Intergalactic Summit

I was little kid when we have left the home to never return back. I don't have many memories left from that time, but one of the most vivid of them is seeing through the window how the home planet becomes smaller and smaller and finally disappears into a tiny dot. Who knows, maybe I will remember something else to tell.

I haven't been Capsuleering in a few good few months, but I would've loved to come to this regardless! Even though I'm more of a coffee person myself, I've never seen anyone run any sort of Achur-themed cultural event before.

Unfortunately, it's dead in the middle of my rest cycle. Still, I wish you the best of luck and hope you receive a high attendance!

I wish I could be there, but I have other commitments :-(

Tea is an important part of Caldari culture. It gives it structure. It's used for beginnings and endings, joinings and partings. And yes, it can even bring judgement.

It's no stranger than standing in the warmth of a sun that, if you fly too close, will surely burn you to plasma.

The ingredient in Caldari tea that people seem so concerned about is a product of the evergreen Kresh tree. The Kresh tree was originally native only to the Caldari homeworld, where it was often the only green thing that survived the harshest of winters in a (semi) edible state.

Resistance to the toxin in Kresh became a pro-survival trait. Those who were especially susceptible to it certainly perished more quickly in winter - either from starvation or toxin induced suffocation. The rest of us inherited resistance and, I think, it was to retain that resistance that Kresh became a ritual part of our diet.

The Achuran people joined the State only much later and, therefore, whilst both of our cultures enjoy a lively interest in tea and tea-related ritual, they have never had occasion to acquire the immunity to it. Incidentally, the tea that you can buy in stores and that all Caldari are taught to prepare is the non-toxic variety. Only highly trained specialists are ever taught the tea that is the central component of the "Tea Maker Ceremony", where special tea and special preparation is used to raise the strength of the toxicity to the level that will kill even Caldari.

As a matter of course, Non-Caldari ought to avoid any product with the word "Kresh" in the title - even though most people can safely metabolise the amount of Kresh in a single cup of tea or an appetizer at a restaurant with little more effect than a splitting headache or a cough.

I wasn't speaking against Caldari tea or making some sort of statement, Pieter, in case I gave you that impression. I was just saying it's strong, even the stuff that won't poison you a little.

I thought the kresh toxicity was an urban legend... Is there anywhere I could look it up ? I mean, I could try to drink it to see for myself I guess...

But how could I know I am drinking the correct variant... ? Well if I die afterwise, I would be pretty certain though...

The only tea prepared out of very toxic elements I have read about is the Idama tea of the Intaki...

As far as I know, it is rather potent neurotixin that was used rather broadly in ancient times as a combat toxin to poison blades, that ensured that the enemy dies even from a minor wound.

I am not really into poisons, but from I have heard,there is no really resistance to kresh - it kills any warmblood creature. Caldari probably have just an enzyme that metabolizes kresh toxin. But as you know, neurotoxins are acting rather fast and metabolism is a slow process. And with concentration growth rate of its toxic effect quickly overwhelms its decomposition.

Well, maybe I am confusing it with something, but I definitely sure that kresh was used as a combat weapon and was used to kill Caldari by Caldari.

Well, I have many books and references at my disposal... I am simply failing to find any of the works you seem to mention, not find anything hinting anywhere at kresh toxicity.

I still think that this is a capsuleer created myth... Unless again, I am missing something.

The feeling is reciprocal sir.