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Post-apocalypse quotes
Cthulhuvong
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I ended up trolling the forum (no suprise there
) and so I thought I might add some thing that is just for fun. So here is a place to post quotes about post-apocalyptic stuff. I'll start off with a few famous ones add if you think of any that stick to the post-apoc mood.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ~ Albert Einstein
War.
War never changes.
The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth.
Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory.
Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.
But war never changes.
In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired.
Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons.
Petroleum and uranium.
For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.
In 2077, the storm of world war had come again.
In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders.
And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.
A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults.
Your family was part of the group that entered Vault Thirteen.
Imprisoned safely behind the large Vault door, under a mountain of stone, a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world.
Life in the Vault is about to change. ~ Intro to Fallout
War.
War Never Changes.
The end of the world occurred pretty much as we had predicted:
too many humans, not enough space or resources to go around.
The details are trivial and pointless - the reasons, as always, purely human ones.
The earth was nearly wiped clean of life.
A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands quickly raged out of control.
Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies.
Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans.
Humanity was almost extinguished, its birth becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth.
A quiet darkness fell across the planet, lasting many years.
Few survived the devastation.
Some had been fortunate enough to reach safety, taking shelter in great underground vaults.
When the great darkness passed, these vaults opened and the inhabitants emerged to begin their lives again.
One of the northern tribes claims they are descendants from one such vault.
They hold that their founder and ancestor, one known as the vault dweller, once saved the world from a great evil.
According to their legend this evil arose in the far south.
It corrupted all it touched, twisting men inside turning them to beasts.
Only through the bravery of this vault dweller was the evil destroyed, but in so doing he lost many of his friends and suffered greatly; sacrificing much of himself to save the world.
When at last he returned to the home he had fought so hard to protect, he was cast out; exiled.
In confronting that which they had feared, he had become something else in their eyes and no longer their champion.
Forsaken by his people he strode into the wasteland.
He traveled far to the north, until he came to the great canyons.
There he founded a small village, Arroyo, where he lived out the rest of his years.
And so for a generation since its founding, Arroyo has lived in peace; its canyons sheltering it from the outside world.
It is home, your home.
But the scars left by the war have not yet healed and the earth has not forgotten. ~ Intro to Fallout 2
Waiting For: something good
Games Tried: SWTOR, Star Trek Online, EQ, EQ2, Earth and Beyond, Planetside, Lineage 2, Eve Online, WoW, City of Heroes, City of Villians, Auto Assault, Fallen Earth
Star Wars: Galaxies - Ibra Olasi (Valcyn Server) [Dead, screw you SOE]
Comments
This place is full of tree-huggers and tofu fartn' faeries...
"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
Sir Winston Churchill
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which
could support this."
Bertrand Russell
You're quick, I'll give you that.
Never seen a man beat a snake.
Never. Reflexes, that's what you've
got. Me? I've got brains.
Gyrocaptain - Mad Max II
Be still my dog of war. I
understand your pain. We've all
lost someone we love ... But, we do
it my way. Fear is our ally.
After, you can have your revenge.
Humungus - Mad Max II
Both the sort of characters I would like to see in FE.
Definately Thrak
"Your work is to survive. Neither his kind, nor his kind of thinking will survive long. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled - they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from rocks, change is its very nature." ~ The Chrysalids
"Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk. Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, Americaburned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again?" ~ Abbot Dom Zerchi, A Canticle for Leibowitz
Waiting For: something good
Games Tried: SWTOR, Star Trek Online, EQ, EQ2, Earth and Beyond, Planetside, Lineage 2, Eve Online, WoW, City of Heroes, City of Villians, Auto Assault, Fallen Earth
Star Wars: Galaxies - Ibra Olasi (Valcyn Server) [Dead, screw you SOE]
Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
-Lazarus Long
...and I'm not even sure about the former.
http://home.earthlink.net/~phxcmd/quotesmenu.html
Awsome link!
My favorite:
"Two, four, six, eight,
When outgunned, Negotiate."
-Fred the Singing Bandit
I could see myself using almost every "Fred the Singing Bandit" quote while playing fallen earth.
___________________________
The Golden Rule.
Risk vs. Reward
"Human sacrafice; dogs and cats living together....mass hysteria!" -Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
"I'm just here for the gasoline." - Mad Max, Road Warrior
"Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody." - Aunty Entity, Beyond Thunderdome
"In four days, I experianced five seasons. It was thirty - it was sixty - it was ninety - it was twelve. On the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together. And I hadn't done drugs." - Lewis Black
"Don't Panic" - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Waiting For: something good
Games Tried: SWTOR, Star Trek Online, EQ, EQ2, Earth and Beyond, Planetside, Lineage 2, Eve Online, WoW, City of Heroes, City of Villians, Auto Assault, Fallen Earth
Star Wars: Galaxies - Ibra Olasi (Valcyn Server) [Dead, screw you SOE]