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• Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant.
  Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse....
• And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary governme
  from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls Planet....
• Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely.
  Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth....
• We estimate that during the next mission century most of Planet's industries will be moved off-planet to Nessus Prime and other orbital facilities.
  Many of our industries will benefit greatly from the low gravity environments available in space, particularly those involving genetically engineered microbes....
• Some civilian workers got in among the research patients today and became so hysterical I felt compelled to have them nerve stapled.
  The consequence, of course, will be another public relations nightmare, but I was severely shaken by the extent of their revulsion towards a project so vital to our survival....
• Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future.
  By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright?...
• Energy is the currency of the future.
  -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly...
• Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say that Superconducting Fiber alone makes our present economy possible.
  -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview...
• Our first challenge is to create an entire economic infrastructure, from top to bottom, out of whole cloth.
  No gradual evolution from previous economic systems is possible, because there IS no previous economic system....