Intergalactic Summit

Care about it? Plenty.

Influence it? Uhhhh....

Some choose to maintain their humanity, some choose to take the next step. It's all a matter of choice for us and that is our greatest power - not being immortal or our ability to interface with ships. We have complete control over our own destinies and fates. The only restrictions that bind us are the ones we place upon ourselves.

You state that you "understand caring for all people." This is presumably because you consider yourself a part of humanity in some fashion - that what affects humanity affects you in some sense beyond the purely practical.

The reasoning is the same for the other groups and factions. If someone feels they are a part of a group - either culturally, ideologically, or in a more literal sense of citizenship and history - they may maintain a level of attachment. When faced with the tantalizing aspects of political nihilism, some choose to hold to values that are attached to more stable and situated identities.

Beyond this ideological or cultural aspect, there is plenty of practical reasoning behind the Empires remaining important to a capsuleer. Despite the oft-mentioned increasing power of capsuleers and their independent factions, the Empires and the capsuleers who involve themselves with them still have significant impact on the cluster economically, structurally, developmentally, and a variety of other easily imagined ways.

And finally, there is the most simple answer. If you care about humanity, you must ask yourself, "Where does humanity live?" In the Empires. To care about humanity but not care about the Empires would seem to be an untenable position. Nothing has a greater effect on humanity than the actions of the Empires, by quite a large margin. If you value humanity and its future, Empire business is your business.

What, you vote? I could probably get Gallente citizenship tomorrow.


Work? The only people you need to work for are the Caldari and Amarr. I admit the people in Dodixie are much more friendly, but Jita and Amarr are the only places really worth buying anything.


All I know is that Amarr gives the best money.

The war in general is an artificial one, built to keep capsuleers occupied killing skeleton-crew battlecruisers with mining frigates before hibernating for twenty minutes instead of doing whatever it is commanders are afraid of capsuleers doing. It's a worthless conflict that serves no one but the industrialists who make warp core stabilisers.


You're right. I better train into a Rorqual.

A single carrier can tank an entire system's navy for hours. I wonder how many million crew a fleet could kill before the blood and metal turned into a planetoid.


So long and thanks for all the isk.

(All five thousand of it.)


I don't know about you, but I don't need PLEXes. I think it has something to do with that recent influx of newbies buying theirs.


I'm fairly sure CONCORD has never gone into a wormhole.


No thanks. I prefer men.

And certain kinds of women, but none of them look like you.

It is an illusion for us capsuleers to believe we can completely divorce ourselves from the politics of the empires. Those who choose to do so, and it is a choice, are merely deceiving themselves. Does this deception inhibit their desires, their happiness, or their riches? No of course not. As immortals we are free to elect on which level we will care or not care.

Know this however, were any of the empires to feel threatened or feel the need for territorial expansion, the alliances, and their paper cities in null sec would crumble one system at a time.

Non-caring, wormhole-dwelling, politically-ignorant goddess checking in.

Have your people get in touch with mine to arrange the spanking session at your leisure.

Inquiring minds wish to know if this will be a public or private event.

Eve Uni professors?

What in Bob's name could they hope to gain from observing such a spectacle?

Then you're either not a capsuleer (which makes you a liar) or you're a liar (which makes you a liar). Your pod and neocom will not work at all without paying your dues to CONCORD. This is a fact, stop lying.

Speaking of making proper payments to CONCORD, the battle of B-R5RB? Only happened because someone forgot to pay CONCORD a bill.

I for one would like to see capsuleers become more independent from CONCORD, however the current state of things makes it impossible for us to even exist without their jurisdiction. Until pilot's licenses are suspended, SBUs power down, and clone growing becomes an independent service, you, me, and everyone in nullsec are CONCORD's bitches.