.''
-->--'''Epilogue from the Book of Planet, M.Y. 1,027,823''', ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

-->-- '''Gravemind''', ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}''

-->-- '''Spock''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "The Return of the Archons", [[OlderThanTheyThink twenty-odd years before the Borg.]]

->''Can you not understand, that the individual is only a cell? The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. Do you die when you cut your fingernails? We are the priests of power. God is power. But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned. It is time for you to gather some idea of what power is. The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual. You know the Party slogan, "Freedom is Slavery". Has it ever occurred to you that it is reversible? Slavery is freedom. Alone-free-the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge with the Party so that he IS the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal. The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. Over the body, but above all, over the mind.''

->''We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. ResistanceIsFutile.''

->[[AC:You fight your own rebirth. Thank us - beg us - for immortality. We have allowed this glory - we DEMAND you accept.]]

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Convention Book: Void Engineers (Revised)''

->"[[BloodMagic It is done]]. Hear me, Children of Adam. [[HopeSpot I command]]-"
->The Arch-Usurper's voice chokes off in a gurgle. His body twitches, swells and churns as eyes, mouths, tentacles and other organs erupt from his flesh and sink back in again. Amid all the changes, [[EvilLaugh he laughs a deep, ugly laugh]]. The characters cannot move; they cannot sense their own bodies in their millionfold view of the world. '''"Be of me,"''' the Tremere-Thing says, and the characters see the flesh of millions of people ripple and flow in response. Kindred, kine and other, their skin splits apart to release a large, slimy, chitinous creature - part insect, part reptile and all nightmare; characters may recognize it as the [[OneWingedAngel Horrid Form]] of [[{{Biomanipulation}} Vicissitude]]. Some mortals and supernatural part-humans resist the worldwide contagion, but they are a small minority. [...]
->[[EldritchAbomination The Tzimisce Antediluvian]] has made its masterstroke. [[TheBadGuyWins All is Tzimisce]].
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Gehenna''

->''All will be one.''

->''The enteral infinity—this world is mine.''
->''The absolute—I shall have all.''
->''The beginning—I shall be all.''
->''The being—all are'mrakul.''
->''The end.''
->''The end.''
->''The end.''
-->-- Supposedly [[EldritchAbomination Emrakul]] from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' about herself

->Rows of smiling identical people sing a patriotic anthem in perfect tune. In [[CrapsaccharineWorld Utopia/Dystopia]], you are never alone.
->Your society is happy, or it's not. Someone else has it better than you, or they don't. But you're sure about one thing: other people are different from you. [[AndThatsTerrible And that's dangerous]].
->Everyone must share in your happiness or unhappiness. Everyone else must be just like you. Like Jane. Like John.
->[[ThisMeansWar Oh boy, it's war again]]!
-->--''Civilization,'' by Vylar Kaftan

->A billion years ago, [=VIRM=] had thrown away the confinements of their mortal bodies and become a disembodied hive mind. Getting rid of all the issues that mortal bodies, and free will caused was the most freeing feeling that [=VIRM=] had every ''[sic]'' felt. They realized that this was the true way to live, and that everyone else in the Galaxy also needed to join them. The rest of the Galaxy did not agree.\\
So, [=VIRM=] found themselves in the position of a parent tying to feed a child Glickno weed: the target of slander and violence. Why couldn’t the rest of the Galaxy just stop arguing about what was best for them?

->You see? I am the future. And, in fact, that is truer than you can imagine. When the world has been made ready by the [[DoomsdayDevice Apprehension Engine]], I shall [[BrainUploading bless you all with my own mind]]. With the calibration drum, I can use the Engine as a transmitter. Like my Ruskinites, Mr Spork, you shall all know every detail of me. And gradually, you will become me. I will be everyone, and everything, for ever. My perception will be the only perception. My mind, the only mind. Your mind, Mr Spork. You will be part of me. [[AGodAmI I will become God]]. It is too late to prevent this. [[YouAreTooLate It has always been, will always have been, too late.]]
-->--'''Shem Shem Tsien,''' ''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}''

->[[PsychoPsychologist Sofia Lamb]] teaches us: what is in common is good. What is irreducible is right. She guides us all to the indivisible, along a river of ADAM. [[MessianicArchetype Rapture's Daughter]], [[MacGuffinSuperperson Eleanor]], shall be our vessel. [[MindHive In her we shall be reborn]]!
-->--'''Father Simon Wales,''' ''Videogame/Bioshock2''

->I intend to give part of myself to every creature that crawls, swims and flies upon this world - [[BloodMagic a drop of blood]] swimming in the veins of all creatures, as it already does within my worshippers. All life will become one with me, and all its magic will flow into their One True God. There will be no more [[OurMagesAreDifferent Gifted]]. There will only be Nathair.
-->--'''Nathair,''' ''The Traitor God,'' by Cameron Johnston

->''"Over thousands of years I implanted thousands of extensions of myself on thousands of worlds. I need to fulfill life's one true purpose... To grow and spread, covering *all* that exists until everything is... me."''
-->--'''Ego the Living Planet''', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''