Intergalactic Summit

What is your point here ?



This point, I understood it fully. I think that you, actually, did not understand mine at all.




That is your problem, not ours. I own no grief against the Nation - that I personally find very interesting as a concept - except that it has now become a question of survival to oppose it.



This is ludicrous. What is worth of respect is what you achieve to do, not the fancy risks you take or the things you do "just for the show". What is worth of respect are one's ideals, or what one tries to achieve, not how many risks one takes. Is life a contest of "who will risk one's life the most" for you ?



Every outlaw faction can be painted in shades of grey. Yet that does not mean they can even be equated to these empire factions on a scale of morals and ethics.

I hope you're enjoying the view from atop that moral high horse you're sitting on Ms. Farel. Allow me to offer you a handkerchief so you can deal with the inevitable nosebleed from that rarefied atmosphere.

You may not work for the Imperials anymore but, you certainly have their haughty righteous attitude down.

Again, you misunderstand.

I have respect for all capsuleers, carebear and militia alike.

I just have a bit more respect for the militia because when someone asks for help, we're out there helping, instead of worrying about how helping is going to impact our profit margin.

The capsuleer privateers of TLF crew their ships with Minmatar freemen. The capsuleer privateers of the 24th crew their ships with Minmatar slaves. When the two groups clash the end result is more dead minmatar. Changing the name on a few backwater worlds that neither faction actually cares about is a waste of your time. The Faction 'war' isn't a patriotic struggle. It's a blood sport, were for the TLF and the 24th score is kept by measuring the two mountains of minmatar corpses.

No, it certainly is not.

Show me. No one is ever forced to crew any of my ships. I must have faith in my crew and they must have faith in what we are doing. How else am I to expect to enlighten anyone?

But again, this has degraded from a discussion on my work trying to help people from all walks find their faith. Which I do without chains, whips, drugs or lasers. Instead, we again start talking about who can blow who up. While I have no moral issues destroying the ships of those who target me, my crew, other loyalist capsuleers, or the brave crew of our Imperial Navy, I do so only in the hopes that we get an opportunity to speak with the unenlightened populace.

These rebels have shown time and time again that they do not WANT to know of God, and that is fine, they don't believe in the divine retribution that will come. A shame, but not in my control and not my focus. What they are doing, is preventing others from hearing the Lord's voice, and that IS something I can not allow.

It's true that faith, real faith, can takes years, generations, even millennia to be found. But the sooner we start, the sooner they can all rejoice in His splendour.

Those of you who don't agree, who wish to fight all Amarr to the bitter end, I understand. I regret that I cannot save you, but I will accept that. Should this change, I will welcome that change. You never have to explain to me why you don't believe. But you will not change my mind or any of those who walk this path either. So stop filling up my comms with your inane dribble. I did start the conversation with...



Perhaps that should be a hint that you don't have an interest in what was to follow? You've all shown that you have enough grasp of language to understand that concept.

Minmatar slaves or even freemen who've accepted the Amarrian faith are still Minmatar. My point being that real life isn't black and white and a letter of mark doesn't make Astrid Stjerna a swashbuckling hero. It makes her somebody who kills her kin for profit, pleasure and prestige. Capsuleers are only heroes on the holo-screen and it was my hope to convey that message to pilot Stirena before she's collected as many ghosts as I have.

My point had nothing to do with your interest or lack of interest in S&M fetishes.

The Reclaiming started when the Udorians arrived on the Amarr landmass, and oppressed the True Amarr, who became fanatic zealots as a result, eventually subduing the Udorians in the first Imperial Crusade.

Nope.

I make no claims that I'm some kind of 'hero', swashbuckling or otherwise, and I don't want 'prestige' for taking a life. o say I take 'pleasure' in killing someone is almost insulting; I'm not a psychopath, Captain Grayson. And you're right -- there's nothing 'noble' about what I do.

During my combat training, I practiced on a holosim of an Amarrian attack fleet. My instructor watched me try and avoid Matari casualties, and had this to say:

'Once the enemy figures out that you won't kill your own people, they'll put Matari slaves on every ship and every planet, and your war will end before it even begins.'