Intergalactic Summit

I haven't been a capsuleer for long, and before then my birth world was my whole world. Yet now that i fly across countless systems and witness countless cultures and beliefs, i wonder.
What sort of planet gave birth to our race, were we as diverse then as we reached out through the eve gate, or were we one people with one drive.
What sort of Society developed on the other side of the gate when it collapsed, and how would it view our five great nations now, would it condone the jove's genetic tampering, laugh at the Amarr's fanaticism, would it find common ground and values with Gallente Democracy? We have no way of knowing without the gate reactivating, and that would spell for one and only one thing.
War, an optimist might claim that reconnecting with humanity's home would spawn a feeling of mutual cooperation but i believe it would only expose bigger rifts in our societies that so far the capsuleer programs have done much to hide.
More likely would it cause a war for control of the portal, amongst ourselves, a mistake i might add considering we have no way to know whether the people of the other side are hostile or not. Considering that so far humanity on this side the gate has yet to shed it's prejudices and hatred for all things different, it's fair to assume that those on the other side have also had no success in fighting their nature, and would view us as a threat should we establish contact.
Case of point, should we want to survive we should cooperate, as as long as there are humans we know nothing about there is the potential that there is evil far far worse that what we see in our rivals.

If we remain divided our fate will be painful and bitter.

We seem to be doing well enough so far. Quality of life, longevity, scientific understanding, technological prowess, by a whole host of metrics, ours is a graph which consistently trends upwards.

And at no stage in human history have we been united. The evidence would appear to suggest that division among humanity is a broadly positive influence, or at least not a significantly negative one. The one time we DID suffer a sharp drop in the graph was in the aftermath of a natural disaster on a galactic scale.

it seems strange and poorly-founded to me to claim that we're headed for a fall if we don't change from the state we have occupied basically forever under which we have done nothing but grow.

Does that mean we shouldn't strive to treat each other with some respect and remain aware that we're not so different deep down? Of course not. But we don't need to unify into one cohesive whole. When an engine does that, it seizes and becomes useless.

I was not arguing that we should rid ourselves of our individuality or our cultures, only that the our differences thus far is dangerously bordering xenophobic. We may never be a single state across the cosmos, but at the moment i would compare us to the ancient periods of earth, from what historical documents i could find, which weren't filled with fantasy or propagnda, such as the warring states in a place called china, or the tales of quite a barbaric land known as greece. both eventually collapsed inwards due either to becoming xenophobic and stagnant, or from being conquered by a more unified enemy force.

Stitcher, the idea that we seem to de doing well enough is a naive or ignorant one, thousands of our people live in chains, ritual sacrifice is rampant, piracy is seen as a legitimate career path. Corporations dictate much of our life and run the galaxy like warlords. Our technology may have improved in leaps and bounds but as a people we have if anything regressed into savages taking pleasure in the pain of others. Even we the gallente take pleasure in lording over others with our self sense of superiority and from our moral high grounds we look done on others.

This needs to change.

P.S i forgot to mention with our newest and most highly praised tech, our clones, we risk damaging the dna, when you copy something you lose a little of the original in the process, and if you the copy the copy etc etc, your spelling for trouble similar to that of the joves.

We may have been the same in the past, but we succeeded despite of that, not because of it. Must we forever repeat the follies of our ancestors?

Informative reading.

Contact me once you've had the time to read it - we can perhaps discuss your questions privately once you clearly understand both your theory on origin and evolution and those that oppose it.

Fascinating, i did not realise Earthology was viewed with such disbelief. Surely people cannot be so closed minded, and these books i have of old earth tales, ancient as they are, are they just fiction? Written by a man with too much time on his hands? I must investigate this further. This has been eye opening, thank you.

My fears exactly, and without a single front to meet those from the other sides, if they do turn out hostile, they'll will most probably play off our differences to destroy us. Once more ill repeat myself, i'm not saying a single nation is the answer only that in our current form we are significantly lacking and we seem to be drifting further apart, not closer

The "books" you have are probably an elaborate con.

You got scammed, sweetheart.

Que Sansha's Nation...

Mr. Wickonian, I would certainly hope so. However I would not rule out the thought that if, then we as a species would perhaps come full circle.




Pilot Kim, is there a place on the IGS in which you do not spill your bile and disgusting hate filled rhetoric? Mr. Wickonian sparked an interesting conversation, and the grown ups are trying to hold a conversation.

Pilot Stitcher it might indeed be reasonable to assume any of a number of things in regard to the collapse of the EVE Gate, that does not make them facts. Destruction on our side took place where the immigration first took hold in this cluster, the same may not be true about the other side. The other side might have been a back water system only discovered thousands of years after humanity made it's way into space. They may have only lost a door into adventure when we lost a path to our roots.

I myself would not be so sure It would be a happy reunion. The technological differences and the sociological differences that can spawn over the course of thousands of years can slant the playing field.

I choose to think the other side suffered worse then we did, that is why God chose the Amarr. The Amarr will one day reunite both sides of the EVE gate in the name of God. It is our destiny.