"You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it."
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
— Condoleeza Rice
Maxim 13: Do unto others.
"If it isn't ours, it's somebody else's. And if it's somebody else's, sooner or later they'll use it against us. That's why we have to take it, whether we need it or not."
— Hanse Castillo, Terra Invicta (accompanies completion of the "Mission to the Asteroids" technology)
Tom: He poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses!
Crowd: HE DID?!?
Tom: No, but are we just gonna wait around until he does?!
Crowd: HE DID?!?
Tom: No, but are we just gonna wait around until he does?!
'Cause of his gangs of grot spies, warboss Badthug knew that warboss Grimlug was plannin' a sneak attack. Naturally, 'gainst such low and downright gittish behavior, good old Badthug did what any smart-thinkin' Mork-fearin' bossboy would do... 'e decided to get 'is retaliation in first and sent us boyz to blow up Grimlug's gargant yards at Big Scrap Alley.
— Deff Skwadron, "38 seconds over Big Scrap Alley"
"The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life — another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod — there's only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It's the explanation for the Fermi Paradox."
Callisto: They want to exterminate us!
Community Outreach Mutant: This cure is voluntary, nobody is talking about extermination.
Magneto: No one ever talks about it... they just do it. And you go on with your lives ignoring the signs all around you. And then one day when the air is still and the night has fallen; they come for you. It is only then when you realize that while you're talking about 'Organizing' and 'Committees', the extermination has already begun. Make no mistake my Brothers, they will draw first blood: they will force their cure upon us. The only question is: will you join my Brotherhood and fight, or wait for the inevitable genocide? Who will you stand with, the Humans... or us?
Community Outreach Mutant: This cure is voluntary, nobody is talking about extermination.
Magneto: No one ever talks about it... they just do it. And you go on with your lives ignoring the signs all around you. And then one day when the air is still and the night has fallen; they come for you. It is only then when you realize that while you're talking about 'Organizing' and 'Committees', the extermination has already begun. Make no mistake my Brothers, they will draw first blood: they will force their cure upon us. The only question is: will you join my Brotherhood and fight, or wait for the inevitable genocide? Who will you stand with, the Humans... or us?
