Comments on: WIN: Sins Of A Solar Empire

By: renegade ninja

renegade ninja — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:52:31 +0000

okay for all you browncoats out there
“I aim to misbehave” Malcom Reynolds
Firefly

By: Oli

Oli — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:09:23 +0000

“How many archeologists carry weapons on them?” – Jack O’Neill
“Well… I do!” – Daniel Jackson
“Ok, wrong example” -O’Neill
(i had to put that because of the earlier stargate quote I read here :P)

but mine would be
“Time to go and find this “Redship Rory”… Sheesh, did his mama really name him “Redship”?” – Bruce Campbell as Jake Logan in Tachyon

By: jakeo

jakeo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:59:16 +0000

Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet.
Buried alive!
Khan!
-Star Trek 2 the wrath of Kahn

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:11:03 +0000

Anyone know when the winners will be announced?

Thanks!
-J

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:18:31 +0000

Mine were more embarassing, I assure you. I confused Asimov with Clarke, for one thing.

These authors all look alike, anyway.

By: Dagda

Dagda — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:26:06 +0000

Same here. Unless a narrator counts as dialogue.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:37:38 +0000

I’ve just realised I made not one, not seven, but TWO embarassing errors with my submission. Let’s gloss quietly over this.

By: what must be done

what must be done — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:53:43 +0000

“I knew it, I’m surrounded by assholes!”
-Spaceballs

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.”
-Genesis

By: Call me Ishmael

Call me Ishmael — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:02:09 +0000

“Undomesticated equines could not remove me.” – Teal’c
“Wild horses, Teal’c. That was a joke…” – Jack O’neill

By: Emperor Dano

Emperor Dano — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:39:26 +0000

so when does the contest end?

By: Sradac

Sradac — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:02:22 +0000

“…So harry began feelin around on all the trees. And he said, Well I think we’re on pluto. So I said, but harry how can you tell? By the bark you dummies! By the bark!!”

By: maheshjr2004

maheshjr2004 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:58:38 +0000

Jeff has inspired me to post WH40k stuff

* Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. Those who understand realize that you have no right to let them live…
o – Officio Exterminatum In Exterminatus Extremis

* In an Imperium of a million worlds, what is the death of one world in the cause of purity?
o Inquisition credo

* The enemies of the Emperor fear many things. They fear discovery, defeat, despair and death. Yet there is one thing they fear above all others. They fear the wrath of the Space Marines.
o Anonymous
Why not arm the bastards and have them win us a few bloody worlds between the verses?!

* Leman Russ on Remembrancers

* Only in the Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes are courage and expertise perfectly blended. In other troops they are present in varying degrees and proportions, and many scholars have debated their relative merits.
For my own part, I come down on the side of courage. For courage makes a virtue of inexperience. I myself have commanded Imperial Guard troops whose probitor units have achieved great things, because their courage was infinite and because they were too inexperienced to realise that their goal was impossible.
o Leman Russ, De Natura Belli Book XIV

* After the orbital strikes, Thunderhawk bombardments, Whirlwinds, Vindicators, fusion and starfire and finally Battle Brothers with flamers had finished cleansing the world of all the enemies of Man, we built a monastery in the center of the largest, most radioactive impact crater. We named the planet “Tranquility”, for it was very quiet now.
o Brother Vlad Carthas

* To admit defeat is to blaspheme against the Emperor.
o Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines

* Do not ask, ‘Why kill the alien?’
Rather ask, ‘Why not?’
o Battle Brother Artemis of the Deathwatch
Next up FIREFLY

Addenum: Starship Troopers
* With national governments in collapse at the end of the XXth century, something had to fill the vacuum, and in many cases it was the returned veterans. They had lost a war, most of them had no jobs, many were sore as could be over the terms of the Treaty of New Delhi, especially the P.O.W. foul-up – and they knew how to fight. But it wasn’t revolution; it was more like what happened in Russia in 1917 – the system collapsed; somebody else moved in. The first known case, in Aberdeen, Scotland, was typical. Some veterans got together as vigilantes to stop rioting and looting, hanged a few people (including two veterans) and decided not to let anyone but veterans on their committee. Just arbitrary at first – they trusted each other a bit, they didn’t trust anyone else. What started as an emergency measure became constitutional practice in a generation or two. (Pg. 179)