Cutter: I think these guys are more advanced than us.
Vanderbeam: Oh, Cutter. They're wearing bathrobes.
Vanderbeam: Oh, Cutter. They're wearing bathrobes.
— Starslip
"And Voyager will continue on her journey to the gleaming cities of Earth where peace reigns, and hatred has no home."
— Kelis the Poet, Star Trek: Voyager, "Muse"
My father Zor-El took me to see Kandor when I was a little girl. I thought it was the most beautiful place in the world. It wasn't as crowded or noisy as Argo or Kryptonopolis. It was like someone built a garden out of glass and light.
— Supergirl, Supergirl (2011), #12
Aspects: Dazzling Arcologies Reaching Among the Clouds; Planet-sized Protected Parkland; Teeming Societies of the Heartlands; Unseen Undercity Substrates.
— Game-mechanical description of Old Earth in the Mindjammer supplement The Core Worlds
"Whoever wants to foresee the future must first look at the past, and then imagine all that old stuff looking more futurey and space-like."
— Niccolò Machiavelli (supposedly)
Superboy: "Tell me about Argo City. What do you remember?"
Supergirl: "The sound of it. The noise of all the people. It was around you all the time. Buildings like liquid glass and steel."
Supergirl: "The sound of it. The noise of all the people. It was around you all the time. Buildings like liquid glass and steel."
