- Chrisjen Avasarala: The war does not end when people put down their guns. It ends when they reconcile. Until then, the war has only paused.
- Naomi Nagata: It's made out of metal. So it's a machine...
- Dr. Elvi Okoye: Well, that's very terrestrial-thinking.
- Naomi Nagata: Oh, is it?
- Dr. Elvi Okoye: Life on earth developed using potassium, carbon, and calcium. But it could just as easily have been arsenic, silicon, and iron. To us this looks like a machine, but on this planet it could be an organism.
- Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper: Respectfully, if you married Chrisjen... you're a hell of a lot braver than I ever was.