Iron Prince Quotes

“Luck comes to those who wait. … Or those willing to get up and get shit done.” -ancient Earth proverb”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Did you think you were going to drift through life on talent and hard work? Get up. You’re hardly a failure. You only get to think that of yourself when you stop trying to win.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“You’re gonna be trouble for me,”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Never war for war’s sake. War for the peace that follows.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“hoarse.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“And so I grant thee my life and soul, oh cruel mistress of battle,”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”   -Franklin D. Roosevelt 20th century ruler, Earth     Logan was in the middle of taking on Leda Truant and Tad Emble together when the notification pinged his NOED. He ignored it, bringing Honoris’ haft across his body to smash Truant’s testing spear out of the way so hard that she actually staggered sideways, opening her right flank up to him. He would have liked to take advantage of the chance, but needed to instead bring the axe around and keep Tad at bay as the Brawler closed in on his left. Leda recovered, and the spear slashed at Logan’s legs, now. He stepped into the arc of the strike, letting the haft of the weapon—rather than the blade—smack him along the back of his newly armored foreleg and ping off harmlessly, all while swinging Honoris around at the Phalanx’s head. Leda ducked, but it wasn’t her who was the actual target of the move. Tad, seeing his chance, darted in once more, punch-daggers driving forward. Logan’s steel-clad fist—the one he’d released from the massive axe’s shaft once the momentum of his swing had been enough to carry it through—took the smaller boy in the side of the head before he could land a hit.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Being able to run faster than most people doesn’t make me any more likely to outrun a horse, does it?”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“It is not his victories that make a man. It is his defeats.” - Golden Child”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“It’s a strange thing to contemplate, honestly. There’s jealousy. Jealousy at the fact that there are fighters out there who have something that pushes them in a way I lack. At the same time, though… I can’t imagine what life must have been like for them—what struggles they each must have gone through in their own way—to need to outrun their old lives with such absolute desperation…” -”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Occam’s razor: when you hear hoofbeats, think horse, not zebras.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Modern medicine is no miracle. There is yet no money to be made in ridding the world of disease. We may have come a long way from the old ways of corruption and greed in the mega-corporations of the early millennium, but mankind has not yet evolved into a civilization capable of surviving on cyclical charity. I used to think this fair, used to think this a price worth paying for the treatments and tools we do have at our fingertips. After watching the Stormweaver rise these last years, however, I am forced to consider just how many great talents and brilliant minds our species has sacrificed over the centuries to illness and disease we ‘couldn’t be bothered’ to address…”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“I find the stories irritating, in their own right. They so often paint the
image of some lone hero, some singular legend left to his solitary climb,
bearing on his own the building hardships of a violent life.
It’s all ludicrous. It’s not even that I never would have made it alone.
I never would have even taken the first step up…”

- The Stormweaver”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“It is not his victories that make a man. It is his defeats.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“if you make it, remember that good friends can be hard to find in the world you’re about to share.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“don’t think you get to pull that kind of shit in my group without consequence.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt 20th century ruler, Earth”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“It is surreal for me to look back and consider even my small, brief role in his ascension…” - Christopher “Lasher” Lennon, S-Rank Knight-Class”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“6) Genetic correction - a repairing of individual DNA imperfections, resulting in varied positive physiologic changes over time.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“5) Osteopathic integrity maintenance - increased density and size of skeletal tissue, allowing the body to bear the stress of CAD use and combat.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“4) Oxygen de-dependency - reduced dependency on blood-supplied oxygen, sharply increasing muscular and mental endurance.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“3) Cross-density optimization - reassignment of trained muscular and tendon growth for strength and speed, allowing for significantly improved levels of physical power and agility.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“2) Synaptic override - artificial synaptic replacement in the limbs and core muscle groups, reducing delay between thought and action.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“1) Neuroline - synthetic axonal growth in the white and grey matter of the brain and spinal column, allowing for significant improvements in mental faculties while a User’s Cognition spec is applied.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“List the 7 CAD-Types. Brawler Mauler Lancer Saber Duelist Phalanx A-Type”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“CAD-specific specs include: 1) Offense - measurement of a CAD’s direct offensive power. 2) Defense - measurement of a CAD’s total defensive ability. 4) Growth - measurement of a CAD’s ability to adapt and upgrade itself and its User over time with input of combat information.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“User-specific specs include: 1) Strength - measures a User’s physical ability to push, pull, lift, carry, and throw weight. 2) Endurance - measures a User’s physical ability to perform strenuous activity without fatiguing. 3) Speed - measures a User’s physical movement and reaction speed. 4) Cognition - measures a User’s speed of cognitive information processing, and amount of information able to be processed at once. Due to concerns over long-term cerebral damage, Cognition is only active when deliberately applied, most commonly during a CAD-call.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“The values of 9 to 0 are applied as sub-rankings to the Ranks of A through F, with an A9-Ranked individual being the highest-level User before achieving S-Rank, and F0 being the weakest. In the S-Ranks, however, sub-rankings are applied using a Class system derived from the game of chess. In descending order, these Classes are: King/Queen (depending on the gender identity of the User), then Rook, Knight, Bishop, and Pawn.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince

“Luck comes to those who wait. … Or those willing to get up and get shit done.”
― Bryce O'Connor, Iron Prince