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Jennifer Maxwell
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#41 - 2016-08-30 23:28:24 UTC
I deal with a great amount of uninteresting things. Managing funding for divisions of researchers, combat troops, and corporate interests. Lending support to local authorities in my home city when they have need of heavier troops. Planning and overseeing the development of corporate assets and outposts on Asakai III. Planning and executing raids on scavenger and pirate bands on the planet. Loitering in coffee shops and bars. Writing needlessly complex and overly wordy novels centered around political subterfuge, corporate espionage and a brewing shadow war, and the beautiful but emotionally distant detective who finds herself within the crossfire of not only warring pirate cartels, but also a monolithic empire whom would like nothing more than to seize the entire solar system for it's own purposes. Dismantling the latest in captured Guristas technology and designing attack programs to interfere with it and crack the encription on it.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#42 - 2016-08-31 02:14:25 UTC
Aria Jenneth wrote:
When I get the chance, I really like exploring places I haven't been before and seeing how they work, or talking to people I don't know. Usually, I don't actually collect things, though I often record what I'm seeing (that's mostly to keep a record to send to my next self in case something goes wrong and I die, though). Sometimes there'll be something I actually want to keep, but that's only happened a handful of times. More often, I'll study something for a while, then give it back or let someone else keep it.

I particularly like antique books, the dead tree-or-similar-matter kind, especially the ones from before a culture made interstellar contact. Even if it's just a book on local plants, you can tell so much from the kinds of assumptions the author made! ... and you even get to find out new things about plants while studying the author. Utari's still got most of the ones we collected, though.


You are going to love the Great Caravanserai on Pator. If you aren't interested in visiting the Minmatar homeworld, you will probably find bookshops dotting the stations and every major settlement in Republic space and Minmatar Enclaves. The Vherokhior Enclaves and merchants carry most of the stock. Some of our books end up in far-flung places thanks to Thukker caravans. Some of these books date back centuries. The oldest one I had encountered last time I was in Skarkon dated three centuries and was only held together by the bookseller's fanatical devotion to preservation.

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.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#43 - 2016-08-31 06:33:35 UTC
Jennifer Maxwell wrote:
I deal with a great amount of uninteresting things. Managing funding for divisions of researchers, combat troops, and corporate interests. Lending support to local authorities in my home city when they have need of heavier troops. Planning and overseeing the development of corporate assets and outposts on Asakai III. Planning and executing raids on scavenger and pirate bands on the planet. Loitering in coffee shops and bars. Writing needlessly complex and overly wordy novels centered around political subterfuge, corporate espionage and a brewing shadow war, and the beautiful but emotionally distant detective who finds herself within the crossfire of not only warring pirate cartels, but also a monolithic empire whom would like nothing more than to seize the entire solar system for it's own purposes. Dismantling the latest in captured Guristas technology and designing attack programs to interfere with it and crack the encription on it.

Sounds like you are writing autobiography or a book very much based on your life.

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The oldest one I had encountered last time I was in Skarkon dated three centuries and was only held together by the bookseller's fanatical devotion to preservation.
I think I have seen a copy in other place. Very interesting literature from a sexuology standpoint, and those lithographies are not what you would just show to anybody, Very.... suggestive imagery.
Explains why he would not throw it away.

ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ ᴀ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ʜᴇʟᴘs ᴛᴏ ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴀ sᴛᴏʀʏ 📕

ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴀɴɢʀʏ ᴄᴏɴᴄᴏʀᴅ ɢᴜʏ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʜɪᴍ

ᴏsᴘʀᴇʏ 🚀

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Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2016-08-31 06:36:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Elmund Egivand
Nana Skalski wrote:


Quote:
The oldest one I had encountered last time I was in Skarkon dated three centuries and was only held together by the bookseller's fanatical devotion to preservation.
I think I have seen a copy in other place. Very interesting literature from a sexuology standpoint, and those lithographies are not what you would just show to anybody, Very.... suggestive imagery.
Explains why he would not throw it away.


Completely wrong book you are thinking about there.

This book I found discusses our animistic beliefs and on the nature of spirits.

The bookseller's Vherokhior.

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.
Arrendis
TK Corp
#45 - 2016-08-31 07:44:46 UTC
Elmund Egivand wrote:
You are going to love the Great Caravanserai on Pator.


As long as she's not like me and gets mildly freaked out by having miles of atmosphere over her head with nothing keeping it from drifting off into space but gravity...

Uggggh. Honestly... planets, man... weird freakin' places.
Jennifer Maxwell
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#46 - 2016-08-31 17:37:45 UTC
Nana Skalski wrote:
Jennifer Maxwell wrote:
I deal with a great amount of uninteresting things. Managing funding for divisions of researchers, combat troops, and corporate interests. Lending support to local authorities in my home city when they have need of heavier troops. Planning and overseeing the development of corporate assets and outposts on Asakai III. Planning and executing raids on scavenger and pirate bands on the planet. Loitering in coffee shops and bars. Writing needlessly complex and overly wordy novels centered around political subterfuge, corporate espionage and a brewing shadow war, and the beautiful but emotionally distant detective who finds herself within the crossfire of not only warring pirate cartels, but also a monolithic empire whom would like nothing more than to seize the entire solar system for it's own purposes. Dismantling the latest in captured Guristas technology and designing attack programs to interfere with it and crack the encription on it.

Sounds like you are writing autobiography or a book very much based on your life.

Quote:
The oldest one I had encountered last time I was in Skarkon dated three centuries and was only held together by the bookseller's fanatical devotion to preservation.
I think I have seen a copy in other place. Very interesting literature from a sexuology standpoint, and those lithographies are not what you would just show to anybody, Very.... suggestive imagery.
Explains why he would not throw it away.

Hah, no. Quite for from that.
The character is actually based on a very close friend of mine, though of course the adventures are fictional. I do take settings and ideas from real life, but it's still a work of fiction.
William Danneskjold
#47 - 2016-09-01 19:20:39 UTC
Arrendis wrote:
Elmund Egivand wrote:
You are going to love the Great Caravanserai on Pator.


As long as she's not like me and gets mildly freaked out by having miles of atmosphere over her head with nothing keeping it from drifting off into space but gravity...

Uggggh. Honestly... planets, man... weird freakin' places.


Solution. Buy a freighter. Have the internal area modified to resemble a climate of your choice. Acres of space to yourself. I recommend a Charon. Actually, its not so depressing as it sounds. I wrote several books, which I'll keep to myself. Also interesting because it gives you time to think. And learn.

Just don't put predators into it unless you REALLY want fun times!

War is murder. It always has been, always will be. Murder in the name of God. Freedom. Your country. Whatever it is, it is murder. I am already against the next set of wars.
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#48 - 2016-09-01 23:46:00 UTC
I love this thread.

I just had the most wonderful dumplings in a place I wan't expecting to have them at all, but they did and they were seasoned so nicely! And not overcooked and slimy, like they'd been sitting around. It was such a good surprise. I hope everyone else is pleasantly surprised soon, too. For tasty dinners or otherwise!
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#49 - 2016-09-02 12:00:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
In the advent of new designs provided by ORE development, I thought about watching some holovids about the history of designs of the mining barges. There were couple of those documentaries around that I watched. Do you know that prototype of the first mining barge had 24 mining lasers grouped by 4 and used battleship sized core for providing power? It also used another cruiser sized core to provide power for ore preprocessing. Design proved to be too costly and complicated, and size was an issue. But they used a lot of concepts and tech in doing other ship - Rorqual.

ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ ᴀ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ʜᴇʟᴘs ᴛᴏ ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴀ sᴛᴏʀʏ 📕

ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴀɴɢʀʏ ᴄᴏɴᴄᴏʀᴅ ɢᴜʏ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʜɪᴍ

ᴏsᴘʀᴇʏ 🚀

≡⋁≡ ♥
William Danneskjold
#50 - 2016-09-02 14:40:21 UTC
Just today I had the most pleasant cup of green tea made with home-grown leaves and ingredients.

War is murder. It always has been, always will be. Murder in the name of God. Freedom. Your country. Whatever it is, it is murder. I am already against the next set of wars.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#51 - 2016-09-02 23:12:02 UTC
Solecist Project
#52 - 2016-09-07 11:52:58 UTC
Loai Qerl wrote:
I love this thread.

I just had the most wonderful dumplings in a place I wan't expecting to have them at all, but they did and they were seasoned so nicely! And not overcooked and slimy, like they'd been sitting around. It was such a good surprise. I hope everyone else is pleasantly surprised soon, too. For tasty dinners or otherwise!

The simple removal of a lowercase L changes this post's meaning dramatically ...

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#53 - 2016-09-07 12:42:26 UTC
I do a number of things but first and foremost, I like to garden. Being CEO has it's perks. I installed an interior garden at our main corporate offices and when I am stressed, i plant, dig and weed. Sometimes I just sit in the grass and read. Planetside on retreat, I'll sometimes help the sisters and brothers tend their gardens.

I also still maintain the New Eden Fair Gardens. Tours are still given if anyone is interested.
William Danneskjold
#54 - 2016-09-07 12:49:06 UTC  |  Edited by: William Danneskjold
Lunarisse Aspenstar wrote:
I do a number of things but first and foremost, I like to garden. Being CEO has it's perks. I installed an interior garden at our main corporate offices and when I am stressed, i plant, dig and weed. Sometimes I just sit in the grass and read. Planetside on retreat, I'll sometimes help the sisters and brothers tend their gardens.

I also still maintain the New Eden Fair Gardens. Tours are still given if anyone is interested.



A fellow gardener? I did not know this. We should meet again at some point!

War is murder. It always has been, always will be. Murder in the name of God. Freedom. Your country. Whatever it is, it is murder. I am already against the next set of wars.
Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#55 - 2016-09-07 12:50:57 UTC
For the Coronation, I am moving the Luxury Yacht, TES Gardens of the Lord with my gardens to EFA. I'd be happy to meet you. The move should be done by the end of the week.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#56 - 2016-09-07 12:51:37 UTC
William Danneskjold wrote:
Lunarisse Aspenstar wrote:
I do a number of things but first and foremost, I like to garden. Being CEO has it's perks. I installed an interior garden at our main corporate offices and when I am stressed, i plant, dig and weed. Sometimes I just sit in the grass and read. Planetside on retreat, I'll sometimes help the sisters and brothers tend their gardens.

I also still maintain the New Eden Fair Gardens. Tours are still given if anyone is interested.



A fellow gardener? I did not know this. We should meet again at some point!


You should go. There's four unique gardens that reflect four unique facets of the Amarr Empire. It's interesting stuff.

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.
William Danneskjold
#57 - 2016-09-07 12:56:24 UTC
I would love to. I will mail you in a few days when my schedule clears up.

War is murder. It always has been, always will be. Murder in the name of God. Freedom. Your country. Whatever it is, it is murder. I am already against the next set of wars.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#58 - 2016-09-07 13:04:32 UTC
I will also add that Ms. Aspenstar is a gracious host who is patient with curiosity and off-tangent lines of inquiries.

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.
William Danneskjold
#59 - 2016-09-07 13:11:14 UTC
Fantastic! I am a polite guest. I try not to insult my host, despite my arrogance and rudeness here on the Summit. After all, I'm an atheist anarchist, not an iconoclast.*

*Unless your icons are symbols of government power.

War is murder. It always has been, always will be. Murder in the name of God. Freedom. Your country. Whatever it is, it is murder. I am already against the next set of wars.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#60 - 2016-09-08 05:18:47 UTC