Ultima Ratio Regum / URR

  • PMC
  • Regular
  • Bounty Hunting
    Bounty Hunting
  • Exploration
    Exploration

“Five guys on it. Headed our way.” He fires another round. “Correction. Four guys on it.” Boom. “Correction. They’re not headed our way anymore.” Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. “Correction. No boat.”

-Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson



History

“As we learned in Vietnam, high-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming that they are similar to psychoactive drugs. Like LSD, which can convince people they can fly—causing them to jump out of windows—weapons can make people overconfident. Skewing their tactical judgement.”

— Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

Manifesto

“That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

Charter

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

-Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson