Intergalactic Summit

Someone hasn't been paying attention.

Now answer the question, who are your people? The Matari you abandoned or the pirates and thugs you serve only to hide behind?

There you go. "My people" again. You still haven't told me who you're fighting for in YC119. Do you even know anymore?

Is that truly so hard a thing to understand intuitively? The concept shouldn't be alien to you even given your chosen path. My clan. My tribe. The men, women and children enduring what I did from birth. Those who are family through blood, deed or love. Every bloodline and people named in the Accords and those who have come since. The person next to me. The person on the other side of New Eden, fighting for my enemies. The faithful, the betrayed, the free and the enslaved.

'My people' means a thousand different things to different people and even to one person depending on the context. No different for us than it does for those of different cultures and nationalities.

As for fighting for them, that has been a lament for some time. There's no capsuleer targets to fight, and we've been - as I'm growing vexed at repeating - surgically excised from being able to legally affect these things among baseliners.

@Aria, I don't need to 'trust your perceptions' or agree with them. I just idly wonder if you have any that you yourself consider valid, because when you deflect rather than respond, it looks a lot like you do not and I hope I'm wrong about that.

Until her latest reply she had at no point qualified who precisely her people were. Given that she doesn't seem to fight for anybody, my questioning was entirely reasonable.



The State probably won't. It's not my place to say if they should - I am not a loyalist, and I won't speak for what the empires should or shouldn't do.

I don't see any evidence of an 'itchy trigger finger', contrary to what some Federal extremists have been parroting. A legitimate target is a legitimate target. The State didn't exactly make a secret of closing the border.

Now I'm interested to know why you'd be interested in my reply. Meta.

Some arguments aren't worth the energy, Miz-- especially when the data set being discussed gets defined to exclude the examples where I have a meaningful amount of information even as that data is simultaneously described in terms that make it clear it isn't being handled as an exception to the larger pattern, but a continuation.

Arguing interpretations of even the parts of your past I'm actually involved in with you is a little like trying to find the last few bits of "treasure" Ms. Qerl hid down in the artificial underwater labyrinth at the bottom of what we euphemistically refer to as the deep end of the Gottin's Lamp swimming pool: it involves probing the deep recesses of a basically alien realm; it involves a lot of time and a huge amount of effort; it's at least slightly dangerous; and it only very rarely returns a small shiny object worth less than an ISK.

It's something I might do for fun, but, arguing with you isn't actually fun to begin with. Both pursuits are good exercise, though.

Good night, Miz.

I ... can't really be sure. Subjectivity, you know.

I'm seeing a lot of speculation fly around but we've still yet to see an official statement from Customs. Though the fact we've yet to see a statement is...disheartening.

Interesting, I find her opinions something other entirely.

*grabs popcorn*


You know, this became a s**t storm faster then my 18th birthday party... and that went downhill as soon as the first guest arrived naked.

M. Syagrius, that was at my own (2nd) 18th birthday party, not Osyn's.

Sorry for the off-topic, but I had to engage in a little rumor control.