“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
- Heraclitus, Athens, Old Earth, Circa 500 B.C.
Ancient quote from Old Earth but as true in the vast deadly space of New Eden as it was in the killing fields of the Balkan Peninsula, 25,000 years ago.
“I am the punishment of God…If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
- Ghengis Khan, Mongol Empire, Old Earth, Circa 1200 A.D.
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
- Plato, Athens, Old Earth, Circa 400 B.C.
"Come back with your shield - or on it.”
- Leonidas, Sparta, Old Earth Circa 500 B.C.
- Serendipity Lost > life is good
"425mm Vulcan AutoCanno, an elegant weapon from a more civilized age" - unknown galatic warrior from a different age.
"Winter is coming, and when the Long Night falls, only the Night's Watch will stand between the realm and the darkness that sweeps from the North."
- Ned Stark Old Westeros unknow era.