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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
→E: Added opening quotes by Aion Escher from Fire and Ice (Short Story)
|align="center"|'''''You think you know heresy? You think the warnings of the [[Ministorum]], the edicts screeched from habway Lex hailers encompass the whole bounds of the law, and that the heretic merely exists beyond these strictures? There are laws so natural, so innate, that no good citizen of the Imperium could comprehend what it is to break them. The Heretic is an unnatural thing, a beast as foul as any mutant or xenos. To slay them is a mercy to be delivered without sentiment, without hesitation, and without doubt.'''''
|align=center|[[Imperium Maledictum: Inquisition Player's Guide]],<br>pg. 50
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|align=center|[[Aion Escher]] of [[Ordo Xenos]],<br> [[Inquisitor|Grandmaster]] of the [[Damocles Conclave]]
|align="center"|'''''War is not a binary condition. Despite superficial appearances to the contrary it does not begin or end with a single discrete event. There may be catalysts and culminations, but their antecedents and consequences – cultural, material and even metaphysical – extend through times past and future like ripples in a river that flows two ways. Accordingly, the war between the [[Imperium]] and the [[Tau Empire]] did not begin and end with the [[Damocles Gulf Crusade]]. That conflict was the first great blossoming of our enmity and it will not be the last, but we have now entered a subtler phase of the game. Fifty years have passed since the crusade. Nothing has changed. Everything has changed.'''''
'''''Here on the margins of the [[Damocles Gulf]] we are embroiled in a cold war, an intricate game of deceit, manipulation and coercion waged against a master player. It is a delicate struggle, but never make the mistake of thinking it any less inimical to the Imperium than the voracious depredations of the [[tyranids]] or the bleak pogrom waged by the [[necrons]], for the tau are playing for the hearts and minds of mankind. If they triumph our species may survive, but its destiny will not.'''''
|align=center|[[Fire and Ice (Short Story)]],<br> Title Page
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