Intergalactic Summit

It would appear long years of drug use have affected your attention span or reading comprehension, Mr. Pryce. Alternatively, your massive ego may be blocking blood flow to your brain.

I like it when 12 day old pod pilots dictate to who I am and what I have done. You must have achieved such insight in your long career. I am in awe, no really, I am. This is my serious face.

Second throw-away line in a row, Vinnie?

What a waste of my time.

Forgive us for the disruption, everybody else.

Must hurt that no one takes you seriously, little songbird. Maybe one day, but not today.

Eh. What can I say? Seems I have a knack of finding pompous idiots who can't form intelligible comebacks.

My sweet little, Songbird. You've misconstrued me, if you'd pause for a moment you might even see this. You and Little Cow, are so quick to fling mud you do not even pay attention to what the discussion was about. Maybe it's ironic that you remind of myself and Andreus in our younger, more foolish days.

I called out one person a naïve idiot for thinking that there'd be anything less than death as the outcome for the victims of Ocilan's cult. While one can have intellectual discussions with Nacittal, he can be very polite after all, there is still only one goal for those who follow Ocilan's teachings. That is death, and one would be stupid to assume otherwise. I called out Scherezad out brutally, because kindness wasted upon strangers is kindness wasted. Besides, customers who drop business negotiations without a word deserve no good treatment. Speaking of which we now have a surplus of Lai Dai Deteis for anyone interested.

I've indulged your petty little ego enough for now. Maybe that's your problem, your inflated ego, you are nobody, you have nothing and that makes you so insecure that you have the need to lash out at anyone who actually has done something. I pity you, Songbird and I pity your friend Little Cow too. Both of you expect the populace to take you seriously, but no one does. You are nobody, and until that changes, you will be nothing but playthings for the real players - and before you go on a tangent, I do not mean myself. It is those who validate your insignificant existence you should be afraid of, those are the ones who pull your strings to make you dance.

Stop this bickering you twits. Until he tortures you, lights you on fire, sexually harasses your wife, and seduces not one, but two of your subordinates and friends, you are not allowed to act bitter towards Vincent Pryce. Yet, even considering all of that, I am not going to exercise that right today.

Vincent is right. Affording Koronakesh any quarter is a dire mistake that he will not hesitate to take advantage of. That includes even a modicum of respect, be it begrudging or otherwise. There is nothing left inside that hollow shell of a man that is redeemable. If you attempt to delve into his mechanical mind or blackened heart you will find only a hungering demon, grasping at those who still live so that he may drag them into his own personal hell. He will take people whether they are willing or not, corrupting their ideas and perspectives on the universe until they are just like him. He can do this by using his clever rhetoric and superficial charisma, or he can bring simple mind-breaking anguish in the form of mental, emotional or physical torment.

Clearly none of you know this monster. I do.

I must say that Koronakesh is one of the few capsuleers that instills a pang of trepidation in my heart every time he rears his ugly head. I am not ashamed at this fear, because it is well deserved. Thankfully my hatred is stronger than that fear. That may seem like a sad statement, but what so many fail to realize is that hatred has a purpose, and that purpose is to protect oneself and others against people like he.

Anyone who looks him in the eye and fails to see the gaping, life-thirsting maw that lies in place of his soul is blind. Anyone who attempts to reach out towards that maw is a fool. Anyone who embraces that maw will find me behind them, ready to destroy the new demon left behind.

What the... I.. uh... I got nothing.

I believe somewhere a lava planet has just frozen over.

Touché, Aldrith.

Mr. Pryce.

The Equilibrium of Mankind can not hope to realize their aim to sterilize the cluster with their current numbers. Moreover, the Seekers are a mixed-race corporation themselves. So, there is some reason to believe that there was no deviation from their customary offer of conversion or death beyond being an "imbecile," or "having an IQ a tiny bit larger than your shoe size," or even much in the way of respect for pilot Koronakesh' personal virtues.

This is what I believe pilot Fernae was trying to express. You could've reached the same conclusion, or asked for clarification, but Instead you leapt straight to the most negative interpretation, and the most condescension you could muster to reply.

I merely made some educated guesses as to why you did so.

As for your comments, pilot Shutaq -- well. While I empathize with your sorrows, I do not feel the need to study geology or be caught in a rockfall to hold an opinion on the stone I stubbed my toe on. My apologies if this offends you.