Intergalactic Summit

Only idiots fight fair.

I know what your saying but how many times have we bashed his towers and he blamed it on his little croustation god or whatever (mollusk the deciever or malok.... Whatever, I don't pretend to know your religion, Amarr). Even if she managed an honorable victory it would be fluffed off as "Mullick the deceiver helped her in trying to beat the all mighty red god..... Bwahahaha." If your going to fight him, stoop to his level. He won't be phased by anything less. Make the loss as personal as possible. After all he's done it should be.

No. I have only the Red God.

*doubtfully* Pinkie swear no Implants?

Making your own luck in such a way doesn't seem like much of an act of faith, respectfully, Ms. Vea.

Duels should be honored. Like promises.

It's why I never fight them.

The Winds help those who help themselves, I agree.

Bashing his towers, is akin to killing him, or a capsuleer for that matters. It is futile, and counter productive to the goal you seek to achieve.

They all strive on popularity, and public visibility. Make them irrelevant by not caring, and they will disappear into oblivion, either out of boredom, or something else.

And, again, I agree-- except that this is, explicitly, a series of honor duels.

Speaking from my own perspective, "honor" is a matter of my own integrity. It's one of the core values I hold myself to: I don't cheat. If I make a promise, I try very hard to keep it. If I were to be untrue to that principle, I'd lose a little of myself. Maybe more than a little.

You are making this all sound pretty naiive, but actually I think that mostly means you don't understand the situation. Nauplius and Tamiroth likely both look at their faith kind of the way I look at my integrity, as something core to their respective identities. If either were a little less spiritualistic, maybe they'd see things more "pragmatically," but that doesn't seem to be the case.

They're both the sorts to take this seriously. That's what gives this situation meaning beyond just killing The Butcher one more time. Breaking the rules drains the whole exercise of purpose.

There's no reason to fight this way in the first place if they're going to cheat. For either of them, I think (I might be wrong in Nauplius's case, but he's not exactly ... uh, sneaky?).

I prefer a battlefield without rules, where every resource can be brought to bare. Ambush is a basic capsuleer tactic, and I think I might even enjoy it more than most. But I'm not about to go around telling people I'm going to abide by rules, then break them. If people engage me, thinking they have an easy kill, only to find out differently, that's one thing. I never owed them a fair fight.

If I made a promise, though....

Pieter ... I understand that this is something that sort of quietly gets debated within PY-RE, but I'm with Mayrin, here. As mercenaries, our word has to count for something-- even leaving out my own issues about integrity and personal identity, that's just good business, right? If you agree to a duel, you really ought to honor it.

If you're going to cheat, you shouldn't be dueling in the first place.

Plenty. I just don't care to be that person, and I kind of doubt either of the combatants here do, either.

Nauplius seems to be more or less honest, even if that means he's just honestly awful.

Directrix Emerita Mithra, ms. Jenneth, thank you for the words of encouragement and support.

Of course, a duel where one of the opponents resorts to any unfair means he can use to get advantage and, ultimately, a hollow "victory", would only serve to his shame. The true victor of this battle would be the one who fell, not the one who won through off-grid links, neutral logistics or "unexpected reinforcements". That's why I had to turn down some offers of assistance that were made to me yesterday.

No, I will not dishonor the conditions of a pre-arranged duel with the enemy. If he is cheating, it only means that he lost.

But I also will not allow myself to be subtly painted into a corner of a binary choice where it shouldn't be.

A duel is indeed the easiest way to get an engagement with the heretic; he is eager to participate, because he is sure that he will win. But it is not the only way, and, outside of those honorable jousts, Nauplius and all his accomplices are still entirely valid targets. I leave to myself full freedom to use any means available to track, intercept and destroy those targets in low security areas when possible, and that's where all usual stratagems of capsuleer combat may apply.