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Capsuleers Before They Were Capsuleers
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Ashlar Vellum
Esquire Armaments
#41 - 2014-05-14 22:14:38 UTC
Mazian Arody wrote:
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:

Why does everyone assume that a creche upbringing is sub-optimal? Many of my happiest memories are of my sibkin and the times we had together growing up.


My response was less about the creche, though that is very alien to my own upbringing, but more about being raised as Kameira.

Why do you think it is horrible?
Charles Cambridge Schmidt
Nadire Security Consultants
Federation Peacekeepers
#42 - 2014-05-15 05:04:52 UTC
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:
I get all the best jobs that cause outrage on the Federal GalNet Blogs.

I'm waggling my fist in distasteful anger. How dare you! (I don't actually care don't tell anyone plz thx)


When I was a baseliner, I hopped around jobs with my wife for a while before taking a steady job on a mobile laboratory. That went up in smoke, quite literally. Really inconvenient for staying alive, according to what happened to my acquaintances and misses.

Also, stellar job on the edit of that one holo series. I had a decent laugh.

I don't care what you think, as long as it's about me.
Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#43 - 2014-05-15 07:00:54 UTC
I was a slave to the Casern Family on Thebeka in Ardishapur Domain for most of my life. I was gifted an upper education by my Custodian and permitted to help her manage her business. My family and I were emancipated when I was in my 20's, and my parents used a donation from our lords to move to the Republic. I really didn't want to move and was scared of leaving the Empire.

We got a place on Rens, and I began naturalization courses. I enrolled in the RU's capsuleer program awhile after finishing those. I was able to get a scholarship to pay for most of it, but I had to work evenings and summers to afford the rest. I was really stressed and almost dropped out of the program a few times, though I didn't have as much issue with the proprioception course as the other students did; I found the dep tanks relaxing. I opted out of the euthanization, I thank God that it wasn't a requirement for certification back then like it is now. I'd never have certified if it was, and I'd be stuck with a mountain of debt that I'd never have been able to pay off.

I moved back to the Empire after getting my license.
Mazian Arody
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#44 - 2014-05-15 15:41:42 UTC
Ashlar Vellum wrote:
Mazian Arody wrote:
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:

Why does everyone assume that a creche upbringing is sub-optimal? Many of my happiest memories are of my sibkin and the times we had together growing up.


My response was less about the creche, though that is very alien to my own upbringing, but more about being raised as Kameira.

Why do you think it is horrible?


In the Kingdom we heard stories about the Kameiras. They were bred for strength and aggressiveness, rigorously trained for combat and indoctrinated into the Faith. It was said that death was the outcome for any Kameira who did not succeed at the trials they faced at different times in their lives, even as children.

I know this marks me as the product of privilege and wealth. My childhood was marked by a lack of freedom, but I never wanted for anything other than freedom. And as I described, the limits on my liberty were mostly illusory. For a Kameira, the lack of freedom is real, even beyond that experienced by most slaves.

But I will defer to Ayallah if she chooses to describe her life in more detail. I have only heard stories.
Komodo Askold
Strategic Exploration and Development Corp
Silent Company
#45 - 2014-05-18 22:11:19 UTC
Coming from Sebiestor blood, it's not a surprise I soon developed a deep interest in all things engineering. Since that interest was only rivalled by a love to nature and space... Well, you can imagine the rest.
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