A hairpin: love, lost, Shadowrun Hong Kong

"I keep this to remind myself of the things we have to give up, in pursuit of what we think is best. But few of us ever really know what it is that we want - not truly.

We simply grasp at mirages that we think will fulfill us.

Humans tie themselves to other people with the most tenuous of strings, thinking love will fill the emptiness inside us. When that fails, we tell ourselves it was not meant to be - that fate, or destiny, would have wrenched us apart.

But that is a convenient lie. It is up to us, and only up to us, to make our futures.

So I feel that it would behoove me to never forget the things I have given up in pursuit of 'the better option.' I do not dwell in the past, nor am I haunted by it, but it would be doing S. a disservice to forget what she wanted for me."

The Singularity Inductor

What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn’t think too much about that.

—Academician Prokhor Zakharov, “For I Have Tasted The Fruit”

Controlled Singularity

Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?

 -- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God"






 “Control the power of black holes”

As engineers quickly discovered, it’s one thing to understand Singularity Mechanics and another thing entirely to attempt Controlled Singularity—harnessing and directing the powers of a black hole. Breakthroughs in Applied Gravitonics finally make this technology possible, with a host of amazing and potent applications, from radical new types of weaponry to global power sources. 

I sit in my cubicle, here on the motherworld. When I die, they will put my body in a box and dispose of it in the cold ground. And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe or laugh or twitch again. So won’t you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment.

 —Anonymous, Datalinks

On the scale where things matter, effective institutions are more valuable than cultures.