Story 08: QB Heavy Industries Quotes

    Our first challenge is to create an entire magical girl infrastructure, from top to bottom, out of whole cloth. No gradual evolution from previous magical girl infrastructures is possible, because there is no previous magical girl infrastructure. Each girl must be materialized in imperfect working order; otherwise the system will crash out before it ever gets off the ground.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Magical Girl Monopoly"


    Girl emotions are despair behavior. The particulars may vary but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed has followed us to this planet and the rewards of energy still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Magical Girl Monopoly"


    Energy is the currency of the universe.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Magical Girl Monopoly"


    We estimate that during the next mission century most of QB Heavy Industries' industries will be moved off-planet to Luna and other orbital facilities. Many of our industries will benefit greatly from the low gravity environments available in space, particularly those involving genetically engineered specimens.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Magical Girl Monopoly"


    What Must Come Down, Will Come Down.
        QB Heavy Industries, Company Slogan


    Yuuko ran into a Witch's Nightmare and held off four waves of minions, buying time for Yumi to defeat the Witch. We immediately purchased their identities and repackaged them into the Yumi and Yuuko duo team with a multi-tiered media campaign: tv commericials, website ads, short stories, video games-- the works. Magical Girls need heroes. They don't need to know how Yuuko died as a pin cushion and Yumi had to be retired. The real story would just dampen the spirits of our employees.
       President, Founder Kyuubey QB's Keynote Speech, "Mythology for Stablity"


    Important, yes. Critical, absolutely! I would go so far as to say that super conducting despair alone makes our present economy possible.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, IncubatLink Live Interview


    Yes, yes, we've all heard the philosophers babble about "hope" being "beautiful" and "holy". But let me tell you that this kind of hope certainly is pretty and if you're not careful it will scare the bejeezus out of you.
        Anonymous Lab Technician, IncubatLink Live Interview


    'Freeze, Save, Crunch?' was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new Incubators started working, fabricating their universes on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message, always choose 'Save.'
        Anbey, QB Heavy Industries


    Military hardware, medical breakthroughs, robot arms--forget all of that. It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a vibrant, pink heart that you really find God in technology.
        Anonymous QB Heavy Industries Dockworker, IncubatLink Live Interview


    Hope Ointment? Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff. You really have to keep an eye on it, though - it'll dry up on you the first chance it gets.
        Mami Tomoe, QB Heavy Industries


    As I stepped onto the elevator, a thought struck me: can there be energy where there is no girls? And can entropy be tricked into hiding from itself?
        Dr. Leman Russ, QB Heavy Industries Researcher


    You bleeding heart humans must not lose touch with the universe of swirling energies and heat death. It is all very well and good to want to protect your girls, but the universe's life is expensive. You must justify your existence by providing not only reason but concrete and profitable applications as well.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Ethics of Duty"


    Magical Girls exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not in this generation then in some future. By what right does this safe future seek to deny us our task? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Ethics of Duty"


    And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary corporation, from entrepreneur to economic-emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is in the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the world's energy supply saves the universe. In former times the magical girl monopoly was determined "cute and hopeful"; we intend to give this an entirely new meaning.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Magical Girl Monopoly"


    Of course we'll train our Magical Girls with the new safety protocols! Our stockholders expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our girls are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us. --Where do you want your Magical Girl today?
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB


    I plan on the universe to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, Incubatlink Interview


    Magical girls in the last century reached their extremes because of their inherent utility: they pack a great deal of potential energy into an extremely efficient package. If we can but sidestep the Witching process, we can corner this market once again.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, Strategy Session


    Wishes once measured in impossibilities have become so mundane that they cannot produce much entropy, with revolutionary applications across the board. Fellow Incubators, forget what your have told youselves: scope does matter!
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, QB Heavy Industries Annual Report


    In the peer pressure mines inches beneath Humansurface, in the Limbic System where skull gives way to pink tissue, tensions often reach levels well in excess of 1000 pounds. Exploitation of Human's emotional resources under such brutal conditions has required quantum advances in despair catching and containment technology.
        QB Heavy Industries, "Annual Report"


    We are no longer particularly in the business of hiring magical girls to perform specific tasks. We now teach the magical girl how to learn, and in the primary readjusting process they molds themselves around the task to be performed. The despair loop never really ends, so a tenth year magical girl can be a hopeful jewel or a psychotic wreck, but it is the primary readjusting process--the childhood, if you will--that has the most far-reaching repercussions.
        Mami Tomoe, QB Heavy Industries


    Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival requires the continual discovery of new energy sources to pump into the system. He who controls the sources of energy controls the means of survival.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Magical Girl Monopoly"


    Look at any human girl or moment of sorrow. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny spark of emotion, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "energy value." Nothing can transcend its smallest elements.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Ethics of Duty"


    Earth's resource, Girls, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each time they Witchify, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely. Incomprehensible energies can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, "The Magical Girl Monopoly"


    Some civilian workers got in among the magical girls today and became so hysterical I felt compelled to have them shot. The consequence, of course, will be another public relations nightmare, but I was severely confused by the extent of their revulsion towards a project so vital to our survival.
        President, Founder Kyuubey QB, The Personal Diaries