Intergalactic Summit

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The Maker and the Spirits love the worthy, those who can endure, those who can take their punishment and those who can achieve victory. That's why I am a capsuleer. Because I am worthy, and because I will endure.

I was born and grew up on Huggar Station. Technically Pator III - Moon 2 - Republic Security Services Assembly Plant, but the planet is Huggar, and everyone who lives there just frippin' calls it Huggar station. I'm an only child. My parents, like most of the rest of our Clan, are technicians. When I tested as capsule compatible, it was... kind of a thing. Relatives I'd never met turned up to help scrape together enough to let me get into the Pator Technical School, with the assumption that when I was a wealthy and powerful capsuleer, I'd help them, just like they'd helped me.

They weren't wrong. The majority of my income goes home - usually monthly, but if there's a crisis, they can contact me easily enough. I spent a lot of time doing a lot of things before I got to where I am... but that's why I started on this road in the first place: to help the Stjörnauga Clan.

For me it just seemed right, I can put it now other way. Perhaps a previous life gave rise to my being drawn to the stars in some as yet undetermined memories. Time will tell as ever.

I did not have much choice in the matter. I become a capsuleer or Rin as an entity would stop existing in any form.

Because I put someone in the hospital during an amateur Mind Clash tournament by folding a 4-cube around an incoming attack. When I was questioned by Centre for Advanced Studies' medical staff, they were astounded to discover I could do 4-dimensional translations in my head without any calculation equipment. They were even more astounded to discover that I had no idea this wasn't something everyone was able to do. They then asked me if I'd voluntarily submit to genetic testing to check if I was capsule compatible.

When it turned out I was, it seemed like the perfect way to escape from my overbearing father and his crew of unscrupulous cronies. He threatened to cut me off from the family inheritance - Centre for Advanced Studies said there were a dozen Federally-funded programs open who'd pay my scholarship if I joined the capsuleer training program, so I did.

I don't play anymore. It isn't that I always win (although I don't actually recall ever losing a match), it's just that after having put someone in the hospital, I'm somewhat reticent to try again.

Because my test results came back as positive for Capsule compatibility and I was sick of running delaying actions with the regulars.

In my own case, I can't remember ever having been anything else (though there was a brief time when I didn't know who or what I was).

My antecedent seems to have done it largely to prove her worth. Her family didn't think much of her. Impressing them was a cause she really resented dying for.

It seemed a valid progression from Idama to Capsuleer.
Having been reborn into new lives so often in the past, I decided it was time I followed the path laid before me.

-Idama Tertianus Rethelior