Intergalactic Summit

Yes, but it's icky.

Your blatant disrespect towards your allies and overt lust for Minmatar flesh grows tiring, Verin.

I wonder how long it will take you to steel your conviction and strike at the Empire, rather than shout and tattle about it loudly and obnoxiously.

I have been watching what you have to say for over a year, Stitcher.

You have detailed your thoughts in excruciating length. But conversing seems to be all that you are willing to do.

You are an incredibly superficial little man, Verin. Spare me your political fugitive and tiring sophistry.

You are verbose, surely. But to think of yourself as a warrior of the tongue is commiserable. All of your arguments against the Empire, all of your chest-beating, all of it amounts to an attractive little nothing.

Now I am sure that you will smile to yourself in your room seeing that I do taunt; and yes I taunt you, but I taunt you because you make a whelp of yourself.

The faithful will meet you on any front. That is where we differ. I do not demand that you fight on terms that are not your own, for there we shall meet you, too. It is you who refuses to fight on any other field of combat.

So, make with your dulcet speeches as you do, convincing yourself that any attempt to fight us would be ultimately irrelevant. Continue to offer nothing but hot air, where you will surely remain irrelevant. I know that I will not remove you from your fortress. You have realized long ago that any such ideological differences such as these are settled only in blood, but you will not rise to the heights demanded of you and must instead reason that this is no fault of yourself.

Violence is a means to an end, a tool. It's one of many in my arsenal - I have used force and death in the past, and no doubt will need to do so again. But it's just one of the options, and I prefer to use the right tool for the job.

The problem with immortals is that violence rarely works on us. What am I going to accomplish by blowing a capsuleer up other than making them resent me? It's not like killing proves me right. I'll fight to defend property, territory, people and resources, but there really is no point in shooting an Empyrean over philosophical differences because A) it doesn't prove me right, and B) they'd just wake up disliking me even more and no closer to either agreeing with or disproving me.

The same problem applies to the Empire. it's too big for any amount of carnage I can cause to have any real impact, and in any case just turns me into an enemy who is not to be heeded.

So taunting me to get my warpaint on and go break stuff to prove my point isn't going to work. I know full well that it would be futile.

You said it yourself. Better them than you. Why care? You didn't know them. They were of absolutely no consequence or importance to you. Give a logical reason as to why you should give the slightest crap. Screw them.

Some people live by the saying "Don't give an inch.". I tend to go by the saying "Don't give a s**t.".

Consider this: They didn't know you either. Yet, they tried to kill you without a moment's hesitation. Any shred of sympathy you may feel for them is undeserved.

I suppose I should be mindful that some people do feel differently. The first time I had to put some attackers out of their misery all I felt was rage. Nowadays it's more just annoyance.

A drink is a sound idea, by the way. Make it 10.

"Sympathy" is the wrong word. "Empathy" isn't even the right word. It's more like "don'tlikedeadthingsthy" but that's not a word so I dunno.

No, I'm taunting you for polishing your gemstone with a filthy rag, whilst your foes run it through a woodchipper. You reason that with enough rubbing you'll be able to polish it, ignoring that it becomes exponentially harder to clean it's surface as it's broken down into more and more pieces.

Word it how you will, death is an essential part of the universe, and worth getting used to.