Intergalactic Summit

Pretty much my feeling at this point. Not to sound mean Spes, but you are gonna end with nobody wanting you, if you keep this up.

Let me try this again. Communications channels are unreliable where I currently am, although I suppose this just goes to prove how much I believe in the advice I'm about to give you. I can't devote much time to this message, as I'm participating in an indigenous whaling custom soon.

The next time I am in pod, I will contract you a shuttle. My advice to you: go away. Leave this monochromatic maelstrom that has become so typical for Imperial-Republican combative culture. Explore backwater systems that are disconnected from the banalities of the mainstream--or leave the polities entirely--and practice the art of observing, engaging, studying, and generally getting-to-know humanity as it really is in its many diverse forms. In the process, you will get to know yourself.

Nobody else can offer you absolution for your sins. If anyone claims they can, they are in worse shape than you. For your past, God forgives you. I forgive you. But that matters naught unless you can forgive yourself. What you need is the time and space necessary to reflect upon your life, contemplate your self, and cultivate your soul. As long as you are reacting to the whims of others...as long as you are trying to find a place in some other grand scheme, you will always be a slave. And don't be hasty about settling on your ultimate role in life. It is only an easy choice to a slave. Commitment to an ongoing journey of self discovery and cultivation is the greatest penance for the sinner and the best way to to attain mastery over one's self. All you need is patience, volition, paths to travel, and a good pair of boots.

In short, you don't need a place or a station--you need a journey. And you don't need salvation. It is already offered to you with an open hand if you'll just grasp it. This advice may mean nothing to you--but if you are asking for help, this is what I have to offer. It worked for me.

I do find it ironic that someone who has callously slaughtered hundreds of ships is calling me out for being a criminal. I've seen your kills and you can hardly consider half of them to be even legitimate, just pirating. This is why its important to have some filtering of whom you listen to.

It's been nearly a day since I have returned to Amarr space and have taken up to doing missions for the Amarr navy. I eagerly look forward to more chances to prove myself to the empire. Perhaps in time I'll be trusted well enough to join the 24th someday.

I find it ironic that a bona fide murderer is moralising.



Oh, that'd be excellent! Then they could collapse even faster than they are right now.

I find my touchy-feelyness preferable to your unimaginative, tit-for-tat justice, Captain Lybecker. Personal freedom is not easy to earn, and there will almost always be casualties. Is this not what the entire confrontational stance the Republic adopts against the Empire is predicated on? We're all criminals in our own way, and I can guarantee I have been responsible for the deaths of more innocent men, women, and children than this Spes character, and I will not be turning myself over to any correctional facilities for crimes committed in the Republic...or the Empire for that matter.

His most recent comment renders the discussion moot, however. I'll not despise him because of his crimes, but I will despise him for being weak. A little lost puppy looking for a foot at which to heel...such a waste of a capsuleer.

Yeah, don't worry - he's really not into that whole "freedom" thing, he's made that clear.

Ironically it's that very freedom he renounces that makes him free to post here. I suggest that if he really wants to be a slave he should start acting more like one.

Ahh yes, now that makes all sorts of sense. You turn your back on your upbringing in the Faith, going so far as to murder your Holder and his family, fail to make any meaningful effort to learn of your Matari heritage, and return to the Empire as nothing more than a slightly remorseful dog who, in spite of all your professed regret and desire to atone, end up yipping and wagging your tail for the first person to buy you some toys and tell you everything will be alright if you go and take more lives.

I could easily echo the sentiments of some of the other Matari speaking up here and say you bring shame to your people and your blood, but I won't. I'm not Matari, I can't rightly claim to be ashamed of your words and actions. Shame wouldn't be the right term anyway, not with this most recent declaration to destroy every Matari ship you come across. No, shame is not what I feel, instead of shame, I'm rather offended that you are considering yourself one of the Amarrian Faithful. It is no less than utterly repugnant that you'll be flying around on a trek of murder and mayhem in the name of a God of which you have quite clearly failed to learn about.

At this point I no longer mourn for your slain Holder. If you are any indication of the products of his stewardship then he was clearly failing in his duty to you and to God.

Don't come after me. Don't come after my friends.

You'll float home.

I just noticed... are all you ladies in Teraa Matar tattooed?

That's pretty awesome. Too few people appreciate the value of the tribal tattoo.