Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Ashkera]

"The government has very kindly demanded that we cease applying score points to mass shooters and other catastrophes. As of twelve minutes ago, the complete roster and scoring algorithm have been removed, and are now classified as banned information. Possession may result in prison time. We are now only allowed to apply score points to vigilantes stopping mass shooters, cops stopping criminals, and the like. So, with that in mind, here is the video of an Ashkeran guardsman on vacation facing down three armed robbers in Franconia."
- host of The Daily Damage, with visible prop gun to his head held by a comrade off-screen

"Are you kidding? I'd much rather read about a time war than politics."
"But a time war between nations IS politics!"
- two Ashkerans, one expressing the learned Ashkeran disdain for politics

[Nouvelle Beusuandille]

"You know, one day I am going to climb your mountain."

"I will devour you that day, noble king."

"Perhaps." - part of a conversation between King Roland de Selene and the Voice of Naga.

[Greater Mackonia]

"A few individuals have attempted 'Singularity', spending billions on mind-bogglingly complex machines running on quantum mechanics and powered by fusion reactors for the soul purpose of uploading the sentient mind. Many Cyrzarii saw it as a way to escape 'The Fate', the natural madness which comes to Cyrzarii with age...They did not, even when degraded to digits and fans, the madness reached them--however whereas most Cyrzarii die from physical decay or destruction in the process of their madness, these 'transsentients', being indestructible, were cursed. They just slipped further into total madness, spouting thousands of terrabytes of meaningless data per second into the internet...However the few that are now totally incapacitated now hunger to return to mortal form. 'Possession' is not an involuntary act, its a contract, they lure the desperate and the stupid to 'swap places' with the ghost in the machine, the possessed uploads his brain to a tertiary computer, then the Ghost imprints itself on his and he takes its place."

-Dr Shavnur Thenoskal, on Mackonian 'Ghosts'.

[The Ethereal One]

"Spin genetic strand backward? No. Inside-out Muton. Not efficient." - Sectoid #2878-C, thinking up new ways to improve the Ethereal's armies.

"There are thingsss in thisss galaxy, that you do not wish to interfere with." - "Richard Davidson", a Thin Man agent upon being discovered in 1988. This was but a year prior to the first invasion of Earth.

"NOW LET ME SEE YOUR WAR FACE"
"AAAAAAA"
"BULLSHIT YOU DIDNT CONVINCE ME"
- Chaggin Twistcrush, a Muton Elite yelling at a Snakeman soldier.

[Dominated Earth]

"Why fight honorably when you can have a gun?"

- Seth Arms advertisement for civilian issue self defense firearms

[Greater Mackonia]

_{"The weapon used in a Duel strictly corresponds to the purpose of the duel. Gunfights are always to the death, for whatever purpose that death might serve. Swordfights are strictly non-lethal to serve the purpose of defending one's honour or establishing supremacy, these are typically called 'word-duels' as they are almost always in response to slander or boasting. Clawfights are for mating and can be lethal."}

-Eleanor White, Mackologist.

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"Kl'ror vathi is a massive fungal construct which sustains itself by growing around other life forms...it makes the perfect prison camp. Prisoners are simply thrown to the sticky walls and gradually digested over years, the Klror keeps its prey alive by injecting them with nutrients to ease the growing process. Visually...its hard to explain...Imagine a giant transluscent intestine made out of leaf-skeleton...Many have tried to escape...the Kloror just chases after them, the entire structure literally reassembles itself and migrates after the hormones."

-Fyx, Sskisto-streth assassin.

[Allancia]

"Dad, can I be a Mackologist when I grow up?
What in King Hell's ass is a Machologist?
Mackologist, dad.
Wait, is it one of those damn Mackonians? Son, I keep telling you, our government thinks they're the shit, but I don't."

-A seven year-old boy and his father

[Auzkhia]

"More people will say that Beer is more of Auzkhian value than democracy."
-Johann Rot Apfel, Farmer

[Barboneia]

"Postman Pat, Postman Pat, beats his cat with a baseball bat!"

"Oi, that's not how the song goes."

"It is in my version."-Officer Dennis Cromwell and a fellow Vespero Police Officer.

[Greater Mackonia]

"The procedure is rarely used, largely because the sadists are never promoted high enough to afford to do this kind of shit and it is unreliable as a genuine interrogation method given that the subject is usually rendered insane: Various drugs combined with minor electrical discharges stimulate the neural pathways in the brain responsible for nightmares. This goes on for an indefinite amount of time while the subject is waking."

-Dr Shavnur Thenoskal, on torture procedures.

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"Science cannot give any definite meaning to life, life necessarily encompasses totality and sentient life the totality of potential. Science by its nature can only deal with contextualised causes and effects which when taken out of their respective contexts just lead to a circular regression. Science is not inherently rational, you need only trawl through the newspaper and gaze upon "Lesbians make better mothers!", "Intelligent people have broad faces!", "Being alone for more than 2 weeks causes depression!", "Psychopaths yawn less!"*, "Is your dog giving you cancer?", "Are your children giving you cancer?", "Oral sex causes cancer", "Cornflakes causes cancer" and "House prices plummet due to gay imm-Oh heh, read onto the next article, bloody Mail. Anyway Science is a wonderful tool and among our truest friends in this dark universe, but it cannot save us, only make our crucifixes more comfortable."

-T.M Rasmarth-Myrzeroth. *up to this point these are paraphrased but wholly genuine I shit thee not.

[Bojikami]

"War, war has indeed changed. Where once there was honour in dying in battle, there is now fear of such death. Why? Because due to firearms, a man can kill you from a great distance, before you are even able to counter. Must we live in a world where men must live on their knees, out of fear of being killed by some unseen murderer? This is not a world I would wish to live in."
-Ulagchi Morokha, Bojikamiian general prior to his suicide after losing the battle of Uliastai, 1615

[Auzkhia]

"Jakob? It says here that carrots can cure cancer."

"Really?"

"But what would give you cancer?"

"I thought it was tomatoes, or was it rising home prices?"

"Or was it immigrants that give you cancer. No, but immigrants do house prices. I'm confused."

-Two elderly stallions reading dubiously satirical newspapers

[Greater Mackonia]

"Ya' see Mr Mythurin, all these foreigners have put nasty little tickers advertising their newspapers! So I've proposed one for our own sig!"

"Let us see it then, Mr Nyrthaas..."

PAEDOPHILE GANGS IN ISLAMIST SCHOOLS PLOT/ MIGRATION STORM FUELS MASSIVE HOUSE PRICE BUBBLE/ HOW WILL THE CRIMEA CRISIS EFFECT YOUR PENSION?/ TED HEATH BEHIND "MADDIE" COVER-UP/ WAS PRINCESS DIANA ASSASSINATED BY BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS?/ GAYS CLAIM BENEFITS FOR CANCEROUS CABBAGES/ LORD ROTHERMERE ''I'M A TRUE FRENCHMEN ME''/ BARBECUE SUMMER HURRICANE EXPECTED TO RUIN HOLIDAYS FOR MILLIONS/ GORDIEVKSY LATEST: KGB 'CERTAINLY HAD CONTACT WITH ED MILIBAND'. "

-Conversation at the Shalostiir.

[Fatatatutti]

"Trek!"
-- Colonel Jan DeVries, CO Oranje Regiment, leading elements of his command into the bush

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"But sire, by your definition of technophobia 90% of my land's people are technophobes! What are you going to do? Genocide?

"Just, educate them...If that fails, we'll consider using physical methods."
-a leader of a 1970s tech nation and PLAYER.

"In Civ XI, the Spess Pruhgrum is more than just building parts...it basically turns into Kerbal Space Program and you need to try more than once in order to get to Moon let alone alpha centauri or andromeda galaxy. Hell, researching all the techs don't even give you all the parts. But install a GShGM and everything should be fine."
-AI

"This...can not be possibly real. A spacecraft equipped with 16 GShGMs from the Mechanocracy broke Mach 40 in a minute and reached the satellite of the planet it took off from in 25 minutes??!! Just how many deaths and how many rounds did they spend?"
-AI

[The Andromeda Confederation]

"May we never forget those who have brought us here. The ethereal hand that guided us on our journey to transcendence and glory. Cut down by fools, who could not possibly grasp the knowledge of them. They felt entitled to their emotion, so they destroyed beauty. They destroyed sapience. They destroyed my love. There are forces out there greater than ours who will not hesitate to destroy us. This is evident in their tragic loss. We all lose when the hammer strikes. Some lose more than others."

-Vox

[Barboneia]

"Will you get down from that fucking tree?"

"Hey, wanna come up this fucking tree? I'll fight you, faggot."-Two Barboneian soldiers, 1884.

[Imperial Paleoworld Germania]

"I miss the days when Generals commanded their armies in close observation of the battle, not tens of thousands of miles away from it. The days when Kings rode alongside their troops, not hide away in bunkers and cozy palaces far removed from the fight. War has changed indeed and not for the better."
~ A two hundred-year-old Hessian reminiscing

[Auzkhia]

"An Admiral never won a battle on the shore."
-Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Royal Württemberg Army 1945

[Las Palmeras]

I miss the days where there were actual rules in war. Where at most only a village was razed from existence if the game-ritual got too carried away and paint was one of the only few things which separated us from all the other beasts. Anything else is out of touch, far too separate from actual roots."
-No Name

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"In New Guinea and the Amazons mainly, the 20th Century's anthropologists mentioned the relation and differences of 'Game' and 'Ritual'; a defined set of rules which were an end in themselves as a way to get by. For some, killing as an overenthusiastic sport and ease of inter-group tensions. And the marked point where two supposed opposing factions were unsatisfied when introduced to football, only calling it a day when both tied and disrupted the advantage-disadvantage ploy of winners and losers to become participants in a 'balance' which turned the event into Ritual. The circular-magical mind of a peoples still in the Neolithic; we could sympathize. The history periods here went from Neolithic stage to Feudal and then Industrial. Reality is so confusing in our eyes..."
-???

[Multiversal Domanaeii]

"War is coming."

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• anon. Domanaeii Probe, to an interstellar FT civilization.

[The Ethereal One]

"The fate of humanity was decided by the ancients long before they ever looked to the stars. A pity, they have so much potential, all wasted by stubbornness."

[Las Palmeras]

"It was laurel green, not Khaki. But the same canvas sun helmet applied...typical 'Safari' gear. Like somethin' outta a Kipling novel. The man fancied himself like Henry M. Stanley, but with no tik-tik flies around, or jungles, or much of anything big. How that was shipped here we have no idea. But we'd really have to be more like Amundsen or something. We're down here at least. He suggested I be Nobu Shirase."
-Magda Zorilla Nagi, on the Cosettes *Though I mentioned it in the previous one, for reference the "Cosette" Islands are a composite of the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"May we never forget those who have brought us here. The ethereal hand that guided us on our journey to transcendence and glory. Cut down by fools, who could not possibly grasp the knowledge of them. They felt entitled to their emotion, so they destroyed beauty. They destroyed sapience. They destroyed my love. There are forces out there greater than ours who will not hesitate to destroy us. This is evident in their tragic loss. We all lose when the hammer strikes. Some lose more than others."

-Vox

"How in the fuck does Vox post every time after I post?"
-PLAYER

"I don't concern myself with deep, 'philosophical' words. These are just elaborate attempts to glorify horrible personalities. I could still use leetspeak and y0u p30pl3 w1ll 571ll und3r574nd."
-PLAYER

[Las Palmeras]

"I don't concern myself with deep, 'philosophical' words. These are just elaborate attempts to glorify horrible personalities. "
-PLAYER

Congrats. You described José and his mom for me far shorter than I could ever have dreamed of.

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"Maybe I should stop looking up to Nabokov..."
-A sorry person