Argentum Age - Forest Card

– Printer ink scatters the horizon, as your tape player finally screeches to a grinding, glitchy halt. You have reached the end of the universe, but was it really worth it? Japanese characters your only language, roman busts your only companion? Was it -really- worth it? –

“By the end of the week our homes, businesses and schools were burnt out husks - and so were we.”

“It was hard watching her walk away down that alley with him. But in the end I knew it was for the best - after all, who could keep up with all those maintenance fees a machine like her required?”

“I’m so sick of hearing about natural selection. I couldn’t hear or see until I was three years old - there was no dignity, only pain. frustration and fear. And what about my parents? Can you imagine working 16 hour days in a factory, scrimping and saving like my parents did for over five years, to have a child - a child that comes out defective? How disappointing it must have been! If I had been born in the old republic, my parents would have left me under a tree to die of exposure or worse. 

I was one of the lucky ones. Some religious group covered the cost of my corrective surgery - but it was completely unnecessary - it could have been avoided altogether! 

Pinning all of your hopes and dreams on natural selection is insanity… and if my parents could have afforded testing, much less selection, they would have! We can do better now, and we will do better. Titan will drag the human race kicking and screaming into the 22nd century, if need be.” 

He Wei Cheng - Chairman, Titan Medical Corporation 

“Transhumanism is a funny thing, when you think about it. Someone - an early transhumanist, I think - once said that the human race is an acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. But trees, like all living things, die…

I don’t know about you, but I have no intention of dying… At least not for another few thousand years." 

Oligarch Tabia Aza, Source Co-Founder WIP shots here

Click walked by the makeshift train brothels as quickly as he could, but as soon as he smelled the sweet smells of strong Indica and honeysuckle perfume he knew he was done for.

Oh well, he had the money in his pocket, and he could always find ways to make more…