Intergalactic Summit

If that's what you want to call making love to a mirror, go for it. Lemme know when the rest sinks into that void you call a brain. Or don't, there's enough self spotlighting execs in the State already, and I can't muster any real interest in somebody with a case of cranial-rectal inversion as bad as yours. Later egger! I've got Big Kid conversations to have.

I won't, dear! Make sure the kids get to bed on time! Luffs!

Martial arts. Effectively people trying to peacock. We're in the age of weapons people, there is no need for this junk.

That, and touching people is disgusting.

Jurou doesn't do disciplined, spiritual or mentally healthy, Verin.

And for everyone else, there's judicious dosages of individually tailored chemicals. And fluffy animatronic teddybears. Big ones. In a pen. Fuzzy heaven.

IThe fact I chose to reject the state is a indication of mental health, as well as spiritual.

Where I am now is the symbolism of that.

Let the fuzzies love you, Verin. They only want to love you.

Having done a fair share of track and field back in Uni I do enjoy running as a working out sort of regime.

Naturally, considering that I have become quiet adept at running away from fights. It's a good self defence mechanism.

Like Hakatain, I was in the watch once upon a time so I received similar training, though I was starship command crew rather than SWAT so there was a focus on repelling boarders on your spaceship (scenarios involving tight corridors and possibly lack of gravity). I received some additional training when I was transfered to the Navy, though some fast tracking was involved. Maybe that's not a likely scenario by any stretch of the imagination, but we were trained in case everything went wrong.

I may be a bit rusty, but at least due to the wonders of cloning technology my body is not as old as it should be. That doesn't mean I'm not likely screwed if I get to the point I need to attempt to use those skills.


Well most of us didn't become capsuleers the second we were legally considered adults, so we had prior careers. A number of us have military backgrounds and self defense and marksmanship is a component of basic training for most organizations.

Then of course there's those who take it up as a hobby. There's health benefits from practicing martial arts like there is with other forms of exercise, and not being mugged probably also counts as a health benefit.


It is disappointing so many people miss the primary lesson of many schools of martial arts that if you fight eventually you will lose so fighting should ideally be avoided, and the fact that a good teacher teaches just as much in the mental and interpersonal skills necessary to defuse a situation before it escalates.

This I can agree with. If it comes down to it, finish it fast and with no chance for an opponant to come back on you. Dead or incapacitated. There is no such thing as fair play in a life or death fight.