Intergalactic Summit

Just not my thing to care for others opinions Tibs. I let them judge me for me. I won't join this rat race of reputation management. If people like me, then they're with me. If they don't, oh well.

I'm just saying that Aldrith shouldn't get spitting mad about this crap. His family and his colleagues know who he is and what he's worth. His Empire knows the same. It's not worth that much anger and that much rage. Therefore, I'm saying he should relax. Those who matter to him know who he is, and if he cares that much about his rep, then those people who matter should be the only one's who's reputation he should be worried about.

As for me? Meh. Maybe I'll take it seriously, maybe I won't. For now, I'm happy being a bandaged derelict chillin out on Voulatteuion Street drinking a beer and sharing good times with my closest, non-egger, friends.

Oh, right, I sometimes forget the superficiality of the masses.

Blooder chicas are hot.

Even Andreus can't deny it.

But they weren't who I went home with.

Oh, piffle. I thought all these new pages were going to be about intrigue and fornication. I'm still bitter about the Foundation's ruse.

Oh, yes. I don't mean to imply that Mr. Shutaq is playing a game or acting to preserve his reputation alone. I do think it a part, however. Your assessment seems very true as well.

Goodness, I do look a little sleepy, don't I?

Insanity? You mean pointing out the obvious flaws in the logic of a society that claims it has a direct mandate, gained by speaking to an embodiment of the cosmos itself - whom, conveniently, only they can see - to conquer the universe? People in glass habitation domes shouldn't throw stones.

By the way, Aldrith, if I had it in my head to casually murder Amarrian civilians - which, since minds as small as yours might need me to clarify, I don't - yours would be the last voice I'd listen to. Perhaps if you wish to convince me of the good within the Empire you should stop insulting me and making empty threats, and start trying to engage with me on a mature and adult level. I've read enough of the Pax Amarria (although it was one of the copies of a print run that a bunch of your people bomb settlements from orbit over) to know that inside every Amarrian there's at least some minute speck of decency and reason.

But really, I just want to point out how goddamn insane this situation is. Your society had one job, one job, Aldrith - it wasn't even a difficult one: look better than the Blood Raiders. I mean for crying out loud, these are a bunch of insane cultists who murder people and paint arcane runes in their still-warm visceral fluids - it's not difficult, and yet almost every Amarrian capsuleer and the vast majority of non-capsuleers manage to come out looking worse - worse than the Blood Raiders! Mate, what are you doing?! Your adversary in this moral comparison is the Blood Raiders! They murder civilians for fun! They name their ships after demons! Some of them pretty much directly acknowledge that they're evil! You don't even need to actually look morally upstanding; all you have to do is not look worse than them and you're failing at it! What are you doing?!

Your civilization has the closest thing to a tradition of rulers that go mad with power, and one of the most recent ways in which you decided to punish one was ritual dismemberment without anaesthetic on live television! You enacted a 99% successful genocide against two seperate ethnicities, and most recently, when you discovered that it was 99% instead of a 100%, members of your society tried to add another percent! You enslave billions of people against their will because ancient texts written by superstitious pre-spaceflight primitives thousands of years ago tell you to! And for all the moral failings of the Blood Raiders, let us not forget that it was your society that spawned them in the first place!

I don't even want the Amarrians to fix their mistakes, because I think that's being a little unrealistic - but the vast majority of your society can't even admit that they were mistakes in the first place. According to every decision the Theology Council has ever made, it was either always the right choice, or it was retroactively always the right choice.

Federalists are funny...

barely worth commenting on. Just face-palm to Ixiris' backpedaling.

Backpedalling? I'm pretty open about having attended a Sani Sabik gathering, and also pretty open about not following the Sani Sabik faith. Only thing I haven't open about yet is who I left the gathering with.

Ah, now if that had been the subject of a salacious gossip column, this thread might be a lot more interesting...

Mr Ixiris has to justify going to a small social event with a vaired mixing of attendee backgrounds and conversing socially (and politely i may add) at said event?

And if we're discussing socialising with murderers, are most capsuleers not murderers in their own self righteous ways?