Intergalactic Summit

I once ran a simulation attempting to hull tank a Hurricane. Alas, Minmatar Ship Construction foregoes the hull portion of the ship and as we all know, simply slaps together armor plating. It does not work. To this day, some of my engineers continually remind me about requiring a sturdy frame to attach bulkheads to to begin with.

I'm clearly joking. No, I've not tried with anything non-gallente or gallente-based.

How did you pay (or, who paid for you?) to get through capsuleer selection and training?

They politely congratulated me on my career successes, quietly took preliminary compatibility tests themselves, and soon starting asking me for money. I stopped attending the reunions rather soon afterwards.


Tell me the story of a love gone wrong.

We're all in an interesting position of a sort of "immortality", in a sense. Day to day, we see much of the same thing over and over. For the most part, there's hardly any change in routine. Be it paperwork for the executives, looting and killing for pirates, or fighting for your people in a war, it could be seen that nothing is ever changing.

Throw in something as devastating as Kyonoke, and that's where things change up. What was once the day to day now has a new factor.

At least, that's what I think.

What's your favourite colour and why?

Since apparently I'm to blame, I'll answer this one also. Well-- I'll address the specific instance anyway.

Firstly , Kyonoke isn't just some spooky thing that's stayed politely in its little hot zone that nobody ever visits because: Kyonoke. Apparently Sansha Kuvakei somehow got a hold of some a ways back, or at least that's what he claimed. Anyone remembering that has kind of been waiting for it to get used somehow.

Secondly, the recent mention of quarantines hasn't apparently come with an explanation, and yet has made news cluster-wide, which is exactly how you get a lot of speculation and is only really acceptable if being clear about the reason would be worse. From the perspective of controlling public reaction, there's not all that much that's worse than mysterious silence, so if it was just a nasty local virus, I'd have expected them to say so.

Thirdly, I've kind of got a dark mind and tend to contemplate worst-case scenarios and what to do about them pretty readily (along with some other things). Partly, it's kind of my job, but I've recently realized that I also do this because I kind of think it's fun, so, there's that. I'm sometimes maybe a little careless about the possible knock-on effects of that kind of theorizing, and I've been accused of alarmism before.

To which: maybe it's immature of me to feel such a thing, but I kind of don't care. Speculating is fun, and sometimes I end up being right and being able to anticipate something going really wrong can be a little helpful. Speculating with other people sometimes just scares them (not usually productive) but sometimes produces neat insights which are really engaging to consider even if they mostly stay hypothetical.



I ... haven't. That I remember. I try to make sure my clones get and stay inoculated, and I know it's not as simple as that, but I also clone jump kind of often, so, I might have just left it behind a couple times.


Is it bad to have dark imaginings? Why?

I feel that I must address this question.

The answer I can provide is: It depends.

Dark imaginings that came out of nowhere, with no basis, no valid premise and no evidence to back them up? That is definitely detrimental. This is the way towards depression and paranoia, both of which are self-destructive and serve no practical purpose.

Dark imaginings that are based on valid premises and has evidence to back them up? Depends on how one acts upon it. If one starts putting down rational plans, steps and actions with the intention of minimising the potential damage should the suspicion and fear turn out to be true, this is completely fine. In fact, this is productive and has a high likelihood of netting a positive consequence. However, if one starts acting irrationally in the response of dark imaginings? Those are self-destructive and are not fine.

Then there's also the matter of how one voices their fears, speculations and opinions based on dark imaginings. What must be understood, first and foremost, is that humans, all of us except perhaps the Jovians (who can't really feel anything unless trained to), are much more receptive to negative emotions than to positive ones. As such, reactions towards negative emotions are more immediate, more intense and more impulsive than positive ones. Knowing this, the act of voicing one's fears, speculations and opinions based on dark imaginings must be done with great care. Before opening one's gob, first, examine how those who hear what you had to say may respond and determine if their response might lead to a net negative effect or a net positive one. Then decide whether you should have voiced your fears, speculations and opinions based on dark imaginings or quietly act upon them with the interest of safeguarding yourself and your community without causing undue alarm and possibly a wave of paranoia, which is ultimately self-destructive. And even if one decides that it is best to voice one's fears, speculations and opinions based on dark imaginings, one must be careful in deciding in what manner, what channel and to whom should all these be delivered to.

I personally wouldn't voice my thoughts and opinions based on the darkest of my imaginings on the IGS, especially considering that baseliners do read these channels, and that there are some rather irrational and overly impulsive capsuleers lurking around here.



Music, typically. With drums, pipes and electronic beats.

How often do you examine your thoughts and speeches before you decide to act upon them or voice them?

Most of the time. No, really.

I sometimes seem to say things people consider alarmist or alarming, but mostly I don't haul up stuff from my imagination's turbid depths unless there's a real pattern emerging that would match it. I tend to be pretty open about stuff that actually worries me, I guess, and maybe I'm just not very jaded about what might really be real and what's not worth raising concerns about.

Maybe that needs some calibration, and I just don't have enough personal experience distinguishing creepy patterns that should be mentioned from creepy patterns that shouldn't, and this doesn't seem like one of those places where just knowing facts helps all that much.

That might need some work, but I'm not sure I have the full context I might need for fine-tuning. (I'm subjectively, like, two years old this week.) Does that mean I should just shut up until I'm a little more jaded?

Maybe.

A lot of what I filter doesn't have a lot to do with real worries or possibilities-- at least, not things I likely have to worry about coming from other people. There probably aren't a lot of people who need or want to know that I've been idly contemplating whether a carefully molded and plasticized human esophagus or a similarly-treated trachea would make the better blowgun. Just, you know, for example.

That kind of stuff I partly don't mention because other people sometimes steal my ideas (I'm not too worried about the one above). Saede calls it "killer instinct," but I'm not sure that quite covers it, and it's not like I'm fully okay with killing people, either. Or, I try not to be, anyway.

So, yeah. Filter: on. Just, I guess I usually feel like if I see something interesting or worrying, I maybe ought to say something.

Maybe in the future I'll just say it to the Praefecta, instead, but I don't want to trouble her, either.

Edit:

I'll just let Che's question stand. It doesn't really apply to me.

But that's so sad!

What happened to them?

You didn't ask a question, no wonder the thread stalled!

So here's a question for the thread in light of ongoing events, How do you maintain hygene when concerned about infectious diseases?

Wash hands. Avoid contact with infected people. Get inoculated if possible. Maybe sterilize commonly-touched surfaces with alcohol?

I'm afraid this one is more something that probably kills everybody if it gets into the station, though, so, I guess what I'd really do is leave procedures up to station administration and try not to neglect bio-security procedures in my own doings. The main danger is accidentally importing the Koyonoke protein "speck" onto my ship.

So-- for hygiene, what I'll really be doing is staying away from facilities and worlds with areas under quarantine. If for some reason I have to, and there's any containment breach while I'm there. If it did make it onto my ship (onset seems to be pretty rapid, so odds of finding out before the disease disembarked are at least pretty good), I'd disable life pods, deep-safespot, alert authorities, set out a quarantine beacon if possible, and pod myself.

If I found out I was sharing space with someone infected or had the pathogen myself and I was stationside, I'd alert station control, you, and the cloning bay where my backup is installed, in that order, and then open my throat. If I was in the Lamp or other modular facility I'd definitely alert them right after station control so that quarantine procedures could be coordinated. Maybe the seals would be thick/strong/multifaceted enough to protect the station.

(I'd be contacting station control first so that panic inside facility control wouldn't lead to one or more running two-legged containment breaches. Panic in station control leads to hastily-closed doors. Panic in facility control leads to people running through any doors that haven't closed yet.)

If, however improbably, I discovered a container of the substance, I'd follow pretty much the same procedures I would if I found someone who was already infected. After all, the stuff's good at bypassing airtight seals, so it'd be safe to assume that the contagion would be released if a container of it powered down. I'd probably hold off on the opening-my-throat step until I knew it had gotten out, though.

Mostly, I'd trust the authorities to act sensibly to keep the contagion contained and comply with any rules for preventing transmission. That seems like about the best we can do right now.

What do you do to relieve anxiety?

Yes. Several archaeological research endeavours that have floundered due to various peoples egos getting in the way, and also religious differences.


Have you ever seen someone beating themselves up with their own prosthetic arm ?