Intergalactic Summit

You know, while I really do wish you luck in getting her to accept your terms, reading through the older thread, I have to admit that she's right about one salient point: by the traditional rules of duelling etiquette, the challenger calls for the duel, and the challenged party gets their choice of weapons.

Perhaps you should encourage the next person she challenges to choose 'battle raps'? She would, after all, be honor-bound to accept that choice.

I admit, I so very much thought that was going to be Diana saying 'And this is why Jason Galente must be destroyed.'

While it would be beneath me to proffer or accept a challenge from her, I have invited her openly to visit . She refused, claiming 7RM-N0 was "too far" (18 jumps from her usual base of operations).

She won't accept your challenge unless she can arrange it so that she has every tactical advantage over you. While this is clever of a pilot, don't confuse her claims of honor as being actual. At the end of the day, she's as dedicated to ganking an unaware pilot as anyone else.

And having just lost one duel, I sincerely doubt she's up for losing another one so quickly.

But good luck.

Fun fact, she doesn't honor that either. She challenged me, and then got upset when I chose poetry as the weapon of choice.

I challenged Miss Kim to a duel recently and it was super fun! It took no time at all to set up, I had to do a bit of travelling but it was worth it! All I had to do was ask politely and not throw a tantrum.

Now, this might sound shocking, but more often than not, ace piltots have a lot going on their plates to just drop everything and move accross half the cluster just to satisfy someone's bruised ego. A common theme I've noticed from some frustrated challengers like Mister Yaken, is that they make no effort in discussing and arrange a time and date that's convinient to both duelists! Some even asked Miss Kim to meet them inside a wormhole! With an entrance in Nullsec!

Of course huffing and stomping on IGS is preferable than making a compromise to a duel. After all, if Miss Kim can't duel them, it obviously mean she is a coward, right? Moral victory!

Oh, I'm sorry Mister Yaken. I thought the issue was that Miss Kim didn't had the availability to attend to a duel at your convenience, and I made my reply based on that assumption.

But this begs the question. Why would a capsuleer ever duel someone in anything outside the sphere of spaceship combat?

Because swords and guns gives you ouchies and boo boos, and rap battles are downright silly.

This is not about being a Capsuleer in a duel. But being a WARRIOR in a duel.

A warrior of multiple skills. Ships, Firearms, blades, and microphones. I seek to test Diana Kim's skill at the microphones because lets admit it ladies and gentle men.

Diana Kim likes to fight with her words a lot too. So lets make a duel out of it.

Ms. Ruil, with respect, Ms. Kim doesn't really want compromise. She wants pilots to bend to her whims. She expects all other pilots to travel to the warzone, and to fight her in her style, instead of occasionally compromising and doing as would be convenient to others.

Compromise, as they say, is a two-way street.

It's all well and good that she's a combat pilot with other matters to attend to. If, however, those matters are so important that she can't be taken away from them, why does she scream herself apoplectic when others don't bend to her will? What if they, too, have matters that demand their time and focus, that can't be left on a whim? Does she begin from a position of assuming herself superior, and her time more valuable?

Clearly, if she can't be bothered to travel even twenty minutes for a duel, how could she consider it important, or even worth the time for a challenge? The duel itself must not be-- excepting that it provides her an excuse to metaphorically defecate on anyone who doesn't let her lord over them.

Consider, if you will, how Funk treated you when you weren't her perfect pawn; this other example, while somewhat tenuous, is how Kim behaves toward those who don't inhabit her world of honorable spaceship duels, where the only worthy act is blowing up frigates in her metaphorical back yard.

Yaken-haan's objective here is simple: make it clear what a farce Kim's notion of honor is. She has refused duels numerous times on a whim, because it's inconvenient, because she isn't as well-equipped in the challenge, because she prefers to yell. She parades herself around as the epitome of honor, as a singular, shining example of the dutiful Caldari officer, such that to insult her is to treasonously insult the State and the honor of its naval uniform.

Essentially, the point is that Kim's is a hollow mimicry of honor, that her self-declared reputation is a sham.

With all due respect, most of my views on Miss Kim are grounded on hero worship.