Max Eilerson quotes from Crusade

Eilerson

Nations rise and fall. Planets live and die. But corporations go on, through good times and bad, because it's all about profit.

Max Eilerson

[to Gideon] Must be difficult for you, being a career military officer, having to play the roles of jailer, ferryman, executioner. That's where we're different. I just do what I'm told. The corporation knows all, sees all, and tells very little. If we make a bad call, we can honestly say that we've acted in good conscience based on the information available. Absolution in absentia, the blessed state of being able to say, "It's not my fault."

Max Eilerson

I try to never upset someone who's at the helm of a rapidly falling object when I'm in it.

Max Eilerson

One man's lunatic is another man's saint or holy martyr. In the words of T.S. Eliot, "Saint and martyr rule from the tomb."

Eilerson

I can appreciate dramatic irony as much as the next person, but this is pushing it a bit.

Eilerson

Never a Rosetta Stone when you need one.

Eilerson

I say we find out what the problem is, take care of it. I believe blowing it up is the usual solution to these things. And then we go back for the rest, and avenge the untimely death of Crewman...

Matheson

Varelli.

Eilerson

Varelli. [pauses] Vivisected. Terrible way to die. We have to have our priorities, after all.

Galen

Did you say... vivisected?

Yes, nearly all his internal organs were missing.

Galen

...now that is interesting...

Eilerson

Where are you going?

Gideon

To follow a friend into hell.

Eilerson

IPX doesn't give paid holidays.

Gideon

For a cause like this, I think we'd all happily chip in.

Gods, I am drowning in testosterone.

Eilerson

Well, luckily for you, you're equipped with flotation devices.