Act Three

ENDS AND BEGINNINGS ARE ONLY THE SAME IF YOU’RE A MORON

“‘Superheroes’. That’s a fucking stupid word. All it means is that these are people with abilities that normal folks don’t have or don’t understand. I don’t fucking believe in there being ‘shit we don’t understand’. You can understand everything if you cut it open enough to see what makes it tick.”

Algernon Fell, Starfall Innovation National R&D, circa March 2031.

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“Don’t let anyone fool you. Starfall doesn’t do what it does out of any desire to push the scientific boundaries. Starfall doesn’t do what it does because it has any mandate to ‘make the world better’. Starfall does what it does because it makes them a metric fuckton of money for them and making a metric fuckton of money is always a bonus for the shit-heels at the top of the chain.”

Shelly Brackett, former SIN intern, circa May 2033.

“There’s an unfortunate truth – in wartime, men like me will always make profit. I don’t want to think of it as profiting from humanity's sorrow… but that’s what it is. That being said, as long as humanity profits by the wares I peddle, I don’t see why my guilt should stop me from doing what I do.”

Gregory Poole, CEO of Starfall Innovation National, circa February 2035.