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Alina "Cupcake" Ison

An operations officer in the Prime Galactic Navy, Ison hails from a planet of peace, prosperity, and politeness where almost everyone is super nice. You ever see Demolition Man?

First Appearance: The Prize Page 10

Archive

I spent a semester in Africa harpooning giraffes, and giraffes are basically land space whales.'

The Prize Page 10

Wealth is too precious to be entrusted to the rich.'

The Prize Page 12

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cry of strange birds and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?'

The Prize Page 14

No you fool, we're following orders. We were told to comb the desert so we're combing it.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 1

Space calls out to humans. And the earth tries to pull us back down, saying that what we are doing is wrong...'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 2

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 3

It was his job to do his job, which was to do his job.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 4

At least we've got it stopped.' 'Yeah, as long as the Arctic stays cold.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 5

A somewhat flippant title, perhaps, but not without foundation! I have conquered the diseases that brought their victims here.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 6

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 7

The door dilated.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 9

Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 11

Well done. Well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark.'

Christmas 2014 Part 3

Right now, Captain, my time is running out. We leave so many things unfinished in our lives... I know you understand.'

New Year39s 2014 Part 1

Attention, people of Earth! Attention, people of Earth! This is Krankor Exploration Force speaking!'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 15

How could something as big as Atlantis just sink?' 'I'm sure the passengers on the Titanic were asking themselves the same question.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 20

Don't Blink. Blink and you're dead.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 21

Even dogs have dreams, but not you. You are just a machine.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 22

This love, what is it? How do you express it?'

Valentine39s Day 2015 Part 2

Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 24

Out here in space, no one is completely independent. We all depend on one another.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 25

To me it is quite credible that the Martians may be descended from beings not unlike ourselves, by a gradual development of brain and hands (the latter giving rise to the two bunches of delicate tentacles at last) at the expense of the rest of the body. Without the body the brain would, of course, become a mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the human being.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 26

I'm talking to an alien? In hospital?! What, has this place got an E.T. department?'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 27

Every man's got his own honor and ethics, and so long as he sticks to 'em, who's anybody else to point the finger? You may not like his ethics, but you've no right to call him unethical.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 28

I know how alone you feel... alone in all that cold blackness... but I'm there in the dark with you.'

The Seat Of Your Pants Page 29

All my life, I have been responsible only for myself. When I risked, I risked alone to avoid making others pay the price for my mistakes. They want me to show them another way. What if I show them the wrong way? What if they come to me not because of the lesson, but because of the teacher?'

Casinopeia Cover

Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.'

Casinopeia Page 1

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.'

Casinopeia Page 2

I was cheating. I was using my brain, which is something the average run-of-the-mill customer stopped doing a long time ago.'

Casinopeia Page 3

Nah, this is nothing. A little trigonometry, some minor wrist action.'

Casinopeia Page 4

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.'

Casinopeia Page 6

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open.'

Casinopeia Page 9

There is an old Klingon proverb: "Revenge is a dish best served cold." And it is very cold in space.

Casinopeia Page 18

Plain old human stubbornness, I guess. When something we value is destroyed, we rebuild it. If it's destroyed again, we rebuild it again. And again, and again, and again, until it stays.'

100th Update Special

We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure.'

The Big Race Page 24

An animal may be cunning and ferocious enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Humans are almost always lonely.'

Big Trouble Page 6

Whether we are based on carbon or silicon makes no fundamental difference. We should each be treated with appropriate respect.'

Let39s Bee Friends Again

Thinking you know why you behave as you do gives you all sorts of excuses for extraordinary behavior.

Past The Edge Page 1

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.'

Past The Edge Page 3

Children, your performance in the school fundraiser was pathetic. Your parents will receive phone calls instructing them to love you less.'

Past The Edge Page 4

I never get furious. As we say in fencing, "What's the point?"

Past The Edge Page 6

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better.'

Past The Edge Page 8

Soldiers don't like to lose. And that is why losing is a much more powerful teacher than winning.'

Past The Edge Page 9

You must be so EMBARRASSED! Do me! Do me, do me!

Past The Edge Page 11

A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.'

Past The Edge Page 13

I can't even begin to tell you how fascinating this is. "Anthropologist fascinating, or actual fascinating?"

Past The Edge Page 15

I've always thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin, and his vice president has several. This to me is not a good combination.

Now You39re A Man Pt 1

Soon, all of us will have special names â€” names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate.

Party All The Time Part 1

Boy, do I hate being right all the time.

Party All The Time Part 2

What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!

Party All The Time Page 11

Being in one place is very natural where we come from. "I find this all quite absorbing, Doctor." "Probably because you're not very natural to begin with, Spock."

I'm Garrus Vakarian, and this is my favorite spot on the Citadel!

Hammy, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about firepower.

Combat is not a spectator sport.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

It is possible that judgment was incorrect. Your associates are people of good character.

The greatest treasures of all, Mister Land, are a sound mind and a full belly. I hope you remember that before stooping to pick up pennies.

Once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.'

Well Need To Operate

Are you kidding? It's war up there! "Oh, save the whales, but not the universe, huh?"

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

Terran Thanks Feast 2024