Intergalactic Summit

I surely hope not. I spend more time with baseliners than other capsuleers. The company is simply better, and your average baseliner is a lot more self-secure.

While I am in the lab, at least, I am surrounded by my friends and kirjuunen, who aren't capsuleers. I get a lot of social time as it is!

I'm a wormholer, I do not leave my egg unless someone forcibly cracks it open with a particle blaster. On those rare occasions I am stuck in a station I would rather wait in my pod until I can leave. The few times I have walked around since becoming a capsuler were disconcerting to me. I have never felt more feeble, more blind and paralyzed than when sitting on a couch watching some vapid news broadcast. I missed the feeling of warm solar winds blow across my skin, the fabric of time and space yielding to my will. I kept trying to assess the magnetic fluctuations of the room I was in and was unable to do so. I felt like a dog trapped in a small metal box.


These days I use micro-drones as virtual presence devices to communicate with people outside my capsule. In a strange way people seem much more receptive to a small floating ball than they are with a capsuler with plugs and implants. I've even been able to use them onboard my ships to interact with my crew. Although Im not usually good with people I've been able to strike up a report with my chief engineer. We converse regularly now and as a result I feel much more informed about general operations on my ship.

My out-of-pod workplace ambiance is usually filled with constant chatter. Orders going from here to there, callsigns and cyphers, requests for reinforcements or orbital bombardments, reports of enemy positions and holes in our own defensive line, new ships broadcasting their arrival to the cluster, lists of names belonging to those no longer able to serve the State, news about potential developments from all over known and unknown space. It's what I've been around my entire career, so it seems odd when it's gone. I can't really say I can stand silence or meditation for longer than ten, fifteen, twenty minutes at most. I was never one given to introspection or self-discovery.

In my off time, I watch the random war holovid, read after-action reports on engagements old and new, look over intel on distant clusters and systems, and be a generally uninteresting person. I listen to music now and then, but it's mostly on just to have something in the background. The only time I enjoy the quiet is when I'm looking over my collection of junk; sleeper artifacts, random rogue drone components, unique trinkets from assorted dead cultures,ect.

When it comes to my crew, I get along fine with the people who man my various ships. I've known a good amount of them for a good amount of time, and considering the kinds of ships I fly, I rarely loose crew members. Those who I find aren't suitable to the kind of work I do are shuffled off to some other department; it takes a certain kind of courage and mental fortitude to survive the depths of space in which I fly. I have nothing against those who can't make the cut, so long as they don't cost me in people or ships.

As someone else mentioned, being a wormholer I spend a great deal of time in my little pod. On operations, or even just idling cloaked somewhere, the ambience for me usually consists of a little comm-chatter and a bit of friendly smack between colleagues. In the odd occasion I find myself alone then I'll sometimes listen to my favorite music to help pass the time or generate some motivation to actually do something.

When in my quarters, or wandering the halls in our tower, I've usually got the deep hum of the tower's systems to keep me company. Often though the sounds of music can be heard, either when hosting guests or when spending some time in our gym. Unlike the previous wormholer who posted, I still feel time out of pod is very important, one of our most natural and powerful states in fact, so you'll often find me in the tower's gym during off-hours with a selection of loud, motivational music echoing through the facility. A healthy body helps provide a healthy mind, something that should be very important to capsuleers.


I recently visited a friend in Empire who said a similar thing to me. I'm not sure if it was a ploy to entice me to stay another day or not, but I have to agree with the sentiment. At least in theory, as beyond my siblings and our Corp's pilots I've no such person to return to.

That visit to my friend's home planet-side did also open my mind, and ears, to another source of ambience however; that of nature itself. Birds, animals, even the simple sounds of the wind or rushing water in a pretty river. Not something I'm used to really, and something that many of us should maybe spend more time indulging in. It's very easy to forget our heritage at times and the very reason we have legs to begin with.

Looks like he's certainly been delivering...

*blinks*