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An Idea: Because I am bored for the moment.

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Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#201 - 2016-12-16 00:46:06 UTC
Though it's never the intention to fight them, the Drifters are a consistent opposing force to our operations - if they didn't attack first, we'd just leave them be. All the same, however, in conflict with them, their perfect synchronization and unshaken ambition for whatever their end goal is shows through as a defining trait of their faction. If it's a product of them simply being controlled AI, that's less impressive; but I'm of the belief that they're a little more than that. If that's the case, and they do have individual personas, then their dedication to their cause and their dauntless attitude in doing so is something to be admired; whatever their true intentions are, I've got to give them that.

What degree of separation do you feel from the baseliners, being what you are?
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#202 - 2016-12-16 01:28:01 UTC
I don't feel any, or almost none. I have a little more insulation from permanent death, but my time before that permanent death isn't so different from anyone outside a capsule. I sleep, I eat, I feel awful that I haven't mined or written a letter to someone I love, I think about what to have for dinner, I take a shower, I hire someone, I try to do something with my hair, I send money to my parents.

At some point in the parade of workaday things I might find myself doing something amazing. Meditating in the clear light of the Eve Gate, maybe, or watching a bad movie with someone who owns the planet I'm standing on.

I don't think those things make me less a baseliner. They make me a very fortunate baseliner. We are all still of one flesh, God save us all.


What do you collect?
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#203 - 2016-12-16 03:24:43 UTC
Loai Qerl wrote:
What do you collect?

Memories.

... that ... probably sounds a little glib, but I really mean it.

Memories are these flighty, ephemeral things, and I of course know how possible it is to lose them. At the same time, though, they're more durable than a lot of physical goods. They kind of follow me around, and they can't really be carelessly mislaid or sold. They also don't take up very many packing crates. They'll all disappear when I die, of course, but, after that, I won't have any use for physical objects, either.

I try to remember the places I go, the people I meet. I don't need much, besides that.

Is there something you do to remind yourself of who you are?
Tressith Sefira
Nadire Security Consultants
Federation Peacekeepers
#204 - 2016-12-16 03:56:37 UTC
Everything I do reminds me of who I am. I don't stop being me because I do things I'm uncomfortable with or I'm unhappy with. It's possible to live a life without distance. It's just more difficult than the alternative.

What would you choose to be your last meal?
Neph
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#205 - 2016-12-16 04:41:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Neph
Wake up every morning, make a cup of tea, and light a candle. I give myself fifteen minutes in the busy day to remember myself and forget the world.

How long do you suspect you will/plan to live?

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What would you choose to be your last meal?


From a young age, I've been told the selfless goes to their death on an empty stomach. I suppose I've always thought a noble death is a hungry one.

~ Gariushi YC110 // Midular YC115 // Yanala YC115 ~

"Orte Jaitovalte sitasuyti ne obuetsa useuut ishu. Ketsiak ishiulyn." -Yakiya Tovil-Toba-taisoka

Tamiroth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#206 - 2016-12-16 09:18:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Tamiroth
Neph wrote:
How long do you suspect you will/plan to live?
I don't plan it. My life is in the hands of God. But as I'm not a terribly active combat pilot, I may as well last a few centuries.

If you knew that you are going to die a final death soon, to whom would you leave all the things you own?
Deitra Vess
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#207 - 2016-12-16 14:19:40 UTC
Tamiroth wrote:
Neph wrote:
How long do you suspect you will/plan to live?
I don't plan it. My life is in the hands of God. But as I'm not a terribly active combat pilot, I may as well last a few centuries.

If you knew that you are going to die a final death soon, to whom would you leave all the things you own?

My Corp and those corps who have backed me. I'd like my final body to be stuck in a wolf and blown up over Eram II.

Do you consider yourself a good role model to your people/others? Why do you feel that way?

Utari Onzo
Escalated.
OnlyFleets.
#208 - 2016-12-16 15:11:12 UTC
No, because I have never aspired to be one.

What has being a capsuleer taught you the most?

"Face the enemy as a solid wall For faith is your armor And through it, the enemy will find no breach Wrap your arms around the enemy For faith is your fire And with it, burn away his evil"

Sinjin Mokk
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#209 - 2016-12-16 15:14:04 UTC
Utari Onzo wrote:


What has being a capsuleer taught you the most?



To appreciate the value of daydrinking.

To those who wander, would you return home, if given the chance?

"Angels live, they never die, Apart from us, behind the sky. They're fading souls who've turned to ice, So ashen white in paradise."

Hendrik Mishi
Doomheim
#210 - 2016-12-16 15:20:24 UTC
Don't have a home except my ship.

Where do you feel you culturally belong?

Carpe Diem. Get insurance and fly feckless.

Utari Onzo
Escalated.
OnlyFleets.
#211 - 2016-12-16 15:28:14 UTC
Tough one. I was raised in the State, and a lot of my work ethic (along with knowledge of hosting and tea preperation) comes from that time. I suppose my economic liberalism as well.

That said, I was given as good of an eduction in the Amarr faith as my mother could provide, and I am currently a baptised member of the Orthodox Church (and therefore citizen of the Amarr Empire)

It's a weird blend of the two, though the State and her people most likely would conclude I am not one of them due to my choices. It's a fair and legitimate point, but having lived in the Empire proper for long enough I've concluded I'm not all together a perfect fit there either. Perhaps the problem was I was living with a Sarumite as their ill begotten grandson.

If I find another place within the Empire (given its large variations in culture internally) or elsewhere I'll let you know.

To go back to an earlier answer of mine, what do you think the origin of Man is? Did we come from the Evegate? Did we spring up seperately on our individual planets? Do you think ancient aliens created us?

"Face the enemy as a solid wall For faith is your armor And through it, the enemy will find no breach Wrap your arms around the enemy For faith is your fire And with it, burn away his evil"

Deitra Vess
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#212 - 2016-12-16 15:28:30 UTC
Hendrik Mishi wrote:
Don't have a home except my ship.

Where do you feel you culturally belong?

Gallante, haven't done anything to prove my worth to my tribe yet.

If you could be anyone else, who?
Jev North
Doomheim
#213 - 2016-12-17 10:47:22 UTC
Todo Kirkinen, for a radical change in perspective.

Have you read any good books, or seen a decent holo -- one that made you think, or at least engaged you for longer than the time it took to watch it? What was it about?

Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.

Matias Kurovassi
Doomheim
#214 - 2016-12-17 11:56:01 UTC
Jev North wrote:

Have you read any good books, or seen a decent holo -- one that made you think, or at least engaged you for longer than the time it took to watch it? What was it about?


While neither a book or a holo, the poem, The Long March by the poet Sukkira Nuvolaini. It has been over six months since I read it and I am still often disquieted by the piece. Written while she was held prisoner without charge in a Provist prison and it could probably qualify as a modern epic at 2374 lines long entirely in blank verse.

Detailing the detention and trial of, "No-one but a black bag," The entire piece is told through the discussions of various jailors, lawyers and judges who continue to never explain the crimes or charges but only the harshest punishment for being imprisoned is proof enough of a crime according to them.

Absurd, surreal, and deeply allusory to traditional Raata and Oriyoni literature to paint a disjunct with life in the State. The final titular chapter of The Long March of the prisoner to their execution was probably the most disturbing thing I have read in a long time.

Besides corpses, what do you collect?
Deitra Vess
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#215 - 2016-12-17 15:19:02 UTC
Matias Kurovassi wrote:

Besides corpses, what do you collect?

Ammunition.... In 3 seperate locations have over 2.3bil est isk..

Since I accidentally cut him, instead of making a question I'll throw out the one I skipped over. Sorry Utari!

skipped question by Utari Onzo wrote:
To go back to an earlier answer of mine, what do you think the origin of Man is? Did we come from the Evegate? Did we spring up seperately on our individual planets? Do you think ancient aliens created us?

Arrendis
TK Corp
#216 - 2016-12-17 16:06:36 UTC
skipped question by Utari Onzo wrote:
To go back to an earlier answer of mine, what do you think the origin of Man is? Did we come from the Evegate? Did we spring up seperately on our individual planets? Do you think ancient aliens created us?


I think the idea that we arose on separate planets is patently ridiculous, especially given the existence of the Jove—also human—and their records going back before any of the rest of us got to the stars. I think it's likely we arose from one central location, either the EVE Gate, Jovian Space, or somewhere else, and spread from there. Civilizations fall. We know that from the Talocan etc.

How much—or how little—would it take to get you to join your current enemies' cause, opposing the very people and purposes you currently work for?
Deitra Vess
Non-Hostile Target
Wild Geese.
#217 - 2016-12-17 16:32:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Deitra Vess
Arrendis wrote:

How much—or how little—would it take to get you to join your current enemies' cause, opposing the very people and purposes you currently work for?

In case of goonswarm: absolutely nothing, just the ability to learn something new/make isk. I'm pretty sure those I've flown with in the past currently fighting you would understand, knowing me.
In the case of the state protectorate: isk..... Lots of isk
In the case of the 24ic: I'd join in a heart beat.... To feed Intel and go on safari. To actually fight for them would take me getting betrayed by the TLF or if they turned into an actual defensive war (slaves freed, treaties disallowing amarr warships to enter the republic and actual adherence to it) and we spit on it. I truely just want peace, if we were pushing to "rub it in" so to speak I don't think I could stand for that.

What have you left behind as a capsuleer that you once thought you could never live without?
Neph
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#218 - 2016-12-17 19:52:01 UTC
Legitimacy as a proper citizen of the State. But I lost that a while ago.

Choose your lead vocalist, choose your backups, choose instrumentation. Out of people on the IGS. Pop band go.

~ Gariushi YC110 // Midular YC115 // Yanala YC115 ~

"Orte Jaitovalte sitasuyti ne obuetsa useuut ishu. Ketsiak ishiulyn." -Yakiya Tovil-Toba-taisoka

Tamiroth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#219 - 2016-12-17 21:05:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Tamiroth
Neph wrote:

Choose your lead vocalist, choose your backups, choose instrumentation. Out of people on the IGS. Pop band go.


Vocals: Ayallah
Keyboards: Deitra Vess
Guitars: Arrendis

Band name: The Suspects :)

...Your favourite time of the day (planetside, because ship and station cycles are boring) and why?
Utari Onzo
Escalated.
OnlyFleets.
#220 - 2016-12-17 21:14:24 UTC
Dawn. Whenever I'm planetside, I always try to see the sun rise every morning. It's a special treat for someone like me who grew up in artificial environments, and gas planets where it was all a perpetual toxic smog outside.

Would you rather be able to sleep more, or sleep less and have more time for other activities?

"Face the enemy as a solid wall For faith is your armor And through it, the enemy will find no breach Wrap your arms around the enemy For faith is your fire And with it, burn away his evil"