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The Immortal Coil

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Nephthys Dacella
Doomheim
#1 - 2011-12-03 01:53:21 UTC
Hello boys and girls!

How are you all? Doing okay?

I'm Nephthys, and if you can spare the time I'd love to tell you about this thing of mine, The Immortal Coil.

With the pressures of a pod pilot's life it can be hard to find the time to meet new people outside of your corporation or immediate circle of friends. We are very aware of how vast distances, polarising events, and politics are cold realities for many capsuleers and that some of you might even feel a little isolated or trapped in a routine that offers you few chances of meeting anybody new. Don't you guys and girls worry though, we're here to help!

We are a new kind of friends/dating and matching service with a different spin from the anything else you might find out there on Galnet. We specialise in facilitating messaging and exchanges between anonymous clients. That's right, we act as intermediaries between clients that don't know who eachother are, but who attempt to find something in common to write to one another about. The idea might sound a little scary to some of you, but I promise it's much easier than it first sounds. After we've carried some letters back and forth between two parties for a little while, and we're satisfied things are going well, we back off and leave the two of you alone to work things out between yourselves.

If you want to learn some more about how Immortal Coil works, my girl Chanelle and I wrote down all the details and put them right over here.

Now that's all out of the way, I'd like to invite all of you to register with us right >>here<< Please don't feel shy, I can assure you that we consider your privacy to be our top priority. We're going to leave our registration open for a few days before we begin to publish any of your listings in our journal, and we'll have more news about that when the time comes.

As a rule we do not like to force or contrive two people together, and leave all of the personal listings for others to read and act upon. At times though, we might hire a contracted advisor from the community. This will be an individual that does not have access to your identifying information; all that our advisor will do is read the listings and maybe propose a match between two listed members if they feel that the pair may be compatible. We then take our advisor's recommendations and give both parties a nudge to see if they might want to write to one another.

One last thing - all mails for Immortal Coil are to go to me, Nephthys Dacella.

I hope some of you guys will check us out. Remember pilots, you can always agree to lie about how you met.

Nephthys XXX
Mikkel Lybecker
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2011-12-03 02:35:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Mikkel Lybecker
Capsuleers make the very worst partners, for a whole host of reasons, but not least because of their unwarranted self-importance and massive egos, something that is virtually universal (and no, I don't exempt myself there - hypocrisy noted, thank you). Who has time to date and pilot at the same time anyway. I'll wait till I retire from capsuleering before I even start thinking about this, and when I do, if I find out the guy has a pod licence or plugs he's getting dropped quicker than a Reaper pilot who just stole my can.

Oh, and in before space lesbians, which seems to be about 98% of you female pilots for some odd reason.
Myxx
The Scope
#3 - 2011-12-03 04:34:07 UTC
You're too green to be handling communications as a courier for anyone. This is likely a ploy to use the person in the middle approach to gather information on a wide selection of potential targets.
Norrin Ellis
Doomheim
#4 - 2011-12-03 05:10:56 UTC
First, I should wish Ms. Dacella well in her endeavor. Finding someone with whom to share the adventure of life is certainly challenging, and it's nice to see people out there willing to help.

I must disagree with Ms. Lybecker, though. As long as I remain a pilot, only another capsuleer is a suitable partner, if only for the simple fact that the average lifespan of a capsuleer is far beyond that of the general population. The inevitable end of such a mismatch is that one party grows old and dies before the capsuleer even considers turning the clock forward a year or two on his clone contracts. That's not fair to either individual and practically guarantees broken hearts.
Mikkel Lybecker
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-12-03 05:28:06 UTC
Another reason to not date capsuleers - thanks for reminding me - people who use cloning to extend their life are just plain creepy and weird. I don't want to go out with some young looking guy onto to find out that he's old enough to be my grandfather - yuck. That's why I'm smoking and drinking and doing all sorts of boosters as much as possible when I'm not in the pod - I need to accelerate my aging to compensate for the fact that I can't always go and update my clone with my actual body every other week. That way, when I get to 80, I'm actually going to look 80, damnit.
Nick Bete
Highsec Haulers Inc.
#6 - 2011-12-03 06:28:47 UTC
I can certainly understand Pilot Lybecker's jaded attitude what with all the heinous acts that we of the capsuleer class commit on a daily basis but, the optimist in me continues to believe that there's more good than evil in us and that most of us are hoping to make a romantic connection with another. Maybe I'm naive but, I think there's always hope.

Good luck to Ms. Dacella and her associates in this noble venture.
Jev North
Doomheim
#7 - 2011-12-03 08:05:55 UTC
Norrin Ellis wrote:
As long as I remain a pilot, only another capsuleer is a suitable partner, if only for the simple fact that the average lifespan of a capsuleer is far beyond that of the general population.

I understand it's something of an eyebrow-raising event for relationships involving capsuleers to last past the three-month mark.. and statistical outliers need only void their clone contracts if they find they can't go on with life after love.

Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.

Verone
Veto Corp
#8 - 2011-12-03 23:20:13 UTC
Jev North wrote:
Norrin Ellis wrote:
As long as I remain a pilot, only another capsuleer is a suitable partner, if only for the simple fact that the average lifespan of a capsuleer is far beyond that of the general population.

I understand it's something of an eyebrow-raising event for relationships involving capsuleers to last past the three-month mark.. and statistical outliers need only void their clone contracts if they find they can't go on with life after love.


Consider your eyebrows raised.

Almost four years for myself and my fiancée, and still going strong.

Verone CEO & Executor Veto Corp WWW.VETO-CORP.COM

Nephthys Dacella
Doomheim
#9 - 2011-12-05 10:31:40 UTC
Thankyou to those that have registered so far, and thanks to the wellwishers here.

I could still use a few more of you, so please check out the registration form. If you are potentially interested but there's anything at all you're unsure of or you'd like me to explain something better then by all means send me a mail.

Nausea
Sisters of the Blade
#10 - 2011-12-05 17:21:49 UTC
Nick Bete wrote:
I can certainly understand Pilot Lybecker's jaded attitude what with all the heinous acts that we of the capsuleer class commit on a daily basis but, the optimist in me continues to believe that there's more good than evil in us and that most of us are hoping to make a romantic connection with another. Maybe I'm naive but, I think there's always hope.



Surely that would make them an even more appropriate candidate? I would doubt it'd be terribly easy for a non-capsuleer to make much of a connection to one of us, on that level, without some idea of what it is we go through and experience on a day-to-day basis...

And pilot Myxx? My my, such cynicism and paranoia... not that it might not be true, but even myself some months back might have thought it could be going a bit far.

Unless we are talking about collecting interesting incriminating evidence...hmmm...

Myself, I certainly wish this enterprise success, with a certain amount of watching from a distance.