- Rommie: I'll dispatch a courier to Tri-Lorn immediately, but you are aware we suffered no damage to our GFG.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: We did if I say we did. Strategic truth.
- Rommie: Right. And the strategy is?
- Captain Dylan Hunt: I need time to find Tyr and understand his scheme. Rhade is the key to that.
- Rommie: Right. And the truth is?
- Captain Dylan Hunt: I am beginning not to trust certain aspects of the Commonwealth, and I don't like that one bit.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Let's cut the crap. I know you want to follow us, and you want the Route of Ages, so why don't you just tell me what you know first?
- Tyr Anasazi: Only that you will fail. That I will prosper.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Obviously, this was pre-recorded.
- Tyr Anasazi: There's a first time for everything, Dylan.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: And there's always a last time, too, Tyr.
- Pish Tryan: We have two choices: make a deal and survive the cataclysm, or stop it altogether.
- Tyr Anasazi: Destroy the Abyss - a worthy challenge for the heir of Drago Museveni. I've united Prides from three galaxies. I have an army even the Abyss should fear.
- Pish Tryan: Well, we can only hope you live up to your idea of yourself. I learned long ago: get out of the office. The servants pack different things. Everything within these walls survived the fall. This was what was left. Our library was here, hidden caves underneath all these flowers. The Collectors survived, Tyr, because they controlled information, the most secret of secrets.
- Tyr Anasazi: Yes, that and murder, blackmail, extortion.
- Pish Tryan: And so much more. The other day I ate a Than. Delicious. Did you ever do that? No, I didn't think so. You see, Tyr, Collectors are respected, should be, but some are more realistic than others. So, then, yes, two choices: to live or live well.
- Seamus Harper: Okay. Let me get this straight. A Commonwealth Nietzschean arrests The Nietzschean of all Nietzscheans, who escapes. The Commonwealth tells us not to go after The Nietzschean but to arrest the Commonwealth Nietzschean who arrested The Nietzschean in the first place. Makes a lot of sense.