Guilt-Free Extermination War/Quotes

Mushi: Please don't kill me, can't you save me? I don't want to die.

Ginko: Give it up.

Mushi: Why must you kill us?

Ginko: Because you kill people's children to survive.

Mushi: But that isn't our fault.

Ginko: It's not our fault either. However, we're stronger than you are, that's why you're going to die without leaving any spores.

—Mushishi

"These beings -- this being -- the Hive is wholly without redemption. When I came out here, I assumed all spacefaring life would be inquisitive and eager to talk. And now I find myself committed to nothing less than genocide. If I find the queen of the Hive, or the nerve center of the being, the single being the murder of which would exterminate the whole, would I do it? I ask myself: could I? And I must answer -- yes. In a heartbeat."

—Don Jose Maria Cordillera, Tour of the Merrimack: The Myriad