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Legion in Exile (Imperium of Terra Book 2) Legion in Exile by Evan Currie
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“Humans are masters of cognitive dissonance; our brains still haven’t evolved much past our primitive roots. Your subconscious can’t really tell the difference between being proven wrong and being physically assaulted, we psychologically react the same way to both… we shore up our defenses and get ready for a fight. It’s just how people are.”
Evan Currie, Legion in Exile
“Humans, however, were evolved for many things with pattern recognition being one of the foremost. If there was a pattern out there and you set a human to find it, odds on they’d succeed. Of course, if there wasn’t a pattern, they’d probably find one anyway. Evolution had erred on the side of false positives, since spotting a tiger that wasn’t there was a lot better than missing one that was. In this case, however, the tiger was there.”
Evan Currie, Legion in Exile
“Kier wasn’t generally much for heroics. In his opinion, heroes were fools at worst, poor bastards at best. By definition, they only showed up when someone else had completely fucked everything up, after all, and then they proceeded to throw themselves into the grinder to rectify that other person’s mistake.”
Evan Currie, Legion in Exile
“Heavy accelerator cannons didn’t really care if you were a kilometer away or a lightyear, if they struck, they’d ruin your day.”
Evan Currie, Legion in Exile
“The enemy stands before us. Make them fall.” “With pleasure.”
Evan Currie, Legion in Exile
“People don’t fit into nice binary solutions. Ones and zeroes are for computers, not people. People… are full spectrum analog.”
Evan Currie, Legion in Exile