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So, what do you all do when outside the pod?
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DeadRow
State War Academy
Caldari State
#81 - 2013-08-24 12:27:28 UTC
Swimming, hunting, spending time with Evangline, getting horrified by Degen's thoughts. Relaxing things you know?

Also thinking up new ways to annoy people is fun.
Confliktus
Perkone
Caldari State
#82 - 2013-08-28 12:12:23 UTC
Well when not reading or meditating i spend time mingling with the ladies off course.

A good drink some old import wiskey a fine chat and all is well.


Sometimes when the mood is right i spend time on some ocean world and go out for a bit of sailing.
Motoko Kasaki
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#83 - 2013-08-28 16:52:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Motoko Kasaki
I like to go for a run, or I like to go shooting or else practice my skill with one of the martial arts I learnt. In addition I try and make time to read a few law books, to reacquiant myself with the State's judicidal system. Strengthen yourself to strengthen the State.

Glory to the State.
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#84 - 2013-08-28 18:26:04 UTC
Motoko Kasaki wrote:
I like to go for a run, or I like to go shooting or else practice my skill with one of the martial arts I learnt. In addition I try and make time to read a few law books, to reacquiant myself with the State's judicidal system. Strengthen yourself to strengthen the State.


I would suggest adding some cultural items to that list. Recently I've been studying cooking, paper-folding and the tea ceremony in addition to my physical and martial arts training.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Motoko Kasaki
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#85 - 2013-08-28 19:01:14 UTC
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:
Motoko Kasaki wrote:
I like to go for a run, or I like to go shooting or else practice my skill with one of the martial arts I learnt. In addition I try and make time to read a few law books, to reacquiant myself with the State's judicidal system. Strengthen yourself to strengthen the State.


I would suggest adding some cultural items to that list. Recently I've been studying cooking, paper-folding and the tea ceremony in addition to my physical and martial arts training.


I shall take your words under advisement, folding paper certainly sounds like a good enough way to get my motor control software up to some form of functionality. That being said, I've been studying the works of certain Ni-Kunni poets and authors. It is rather refreshing to gain an insight into how our ally views the world. 'Open your mind and allow the Winds to inspire greatness within you to better serve The State.'

Glory to the State.
Constantin Baracca
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#86 - 2013-08-29 01:19:15 UTC
I suppose I am unlike many capsuleers in that my "job", such as it is, takes place mostly outside my capsule. Mostly, I fly to the reaches of the universe and do my best to minister to the faithful. Often to do that I must do my part to destroy the local menace; that requires a ship. However, my ecclesiastical duties usually involve being outside my ship to either preach or study.

As recreation goes, I do like to go to more characterful bars and clubs in whatever area I am in and relax. It is amazing how wide your perspective of the universe gets when you don't know, from day to day, whether you will be staying in a Matari tavern or a slum-lord's sleep tank for the night. You appreciate how much more vast the differences are from person to person than the differences from race to race.

So outside of those, at my own apartments I do engage in a bit of swordplay and exercise to keep myself fit. I try to read as well, especially local cultural books. If one thing has taught me how much value there is in the Amarr-Caldari trust, it is reading their fascinating doctrines on business ethics. Sometimes, their notions of sacrificing oneself for the state is so sweetly familiar.

"What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?"

-Matthew 16:26
Azalas
Pixel Knights
Dead Pixels Inc
#87 - 2013-08-30 16:06:08 UTC
Clubs, bars, social events and women... My character is a very lustful individual.
Erik Kaassan
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#88 - 2013-08-30 16:18:27 UTC
Constantin Baracca wrote:
I suppose I am unlike many capsuleers in that my "job", such as it is, takes place mostly outside my capsule. Mostly, I fly to the reaches of the universe and do my best to minister to the faithful. Often to do that I must do my part to destroy the local menace; that requires a ship. However, my ecclesiastical duties usually involve being outside my ship to either preach or study.

As recreation goes, I do like to go to more characterful bars and clubs in whatever area I am in and relax. It is amazing how wide your perspective of the universe gets when you don't know, from day to day, whether you will be staying in a Matari tavern or a slum-lord's sleep tank for the night. You appreciate how much more vast the differences are from person to person than the differences from race to race.

So outside of those, at my own apartments I do engage in a bit of swordplay and exercise to keep myself fit. I try to read as well, especially local cultural books. If one thing has taught me how much value there is in the Amarr-Caldari trust, it is reading their fascinating doctrines on business ethics. Sometimes, their notions of sacrificing oneself for the state is so sweetly familiar.

Preaching peace one moment and making war the next. Aren't you just a little contradiction?
Retro Dallas
Doomheim
#89 - 2013-09-01 04:48:51 UTC
This week, my crew and I took a vacation to Auvergne VIII, a barren planet. We scoped out the system and only found gas giants and dead terrestrials. Somehow, we had the inclination that the best place to go camping for a week was on this planet. I wanted to load up a fission reactor station and settle down, check out what's going on through Scope and hit on Losschyve, a geologist from Metserel who wanted to come along.

Coopers, however, had a different plan in mind and wanted to load up an inflatable module station. Spending a week on this dead terrestrial as new colonists would have from long ago. I felt up for the challenge, however, inflatable modules mean little living space and even less space for food. We ended up eating rations for that week, and I could not have any personal time with our sultry scientist.

With everyone living on stations for so long, we weren't all that ready for a planet with gravity pulling at 4.9m/s^2. After getting suited up, we'd toss a ball fifty meters with little effort and with a little jump, we could toss each other five to ten meters before touching the surface.

It's exactly the kind of vacation I needed.
Constantin Baracca
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#90 - 2013-09-01 05:14:50 UTC
Erik Kaassan wrote:
Constantin Baracca wrote:
I suppose I am unlike many capsuleers in that my "job", such as it is, takes place mostly outside my capsule. Mostly, I fly to the reaches of the universe and do my best to minister to the faithful. Often to do that I must do my part to destroy the local menace; that requires a ship. However, my ecclesiastical duties usually involve being outside my ship to either preach or study.

As recreation goes, I do like to go to more characterful bars and clubs in whatever area I am in and relax. It is amazing how wide your perspective of the universe gets when you don't know, from day to day, whether you will be staying in a Matari tavern or a slum-lord's sleep tank for the night. You appreciate how much more vast the differences are from person to person than the differences from race to race.

So outside of those, at my own apartments I do engage in a bit of swordplay and exercise to keep myself fit. I try to read as well, especially local cultural books. If one thing has taught me how much value there is in the Amarr-Caldari trust, it is reading their fascinating doctrines on business ethics. Sometimes, their notions of sacrificing oneself for the state is so sweetly familiar.

Preaching peace one moment and making war the next. Aren't you just a little contradiction?


Who is preaching pacifism? I preach the faith. The Lord provided me with mercy and laser cannons. It is rarely difficult, upon arriving at a farming community under threat of pirate raids, who deserves which.

"What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?"

-Matthew 16:26
Constantin Baracca
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#91 - 2013-09-01 06:02:35 UTC
Retro Dallas wrote:
This week, my crew and I took a vacation to Auvergne VIII, a barren planet. We scoped out the system and only found gas giants and dead terrestrials. Somehow, we had the inclination that the best place to go camping for a week was on this planet. I wanted to load up a fission reactor station and settle down, check out what's going on through Scope and hit on Losschyve, a geologist from Metserel who wanted to come along.

Coopers, however, had a different plan in mind and wanted to load up an inflatable module station. Spending a week on this dead terrestrial as new colonists would have from long ago. I felt up for the challenge, however, inflatable modules mean little living space and even less space for food. We ended up eating rations for that week, and I could not have any personal time with our sultry scientist.

With everyone living on stations for so long, we weren't all that ready for a planet with gravity pulling at 4.9m/s^2. After getting suited up, we'd toss a ball fifty meters with little effort and with a little jump, we could toss each other five to ten meters before touching the surface.

It's exactly the kind of vacation I needed.


There are a group of ethnic Gallenteans who interested me in a sport you might find interesting... or idiotic depending on how you feel about danger.

They look for worlds with thick atmospheres, usually dense gas giants. They then fly in on specially designed frigates. The trick is to dive deep enough into the atmosphere and ride the swirling air currents, but to really skim across on a parabolic arc. Done correctly, you experience thirty or forty seconds in a place between atmosphere and space, surfing on dense air currents. Too shallow, and you simply skip off, to the mockery of your party.

Dive too deep, and the air currents may instead force you into the planet's lower atmosphere where you can no longer escape the pull of gravity with momentum. Everyone I spoke to that practiced this sport knew at least two or three of their friends who had died as a result. Truly a dangerous pastime worthy of only the most reckless of fools.

I skipped off the first two times, but I guarantee those thirty seconds when I finally got it right were some of the most thrilling I had ever experienced. I highly recommend it!

"What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?"

-Matthew 16:26
Arista Shahni
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#92 - 2013-09-02 09:56:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Arista Shahni
I have been leaving my capsule less as of late due to an upswing in duties, but this is not uncommon for me, as I have spent over a year in it before.

I do love the stars.

When I do leave now, it is because I am meeting with people who need to see me face to face for one reason or another.

"I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you - so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.  And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all."
Anatole Madullier
Alexylva Paradox
#93 - 2013-09-02 11:03:47 UTC
Arista Shahni wrote:
I have been leaving my capsule less as of late due to an upswing in duties, but this is not uncommon for me, as I have spent over a year in it before.

I do love the stars.

When I do leave now, it is because I am meeting with people who need to see me face to face for one reason or another.


What about people who like to meet you face to face?

ॐ
Confliktus
Perkone
Caldari State
#94 - 2013-09-02 11:39:36 UTC
Constantin Baracca wrote:
I suppose I am unlike many capsuleers in that my "job", such as it is, takes place mostly outside my capsule. Mostly, I fly to the reaches of the universe and do my best to minister to the faithful. Often to do that I must do my part to destroy the local menace; that requires a ship. However, my ecclesiastical duties usually involve being outside my ship to either preach or study.

As recreation goes, I do like to go to more characterful bars and clubs in whatever area I am in and relax. It is amazing how wide your perspective of the universe gets when you don't know, from day to day, whether you will be staying in a Matari tavern or a slum-lord's sleep tank for the night. You appreciate how much more vast the differences are from person to person than the differences from race to race.

So outside of those, at my own apartments I do engage in a bit of swordplay and exercise to keep myself fit. I try to read as well, especially local cultural books. If one thing has taught me how much value there is in the Amarr-Caldari trust, it is reading their fascinating doctrines on business ethics. Sometimes, their notions of sacrificing oneself for the state is so sweetly familiar.



My my.. aren't you just the good Samaritan....
Constantin Baracca
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#95 - 2013-09-02 15:39:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Constantin Baracca
Confliktus wrote:

My my.. aren't you just the good Samaritan....


Charity and good stewardship are the sacred duties of all Amarr. Often, we forget that. More often, we intentionally forget that. For too long, it was endemic that we worshiped at the feet of our own selves, forgetting that we have a higher calling to serve.

Conquering a planet is not the only way, nor even the best way, to spread the Word. Humans, even in our cold cluster where we have all turned the business of killing into a for-profit game of numbers, yearn for goodness. And while the larger part of what we must do, as a church, is to bring our own people back to God's grace, there really is no reason not to go out and show the cluster that one can live righteously. The monetary rewards may not be so great, but we don't get to take our wealth with us when we die.

Our spiritual rewards are eternal.

"What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?"

-Matthew 16:26
Arista Shahni
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#96 - 2013-09-03 10:41:41 UTC
Anatole Madullier wrote:


What about people who like to meet you face to face?


They are appreciated, Anatole.

"I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you - so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.  And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all."