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{{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|''I don't know but I've been told''
''([[Sound Off|I don't know but I been told]])
''Deirdre's got a Network Node
''(Deirdre's got a Network Node)
''Likes to press the on-off switch
''(Likes to press the on-off switch)
''Dig that crazy Gaian witch!
''(Dig that crazy Gaian witch!)''
{{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)}}
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{{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|''[[[[Ironic Nursery Tune]] Mary had a little lamb''
''Little lamb little lamb''
''Mary had a little lamb''
''Whose fleece was white as snow.]]''
{{quote|''[[Bawdy Song|A handsome young cyborg named Ace]],
''[[Casanova|Wooed women at every base]],
''But once ladies glanced at his special enhancement,
''They vanished with nary a trace.''
{{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)}}
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{{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|''From the delicate strands,''
''between minds we weave out mesh:''
''a blanket to warm the soul.''
▲a blanket to warm the soul.''|'''Lady Deirdre Skye''', ''"The Collected Poems"'' (Accompanies completion of the Secret Project "The Telepathic Matrix")}}
|'''Lady Deirdre Skye''', ''"The Collected Poems"'' (Accompanies completion of the Secret Project "The Telepathic Matrix")}}
{{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)}}
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{{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|''You waited so long to heed us, earthdeidre,''
''Almost we pruned you, as we may yet prune your branches.''
|'''Lady Deirdre Skye''', ''"Conversations With Planet"'' (Accompanies discovery of the "Secrets of Alpha Centauri" tech)}}
{{quote|''We welcome you, earthdeidre and earthwheat and earthtree as''
''honored guests, for you add great power to our ancient song--''
''planetfungus and planetworm and planetmind sing and play''
''here, and you are welcome among us.''
|'''Lady Deirdre Skye''', ''"Conversation with Planet"'' (Accompanies completion of the Secret Project "The Pholus Mutagen")}}
{{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)}}
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What is the secret of their durability?
Is it because they do not live for themselves
That they endure so long?''
|'''Lao Tzu''', Datalinks (Accompanies discovery of the "Quantum Power" tech)}}
{{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)}}
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{{quote|''We sit together,
the mountain and I,
until only the mountain remains''
|'''Li Po''', from the Yang Collection (Accompanies discovery of the "Environmental Economics" tech)}}
{{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)}}
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{{quote|''Please don't go. The Drones need you. They look up to you.''|[[Guilt Based Gaming|The computer, when you try to quit]]}}
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