Intergalactic Summit

I prefer to fly Caldari ships as well, but mostly because I wouldn't be seen dead in one of those floating phallic symbols that Roden and his ilk seem to enjoy designing and building.

Personally I love using my Caldari ship to stomp Gallente ships flat - because they seem to expect to be outclassed (given how hard they try to escape) and then, having given them a chance to prove themselves halfway competent, you get them anyway. I always pick up Prisoners of War from their ships, because we signed the Interstellar Law of Arms that requires us not to leave them to die in Space. It's especially amusing when we treat them with dignity and humanity - despite the propaganda they've been filled with that makes them expect harsh treatment.

How I laugh as they're escorted to reasonably sized secure-quarters and provided with replacement clothing and warm food! And the look on their faces as we offload them at an independently monitored Prisoner of War facilitly, where they are given productive work to perform whilst the repatriation process is underway.

Using my Caldari ships to completely outclass Gallente pilots as both combat pilots AND decent human beings is something I just LOOOOOVE to do.

Not for your crews, if I find you though, Msr Achasse. Given your behaviour, I'm going to reclass you as a Pirate - and as such your crew will forfeit their rights and any privileges. For crews like yours, we have an arrangement with TSF whereby we can swap them for Caldari POWs before they go into Nation's vats for processing. Sleep well.

I try to fly solely Kingdom ships, but considering the training required to pilot the various models takes some time to complete, I make do with regular Amarr ships. The technology may not necessarily be up to the standards I'm used to, but they work in a pinch.

When it comes to those baseliners I find floating in space, the Caldari are given over to the State least I invoke their ire. The Gallente, Minmatar and Amarr go to the slave pens and re-education programs. As long as my manufactoriums are in lowsec, the officials are keen to look the other way, when they even find out. It's a delicious irony to be running production facilities in the privacy of my hanger using a predominately Gallente workforce while aborad a Gallente station.

The people we rescue tend to think differently. And really, the penalty for Piracy is death anyway, isn't it?

This information has been public domain for months and months.

Pieter, do not let my calm demeanor fool you. I am absolutely livid right now. I've just gotten better at controlling my emotions.

I'm angry on four counts:
1. You've just demonstrated that one of Diana Kim's insane, paranoid rantings (namely, that Pyre-Falcon are in league with Sansha's Nation) was actually correct and in that dismissing it out of hand like I usually do I was actually in the wrong about her for once, which is monumentally embarassing.

2. You're equating giving people to Sansha's Nation to death, whereas in fact death would be a far, far preferable alternative.

3. You're giving people to Sansha's Nation.

4. You're smugly boasting about giving people to Sansha's Nation.

Oh, forgive me, Pieter. You're trading people to the Sansha's Nation but at least you're being honest about it.

That changes things entirely.

It may not have been your decision to begin doing it, but it was and remains your decision whether to continue participating in it.

What use is the loyalty of an honourable man to a cause that's doing dishonourable things, Pieter?

It doesn't get much more dishonourable than trading people to Nation, no matter what rationalisations are given.

Uh, ok. This got derailed faster then I thought it would...


On topic, I am Gallente and I fly Amarr.... For the lasers, I like lasers.... And cake, but that has little to do with anything.

It's habit grown to include reason, in my case, that I fly Caldari hulls. It's what I was trained in, and what I'm comfortable with. They're efficient, and I like the versatility of missile systems. Still, I'm considering giving Gallente or Amarrian hulls a go, before too long, to expand my repertoire.

...And regarding vibrating Thorax hulls... I'm sure it's all for her pleasure.