Intergalactic Summit

I have tried, but there are people like this Tyrel Toov who wants to discuss me. Hell, not even discuss, just use thread as his board to post lies about me. That's quite shameful display of behavior, even for an enemy of the State.

But anyway, lets try again to refocus it back to where it belongs, instead of... asking others to do that.

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Someone has claimed that Quafe transports were returning. But does we know if this is true? Our HQ hasn't confirmed these claims. On the other hand, even returning ships could have simply violated orders of border guards. They could simply not mention the fact they were asked to do something. In most cases it is true for incoming ships as well: they are asked first to turn around and only after that they are being shot. Exclusion to this is only military vessels or vessels with known military symbolics: FDU, FedNavy, BlackEagle, FIO, TLF, and so on.

If ships were of not military origin, just Quafe, they definitely should have been asked first to follow a certain order. And you know, if a civilian ship doesn't follow an order from a military unit that is placed in a strategic point, it is just considered an enemy unit in disguise and it is shot down.

Do you remember prior to drug legalization what would happen to your ship if you tried to smuggle illegal drugs and was caught by security?

There's unfortunately been precious little to come out since the action. We don't know the process that was (or wasn't) followed on either end; we have a statement of what alludes to a cargo manifest; we do have a flight plan that shows their intended terminus. Beyond that, nothing else.

It's difficult to assume at this point, and even now almost any possibility (rogue actors on either side of the engagement, bad orders on either side, etc.) is valid, until findings begin to come out.

At long last the "Periwinkle Princess" is going to stop trolling me! Good things come to he who waits.

Respectable, dear me, what a word.

Or not, but I suppose it's in the... ear of the beholder.

Personally, I listen to what everyone has to say. Especially if they have contrary opinions, and yes even the crazies. I may disagree or oppose what is said, vociferously, but I still listen. Everyone says something of merit sometimes.

People who only listen when you say something they like, are quite different than respectable.

I wonder what your point is here, Mr. Syagrius. If you're looking to pick a fight with Mr. Toov, I'll just stand aside and let you get to it....

(I agree that "respectable" is quite a word. I don't think I used it, though-- it's pretty loaded, even compared to, for example, "respected.")

Now now, I am not looking to pick a fight with anyone my dear, if I were you wouldn't have to guess. The term respectable just struck me as funny... considering.

Considering?

Respect is something constructed only slowly, Mr. Syagrius, and lost in seconds for any number of reasons. That might not seem to you like the way it should be, but that is typically how it works. For example, respect for a person's integrity might be lost in a single disingenuous moment, while respect for someone's insight and sound judgment is lost in a moment's awful folly.

Once I'd have assumed you knew this implicitly. Now....

Obviously I'm still listening to you, Mr. Syagrius. Only, once I'd have watched you as a student watches a teacher. Now I watch you much as I watch anyone: as a person playing a part in this world, and fascinating on that account alone, but not really someone I should expect to learn something really worthwhile from.

It seems that losing my regard might have cut you more than you claimed at the time. Good. Maybe you'll show yourself to be a particularly interesting person again. I try to leave that possibility open for anyone. At least one of your apparent companions already has my attention that way.

I kind of doubt it'll happen by you following me around making oblique, significant remarks, though, "my dear." But it doesn't surprise me if you might think otherwise.

Considering.

Of course you are entitled to your own point of view pilot Jenneth but as is all too often true you think your point of view is either correct or valid when in this, as in many cases it is neither.

To date the "Periwinkle Princess" has said nothing of importance to me or about me and has often spoke as if he represents some form of IGS participant credibility board that rules over what should or should not be said or when enough has been said, all the while insulting and comparing me to kim. kim is objectionable because she is an unabashed cowardly racist who lusts after the death of other ethnic groups and or nationalities that she espouses to be better than because of her birth membership in the "State".

Even though I despise the slavery cultists and their many apologist supporters like you, I sincerely want them to change their putrid ways not just line up in front of my rail guns for slaughter as the solution to their sick beliefs.

Being someone who believes passionately in the equality of all human life being constantly and maliciously compared to the antithesis of that belief is something I will not miss from the "Periwinkle Princess".

I of course understand if you do not understand this because from the general impression you leave you crave for the approval of the popular majority above almost everything else while I would rather be right than just popular.

No-- most people will object to being compared to someone they perceive as an awful person for one reason or another.

"But I'm nothing like (her/him)!" isn't a very rare sentiment here. You and Ms. Kim are just the most recent example, each outraged at the notion that you might have something in common with the other.

About popular approval ... hm. Well, if I really did crave popular approval above all, I kind of doubt you'd be counting me an apologist for the Amarr. Accepting a role as a servant here, even to someone as well-admired as Lunarisse Aspenstar Daphiti, hasn't been the most popular move.

I can't really claim to be immune to that kind of thing, though. I do like to be liked. It makes talking to people easier, even if they think I'm horribly wrong about almost everything. It's important to me to keep lines of communication open. How else will I know when someone who thinks I'm wrong has a point?

Also, it seems like it's hard to be right all the time. It's hard on a person to even really try, and probably at least as hard on people who, subjectively, succeed, though I guess a lot of those at least have their rightness to comfort them when the whole world's shaking its head or rolling its eyes.

It seems easier to be wise than to reliably be right. That's kind of what I want to be-- wise. Most of all, I want to see clearly.

I'll leave the being right to others.

Agreed.



Precisely.