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“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet,”
Sun Tzu’s The Art of War and Michael Ragan’s Tactics & Strategy Unchained.
‘On your death bed, you’re visited by the person you could have been.’
‘A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what a ship is made for.’
Fear wasn’t something you could control, not really. You could only control how you reacted to it.
Dryker realized not every ship was heading for the sun. Roughly a third had stayed, and were helping the Void Wraith finish off Primo vessels too slow to reach the Helios Gate.
One of the odd tendencies the humans practiced was beating individuality out of their soldiers. Tigris were the opposite; they promoted the boldest individuals.
most simple strategies were often the most effective. Commanders who attempted complex tactics usually broke when they faced those who perfectly executed something simpler.
It shocks me that they wouldn’t have changed the code after he broke in the last time.” “You do not understand our culture, Lena,” T’kon’s gravelly voice came through the comm. “Do you change your holy texts? The password has been passed from techsmith to techsmith for generations. If the secret is discovered, they don’t change the secret. They kill the people who learned it.”
It was a welcome change from working with humanity, who had all these rules about where and when you could kill an opponent. Duels were outlawed. How unthinkably barbaric.
The certainty of death offers a powerful focus.”
Lieutenant Hannan
“Sometimes doing what is right is difficult, but the price of doing otherwise is much higher.”
