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This mission contains several quotations.  

The first quotation "Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams." is a quote from the 11th Century Japanese text, the Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. This work is notable in the context of the historical development of the novel, but noticeably despite the number of characters and events that take place entirely lacks the conception of a plot, and besides the quotation itself, may serve as an in-joke reference to the much lambasted story of [[Destiny|Destiny 1]].

The second quotation: "Misdirected by accident or intent, intelligence can foster it's own ecstasies of growth and decay." is actually a paraphrase of a statement by Octavia Butler in her 1993 environmental dystopia SciFi book The Parable of the Sower, which reads:

:"Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying." - Chapter 4 (p. 29).

The third quotation: "Once war has been undertaken, no peace is made by pretending there is no war." is taken from page 365 of the Mahabharata, an epic Sanskrit poem of central importance in Hinduism.

The fourth quotation: "Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves." as translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, is from book two of Mikhail Bulgakov's 1967 book, The Master and Margarita.

The music used at the end of the mission which contains the Bulgakov quote is an excerpt from the later half of Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, First Movement, which is consistently used as a thematic reference for the [[Warmind]] [[Rasputin]] in various missions, notably in the [[Siege of the Warmind]] and strongly suggest Rasputin's authorship of all the quotations and control over the devices.

 

The name of the mission, "Arecibo", is likely a reference to the Arecibo message which was a radio message created by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan designed as a message to possible extraterrestrial life.