Intergalactic Summit

Why try to work with those who persecute you?

Experience, not Mizhara, has informed my opinion, Aria. You and I have both seen this cycle, again and again. He's even personally singled you out to give him attention because he knew you'd give it to him. That's his game. That's his only game.



Kinda my day job, you know?

I...

...I really do wonder what in all the Throne Worlds is going on here.

Nauplius is openly antagonising enough people to even get other Sani Sabik to rail on him.

Cassy has turned from potential blooder to bleeding-heart.

And among it all, Arendis rails on and on about the wrongness of EVERYTHING!

Seriously?

I thought I was the child here...





...hah... hah...

...I'm clearly not...

Now Meb... I am not one to make a spectacle of our rites.

However... if you want look in next time I am very happy to have you over.

His "operations" are cheap as hell Astras. You can finance them in perfect safety with even the most casual of station trading, which is pretty much impossible to disrupt. If he wasn't toying with you, performing only to the minimum of effort required to keep you all frothing and paying him all the attention he desires, he could plonk down Astras - all of which take a minimum of a week to take down, up to almost three weeks with clever deployment schedules - at a rate far exceeding your ability to take them down.

This is something you people don't seem to understand, for some unfathomable reason: You. Can't. Stop. A. Capsuleer. It would require an expenditure of effort several orders of magnitude above and beyond any harm they could possibly do. Spirits below, outside of nullsec you can't even keep them stuck in a station, and even there they can just jumpclone elsewhere.

All this effort, froth, clutching of pearls, wailing and gnashing of teeth over what is on a capsuleer scale barely the idle drumming of fingers, when that effort could have gone to something that would actually have a measurable impact. Feh.

I wonder how the response would be if he ever bothered getting off his arse and put some real effort into this stuff. If the reactions scaled to his current efforts, heads would start exploding from sheer outrage.

That plan is terrible.

Astrahus without trimmings is is, what, 1B?

I am the most constantly broke old-timer capsuleer I know, and even I could finance what he's doing with 30 minutes work a day and without ever undocking once.

There are ways to control a capsuleer.

Problem here is they pretty much all presuppose he or she cares enough about some baseliner or other other non-upliftable, not easily replacable contact/asset that you can go after instead instead of going for the egghead directly.

To cause a zealot to change their behaviour, when that zealot is demi-immortal, is possible, but difficult.

Very difficult.

One must present to them a vision which irrefutably contradicts their understanding of the universe, showing that everything they thought was flawed, and presenting an alternative.

In the pre-immortal era, similar events occurred, were considered to be a form of Divine Intervention, and usually resulted in the person so affected, becoming a Saint or Prophet.

So that is what you have to do.

Make the zealot open to suggestion, and then present an alternative that shatters their old belief, and constructs a new one.

That's how you stop an immortal zealot.

But, I'm not sure who is capable of inspiring such a Divine Revelation.

Miz: I mentioned it to make it pretty clear none of the existing ways to control a capsuleer are not applicable in this scenario.

Also, not for nothing, but you'd have to be able to prove the 'vision' isn't "Teh work of Mole-man the Deceiver" or whatever. IOW: you'd have to prove it's God. Which gets tricky, since you can't demonstrate your version of God is even his version of God or that either one of them is real. Since he's off in his own theological framework now with 'Naupliusism', there is literally nothing short of him changing his own mind that would qualify as persuasive to him.

I hope so. It'll be hilarious to watch.