Intergalactic Summit

Did a little background checking and it looks like you nailed it on the head. Former combat pilot, one of the best around. Not someone you'd want to meet in a dark alley or even a well lit one for that matter. And then something happened. A shift in priorities? Change of heart? Somewhere he went from being the mortal terror of others like himself he decided to direct his violence against those that were helpless and completely unable to fight back in any way.

This strikes me as really odd, since most pilots - "normal" pilots - move in the opposite direction. They start off looking for the easy win and then move up to greater challenges once that gets dull. The thrill of adrenalin & risk fuels them to keep taking on tougher and tougher opponents. It's a ramp effect, addictive, and it's what fuels them into becoming the best or die trying.

That someone would move in the opposite direction - to go from being a feared & respected warrior to someone who spends his days paying off CONCORD to look the other way while attacking unarmed civilian ships and stations... it just doesn't compute, at least by conventional psychology.

What, trusting you ?

Right or wrong, to an extent it is, Ms Ikiryo.

This thread has been most revealing, nonetheless.

Impeccable timing, Madame Vitalia. The absence of commentary up to this point must be excused. We have been very busy instructing these people in the proper Faith and, of course, their new roles within it, and these educational operations must take priority over any broadcasting to the public of progress.


My dear Madame Fehrnah:

Understand that though we provide all estranged children of the Divine with the same opportunities to repent their former lives of the sins of false idols and worship and embrace the True Faith, the opportunities are not necessarily provided at the same time. We had very select criteria regarding which people would be taken for instruction. No one was killed in the process of the facility's pacification, but afterward those who did not meet the retrieval criteria were given the honor of being immediately liberated from their mortal vessels and sent upon their final journey.

Lucius:

Many of them are still alive and quite well, and you are correct that we do not care about ransoms. After all, these people are our prospective brothers and sisters, and since the Gates can only open once, it would be absolutely abhorrent to condemn their spirits after their theological education of the Blessed Prophet's faith by simply sending them back into the false empire that once held their souls in darkness. You need not be concerned for the welfare of them or their progeny, and you can take comfort knowing that even should these people fail in their education, their children will not be poisoned by the failure, as they have already been separated and sent on to other facilities.

And perhaps, once their training is finished, you will see your former employees again.