Intergalactic Summit

Trust and Secrets. They form somewhat of a paradoxical juxtaposition. We tend to only tell secrets to whom we trust, yet it can be hard to trust someone who keeps secrets.

People who tell you secrets will tell yours to others as well, but people who keep juicy secrets from you are just plain mean; and there's one reason why I'm a misanthrope at heart, I guess.

Although her views are a little, uh, "fringe," Ms. Kim's not actually unique or even very unusual in that.

At a glance, it can actually be a little hard to find daylight between the Caldari outlook and the Sani Sabik, unless you look at it from the right angle. Both groups seem to see the world as a kind of howling wilderness where only the strong survive, and so end up a little obsessive about strength.

There is a bright line, though: the Caldari, in the end, are about individual strength as a necessary ingredient in community strength-- and part of individual strength is knowing when you're becoming a burden on the community and it's time to take that long walk in the snow.

The Sani Sabik seem to be more about personal power, and typically aspire to live forever even at the expense of ... well, everybody. It used to be that just meant eternal spiritual life, but, now, with cloning, I guess that's changing a little in places.

The only thing the Caldari are aiming to make immortal is the Caldari. Individuals are expendable, as long as the whole moves on.

"The Winds care for us, not for you or me."

Except, Aria, that she's clearly redefined 'The State' in her own personal headspace, to mean 'Me'. Anyone who disagrees with her is called a traitor. The statements of the CEP itself are denied and ignored in favor of Kim's personally-preferred version of reality.

She wraps it all in a manic declaration of loyalty to the State, but in the end, it's all about her aggrandizement, about her glory.

So very blooder.

Probably not and anyway l personally define her as a warlord also known as a junfa 軍閥

Get her drunk and ask?

(That's not actually a joke. She's the opposite of an angry drunk, so, it might be a good way to have a better conversation with her.)

I see....

That's a little strange. I'd expect a calculated course of action to move a little differently.

Ria What are Kim's internal workings anyway. Can you explain them to us

Characterizing Sani Sabik only by self-aggrandizing ambitions is as accurate as saying if something has a pedicel it's an apple.

Well ... you're not the first to say such a thing, my lord. Only, first, whoever it was left a "note" that doesn't make a lot of sense if it's really aimed at me. I think they expected it to reach my predecessor, some way or other.

Maybe it has.

The other thing is, I don't ... really believe that amnesia lifts all sins from a person's soul. It's why I stay away from Achura, my homeworld: I'm a murderer there, of pretty much the worst sort, a kinslayer. And, I can almost guarantee the Cartel wouldn't just forgive me just because I can't remember who I was, either. They have no reason to let me escape retaliation just by resetting my head.

Since I haven't been tortured to death yet, I'm guessing they're the ones responsible for this, or, at least, I serve a role more useful to them than "object lesson." Since I don't feel like I owe them anything at all, I probably serve that role just by existing.

Most likely, I'm bait.