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The most profound question.
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Apollo Lyserius
Minerva Technologies
#21 - 2014-03-03 02:37:39 UTC
I don't fight.

Although I can.
Kucial Kinan
Kinani Consortium
#22 - 2014-03-03 03:40:45 UTC
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:
If you must justify what you're doing, you should not be doing it.


A justification is provided for every action, even if only to oneself unconsciously and without brevity.
Astera Zandraki
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2014-03-03 03:45:07 UTC
Not so long ago I woulda said 'freedom and democracy!' or some **** like that, now though... Me, mine and the sheer adrenalin pumping fun of it... Oh, and enough money for all the things I want..
Slave A00073078
Northern Raven Reconnaissance Syndicate
#24 - 2014-03-03 09:32:13 UTC
I fight because my owner says to. Thou he prefers to handle that himself most of the time.
Karynn Denton
Lekhantsi Salvage Depot
#25 - 2014-03-03 12:11:56 UTC
I'm an Outrider with my Caravan. That has it's own obvious duties, but I wouldn't be honest if I said they were the sole reasons for fighting.

It's more personal than that. It's the thrill of the chase, the fleeting looks and glimpses before the full embrace of the warp scrambler. It's the dance, the twists and turns as we fight for range, the lashing tongue of the nos, the pounding of the autocannons.

And in a brilliant white-hot flash, it's over - that moment hangs, suspended in time - one of us has been reduced to scrap, the other victorious; but in that moment, I don't care. All that matters is the rush of the explosion, of the Exile and Drop coursing through me, of the fact that I just laughed in death's face once again.

And as I release a shuddering breath, reality kicks back in - am I still in my ship? Do I need to GTFO? Are there spoils to collect? Is anyone else incoming? The salutes exchanged in the Local channel say far more than the simple two letters belie; "gf".

Karynn Denton

Caravan Master
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#26 - 2014-03-03 12:44:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Pieter Tuulinen
At first because it was expected of me. Then out of revenge and hatred. Then because my kirjuunet needed me.

Of course there's the reasons you don't talk about at parties. Because you've got a certain psychological.predisposition for it and because, eventually, you come to enjoy it. Others have waxed lyrical about the joys of combat, so I'll only add that when you hunt in a wolfpack it's also an intensely social experience.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient
Electus Matari
#27 - 2014-03-03 12:55:26 UTC
There is this: whatever your reasons for battle to begin with, eventually you either become it, or you quit. It is not just that combat can be fun (it can) or that we come to enjoy victory (we will), but also that you can only follow a path so long before it becomes The Way.

But that we are personally changed by the experience does not mean the original reasons - kin, nation, our ways of life - cease to exist. And without those original reasons, the path would overgrow so much that not enough would follow it to maintain the battle.

Else
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#28 - 2014-03-03 13:02:58 UTC
Quote:
Why do you fight, capsuleer?


The question seems to suppose that there's an alternative.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders
Fredfredbug4
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2014-03-03 20:05:17 UTC
I fight to protect my corporation and my country from those who wish to do them harm.

Watch_ Fred Fred Frederation_ and stop [u]cryptozoologist[/u]! Fight against the brutal genocide of fictional creatures across New Eden! Is that a metaphor? Probably not, but the fru-fru- people will sure love it!
Christine Peeveepeeski
Low Sec Concepts
#30 - 2014-03-03 20:11:02 UTC
Because someone showed up in local comms systems that didn't show up as positive standing towards me.

I used to have reasons, then the powers that be made a mockery of the empyrean wars allowing countless innocents to suffer in a war that is war in name only. Instead its just a game played by capsuleers that have no interest in anything beyond farming ludicrous amounts of LP.

Now I I just don't care who I shoot, no point having reasons beyond the pleasure in wanton destruction. I have an allegiance to very old friends who remain in the amarrian militia but other than those few anyone goes as targets. Oddly I've found a few people from both sides of the warzone find my new neutrality somewhat useful ^^ You sneaky matari devils you, not as clean cut as you'd like us to think... funny. Slavery sucks right? Any other ethical codes are fair game to break it seems.

Matari by blood, capsuleer by soul. I can't change how I look but I'll be damned if you get the wrong first impression heh.

Elsebeth does say something that resonates with something i had thought about in the past though. I have been shooting people for so long now it's just what i do... I don't just enjoy it, I revel in it, I live for it... I guess its just The Way.
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#31 - 2014-03-05 03:07:01 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
Quote:
Why do you fight, capsuleer?


The question seems to suppose that there's an alternative.

But there is! Peace, love, tolerance, compassion, and deactivating Nauppie's and Kimmy's clones (it would go a long way, at least). But that would be boring.

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#32 - 2014-03-05 14:48:04 UTC
And all it takes is one pilot who doesn't buy into the "hold hands and sing" circlejerk to bring everything crashing down.

I fight because other pilots don't give me the option not to.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders
Lucien Rouen
#33 - 2014-03-05 14:56:57 UTC
I actually haven't yet. When I do, I assume it will be because someone else is shooting at me. Or it was my job. Or something. It isn't really on my "To Do" list at the moment.
Anatole Madullier
Alexylva Paradox
#34 - 2014-03-05 15:09:10 UTC
When I started out in pod I wasn't much for fighting. Many who know me can attest to that. I believe the term "hippy dippy stuff" was used somewhere along the lines. A lot of my mindset in that changed when I found something worth fighting for.

I'll readily admit I am not one of the best combat pilots out there. But I'll fight to the last antimatter round to protect those I care for.

ॐ
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