Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''[[Red Alert|The klaxon began to wail]], but [[Hope Spot|we felt the reassuring tingle of the Tachyon Field crackling to life around us]], [[Some Kind of Force Field|encasing the entire base in its impenetrable glow]].'' |'''Spartan Kel''', ''"[[Foregone Conclusion|The Fall of Sparta]]"''}}

{{quote|''[[Humans Are Warriors|Man has killed man from the beginning of time]], and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die. Why should the future be different?''|'''Col. Corazon Santiago''' "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide" (Accompanies discovery of the "Advanced Military Algorithms" tech)}}

{{quote|''Air power rests at the apex of the first triad of victory, for it combines Mobility, Flexibility, and Initiative.'')|'''Spartan Battle Manual''' (Accompanies discovery of the "Doctrine: Air Power" tech)}}

{{quote|''He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.''|'''Spartan Kel''', ''"Honing the Ki"'' (Accompanies discovery of the "Doctrine: Flexibility" tech)}}

{{quote|''I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing to listen. These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering. Can a planet be said to have achieved sentience?''|'''Lady Deirdre Skye''', Arguments in Council (Accompanies completion of the Secret Project "The Xenoempathy Dome")}}

{{quote|''You are the children of a dead planet, earthdeirdre, and this death we do not comprehend. We shall take you in, but may we ask this question--will we too catch the planetdeath disease?''|'''Lady Deirdre Skye''', ''"Conversations With Planet"'' (Accompanies discovery of the "Advanced Ecological Engineering" tech)}}

{{quote|''No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.''|'''Lady Deirdre Skye''', ''"Conversations With Planet"'', Epilogue (Accompanies completion of the Secret Project "[[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|Ascent to Transcendance]]", which ends the game)}}

{{quote|''Planet's atmosphere, though a gasping death to humans and most animals, is paradise for Earth plants. The high nitrate content of the soil and the rich yellow sunlight bring an abundant harvest wherever adjustments can be made for the unusual soil conditions.''|'''Lady Deirdre Skye''', ''"A Comparative Biology of Planet"'' (Accompanies discovery of the "Centauri Ecology" tech)}}

What is the secret of their durability?

Is it because they do not live for themselves

{{quote|''The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.''|'''Saint Augustine''', ''"Confessions"'' (Accompanies discovery of the "Cyberethics" tech)}}

{{quote|''We sit together,

the mountain and I,

{{quote|''Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.''|'''[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]''', ''"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"'', Datalinks (Accompanies discovery of the "Homo Superior" tech)}}

{{quote|''Please don't go. The Drones need you. They look up to you.''|[[Guilt Based Gaming|The computer, when you try to quit]]}}