Intergalactic Summit

Business, Industry, passion and self-preservation.

I also take animated holos and my Gallente porn collection pretty seriously.

I can't speak for anyone else, but... no. The people whose scorn I care about are the same ones that get to know all my demons. Anyone else? Meaningless and empty shadows, photons on a GalNet site, and nothing more.

And therein lies the truth of what you're seeing: Why should I parade my activities out before a bunch of irrelevant nothings? Why should I care enough about their approval to say 'I did a thing!' as if I need their validation? I'll leave that kind of 'look at me, see, I do things that matter!' to people like Napkins and those who need to make a show of attacking him.

I do what I do. Those who should know what that is, do.

But you see, with that stance it is you too who seems a little afraid of the "chocolate and sani sabik posers". You choose to give up this space as something where serious work does not belong.

God, Empire, my noble house and my organizations on that order.

That's a fair standpoint, but you'll also note that I've included myself in the group of people who don't really do anything worth taking very seriously. Oh, I'll set up a Staging and Containment center perhaps, or whatever else when the situation calls for it. I'll even put on the 'serious' face and announce it and so on. I do my part for the Network and all those little non-capsuleer things. I tour with Sarz'namarr and break open the odd volcano or something while waging a small cultural and ideological war among the baseliners, and occasionally use this place advertising such things.

That doesn't really count all that much though. On the scales of New Eden, it barely registers and most of it is irrelevant to capsuleers anyway.

No, Elsebeth. I don't think any of us 'fear' these worthless creatures. We just don't do much to rise above them, do we? You named some names earlier. Arrendis, toils for the goons and has worth on her own but does nothing worth taking seriously here. Gaven dutifully nudges the pendulum, in a never-ending Sisyphean task that achieves nothing. I undock and fulfill my contracts to the letter, killing and destroying without the cause even being my own. You now do the same as Gaven, in the other direction.

No, we don't choose to give up this space. We just don't do anything worth putting here, when even the things we do that does matter and is worth taking seriously... doesn't actually matter or is worth taking seriously for others here. When we put up another Keepstar, what does it matter to you? When another Sotiyo churning out super capitals in Delve goes up, what does it matter to me?

What does Electus Matari do that's worth noting to the rest of the IGS? What does PIE do that's worth noting to the rest of the IGS?

It doesn't really matter what people are loyal to here, every entity that does proclaim some sort of loyalty does nothing of note, and the entities in New Eden that does do something of note are irrelevant to the vast majority of denizens of this place because it's so far beyond the reach and even realms of possibility for them.

Want this place to have something worth taking seriously on it? Well, maybe we need to do something worth taking seriously first. They happen all the time, but separated from this place because this place is irrelevant to most people who do things that matter. Regions burn, staggering industrial capacity is born and thrive, battles worthy of continuous days of song in remembrance all happen on a daily basis but this place just can't deal with these things because it's a scale most of its denizens will never grasp.

Let me know when an entity has ambitions to be an entity worthy of note both here on the IGS, and out there in the void where it bloody matters.

That is indeed a good way to put it.

You talk about how no one does anything worthwhile. Of course, one person's and one organizations actions are pretty much never anything compared to the whole cluster - and when they are, they tend to make the news, and be discussed by others, not by the person him/herself. And yes, a lot of what gets posted on IGS is meaningless dribble even by those standards.

Yet part of the fear I seem to feel about the serious people posting about serious things seems to be exactly that: that by making posts about what matters to you, you somehow lower yourself to the perceived level of the IGS, admit by association that your serious face is nothing but "chocolate and Sani Sabik parodies" (sorry, but I love that phrase, and am totally going to adopt it until it becomes a traditional saying whose origin no one really remembers anymore, and my apologies to chocolate lovers, but not really to Sabik).

There are serious matters that are not galaxy-changing, nor brag-worthy battles.

Again, there is no particular reason to, if you prefer not to. This place is of no value in itself.

Relevancy is relative, even space relevancy. At least it seems to be something you take seriously? Hm.

Fair enough. The place itself may not cater to anyone, but its intended audience certainly does.

I'll admit to keeping a lot of my personal fronted efforts, or large scale efforts I'm involved in, mostly off the IGS outside of the odd post possibly. First and foremost because of my experiences with the PPC lead me to believe that petty drama between adults (and capsuleers no less too) has a habit of outshining the serious efforts of participants, especially in a naive, but highly detailed effort to offer a potential blueprint for a somewhat more concrete peace.

Secondly, there's just not the appetite here to know of things like the Conclave of Providence and its efforts to establish a legal and religious framework for the advancement of Amarr interests, culture and governance into that nullsecurity system. No one that wasn't already closely involved anyways, or was able to keep an eye on it via knowing a participant, cared about the weeks of debate to push forward Operation Deliverance and the promotion of the Faith. Only Amarr cared, everyone else seemed to mostly just shrug. Why cater to promoting activities like that to a crowd who can't even put up an interesting retort to our efforts let alone the small amount of praise it got, once again mostly from the Amarr.

Looking beyond the end of my personal involvement, ongoing efforts to establish the Empyrean Council for the region to enact the decrees of the Conclave will also go on unnoticed here, because the input from my personal experience isn't usually worth the effort of reading, and it seems the Council Members, the Principal and the region's Magistrate agree. Those with sage advice have already spoken directly to the Council, those with retorts already have done so with guns.

Excuse me for failing to care when my attempts to inform the peanut gallery come up short, I find my time better spent talking to those that want to actually talk, and shooting at those that want to shoot. Outside of the odd good discussion or important news, the IGS for the most part has become my morning coffee rabble rouser and place to sharpen my snark. I'm still learning the latter.