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Death By A Million Cuts
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Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#201 - 2016-12-05 19:17:09 UTC
Friends are the family you choose, indeed.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#202 - 2016-12-05 21:49:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Persephone Alleile
Family is a strange thing, sometimes it seems no two are the same.

In the parivaars of my homeworld the family unit is mostly unheard of, as the parivaar itself is treated as a large extended family (in fact, the word itself is derived from the Vaanin k'Intaki word for family). There is no traditional marriage, unrelated adults may enter monogamous relationships, or may simply couple together for a time as they please. Child-rearing is taken very seriously and is everyone's job, though there are members of the community whose skills and dispositions lend them naturally to the role of teacher or guardian. Meals and living space is shared with the other residents of your homestead and household duties are shared.

Growing up like this makes one feel as though they have many parents and many brothers and sisters. It was somewhat difficult for me to adapt to the capsuleer lifestyle of independence and rugged individuality.
Matar Ronin
#203 - 2016-12-07 11:43:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Matar Ronin
Question for anyone who might find responding interesting. Whom among we capsuleers has a spouse, sibling, parent, or other blood relative that is also a capsuleer? Do the traits that allow us to become successful pilots run in family lines?

‘Vain flame burns fast/and its lick is light/Modest flame lasts long/and burns to the bone.’

" We lost a war we chose not to fight." Without a doubt this is the best way to lose any war and the worst excuse to explain the beating afterwards.
Sinti Vailatti
Angelis Exploration
#204 - 2016-12-07 18:23:11 UTC
Matar Ronin wrote:
Question for anyone who might find responding interesting. Whom among we capsuleers has a spouse, sibling, parent, or other blood relative that is also a capsuleer? Do the traits that allow us to become successful pilots run in family lines?



Hi,

Yeppers. my twin brother was a pilot.

I'm sure we all have a lot of similar genetic traits that allowed to be what we are.

“Where must we go...we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves?”
Persephone Alleile
Tartarus Covert Operations
#205 - 2016-12-07 18:53:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Persephone Alleile
Matar Ronin wrote:
Question for anyone who might find responding interesting. Whom among we capsuleers has a spouse, sibling, parent, or other blood relative that is also a capsuleer? Do the traits that allow us to become successful pilots run in family lines?


Interestingly enough I got a message a while back informing me that a genetic relative of mine had been accepted into the capsuleer program. I was surprised as I wasn't aware that anyone back home was interested in the capsuleer life.

It turned out that we were related through my paternal grandfather, a Sebiestor war orphan who had been adopted at a young age by a Gallente diplomat. He was raised on Gallente Prime and had no connection to his relatives back home, so I was very excited to meet my long lost cousin. We are now business partners.
Slayer Liberator
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#206 - 2016-12-07 22:19:34 UTC
Matar Ronin wrote:
Question for anyone who might find responding interesting. Whom among we capsuleers has a spouse, sibling, parent, or other blood relative that is also a capsuleer? Do the traits that allow us to become successful pilots run in family lines?

My twin brother is both a cappsuleer and a Cloned Soldier as am I