Voices of Captain Jack's Republic
“08142853:
System 923b Explored via jump from ‘Seepcombe’. Found small, cool yellow-orange star with five main planetary bodies, one habitable (923b-2) at 1.934 AU
Surf-temp: 9 °C (48 °F),
Atmo-Comp: 21-0x, 78-Nit, 1-Other
System notation: It supports life, but I sure as hell don’t want to live here. Recommend auctioning colonization rights to ignorant dirt farmers, if they can be re-tasked to farm ice.”
- From the Geornost Archive
“I respectfully submit to this Senate, that the future of the rim worlds, those worlds so far from our hallowed halls of New Istanbul, lies not with more welfare programs or subsidized golems, but with Education, for by teaching a man, you enrich him in a way money never will. “
- Senator and Marquessa Laura Anne Datta, 3945
“Seal off the bottom levels. We need to put enough on the top most levels to convince people they have found the majority. The rest… we need to seal away. Darkness is coming to the stars, metaphorical, metaphysical and allegorical. We must store now what we will need to see us through winter if we ever see spring.”
- Davad Rhost, 3996, First Provost of Geornost University.
“I require the immediate relinquishment of your material goods for the purposes of redistribution to those goodly men who labor in my employ, with the general intent of vice and debauchery. That means, gimmie yer stuff.”
- Captain Jack of Carelton, circa 4990
“I’ve seen prettier cities, but only when my eyes were closed.”
- Rafiq Ifendi, Kurgan merchant.
"A Republic of Lambs will give rise to a government of Wolves. At least in Geornost, we have a Republic of Wolves and we are still finding out what we get from that.”
- President ‘Captain Jack’ Carelton of the Republic of Marfaren.
"Corrupt officials represent good citizens who do not vote."
- Provost Li Ven Harvari.
“You can judge the soul of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing against him.”
- Ragnok Star-Eyed, Prime Court Justice.
“The only way of ensuring freedom is a strong government capable of maintaining the interests of the free man, and a free man strong enough, educated enough and well enough armed to keep control of that same government.”
- President ‘Captain Jack’ Carelton of the Republic of Marfaren
“I find the most powerful person in Geornost is not Captain Jack, blessed be his name, but those men over there. They are the laborers, the common man. They are legion, and they vote.”
- Rafiq Ifendi, Kurgan merchant.
“There is no slavery so strong as ignorance.”
- Professor Kurtis Green, now used as the Motto for the University of Geornost.
“Thane-men, Phoenix-followers and Caliph-worshippers. We have it all. Taken singly, they are each an interesting people, rational and civilized. Put any two together, and by the Tower, I swear, they are naught but hens in the yard, jostling for status.”
- Joanna of Sargesso, free trader.
“The Light of the Pancreator's love must never be hidden by the shadow of chains.”
- Teya Marie Saint-Saens, Amalthean Bishop of Bannockburn and member of the Keys
“To be forever questing, seeking, to remain unsatisfied, is the foundation of spiritual progress and development.”
- Friar Donald Duvale of the Preceptors, keeper of the Shrine of Horus.