"Self-inflicted genocide for the sake of purging the weak and - doubtlessly - the dissenting? Nothing the hands of man have not wrought before. Aye, we know enough to say that those who opposed this slaughter were lumped in with those seen as defective. And they kept at it. We know what you will say, brother: for beings who treat millennia like decades, this is not ancient history, merely something that happened in the past. But 'tis not about time, Gabriel. They kept at this, despite every new culture they encountered. How many worlds were stripped bare and their people enslaved or murdered because blind warmongers wanted to and could? For the sake of a joyless empire where even the conquerors hardly found pleasure?

And yet, once exposed to humanity, so many of them turned their coats, and followed in the footsteps of their first betrayer, who made a virtue of treachery..."

-on Viltrumites;

"An example of how lying to yourself can harm as much as lying to others. He found his path, in the end, not that the guilt ever left him. And by that point, the bloodlust had left him, and so had the hollow ambition he had been raised to cherish. He did not take his throne with pleasure, for all that the blood of a dead Emperor flowed through his veins. He even tried to bridge the gap he had created between himself and his family."

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-on Nolan Grayson, Omni-Man;

"The Grand Regent might have been the face of their Empire, but this one was what passed for its heart and soul. Bloodthirsty and unashamed, proud of it, even. He did not try to convert, or spread the value of the realm he had helped carve - such as they were. He wanted to kill, slowly. He liked his victims hurt and broken before death took them."

-on Conquest;

"He craved supremacy among his people as he craved their supremacy over the universe. He had driven them further than their late Emperor, had kept them together in the wake of the wrought plague that had killed all but a fraction of them - how could he not deserve the throne? So what if he was opposed by scions of the royal bloodline? They had earned nothing, in his eyes.

And after the eldest of them made the mistake of exiling him instead of having him killed, he returned with an army, children he saw as tools to be used. It was only the heir of the Emperor he killed who put an end to him, in a battle that almost saw him dead, too - and that only came after many struggles."

-on Thragg;