ATLAS 3 Quotes

“Pain was indeed an illusion. The only reason living things had pain receptors was because of the self-preservation mechanism: Any actions that inflicted pain were to be avoided”
― Isaac Hooke, ATLAS 3

“I just thought of something,” Manic said, growing pale. “You say these are ‘teleporters’? But what if the source disc actually destroyed us, while the destination disc reconstructed our bodies? And we only think we’ve been teleported, when in actuality we’ve been cloned—our bodies and neural imprints duplicated down to the molecular level to make us believe we’re the same people—but our original selves, the bodies containing our actual souls, are dead!”
― Isaac Hooke, ATLAS 3

“These glowing entities were utterly alien to anything humankind had ever encountered. Known in official circles as species X25910, they were nicknamed Phants by the rest of us. Gaseous in the heatless and pressureless void of space, liquid in Earthlike environments, they were seemingly invulnerable. Phants had a peculiar ability to possess human-developed Artificial Intelligences, from those found in combat robots such as Centurions all the way up to the main AIs found aboard supercarriers such as the Gerald R. Ford. Phants could also incinerate human beings on contact, jumpsuits and all, though most of them, colored blue, moved too slowly to be of much threat in that regard. Purple Phants, however, moved very fast. It was a purple Phant that had killed my best friend and platoon brother Alejandro. There were red Phants, too, which were capable of possessing a human in a process known as “integration,” whereby cybernetic components were grafted into the skulls and spines of a host.”
― Isaac Hooke, ATLAS 3