- Tyr Anasazi: Well even crippled I would much prefer to assume the offensive than instruct the crew to make peace with their various and sundry dieties!
- Trance Gemini: Dylan, there is a war coming, one that is going to make this battle look like child's play.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: The Magog Worldship.
- Trance Gemini: My people have come to the conclusion that the Commonwealth cannot stop the Magog, but they feel that the Pyrians can.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: You've got to be kidding me. Damn it, Trance, We aren't just pieces in your private game of Go. Now you level with me or quit wasting my time.
- Andromeda Ascendant: What happened to the good old days when ships just broadsided one another?
- Beka Valentine: The steam engine was invented?
- Tyr Anasazi: Shouldn't you be headed to Med deck?
- Trance Gemini: Everything I need is on the Maru.
- Tyr Anasazi: Would you tell me your symptoms?
- Trance Gemini: Dizziness. Confusion. Nausea.
- Tyr Anasazi: Nausea? Trance, you don't have a stomach. In fact, I don't believe I've ever seen you consume more than an alcoholic beverage.
- Trance Gemini: I'm jittery. I feel cold and prickly all over. I can't think straight.
- Tyr Anasazi: Is there anything else?
- Trance Gemini: You can't force me to tell you anything. I don't think it would be wise for you to try now.
- Tyr Anasazi: I'm quite sure you're right. However, I will try, should it ever come to that. Are we understood?
- Trance Gemini: I'd like to go to my room now, be with my plants.
- Tyr Anasazi: Who have you been talking to?
- Trance Gemini: The signals you intercepted were messages home. I was trying to reach my family.
- Tyr Anasazi: And you failed?
- Trance Gemini: No. Worse. I succeeded. What they told me was not good. It's not good at all.
- Andromeda Ascendant: Dylan. I've just been in contact with Vice-Admiral Kosugi, the Commander of the Sabra-Jaguar detachment.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Yeah?
- Andromeda Ascendant: He got the same report we did about the Pyrian movements throughout the known worlds, but he's withdrawing his ships to defend Venceremos.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: And what exactly is he defending against? Oh, Nietzscheans. You know, surprise, surprise. Running away. All right, get this Admiral Kosugi on a comm line for me.
- Andromeda Ascendant: I already told him that you wouldn't approve. Then he quoted me some obscure paragraph of the mutual defence pact.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: All right, you know, just get him anyway, and I'll tell him where he can put his mutual defence pact.
- Azazel: Captain Hunt, as per the terms of the treaty with the first Systems Commonwealth, we wish to open negotiations over the status of all disputed worlds. We await your reply.
- Tyr Anasazi: Who'd have thought that blowing up one planet would bring the big, bad Pyrians to the bargaining table?
- Captain Dylan Hunt: We sent them a message. We'd rather die on our feet than live on our knees. Now the Pyrians know that we are not going to back down from anybody. And I do mean anybody.
- Trance Gemini: Dylan, we're on the same team. We always have been. I need you more than you need me. I trust you.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: It's the other way around, Trance. I need to know I can trust you.
- Trance Gemini: If you don't trust me, then you can send me away.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Send you away... It's all about the fight. The light against the dark, good against evil. Some people hide from it. Some run away.
- Trance Gemini: Some live with it in fear. Some find solace in knowing they've done everything they can.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Some stay and fight. I fight to win.
- Tyr Anasazi: I don't recognize that comm protocol.
- Andromeda Ascendant: Neither do I, which is strange enough, but what is stranger still is that that signal is being sent from inside the Andromeda.
- Tyr Anasazi: Where inside the Andromeda?
- Andromeda Ascendant: I don't know. Whoever sent it covered their tracks well, and it's being broadcast omnidirectionally, so it's impossible to determine who it's being sent to, or why.
- Tyr Anasazi: An unauthorised transmission under battle conditions? The why is immaterial. I have a few thoughts concerning the who.