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"This will not stand!" - An open letter regarding the state of IGS

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Jaret Victorian
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#61 - 2015-10-07 00:11:45 UTC
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
I earned my rank as a groundpounder soldier on the battlefields of Black Rise. I've killed hundreds, both mercenaries and baseliners, before entering the capsuleer program. I've died a hundred times over protecting the people of the State before earning my wings. I was trained to kill my enemies without mercy, for they would give me none. If I sound cold and calculate, is because efficiency is the only thing that matters for a warrior. And I served the State digently.

Real soldiers, be them serving the Blood Raiders, Guristas or Gallente, never gloat of their kills the way these monsters do.

None of you has the right to pass judgment on me or my actions. I do what I must. And here I stand broken, for fighing a battle with words instead of swords.

What makes you think so? From the looks of it you do only what you are ordered to. Have you asked yourself why?
Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#62 - 2015-10-07 05:18:25 UTC
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Clearly nobody here is concerned by these state of affairs so I am not going to waste my time convincing you.


Quite the broad assumption.
Vizage
Capital Allied Industrial Distribution
#63 - 2015-10-07 10:43:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Vizage
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
I earned my rank as a groundpounder soldier on the battlefields of Black Rise. I've killed hundreds, both mercenaries and baseliners, before entering the capsuleer program. I've died a hundred times over protecting the people of the State before earning my wings. I was trained to kill my enemies without mercy, for they would give me none. If I sound cold and calculate, is because efficiency is the only thing that matters for a warrior. And I served the State digently.

Real soldiers, be them serving the Blood Raiders, Guristas or Gallente, never gloat of their kills the way these monsters do.

None of you has the right to pass judgment on me or my actions. I do what I must. And here I stand broken, for fighing a battle with words instead of swords.


Ms. Ruil

Firstly, thank you for your long service to the state. While I think had you worded this perhaps with a little less specificity you may have gotten a different response, you'll find many of us (even if we appear to be disagreeing right now) agree to some degree, that there is a problem with the IGS. This concern has been voiced many times by many of us, in many venues. Had you asked what people's opinions of this place were, I'm convinced "cesspool" would have ranked much higher than "place of free and open discussion.

Having said that. It's not so much what you're saying (the thinly veiled racism is an exception) but how you've chosen to say it. By your own admission you are and have been a Lifelong soldier of the State. A sword makes for a frustrating writing tool, but an excellent weapon., just as a pen makes for excellent writing tool and a poor weapon. Best stick with what the State has trained you to excel at and leave those trained in politicking to excel in here.

Best of luck,
V
Trii Seo
Goonswarm Federation
#64 - 2015-10-07 22:05:37 UTC
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
I earned my rank as a groundpounder soldier on the battlefields of Black Rise. I've killed hundreds, both mercenaries and baseliners, before entering the capsuleer program. I've died a hundred times over protecting the people of the State before earning my wings. I was trained to kill my enemies without mercy, for they would give me none. If I sound cold and calculate, is because efficiency is the only thing that matters for a warrior. And I served the State digently.

Real soldiers, be them serving the Blood Raiders, Guristas or Gallente, never gloat of their kills the way these monsters do.

None of you has the right to pass judgment on me or my actions. I do what I must. And here I stand broken, for fighing a battle with words instead of swords.


You are certainly a hot-head for a cold and calculating type. That, and your understanding of how the world here works of a Drop pusher on Caille.

On the plus side, types like you are adored by popcorn salesmen, so there's that. Might want to drop the pen and pick up the sword for now.

Proud pilot of the Imperium

Arek'Jaalan: Heliograph

Diana Kim
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#65 - 2015-10-08 08:14:38 UTC
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Good people of the Intergalactic Summit, hear me.

At a first look, I may look uninitiated in capsuleer matters or politics, but I am not blind. I can see the ailments of our fair forum of communication. And we stand at the edge of a precipice! The enemies of civilization are at our doorsteps and threaten all that is good and decent.

I speak of the pirates! Of the Blood Raiders, the Sansha and the Guristas. Of monsters that crave, beget and consume suffering.

These capsuleer fiends walk among us with impunity, without fear of reprisal or justice for their actions. Yesterday three of these creatures were discussing how to torture and slay innocents with unspeakable means, in plain sight freely for all to see, for profit and unsavory intentions. I talked with others that informed me that this travesty has been going on for long and not one soul has stepped up to challenge them. Even now they announce their ritual sacrifices and homicidal practices, the crimes they commit and their sabotage of New Eden's civilized nations. It is one thing to tolerate the outlaws of Null and Low Security space that are more interested in bringing suffering to themselves and each other, while bickering for resources and power. But this? This is an whole level of sick depravity!

As insult to injury, it seems DED authorities cling to their neutrality and refuse to intervene!

Are we supposed to let them corrupt our outlet of ideas and cultural exchange? Are we to let them walk in the light with their malice tainting our mind's eye? No! I refuse! I will not stand for this!

People of the Summit, we must unite against the pirate scum and show them that their wayward ways are not welcome here. By force if necessary. I ask for everyone's support in this endeavor. No, I beg of you for your assistance. For all that is decent and good!

Glory to the Caldari State;


Major Yarosara Ruil of the State Peacekeepers

I absolutely agree with this proposition and will put my sign after it as well...

However...

You are speaking about "monsters that crave, beget and consume suffering", but listing just pirate faction you forget about the most monstrous of these monsters, who do their crimes in broad light unlike these pirates. And amount of suffering they bring is way greater than all pirate factions you have listed together.

I am talking about gallenteans.

While pirates can be easily contained, to deal with gallentean menace we all should put our differences aside and stand united to crush the greatest threat to human civilization together.

Honored are the dead, for their legacy guides us.

In memory of Tibus Heth, Caldari State Executor YC110-115, Hero and Patriot.

Yarosara Ruil
#66 - 2015-10-08 09:18:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Yarosara Ruil
Diana Kim wrote:

I absolutely agree with this proposition and will put my sign after it as well...


Thank you, Strike Commander. You are a beacon of order in this sea of madness.

And you are absolutely correct. In my zeal to cleanse this place of filth, I lost sight of what's really important. My energies are better spent putting the Gallentean aggressors to the knife.
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#67 - 2015-10-08 09:31:31 UTC
well this has just turned into a big old caldari circle jerk.

Domination Nephilim - Angel Cartel

Calm down miner. As you pointed out, people think they can get away with stuff they would not in rl... Like for example illegal mining... - Ima Wreckyou*

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#68 - 2015-10-08 10:59:30 UTC
Lan Wang wrote:
well this has just turned into a big old caldari circle jerk.


Thread has entered 'Echo Chamber' mode. Let us now pretend that these two do not exist and chat as though they weren't in the thread.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Trii Seo
Goonswarm Federation
#69 - 2015-10-08 15:37:45 UTC
Well, if Nauplius found someone to fill the void in his life and cling on to him t was only a matter of time for Diana.

Proud pilot of the Imperium

Arek'Jaalan: Heliograph

Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#70 - 2015-10-08 15:39:23 UTC
Trii Seo wrote:
Well, if Nauplius found someone to fill the void in his life and cling on to him t was only a matter of time for Diana.


You suggest that someone has the hots for her in her face and see her deny it with the vehemence of a Single Star Society nutcase.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Trii Seo
Goonswarm Federation
#71 - 2015-10-08 17:00:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Trii Seo
Naturally! This is perfectly expected and normal, you don't just straight up say "oh yes, totally!" to those statements unless they are made by very close friends.

But hey, even under our hostile stars riddled with hatred and devastation, love still conquers all.

(And might I add that one at first sight? Although might be one of turbulent kind, as they are as one and one's mirror...)

Proud pilot of the Imperium

Arek'Jaalan: Heliograph

Wendrika Hydreiga
#72 - 2015-10-08 18:16:36 UTC
Oi! Leave Miss Kim alone! You can bad talk Miss Ruil all you want though, she's fair game.

Although, I've been thinking. Maybe me and the others do take things too far. What if people want to have a serious business talk and I'm too busy calling Mister Nauplius mean, or going on a tirade over my duper scientifical research! I do stick like a sore thumb when I open my mouth...

You know what? Screw that! If people think I'm too annoying they just have to ask me to stop for a bit. And ask politely! Not make demands to no particular person publicly on top of a soap box! Or going all snarky with insults, that really doesn't work for me!
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#73 - 2015-10-08 18:18:17 UTC
Oh, Gods, they're multiplying....

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.

Wendrika Hydreiga
#74 - 2015-10-08 18:29:14 UTC
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Oh, Gods, they're multiplying....


Well, do something Miss Goddess Osyn! Use your divine favor! Cast a spell! Use a destructo beam cannon!

There can only be one Miss Kim!
Arrendis
TK Corp
#75 - 2015-10-08 18:50:34 UTC
Wendrika Hydreiga wrote:
There can only be one Miss Kim!


That's usually the note upon which a thousand more boil up.
Claudia Osyn
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#76 - 2015-10-08 18:52:30 UTC
Wendrika Hydreiga wrote:
Claudia Osyn wrote:
Oh, Gods, they're multiplying....


Well, do something Miss Goddess Osyn! Use your divine favor! Cast a spell! Use a destructo beam cannon!

There can only be one Miss Kim!

Naa, eventually the blind rage and hatred will reach critical mass and implode. I don't need to waste my Devine power on it..... Still, it's a terrible sight to behold....

A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.

Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
#77 - 2015-10-08 20:59:01 UTC
Trii Seo wrote:
Well, if Nauplius found someone to fill the void in his life and cling on to him t was only a matter of time for Diana.


Nauplius does not have anyone filling the void in this life at the moment.
Deitra Vess
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#78 - 2015-10-08 21:08:39 UTC
Maybe that's the problem...
Wendrika Hydreiga
#79 - 2015-10-08 21:38:26 UTC
Nauplius wrote:
Nauplius does not have anyone filling the void in this life at the moment.


Well, this is awkward.

Miss Funk challenged me to a mud fight to the death because she wants to be the sole person in your life. And something about she being cuter than me, but we all know I'm cute as button!
Foley Aberas Jones
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#80 - 2015-10-08 21:46:46 UTC
Wendrika Hydreiga wrote:
but we all know I'm cute as button!

When the hell did buttons become cute....