- [last lines]
- The Control Voice: Will it be those seeking redemption who shall decide the future or will those driven only by greed and envy shape our destiny. Even a hundred years later, the outcome is still very much in doubt.
- The Control Voice: Those who seek to predict the future might first look to the past. The past is a mirror, and those who ignore its sometimes dark reflection, are doomed to repeat it.
- Preacher: If a planet looks like it's going to be a problem down the line, we just destroy it before it poses a problem. That's my job: scout ahead, assess the threat.
- Miriam Turner: You came to destroy us? Kill us all?
- Preacher: Not necessarily... Judging from your example, brother against brother, friend against friend, you people have such a potential for violence and sheer unvarnished wickedness I've every confidence you'll destroy yourselves before you build your first interstellar engine. We've got nothing to fear from you.