It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.