Intergalactic Summit

Phone, personal communicator, neural implant.

It's all semantics and works on the same principle of transmitting radio waves to a switching mechanism like an FTL transceiver.

For all the claims that Matar are backwards, we seem to be only ones in the universe who actually know how machines work.

PS - I can build you a "phone" ,yes like those old-fashioned devices people used to carry in their pockets, 30 Ghz faster than Lai Dai's devices and best of all not "locked down" so you can easily download media without paying 300 credits per song. Contact me to discuss a fair price.

Oh there are many ways they're backwards, but I'll give credit where it's due: Their ships aren't. Well, their weapons are... and the electronics... but the hulls & engines are quite sound and surprisingly durable, do to so many utterly redundant systems: Which also makes modification quite easy, as whatever you had to throw out to make space probably wasn't really needed in the first place.

Once you rip out the electronics and put some top of the line Caldari computers & shield systems in there, supplement it with Gallente drones & targeting systems, and then reinforce it all with proper Amarrian armor & automatic repair systems... now you've got a very impressive ship. And that's not all sarcasm, either - that "junkiness" is what lets you do all that with ease. Kitbashing all that stuff together into hulls from any of the other three nations is an engineering nightmare, as everything is already fit to very tight specifications & functions. But Minmitar design "sloppiness" gives their ships more room to play, and adding a part here or tossing out a part there doesn't make the whole thing fall apart when you turn it on.

To put it in an analogy, working on most ship is like working on a high yield fission reactor. In comparison, working on a Minmatar ship is like working on an old fashioned fossil fuel combustion engine. Guess which is easier to tinker with without exploding?

Sure, ton for ton it's not as powerful, but overwhelming numbers has become an integral part of Minmitar military doctrine - which works when you breed like bunnies ("It's your duty to the tribe, babe! Promote the master bloodline!" Ugh). One Slasher is laughable, but then again there is no such thing as just one Slasher. They attack in swarms, like angry ants, and when your ships are cheap and can be slapped together in hours, those swarms can get massive indeed.

I'm not sure if I should be laughing or crying at the ignorance of Ms. Ji-Young. Probably the former.

Well we can laugh about it, but anyone Amarr capsuleers should be deeply ashamed of the apparent poor quality of education from their alma matter (or that they pass students who don't pay attention in the "how not to die" classes)

Laughing so hard that I shed tears? I like that idea!

The Slasher, sir, is an engineering miracle.



This is a sentiment that will take you far in life as a frigate pilot, and will not lead to the loss of your expensive Imperial Navy-issue frigate to a ship that cost less than your guns.

I believe those are the radiators.

The technical term I am informed, is the "top wingy bit" or "bottom wingy bit". Personaly I call them targets of opportunity, a reactor goes critical faster when there is nowhere to dump excess heat but inside the vessel.

Ideally to the cargo hold.

Full of ammo.

Even the best fitted ships are useless in the hands of inexperienced and/or clueless pilots.

Meanwhile "lesser" ships can be lethal in the hands of those who know frigate combat like the back of their hand.


Somewhere there is a loss mail I'm sure of a Slicer pilot who had no idea what he was doing the day a Slasher took his ship apart.