Rando Splicer Quotes

“All lost, because one of the galaxy’s many life forms saw all the others as resources to be consumed. It was an attitude all life began with. Some grew out of it.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“The property even had a pool, though it had been neglected, and filling it, and keeping the water suitable for entertainment purposes, had literally become a military exercise occupying the best brains on the ship. Erik”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“The tavalai were always hard to hate. Some managed it, but those were always the people with too much emotion and not enough brains. Officers like that are dangerous, they got their people killed. I didn’t want to be like them.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“It was enough to make a person suspicious. Spending too much time around Styx could do that to anyone.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“All species had some degree of xenophobia hardwired into their brains, even toward aliens they’d come to like. But just as one couldn’t be brave in the absence of fear, neither could one be tolerant in the absence of genuine difference.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“In times of conflict, everyone retreated to their most tribal positions.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“When civilisation declined, it was the women who always suffered most.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“And from those ancestors, you will find a greatness buried deep within yourself that you did not even know existed.” “You think?” Skah asked, breathlessly. “I know,” said the croma.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer

“The problem with looking at so much history from such a distance is that everything gets so crowded. Things are complicated in every period — you step back too far to get a generalised picture and you lose all the important, deciding details. Zoom in too far to get the detail and you’ll get lost in complexity and never find your way out.”
― Joel Shepherd, Rando Splicer