Intergalactic Summit

Good luck...

Brother, I too was once a loyal supporter of King Khanid. But it is time to awaken...

Where was Khanid when the Empress fell? Who stood at the Empress' side in the face of the Drifters? Were any of the royal houses there to witness? No, brother, it was us, the capsuleers, who stood ready to defend her.

The angels spoke the language of God and called themselves sefrim: those that guard the high seats of heaven. God ordered them here to protect the emperor against all evils that ever beset him.

We failed in God's mission for us because we forgot what we are. The Houses have cast us aside time and again; but no longer should we cast aside our own true nature. We are immortal and divine, we are Sefrim.

In the darkness of this Drifter menace we should not look to the royal Houses to guide us any longer. We stand above them, by God's divine will.

None shall stand higher than you save the Sefrim,
Who serve Me as others shall serve you

We shall light the way.

Is technology not the language of God?



Our part to play is to guide and to guard, it is forbidden to us to aggress upon any man.

Are the Drifters men? I care little for the dealings of mortals in the Empire, nor do I advocate for us to take a role within it. Our part is to return light from the darkness of the Drifters.

I seek not to meddle in the lowly affairs of the royals; I merely wish to remind my fellow capsuleers that God himself placed us above the Houses and on footing with the Emperor. We are not beholden to their whims or rituals. They have cast us aside; they will someday account for their own failures to heed God in this matter.

We, however, must answer for our own inability to protect the Empress. God placed us here to guard her and watch over the Empire. We failed in the former because we forgot what we are and the power we wield; let us not become so distracted by mortal affairs that we subsequently fail in the latter.

I may be mistaken, but hasn't he actually lost trials already?

What a strange thing to say.

If anything, technology is the language of a tool-using animal-- predominantly, humankind. It's something humans excel at.


These ... I don't understand why you would think we match what you are describing.

Even today, I have aggressed upon and killed men.

Capsuleers are, if anything, marvelously well equipped, and bidden, to aggress upon and kill humans.

It's how we earn our keep.

Also-- even if I don't think of myself in this way, in your terms, I'm essentially an atheist.

An atheist sefrim? How bizarre would that be....



Respectfully, I don't like where this logic goes at all. In many ways of looking at the world, a celestial being who forgets or rebels against its proper role ... is a demon.

The Khanid have long accepted the virtue of technology. It takes a uniquely antiquated mind to question the gifts God has so clearly bestowed upon us. What hubris it takes to question the favors given by God...



Generally, we kill other capsuleers; by our very nature, capsuleers are not human. While it is regrettable that this sometimes involves the destruction of faithful crew, there is a certain destructiveness inherent to our Sefrim nature that it is not always possible to temper. For was it not written that when the angels touched the ground with their feet the earth shook violently and fire engulfed those daring too near the divinities.



We are celestial beings who forgot our role long ago. We have been wasting our time and divine purpose in bowing to mortals and royals who are beneath us. I call upon us to remember our role; God placed us here to guard the Empress and the Empire in our own way, and gave us the celestial gifts needed to do so. He did not create us to serve as puppets in the games of men. If we had remembered this sooner, perhaps we would not have failed in our task to protect the Empress. Yet there is a chance for atonement in this sin; we may yet still protect the Empire.

Please forgive my comment in this thread; I have nothing but respect and well-wishing for our Khanid friends and the houses of Greater Amarria. Ms Lazair has touched on a particularly annoying bit of Capsuleer confusion which I deal with a lot. Please, ignore the distraction from your pledge to the throne. It's far more important than this.



No. If there is a language the creator of this universe spoke to breathe life into the wind and shape the stars, it is most certainly mathematics. Which is not at all the same as technology.



If there is a light brightening your path, it is your pride. It fools you to thinking that you are walking into the sunlight while you wander off into dark and terrible places. Dim it and look out into the world as it is, not as you want it to be.



You are a bit of meat in a skeletal shell with an echo-scanner attached to it.

It claims immortality within its bony bubble, because it's never been aware of death. A lack of awareness is not a lack of occurrence.

It claims divinity from its vertebral perch, because it has never seen divinity, but it likes the way the word reverberates through its tissues.

Your life continues through the cooperation of unseen thousands of people.

But, don't let me detract from your ascendance! You are undoubtedly the most glorious canned brain which has ever proclaimed divinity! Praise, praise, O baseline sinners - you brains uncann'd! Heed the Lazairian prophecy, and know that the brains-with-echo-scanners truly, truly are blessed as heralds of heaven!

Edit: I'm sorry, that got a little weird!

Edit 2: Aria, your memory has almost gotten as bad as mine has! We should talk sometime :)

I agree!

Thank you Scherezad for taking the time to respond to this.

Ms Lazair


I stated, "I, Sinjin Mokk, Cyberkinght of Khanid, Baron Holder of House Mokk, CEO of Royal Khanid Colonial Exploration, Chamberlain of the Royal Khanid Capsuleer Council do hearby state my undying allegiance to His Royal Majesty, Garkeh Khanid II, first of his name."

Did I, at any point in the above declaration, stutter? Was that ambiguous in any way, shape or form? Do you have some form of developmental disability that would cause you to doubt the very specific meaning of the aforementioned statement?

I do understand your viewpoint. However, what our Kingdom and our Empire needs most right now is solidarity. Believe me, I am far from being a Unionist, but even I recognize that this is not the time for divisiveness. Or sedition.

Please attend to your faith and deeply consider your choices in the coming days.

Oh and incidentally, you may want to address me as "My Lord" or "Baron." Not, "Brother."

Thank you.

S