The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful. - Terry Brooks

If you think that Man is free to build a new life while the rest of the world drifts by, then you do not know anything of history!

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

You think that Man can start again, do you, Shea? Well you might be quite surprised to learn that some things never change, and that the dangers of power are always present, even to a race that almost obliterated itself.