- Shool: "First and foremost, Xim, Son of Xer, you are charged with causing the extermination and extinction of nine sentient species."
- Xim: "Nine? I know I spaced more than that."
- Shool: "Among them the Qadel, the Ermi, the Veeza, and the Zoa'mon..."
- Xim: "Slavers all. I did the galaxy a favor."
- Shool: "The soothsisters of Pelgrin—"
- Xim: "Their Oracle claimed my empire was doomed. Such a prophecy could have wreaked widespread panic, even galactic war."
- Shool: "And lastly the Klee, the Izi, the Orrananans, and the Thrella."
- Xim: "With the Izi... perhaps I went too far. But I'm not the only one who loathed their poetry."
