Alliance Quotes

“Say farewell to the Twins. Krakoya system has already fallen to Jahandar’s vanity and Pyotr’s cunning. All that’s left to do is the killing and the dying, as the last tiny warships in the system, four old frigates and 10 jury-rigged police boats, rise to meet the whole Dauran battle fleet. They’re going to sing about this for centuries. They’ll call the ballad, “Death Ride of the Bantams.” They’ll sing sorrowfully and heroically, all together and all at once, of white tokamaks that tore apart the sky. They’ll sit all night in exile until the rise of alien dawns, playing dirges into the night of unfamiliar stars, mourning tens of millions taken by the storms. And hundreds of millions more taken by Shishi to far-off prison moons, or buried in long lime-pits astride killing fields of raped and murdered worlds. So do say a sad farewell to the Twins. Their fate is sealed. Daura is here. Jahandar is here.”
― Kali Altsoba, Alliance: The Orion War

“When the Royal Ambassador of the Three Kingdoms asked the old Dauran Emperor why he allowed the southern neutrals to expire, after fighting for years as their allies, the august monarch replied in the voice of imperial disdain: “Just because we’re allies, doesn’t mean I care.”
― Kali Altsoba, Alliance: The Orion War