Intergalactic Summit

Of all things you honestly think I'm a coward?

Yes. Yes I do.

All Amarrian loyalists are cowards, of the lowest, most reprehensible order.

But you in particular.

Whilst i am inclined to agree due to my burning hatred of those loyal to the wretched empress the above statement is mostly false, while there are admittedly many loyalist cowards out there i have met a few who gave a good account of themselves before they ended their days in a blooding farm.

And onto the subject of Vitoc, an ingenious creation that allows the whims of one to dictate the many, the answer lies simply on your views of rightiousness as it is a belief grounded not in morals but in faith.

Isn't that what normally happens? Lots of personal insults and word play, very little actual content?

Valate is so unorthodox.

And what of the other passages of Scripture, hmm?

I still consider myself highly sceptical of their origins and created purpose. But that's more based on my view of religions in general.

Your link between righteousness and Vitoc is non-existent, there is nothing to counter. Vitoc is a tool, nothing more.

Valerie Valate,

According to what is Written, your interpretation suggests enlightenment is achieved through a combination of personal hardship, servitude, and a capacity to, and I quote, 'embrace God's Love'. The basis of your judgement that Vitoc is an unrighteous tool appears founded upon the notion that the recipient of said anti-toxin has their perceptions altered by this drug, and is unfit to embrace your deity's affections. Given these statements, one could perceive that any influence upon one's capacity to interpret God's Love may be of a malicious or unproductive nature. This presents a quandry in which one is forced to decide which influences are positive or negative on the subject to achieve optimal enlightenment.

If one were to break these influential factors into three distinct segments: Subjugation, Hardship, and Embracing Love, we see that the first two influences are imposed upon by the Controller, while the embrace must be a personal decision made by the subject. Since it is quite clear that coercion under duress is a required element in the submission of its 'lesser' species, it seems apparent that what is Written accepts this influence as a positive attribute in the process. Because physical hardship and forced servitude can have just as much an impact upon an individuals reasoning faculty's and chemical processes (nutrition, physical exertion, etc.) as any active chemical ingredient, reasoning would imply that any state could have a potential impact on the subjects ability to embrace your deity. And provided this influence is provided by a member of the chosen people of God, any influence is a positive influence.

However, I find that like most religious texts, the contradictions and vagueness of what is Written, makes interpretation of these documents a haphazard guess at best. In my experience, this characteristic of subjugation of individuals, offering a falsehood of choice of love or death, to accept an idea they may be unable to resist, rather typical of Amarrian culture. One must seriously question the legitimacy of a society that offers Love or Death as the final solution to the essential linchpin to the function of their civilization.

A practical and humane solution to this quandry would be to engineer favorable circumstances where the subject accepts this love under the pretension that is their choice, not that it is being forced upon them. In scientific studies, the act of removing the staff from the experiment ensures that contamination is kept to a minimum and natural results can be achieved. Given that there are far more effective tools on the market on hand to achieve this solution, Vitoc is a rather crude, blunt instrument that promises less than optimal levels of contamination and even less effective results according to what is Written.

None of this surprises me in the slightest.

Regards,
Nola J. Doyle

What is really beautiful with Vitoxin is not so much its effects, but the scientific achievement, knowing how the virus mutates regularily and follows patterns of evolution that ask for new verions of Vitoc to be created (taking these patterns into account), while the disease itself can not be healed that way. Which means that the creation of the Vitoxin took into account the need for a way to neutralize the toxin itself (with the Vitoc drug), but the cure of the virus itself is hard to achieve, especially if you do not take into account the invention of the still unstable insorum.

This is a very advanced technology, and a masterpiece of genetic engineering.