Intergalactic Summit

Yes. Cartel enforcers and mercs. Typically inside enclosed environments of outposts. Killing done with E-tool, submachine guns, plasma torches and arc welders. I do not really remember the details all too much because I was set on demolition or hacking tasks and they were in the way. Killing them wasn't my focus. I only recall them as footnotes in my combat engineering past.

In ship combat, I am more focused on taking down the target. Back when I was a baseliner, the killing was secondary to whatever more important tasks I had to perform. As such, I tend to remember these starship battles with more clarity. Killings done up close personally, in the flesh? Those are more of a blur. I only remembered the essentials and that's it.

How did you deal with your time spent in sense deprivation tanks when you were still a capsuleer hopeful?

Selling manufactured goods and plunder in the Jita market. Too much time spent on staring at spreadsheet and undercutting competitors. Not to mention too many capsuleers and 'capsuleers' in a small square kilometer and too far away from people I care about. Yet, it had to be done since products move fastest here and I do need the income as funds.

What necessary thing do you hate doing most as a capsuleer? Yes, repeating the question.

Woman by my side, definitely.

Can someone post a question in my stead?

I enjoy the ones that are open-ended enough to apply to basically anyone, but encourage people to produce a little anecdote, or reveal a piece of their mind that they wouldn't volunteer in a run-of-the-mill Summit conversation.

Do you spend a lot of time thinking about what's on other people's minds? Do you figure they might be thinking about what's on yours?

Snappy one-liners.

When was the last time you kicked yourself for stumbling wide-eyed into a trap?

Yes and no.

Learning why people live and think and act the way that they do is one of my favorite things. People don't act only from who they are at the most basic level; it often seems like a person is kind of a vessel of influences all bottled up in what might be called their "nature." It often seems like a pretty thin bottle. It's tempting to link this to the duality between the infomorph (software/mind/"me") and clone (hardware/genetics/vessel/transient flesh), but really I don't think it's anywhere near that simple.

There are bits of my infomorph that are part of my nature as a person, I'm sure. It's just hard to say with certainty which parts those are-- probably the bits that aren't rooted in knowledge but I can't seem to change, like my reluctance to depend on others to do work I won't do myself. Being willing to let others do the dirty work of this life might have let me be a somewhat happier person, but I'd feel like a coward and a parasite, so, actually, I think that would bother me more than a guilty conscience does.

Really, though, that just means that I'm happier as someone who does than as someone who lets others do. That might be down to nature.

The rest-- how all of that expresses itself, where I live, what and whom I love, what I believe, what I do-- that's probably a matter of what my experiences have been and where they've led me, my context as it's developed over time.

"Nature" doesn't actually interest me so much; wherever you go you'll meet the same basic kinds of people, the same "vessels," more or less, again and again. But you can find the same basic sort of person playing drastically different parts in different places.

What those vessels are filled with, how, and why-- that's fascinating.

So I guess, I do think a lot about what goes on in other people's minds (and, obviously, in my own), not so much as a matter of worrying what they think of me but more just thinking about what makes them who they are. Whether they're concerned with what's on mine-- well, probably some are and some aren't. I might be a little bit of a strange person, but not everyone's very interested in what others are thinking or why.

If you'd been born somewhere different-- a different culture, a different empire, even-- do you think you'd be very different from who you are?

It depends on the circumstances. In general, I try not to lie, but sometimes truth is something needlessly harmful.

It's a little strange. Behaving honestly leads to a reputation for, and maybe even actually having, integrity. That leads to being trusted. Being trusted means learning secrets. Having integrity about knowing secrets usually means not revealing what you know, sometimes for no better reason than because speaking the truth will hurt someone. That means hiding what you know.

Behaving honorably/with integrity seems a little more complicated than just being unfailingly honest.

How "wrong," and in what way, does a person have to be before it's okay to kill them?

It's a bit more personal, as you're actually watching your target die instead of a fireworks display. I had to do it quite a few times when I served with the Republic military.

What is your first and last thoughts as you're going into structure?

'Gallente'.

Seriously, every time I see a hull tanker he's usually flying Fed ships, and with very high likelihood he's either in a Comet, an Atron, a Taranis or the odd close-combat Tristan.

Has anyone tried to hull tank anything that is neither Fed nor Serpentis? How did that go?

The Tengu. It just feels... Right.

What is the LEAST compatible ship you've ever flown? What felt off about it?