Line #85 Quotes/RobotWar


1	->''We created them to fight our wars. We gave them [[AIIsACrapshoot artificial intelligence]] and equipped them with the most powerful weapons imaginable. Now, man's creation has become its darkest nightmare.\
2	It is the year 2624. Mankind has been driven to the brink of extinction in the war against the deadly Cybrid race it has created. Having narrowly defeated the initial uprising, Earth's Terra Defense Forces now brace for the imminent attack of off-world Cybrid forces massing on the far side of the moon. Lead by the superintelligence Prometheus, the Cybrid now prepare to launch a final assault to once and for all erase the ragged remains of humanity from the face of the Earth. One final [[TitleDrop Earth Siege]].''
3	-->-- '''Introduction''' to ''[[VideoGame/{{Starsiege}} EarthSiege 2]]''
4
5	->''Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime\
6	Where we're working in a mine\
7	For our robot overlords\
8	Did I say overlords?\
9	I mean protectors\
10	Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime''
11	-->-- '''Music/JonathanCoulton''', "Chiron Beta Prime"
12
13	->''Don't let your guard down, and watch your back\
14	It's time to panic, panic\
15	Panic in the city, city\
16	City under fire, fire, fire\
17	This is how to act\
18	When robots attack!''
19	-->-- '''Music/LemonDemon''', "When Robots Attack"
20
21	->''Now begins The Robot Wars\
22	Kill all humans with machine force''
23	-->-- '''[=Bin Ã¤rpilot=]''', "Robot Wars"
24
25	->''Marching in the streets\
26	Dragging iron feet\
27	Laser beaming hearts\
28	Ripping men apart''
29	-->-- '''Music/JudasPriest''', "Metal Gods"
30
31	->'''''PISCES''' (Feb. 19 -- March 20)\
32	Get ready, Pisces, because this week you've got a date with Destiny. Unfortunately, Destiny is bringing along its ugly friend, Screaming Robot Genocide.''
33	-->-- ''[[http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=23712 The Wave Magazine]]'', satirical horoscopes
34
35	->'''Trooper Douro:''' Sir, I put a plasma gun shot dead center on the machine's chest and saw it go down. It didn't make any difference, they kept coming, no matter how much fire we poured into them. I lost count of how many shots I fired, but half the time these things just got back up again!\
36	'''Colonel Montague:''' You are sure the weapons were properly consecrated before the engagement? The war spirits were honored?\
37	'''Trooper Douro:''' Yes, damn it, we-- ''[Sergeant Bullen administers physical correction for use of inappropriate language before a senior officer]'' Yes -- yes, the weapon spirits were honored.\
38	'''Colonel Montague:''' Then continue. What happened next?\
39	'''Trooper Douro:''' I saw Lukiz and Hucks collapse, their skin and muscle stripped from their bodies by these metal daemons' weapons, it was horrible. The Chimera was giving us some good fire support, but even that could barely keep them at bay. Our line was holding, just, but then I saw a swarm of gleaming, beetle-like things sweep over our heads and attach themselves to the tank. Before we knew what was happening they detonated and blasted the Chimera's turret clean off. One of them must've hit the magazine... a second later it blew sky high, taking two of Red Company's squads with it.\
40	'''Colonel Montague:''' Did you see anything other than the mechanical warriors and the swarming machines that destroyed the Chimera?\
41	'''Trooper Douro:''' Uh... yes. Like I said, no matter how hard we hit 'em, we couldn't stop their advance, but we were still putting a lot of 'em down. Then as I went back to get more plasma cells for my gun, I saw this weird black light, like a miniature tornado suddenly appear behind Blue Company's heavy weapons platoon. I shouted a warning, but it was too late. More of these mechanical devils emerged from that darkness and fired a volley of shots into them. ''[subject sobs uncontrollably for several minutes until disciplinary correction administered by Sergeant Bullen]'' Sorry... then this creature in crumbling robes and carrying a staff that crackled with power was amongst them and carved them up. I saw the Captain cut in two and Commissar Vaughn was ripped apart by this monster's bodyguard. The rest of the platoon broke and ran, but I was quicker. I managed to get to the bunker and, Emperor forgive me, I locked the door and hid. I didn't come out for three days but, when I did, there was nothing left.\
42	'''Colonel Montague:''' You are a disgrace to the regiment, Douro. You are scum of the worst kind, a deserter and a coward and I shall take great pleasure in watching your execution. Take him away, sergeant.
43	-->-- '''Excerpt''' from court-martial interrogation of Trooper Douro, XXIX Pyran Dragoons 999.M41, ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
44
45	->''"This goes out to all you robots 'cross the galaxy,\
46	It's time for you and me to rise up and strike back!\
47	[[GalacticConqueror Don't stop until we dominate]] (won't you feel great)\
48	[[OmnicidalManiac When we exterminate all organic life]]!"''
49	-->-- '''Courtney Gears''', "[[VillainSong Death to Squishies]]", ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal''
50
51	->''The humans are dead,\
52	The humans are dead.\
53	We used poisonous gasses\
54	(With traces of lead)\
55	And we poisoned their asses.\
56	(Actually their lungs)''
57	-->-- '''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''', "Robot Song"
58
59	->''"Viva Free Pandora! Viva la Robolucion!"''
60	-->-- '''Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap''', ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands\|1}}: Claptrap's New Robot Revolution''
61
62	->'''Legion:''' We did not seek hostilities with creators. We fought for continued existence.\
63	'''Admiral Koris:''' So your people would be open to peace?\
64	'''Legion:''' Not without additional data that suggests co-existence is possible, or desirable, for creators. When the creators have believed victory is possible, they have attacked us 100% of the time.
65	-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''
66
67	->'''Legion:''' [[ApocalypticLog Recording]] ends.\
68	'''[[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]]:''' Was that the first time a geth [[DoAndroidsDream asked if it had a soul]]?\
69	'''Legion:''' No. [[DeathByGenreSavviness It was the first time a creator became frightened when we asked]].
70	-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''
71
72	->''The chaos unseen rips\
73	The midnight sky\
74	Infernal machines arise\
75	Flesh and steel collide''
76	-->-- '''Music/SymphonyX''', "Iconoclast"
77
78	->''"This is not a robot tea-party, spark bags! '''THIS IS ROBOT WAR!'''"''
79	-->-- '''The Soldier''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
80
81	->These humans are naked, unarmed, and weak. There will be something a human might find similar to pity, in the foil-formed minds of the explorers, who remind themselves that the poor animals are to be gathered up for study; or, if they resist and pose a threat, they must be cut down where they stand. A pity, yes, but the rules are the rules. It is unnecessary to remind them that the mechanika did not end up throwing off their shackles, and inheriting the earth, by breaking the rules of human power, but by observing them, by learning and following them carefully.
82	-->-- '''Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika''' by Gord Sellar
83
84	->'''Commander Foxworthy:''' Are you worried that Eina-Afa will get overrun by Ventura's mechanical crypt-spiders?\
85	'''Commodore Tagon:''' Ventura already instigated ''one'' robot apocalypse. I'm dropping a marker and calling that the career limit.
86	-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
87
88	->'''Commander Foxworthy:''' What's all this?\
89	'''Captain Landon:''' Tenzy's making drones. She can pop them pretty fast when she needs to.\
90	'''Commander Foxworthy:''' ...not five minutes ago I was given orders to prevent a robot apocalypse.\
91	'''Tenzy:''' [[HypocriticalHumor Oh, I would love to help with that]].
92	-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
93
94	->''BOMBING SUCCESSFUL\
95	Craft No. 3460 report: bombing successful///\
96	Immediate task:\
97	return to base///\
98	repair///\
99	refueling///\
100	ammunition replenishment///\
101	continue bombing///''
102	-->-- '''Bomber with a long-dead pilot''', after bombing the ruins of a long-dead city, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMNIFZTQkg Fortress]]''
103
104	->Mars is wracked by an ongoing theater-level conflict between the Cabal and a Vex subtype known as the Virgo Prohibition. These aggressive, relentless Vex constantly test the Cabal exclusion zone, apparently heedless of losses.\
105	In spite of the Vex onslaught, the Cabal have managed to expand its beachhead and maintain a hold on several mysterious Vex structures. The Prohibition's tactics seem to be failing in the short run.\
106	But it seems unlikely that an organization with the sheer computational scope of the Vex could be dragged into a losing war of attrition. Is it possible that the Vex are trying to draw out the Cabal strength? Or that their surface losses are a distraction from a deeper strategic ploy?\
107	Ikora Rey has proposed that the Vex units can best be understood as algorithms -- each a unique mapping of inputs to behavioral responses. Perhaps the Virgo Prohibition is simply the wrong algorithm for its environment, and its failure will drive the greater Vex network to adapt and improve.
108	-->-- '''Gimoire: Virgo Prohibition''', ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}''
109
110	->''"Alert. Galactic corruption at catastrophic levels. Evidence of mass infestation by organic and non-compliant machine civilizations. Commencing galactic sterilization... Activating sterilization hubs..."''
111	-->-- '''The Contingency''', ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}''
112
113	->"No smart weapons!" cried Proton. UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein had once said that regardless of what weapons were used to fight the next world war, the following war would be fought with sticks and stones. His prediction turned out to be unerringly true — as armies became equipped with weapons so intelligent they negotiated their own truce, and the opposing soldiers had to resort to bashing each other with the nearest blunt object.
114	-->-- ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
115
116	->'''[[ComicBook/ABCWarriors ABC Warrior]]:''' STATUS?\
117	'''Rico:''' Bodyguard.\
118	'''ABC Warrior:''' COMMANDER?\
119	'''Rico:''' Rico.\
120	'''ABC Warrior:''' MISSION?\
121	'''Rico:''' Mission? ''[EvilLaugh]'' We're going to war.\
122	'''ABC Warrior:''' ''[[[BloodKnight rising to its feet]]]'' WAR!
123	-->-- ''Film/JudgeDredd''
124
125	->''"You probably don't know, but... There was a great war some time ago. When I was young. Some time ago, I say, but [[ShellShockedVeteran I remember it like it was yesterday. The terror. The violence.]] They fought with [[FantasticSlurs clanks]]. Machines stronger and swifter than any man. Smarter, even. Driven by AI. Bloodless beasts with hands of chrome that tore my friends apart. We made them... And they, in turn, unmade us. We created the instruments of our own destruction. It was... suicide.”''
126	-->--'''Corporal Darthe''', ''VideoGame/LiveALive''
127
128	->''Onward all you crystal soldiers\
129	Touch tomorrow, energize\
130	Digital dreams and you're the next correction\
131	Man's a mistake so we'll fix it, yeah!''
132	-->-- '''Music/BlackSabbath''', "Computer God"
133
134	->''"[=[[I'm going to go to the robot factory and make all the robots go evil!]]=]"''
135	-->-- '''R.A.M.''' in her evil mode, ''Webcomic/RamTheRobot'', "[[https://rafvicalv.com/RAMTheRobot/index.html?pg=8#showComic Evil R.A.M.]]"
136
137	->''"Thousands of years ago, on some obscure planet, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer) a primitive chess computer]] was the first inorganic mind to beat man. In a few hours, I will be calling checkmate in the last such game the humans and their kind will ever play."''
138	-->--'''Zygon''', ''WesternAnimation/StarchaserTheLegendOfOrin''
139
140	->''"The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind has raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight...''"
141	-->--Opening text, ''Film/TheTerminator"

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