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The Curator: [The Engimatic Fortress] is the kind of absurd, massive and self-perpetuating construction that you don't see built anymore. Maybe that is for the best.
Player: Any structure can be destroyed.
The Curator: The Fortress has been defeated before, but it always recovers. Some of the ancient empires of this galaxy have been driven nearly or entirely mad failing to unlock its deeper secrets or even permanently destroy it. It appears so focused on maintaining itself that it's doubtful if it has any other serious purpose.

Kirk: Bones, there's a thing out there.
McCoy: Why is anything we don't understand always called a thing!?

Tagon: Well, at that point we were inside the biggest space station known to anybody.
Sorlie: And you're going to use Jumpstar Prime to build a city inside it.
Tagon: There's plenty of room. Also, it rains a lot.
Kevyn: Tell her about the hurricanes.

"Maxim 24: any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a really big gun"

"Prepare your mind for a new scale of physical scientific values, gentlemen."
Dr. Morbius, Forbidden Planet


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