Intergalactic Summit

This isn't much of a choice. Hope doesn't prove that you did the right thing. If I could live a short life and know that I did the right thing, with some proof of it outside of my own belief/hope, I would choose that. But whether or not I did the right thing, it doesn't concern me much whether I feel good about myself (which seems to be the benefit of the former choice). Doing the right thing is about how it impacts others and the world. Feeling good about yourself is relatively useless once you're at the end of your lifespan. At least if results are laid out, I can learn one final time, rather than just sit around with my short, ineffectual life and feel good about myself perhaps with little reason to do so.

Have you ever retired from being a capsuleer, yet come back into the pod some years later? If so, what brought you back?

Three years ago, there was a remarkably memorable debate about the old "Terran" subject. It was pleasant, well worded, and left both sides parting amiably. I've seen nothing that comes close after my return.

What is the WORST conversation you've had on either Summit?

I had this chance when I first got my identity ratified and my hangar privileges unlocked. I could have just liquidated all my predecessor's assets and gone, well, anywhere-- set a bunch of my ISK balance up in a broad investment portfolio, stashed the rest in various accounts, and probably lived a pretty happy, quiet life. Only, if I did that, the implants, the training still rattling around in my head-- what was that all for?

The New Eden star cluster isn't a place without troubles, exactly. There's work for people like us; really, it often seems like there's no end of it. In the end, I'm not the sort of person who'd be happy living what feels like someone else's life, off of someone else's assets, without trying to be someone constructive, myself. The wealth I'd have would have been obtained at the cost of pain I'd never experienced. I might not have blood on my own hands (that I could remember), but it would drip from my account balance. And, also, I'm not really happy asking other people to do things I won't. I'm not comfortable leaving the dirty work to others.

It meant I'd be a killer again, but ... if that's really my part to play in this world, I guess I'm okay being that.

Sort of a grim question, but ... do you collect frozen corpses? If so, what do you do with them?

(I hear it's popular, and I'm curious why.)

I know an Eve University faculty who stores corpses of misbehaving students in his meat locker. It's likely a combination of wanting to use the corpses as a warning and having a morbid collector's streak.

Personally, I do not collect corpses. I mean, what do I want to do with the corpses? It's not like any of these corpses have some state-of-the-art implants I had never seen before to yank out to examine. Also, cryo costs add up and if I do not put them in cryo, they will start to stink. So, just leave them flash-frozen out in space and let some biomass collector drop by and collect them some time. It's not like I have any way to sell the corpses to them personally anyway.

If someone off-the-grid is to sell you a full set of HG Hardwire implants for only 25% of their market price, will you buy them?

Well, it could be 'used' and tuned to the previous user's brain function or it could be using some out-of-date firmware or may be storing some kind of malicious programming in its microelectronics. Takes a lot of time turning the whole thing inside out to be very sure it's legit and clean.

A very paranoid man wouldn't take the deal.

Also, what question should I put out?

I once kicked the hydrazine rocket boosters to maximum thrust, boosted right off a mobile command center, soared over 50m, kicked over a war-truck in the way (it was housing bandits wielding heavy weapons) before proceeding to skid 45 degrees forward, turning around at the same time, and lay down suppressing fire. In a combat MTAC.

Does that count?

I dislike it intensely. I usually wear garments that conceal them and when station or planetside sometimes a scarf or a shawl.

Where do you think the ports should go, if not on the back?

I don't have a personal ship due to not actually being a capsuleer but let's be honest and say that, while I do used Interbus extensively to get around the cluster, it would be pleasant to travel aboard a private vehicle rather than have to listen to my shoes stick to the floor when I walk to my seat.

My question comes with a scenario.

Let us say as Sef comes to you one day (regardless of whether or not you believe in them, if not then insert some other religious being or icon) and tell you that you can have anything your heart desires but as a cost you can never leave the atmosphere of the planet you currently are on.

What do you wish for and where would you like to spend the rest of your existence? (I condemn any individual who wishes for more wishes or a being that can provide wishes that exist outside of these conditions as possessing a supremely lazy mind)

Well.. I know I would want to live on an ice planet, because I love ice, and not just space ice. I've loved ice planets ever since I visited one as a kid. As for where.. I don't think the drone lands would be a good idea because of, well, the drones and there really isn't anyone out there. So probably somewhere within the Federation. That would probably be best. I'm not really sure where.

What is your favorite kind of ice?

Edit: Sorry. I messed up. I'll try to not do that again.


You would be changing the acceptable answers to the question, I think. I'm not totally sure what would happen.

Does it count if the pod is in my ship and in station? Because I spent almost a week in it once. A series of fleets interspersed with docking for repairs, rearming, and a couple minutes sleep in the pod while waiting for command to pull their heads out of their rear and issue orders.

biggest rookie mistake you ever made?