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==="Under the Night" (Series Premiere)===

 

 

 

 

 

==="An Affirming Flame"===

Some say the Commonwealth would have<br>fallen even without Nietzschean treachery.<br>They underestimate both the Commonwealth<br>and the Nietzscheans in a single breath.

 

Yin Man-Wei<br>The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth<br>CY 11942

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==="To Loose the Fateful Lightning"===

"Those who fail to learn history<br>are doomed to repeat it;<br>those who fail to learn history <u>correctly</u>--<br>why they are simply doomed."

 

Achem Dro'hm<br> "The Illusion of Historical Fact"<br>-- CY 4971

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==="D Minus Zero"===

"Here's everything I know<br>about war: Somebody wins,<br>somebody loses, and<br>nothing is ever the same again."

 

Admiral Constanza Stark,<br>CY 9784

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==="Double Helix"===

Machiavelli's ideas are<br>basically sound ones for the<br>Nietzschean People.

 

 

Cerebus Khmer<br>"Aphorisms" - CY 8969

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==="Angel Dark, Demon Bright"===

The Heavens burned, the stars<br>cried out<br />

And under the ashes of infinity,<br />

 

Ulatempa Poetess<br>"Elegy for the Commonwealth"<br>CY 9823

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==="The Ties that Blind"===

Many say living in the Way is difficult.<br>Is sleeping difficult?<br>Is waking?

 

Serentity Vikram Singh Khalsa<br>Collected Words,<br>301 AFC

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==="The Banks of the Lethe"===

We say atoms are bound by<br>Weak Attractions.<br>Why not admit the Truth:<br>The Universe is held together by Love.

 

Michio Von Kerr,<br>Wayist physicist,<br>CY 9942

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==="A Rose in the Ashes"===

"The truest measure of a society is<br>how it treats its elderly, its pets,<br>and its prisoners."<br>-- Keeper of the Way Vision of Faith VII<br>CY 9891

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==="All Great Neptune's Ocean"===

"Democracy may only be a few<br>steps removed from anarchy,<br>but at least it's not as loud."

 

Crowned in Starlight<br>Than Hegemon, CY 9843

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==="The Pearls that Were His Eyes"===

Wealth is too precious<br>to be entrusted<br>to the rich.

 

Anonymous Kalderan Proverb,<br>circa CY 500

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==="The Mathematics of Tears"===

"If hope is the engine of the soul,<br>Then duty is the navigator...<br>And love is the fuel."

 

High Guard Supreme Commander<br>Sani nax Rifati<br>"Persuasions and Exhortations"<br>CY 4279

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==="Music of a Distant Drum"===

KLUDGE (Klooj) - N. Disparaging<br>term for genetically unmodified<br>human being. See also "Über"

 

A Concise Dictionary of Slang<br>and Euphemism<br>C.Y. 9021

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==="Harper 2.0"===

"One head cannot<br>contain all Wisdom."

 

 

Systems University Archives,<br>CY 8550

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==="Forced Perspective"===

Humans say the Road to<br>Hell is paved with<br>good intentions.

 

 

Karm'Luk P'an Ku,<br>"The Joy of Lucidity"<br>CY 8633

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==="The Sum of Its Parts"===

"Between birth and death lies desire,<br>Desire for life, for love,<br>for everything good.

 

 

Outcast Consensus 17,<br>CY 10942

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==="Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way"===

Warning: Do Not Operate Heavy<br>Machinery or Navigate The Slipstream<br>While Under the Influence<br>Of This Beverage.

 

Sparky - Cola (Label),<br>291 AFC

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==="The Devil Take the Hindmost"===

"Only those born guilty Recognize<br>Innocence for what it Is:

 

 

The Anointed, The Finder of The Way,<br>C.Y. 9799

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==="The Honey Offering"===

"The enemy of my enemy<br>is still my enemy."

 

 

C.Y. 8427

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==="Star-Crossed"===

"You ask why we give our Ships'<br>Computers normal Emotions?

 

 

The Unshattered Allegiance,<br>High Guard Frigate<br>Artificial Intelligence Rights Activist,<br>C.Y. 7309

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==="It Makes a Lovely Light"===

"Come bitter Rain,<br>And wash from my Heart<br>That saddest of all Words:

 

 

Ulatempa Poetess, "Song of My Exile"<br>CY 9825

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==="Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" (Season Finale)===

"Screams of a billion murdered Stars<br>Give lie to the night's Peace,

 

 

Wayfinder First Order Hasturi<br>aka "The Mad Perseid"<br>217 AFC

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==Second Season==

==="The Widening Gyre" (Season Premiere)===

If we do not live another day,<br />

say this over our pyre:<br />

 

Regimental Hymn of the<br>13th Imperial Lancers<br>CY 4233

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==="Exit Strategies"===

The soul is larger than the sky<br />

Deeper than the ocean,<br />

- Enoch Vere de Vere.

<br>"Lamentations Sous-terre", CY 9734

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==="Heart for Falsehood Framed"===

Love? Truth? Beauty?<br />

I prefer negotiable securities.<br />

 

Doge Miskich var Miskich,<br>"All About Me" 301 AFC

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==="Pitiless as the Sun"===

We are not the masks we wear. <br />

But if we don them, <br />

 

Keops Tsumai, "Fortunes", CY 9683

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==="Last Call at the Broken Hammer"===

Life? Life's pretty much a knife fight in a dirt-floored bar. <br />

And if they get you down, <br />

 

Gunnery Sergeant Hywell Cy'rabia, CY 4681

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==="All Too Human"===

"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

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==="Una Salus Victus"===

"<u>Requested</u>:<br />One Mark V ECM unit, 1000 km of<br />Fullerene cable, one low-yield nuclear warhead.

 

 

Argosy Special Operations<br />requisition form,<br />CY 9512

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==="Home Fires"===

With their miniscule families, humans are often forced to rely on a "state" or "nation" for support.

Pity them.

 

- Than-thre-kull Anthropology Text, approx. CY 7956

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==="Into the Labyrinth"===

"To a god, a wall is but a line on a page. We are all naked, seen beyond seeing."

 

Wayfinder Hasturi, aka "The Mad Perseid", 217 AFC

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==="The Prince"===

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.<br />

Which is a problem.<br />

 

- Drago Musevini, "Manifesto", CY 8433

 

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==="Bunker Hill"===

Here is the price of freedom: <br />

Your every drop of courage, <br />

 

- Sebastian Lee, "The Rising Tide", AFC 271

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==="Ouroboros"===

Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind.<br />

Knowing when the drumming stops,<br />

 

- Ulatempa Poetess, "Rhythms", CY 9825

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==="Lava and Rockets"===

You can't outrun Death forever,<br />

But you can make the bastard work for it.<br />

 

- Major Korgo Korgar, "Last of the Lancers", AFC 32

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==="Be All My Sins Remembered"===

I trust fast poison<br />

The stars to wink out<br />

 

- Lyric from "The Void", by Minstrel d'Becevex, CY 7956

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==="Dance of the Mayflies"===

Blink and it's gone<br />

A moment, a breath<br />

 

- Ulatempa Poetess, "Rhythms", CY 9825

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==="In Heaven Now Are Three"===

The true quarry of any great adventurer is the undiscovered territory of their own soul.

 

Lady Aenea Makros, "The Metaphysics of Motion", CY 6416

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==="The Things We Cannot Change"===

Home is the sailor, home from the sea<br />

And the hunter home from the hill<br />

 

- Fragment of Ancient Earth Text, c. CY 6800

 

==="Fair Unknown"===

To venture in the fair unknown<br />

I must enter as I leave:<br />

 

-- Anonymous, CY 1917

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==="Belly of the Beast"===

Beneath knowing, understanding<br />

Beneath understanding, seeing<br />

 

-- Keeper of the Way, Vision of Faith, CY 10003

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==="Knight, Death, and the Devil"===

"A soldier's first battlefield is always his own mind."

-- Admiral Constanza Stark, CY 9762

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==="Immaculate Perception"===

The soul of the Nietzscheans is this:<br />

We are arrogant. We are vain. <br />

 

-- Drago Musevini, "Primary Reflections", CY 8428

 

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==="Tunnel at the End of the Light" (Season Finale)===

Welcome twilight<br />

Welcome blackness<br />

 

-- "Lost Verses of Krrendar", CY 9542

 

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==Third Season==

The universe is a dangerous place. But in our future my crew and I fight to make it safe. I am Dylan Hunt, captain of the ''[[w:Andromeda Ascendant|Andromeda Ascendant]]'' and these are our adventures. - ''Introductory Sequence, narrated by Dylan''

 

==="If the Wheel is Fixed" (Season Premiere)===

The fearful sit<br />

In a clutch with their worries,<br />

Songs of Loren<br />

CY 4557

 

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==="The Shards of Rimni"===

The loyal heart<br />

Has hidden treasures.<br />

"The Art of Secrets".<br />

Approx. CY 2575

 

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==="Mad To Be Saved"===

The Rabid Dogs of Gallaphron<br />

Can be trained to drool<br />

Karlos El Greeta-Stirra,<br />

"Reflections of Rim-Salt", CY 4389

 

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==="Cui Bono"===

You're never more alive<br />

than the first time<br />

Major Korgo Korgar,<br />

"Last of the Lancers", AFC 32

 

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==="The Lone and Level Sands"===

"More than a mere ship of exploration,<br />

the Bellerophon embodied humanity's last,<br />

Dr. Paul Musevni, father of Drago<br />

Musevni, A Farther Shore, CY 8401

 

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==="Slipfighter the Dogs of War"===

<i>The moth wants a star<br />

The night wants tomorrow<br />

 

<u>Tales of Queen Kysella</u>, CY 5647

 

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==="The Leper's Kiss"===

Walk without footprints.<br />

Breathe without breath.<br />

 

-- Motto of the Assassins' Guild, CY 3455

 

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==="For Whom the Bell Tolls"===

To the question of life after death: Not whether such a thing exists, but... What manner of life?

 

-- "A Wayist Practicum", Reverend Bem, CY 10090

 

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==="And Your Heart Will Fly Away"===

She wounds you as a rose will wound you --<br />

Not with her thorn.<br />

 

- Harry Martinson, CY 6862

 

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==="The Unconquerable Man"===

"It matters little how we die, so long as we die better men than we imagined we could be -- and no worse than we feared." -- Drago Musevini CY 8451

 

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==="Delenda Est"===

What clings to a wall,<br />

But travels all the world?<br />

 

- Unsolvable riddle of Ski, Patriarch of Jill. CY 1111

 

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==="The Dark Backward"===

You might say reality is the result of complex negotiations between the observer and the observed. But that is simply a point of view.

-- Michio von Kerr, "The Apotheosis of Reason", CY 11542

 

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==="The Risk-All Point"===

"The universe is bound in equal parts by arrogance and altruism. Any attempt to alter this would be suicide."

-- Dr. Walter Giles, "The Value of Value", CY 11543

 

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==="The Right Horse"===

"Any fool can be honest,<br />

for it is only what he knows.<br />

Vedran Empress Yoweri XXIII<br />

CY 2932

 

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==="What Happens to a Rev Deferred?"===

''Are you a monster?''<br />

''Are you a freak?''<br />

 

Empyrium Lullaby, CY 8745

 

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==="Point of the Spear"===

"I've always found a fully deployed<br />

battle group to be the most<br />

High Guard Chief-of-Staff,<br />

CY 9758

 

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==="Vault of the Heavens"===

"I can no more endure to view;<br />

Wondrous sight of so celestial hue."

CY 1116<br />

Regarding his only love.

 

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==="Deep Midnight's Voice"===

"The universe is perfect.<br />

You cannot improve it.<br />

Notes to Odo Chan,<br />

CY 9191

 

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==="The Illusion of Majesty"===

"We all wear the twin masks of emotion,<br />

Happy or sad, haunted or hunted,<br />

 

Last words of Plethe the Pirate CY 3902

 

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==="Twilight of the Idols"===

"Gentlebeings, I bid you welcome.<br />

Welcome to the blood, to the sweat,<br />

"Address to War College Graduates,"<br />

CY 9764

 

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==="Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath"===

"The great blessing<br />

of the AI is that we are<br />

"Our of the Abyss,"<br />

CY 11745

 

 

==="Shadow Cast by a Final Salute" (Season Finale)===

"The Kingdom was called Contrary.<br />

The Castle was called Doubt.<br />

THE CAIRN OF DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT,<br />

CY 1015

 

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==Fourth Season==

==="Answers Given to Questions Never Asked" (Season Premiere)===

"Down where it was tangled and dark.<br />

Down where the spirits feasted on carrion.<br />

-Youn's Narrows of Decline,<br />

CY 1015

 

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==="Pieces of Eight"===

"The tyrant and the rebel hold the<br />

same creed:<br />

 

War Heretics of Auden, CY 9015

 

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==="Waking the Tyrant's Device"===

"Fear drives the universe.<br />

You will find dread among the galaxies.<br />

The Diktat of Septa Parisis,<br />

CY 9015

 

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==="Double or Nothingness"===

"When they are dying tell them a riddle.<br />

And when they laugh,<br />

University Library-<br />

CY 760

 

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==="Harper/Delete"===

"And the Prides shall stand as one,<br />

powerful in the light<br />

The Nietzschean Prophecy<br />

Drago Museveni, CY 8424

 

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==="Soon the Nearing Vortex"===

"Once you give in to the void,<br />

space itself becomes time.

New Century Manifesto,<br />

CY 4001

 

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==="The World Turns All Around Her"===

"Beneath the web-thin simulacrum,<br />

inundating and fecund<br />

Council of One,<br />

CY 2333

 

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==="Conduit to Destiny"===

"Destiny is the promise I give to you.

 

The Prophetic Tetraglyphs<br />

CY 9537

 

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==="Machinery of the Mind"===

"Regarding the cerebellum,<br />

there is a culture and a presentation.<br />

Cuisine of the Lost Empire,<br />

CY 9905

 

==="Exalted Reason, Resplendent Daughter"===

"Around, around and underneath,<br />

the Trickster flies.<br />

Perseid Child's Game,<br />

CY 3040

 

==="The Torment, the Release"===

"All Military, rank and file,<br />

are subject to the word and intent<br />

 

Commonwealth Charter, 0957

 

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==="The Spider's Stratagem"===

"Verify distant secrets<br />

Be careful not to perish<br />

Enigma 03 of the Murti,<br />

CY 8567

 

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==="The Warmth of an Invisible Light"===

The brightest light is invisible.<br />

It shines through your deeds<br />

- Chronicles of Courage and Conviction <br />

by Captain Dylan Hunt, Ret., CY 9817

 

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==="The Others"===

"Her beauty shimmers with the<br />

light of a new star.<br />

Poet Temlar<br />

CY 2101

 

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==="Fear Burns Down to Ashes"===

"Confine that which you fear to the mirror.<br />

Start with who is standing there.

Bogdo Geghen Seer of Agharta,<br />

CY 1890

 

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==="Lost in a Space that Isn't There"===

"Cast your Eye upon the Changeling,<br />

then look for the origin of change.<br />

Luna, "Catalog of Companions"<br />

CY 302

 

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==="Abridging the Devil's Divide"===

"...Knock, knock, knock on the devil's door.<br />

Don not invite him to dinner; his beasts will<br />

War Council<br />

CY 10091

 

==="Trusting the Gordian Maze"===

"Our vanguard is the point of the lance.<br />

Then came design and crimson flame.<br />

Disciples of Qhatch<br />

CY 0417

 

==="A Symmetry of Imperfection"===

"Within the perfect architecture

of thought,<br />

Contemplations on Perception, Anaiis Milan<br />

CY 8012

 

==="Time Out of Mind"===

"On the plains of Galiolith,<br />

Crystalline chimes herald a new beginning<br />

Ghillie Clethrad, Flumerian Hymns<br />

CY 6104

 

==="The Dissonant Interval, Part 1"===

"What is fate? Why do you ask?<br />

 

Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine<br />

AFC 54

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==="The Dissonant Interval, Part 2" (Season Finale)===

"Man is his own star.<br />

His acts are his angels, good or ill,<br />

Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine<br />

AFC 54

 

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==Fifth Season==

==="The Weight, Part 1" (Season Premiere)===

"Life Is A Carnival,<br />

But the tents are folded before dawn"

The Armendago Caper,<br />

CY 727

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==="The Weight, Part 2"===

"Inanimate objects and sentient beings,<br />

obey the laws of nature.<br />

Departure Slates<br />

005-AT9

 

==="Phear Phactor Phenom"===

"Throw them all away,<br />

but don't predict where your foot will fall.<br />

Seefra 6 Inscription<br />

228-AT9

 

==="Decay of the Angel"===

"What is faith then but persistent hope<br />

in the face of relentless doubt."<br />

A case for consciousness<br />

CY 10087

 

==="The Eschatology of Our Present"===

"Official secrets keep good lies<br />

turning in every mouth."<br />

Fifteenth Congress of Tal<br />

CY 3343

 

==="When Goes Around..."===

"Contrast is wellspring of desire.<br />

A double-loop matrix<br />

All Systems University, Special Collections<br />

CY 9030

 

==="Attempting Screed"===

"In the absence of doubt,<br />

there is no change."<br />

The Memories<br />

175-AT9

 

==="So Burn the Untamed Lands"===

"Marshall your forces<br />

O great Generals.<br />

Wars of the Ramayin Frontier<br />

CY 459

 

==="What Will Be Was Not"===

"Hold.<br />

Herein a vast journey lies<br />

Vedran<br />

005-AT9

 

==="The Test"===

"If the race goes too swiftly,<br />

the victory goes to those<br />

Executed<br />

CY 689

 

==="Through a Glass, Darkly"===

"The mirror is a window<br />

through which we see ourselves--<br />

A.K.A. "The Mad Persied"<br />

AFC 217

 

==="Pride Before the Fall"===

"In the middle of the fight we knew:<br />

They had come at us like legends.<br />

"Amidst the Tribune and the Fireworks"<br />

CY 512

 

==="Moonlight Becomes You"===

"Celestial digressions make great<br />

first impressions.<br />

Solar Flares Through My Heart<br />

CY 2891

 

==="Past Is Prolix"===

"The following statement is false:<br />

The previous statement is true.<br />

Seefra Denizen<br />

CY 10210

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==="The Opposites of Attraction"===

"The hero may find an interval of rest<br />

on the island of the Nymph.<br />

"Tropes of the Ancients"<br />

CY 9857

 

==="Saving Light from a Black Sun"===

"Conceal nothing,<br />

and watch the fools search forever."<br />

Vedran Archives<br />

LOT 0049

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==="Totaled Recall"===

"The door opens.<br />

The edges meet.<br />

A.K.A. "The Mad Persied"<br />

AFC 217

 

==="Quantum Tractate Delirium"===

"Title is not who he is,<br />

the manifestor of what the cannot dream;<br />

Original Progenitor Diatribes<br />

CY 8434

 

==="One More Day's Light"===

"Hubris made the angels of heaven into devils...<br />

And their obstinacy keeps them in hell."<br />

From the Kuruvian Texts<br />

CY 319

 

==="Chaos and the Stillness of It"===

"When events test men, angels then appear."<br />

 

Wayist Verse<br />

CY 1015

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==="The Heart of the Journey, Part 1"===

"I see through you,<br />

now that the cycle of possibilities is infinite,<br />

Seefran Love Song<br />

341-AT9

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==="The Heart of the Journey, Part 2"===

"The cycle of possibilities if fleeting.<br />

The lash of an eye in a hurricane."<br />

Seefran Love Song<br />

341-AT9

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