Intergalactic Summit

Arrendis? Just to mention-- whether that even works will depend on what sort of parameters he has set up for his soft clone activation conditions. We're not allowed to have two copies active at once, but the point where we're considered "presumed dead" has some wiggle room in it.

I have mine set up with the possibility of me ending up considerably worse-than-dead at the hands of Nation or the Sani Sabik in mind. If it means I get stripped of personhood while still breathing and "rescue" means a bullet in the head, well, that's a price I'm kind of willing to pay.

I mention this here because I'm pretty sure if he hasn't already thought of this, one of his minions has, and also since I'd actually kind of recommend it to anybody who doesn't want to risk having a True Slave wandering around with their name and assets.

He'd need friends.

Consider also installing a dead-man switch self-destruct in your clone in that event. Our sentient nodes have such a thing to prevent forcible disconnection and retrieval of Nodes.

Also Arrendis, the place he would be kept would require over 100 Drifters to attack just to destroy him, it is properly fitted after all.

Just a cursory side note - but you already were "stripped of personhood" once, ms. Jenneth. And, what does you new ego has to say about the one that existed before?



It's just irrational, basic human fears, like fear of death, or fear of change. You were remade anew in a random, barbaric, destructive way, but yet you got accustomed to it, grew another personality around it, like a tree grows around the damaging object and lives on, and now don't want to go back to your previous self you consider really unhappy.

It's all relative, you see.

Back on topic. I expected to see a practical businessman in mr. Mokk, but it seems that he's just as driven by petty emotions and pontless vendettas as most other blind people in the cluster. Looks like the entire topic of selling slaves to Nauplius was raised just to infiltrate his citadel and cause as much damage as possible.

A shame, really.

But well executed, so I guess congratulations, mr. Mokk.

So is this the thread where we pretend we can bypass the very same security measures that have - with 100% success rate so far - kept capsuleers on all sides from turning stations and hangars into slag for well over a decade? Okay okay, I got one too. I just totally activated my Fleet Typhoon's weapon systems inside a station. Oh and had armed forces in the hangar which totally means the station was invaded too.

For some reason the hub station in Amarr seems unaffected, and the freeport Citadels nearby too. Can't imagine why.

Well, with Mokk, I'd assume Nauplius let him land to make a sale.

Actually I'm way less horrified by her than I was when I first found out who I was.

Also, I've never been stripped of personhood, only of my personal memories. It was touch and go for a bit whether I'd be allowed to be "Aria Jenneth," but nobody could find a better copy, so, I got to be treated as a person instead of a patch of temporarily malfunctioning biomass. (I'd argue I was a "person" anyway-- just, maybe not one who was legally supposed to exist. It seems like there are places where the law chooses to be cruel because the alternative is to be crazy.)

So, here I am, arguably a usurper if the original "me" is still out there somewhere. Then again, she abandoned this identity and disappeared, so....

I don't say she was an unhappy person as a matter of moral judment; it's more just a sense I get about her from her public essays and private journals: that she was really depressed. I do seem to have a little both physiological and psychological predisposition towards depression, but it's not just that, either.

She self-identified as a murderer and a monster, and even if she went out of her way to justify being both of those things, comparing one's self to an organ-eating, shape-shifting fairy tale creature that pretends to be a sweet little girl or young woman so it can murder whole families in their beds isn't ... normally something happy people do?

I wouldn't think?

Her last "Children of Naught" essay, "End State," described floating away on a sea of abstraction and uncaring nothing, which is pretty close to the symptoms of clinical depression-- pathological apathy, being unable to care.

It also indicated that she had departed from the capsuleer class. Wherever she went, I hope she found some peace.

So, yeah. I don't think her having been a pretty unhappy person is very relative, except in the sense that there might be people who are even unhappier. It doesn't seem like something that ought to be some kind of race, though.

I do think morality is relative, but I also think that it's okay to say there are things human beings shouldn't do. So did she, but I try not to be the kind of person who says things like, "If I'm human, I should slit my own throat." I try to be someone I can be okay with living as, as a small and kind of fragile mortal being, not as a monster or a god.

And I think I'm a little happier for it.

Aria Jenneth your split away from reality be that what it may is evolving nicely;

into what I have only curiosity in the strange places your mind goes.

Believe what you like, Miz. It probably won't matter a lot for anybody involved.

So, you are a weapon, Ms. Jenneth? This is, of, course, a path as good as any other, but your intellectual capacity suggests that you could be so much more. A thinker. A mastermind. A philosopher and an artist, defining the paths for the future generations to follow.

...Oh well, one day we'll see the world where those who are truly worthy can realize the entirety of their potential. But alas, not now, not now yet.