Intergalactic Summit

Dear Log,

while I started this log quite a while ago, I will proceed it here in the new forum, for I have been asked to do. Still I'm recovering from a long lasting sickness and am bound to the medical center of the Hek system, Boundless Creation station, waiting for my joints to move again and the capsuleer interface to work, only thing I can do all day is reading, watching media from the Pator Republic Library and share my thoughts about what it means to be a warrior with you, dear Log.

You of cause already know that I think that a warrior has to understand arts to understand the art of war. And this was the reason for my study of certain oldtime Minmatar fiddle styles to get it done. Funny is, that the only joints on my body that are not infected by this sickness are the joints of my left hand, the joints I need to play the instrument. I can barely hold the bow but it's enough to play. So I was able to keep it up. As I know, dear Log, you understand why I do that because you too have the heart of a warrior.

And I was thinking about the heart of music and the heart of a true warrior and what they share. See, there is a saying about the point in arts in my Sebiestor dialect: "Kunst kommt von Können, nicht von Wollen, sonst hieße es Wunst", but you know what? There is no source of a Minmatar saying this in our historic libraries, it is the kind of traces in our culture that are left by the Amarrian occupation and that we have to overcome. It means that arts is coming from ability not from wanting. But that's wrong. And I explain why.

If something is produced for the demand and not from the urge to create, it is just product. If something is not coming from the heart it can be nice, it can be pretty, it can be pleasing, but it can't be art. In the best case it's kitsch, in the worst it's just a product. Because art sources from the wish, from the heart and to draw the line of what is art and what is not on the line of the perfection of it's execution means that no artist never can reach it. Because this line is arbitrary. And drawing this line has just created suffering in past. The Amarr have a cruiser named after that concept, the "Arbitrator".

To understand the heart of this error you have to understand the difference between the heart of a soldier and the heart of a warrior. The soldier is like the studio musician that is just producing notes for money, soulless for he has no other intention to do so but to get paid. The soldier is following an order, the warrior is serving a cause. The soldier will remain docked in station when no commanding officer is kicking his ass out of the station, the warrior is undocking because he is willing to fight from the core of his heart. It is the will that drives him.

It without meaning to divide the warrior from the soldier on their class of ship, on the line of the perfection of their performance and execution. You will never be able to reach perfection. Perfection and control are both illusions. Illusions to keep people from following their hearts. Do not let someone else draw the line where the only one you shall listen to is your own heart. And if you hear the call - follow.

That's why arts are coming from the heart, from the willing of creation and not from excellence of performance. This excellence of performance can be pleasing, can be nice, can be entertaining. But it is neither art, nor it is what a warrior does. Excellence in performance can follow the will of creation. But it is not what is the core of it.

He throws himself in battle. Because that's what he is. And the Minmatar Militia is strong of this kind, dear Log. The core of a warrior is the same as the core of a musician, any true artist: the truth of his heart and this he is listening to and following.

Dear Log,

you have asked me what that PUNK is for I have put under every of my posts besides FREEDOM and AUTOCANNONS? Well, I'll try to explain why a punk is not just a geezer with bright colored hair and ragged clothes, an electric guitar and someone who's preferring shouting over singing.

This geezer is just vain, just fashion. To be punk is something different. A true scientist is more a punk than everything, because she's following the two important principles of punk.

1. Proof it or remove it.
2. Do it yourself.

Not to accept self-proclaimed authority, to question every authority, to fight the suppression of a hierarchical structure in society, to be equal instead. The punk not only questions the structures that are, does not fight them without cause, he questions them. If they can't proof their existence he removes them. Not by revolution. By building up an alternative.

And this is why a young Sebiestor rebel flying a Rifter and playing the fiddle can be a punk. She believes she makes a difference. That there is music from the people for the people if we work on that, if we try our best. Well she'll never be a virtuoso on her fiddle and she knows that. But if she's not looking for an alternative to the music from V.I.P. -from aristocracy- for the mob, nobody will. Do not let them take it from your hands.

What they take is freedom. Simple like that. Don't let them do it. Instead, do it yourself.

If you fly from Auga to Kourmonen in your Rifter and meet again the usual 30+ Abaddon-Guardian heavy Amarrian blockade fleet, fly through and greet them on local with a "too slow Amarr". You might not be able to fight them directly, but you make the difference. Don't wait for someone to take it from your hands. Instead look out for people who are like you, join them, build a community, come back together and send them home to their clone bays. Salvage the remains.

You make the difference, warrior.

Yes! Glad to see you're back; your logs are always an interesting read!

Dear Log,

thank you very much for your best wishes. And I do my part and get better every day now. Yesterday was the first day I was able to walk without crouches again and the clonetech said that my interface shall work again - not perfect but it'll do they said. So I was in TakComs with pilots of my corporation to talk about how to best destroy Amarr Navy Slicers.

The F.I.A. pilots were able to shoot down two of them solo during the last days, which was the reason that I used coms to congratulate the pilots and to ask how they achieved that. After a bit chatter about the incidents they showed their specification of ship setups that they used for it and I frowned: "What? You used 200mm Autocannons? 125mm would have been better."

I never tried it out in practice but by destroying Amarrian ships with this knowledge, I totally trusted the results of my scientific calculations on this. And those calculations had the result that in any situation of infight of a frigate against a frigate or something smaller than that the 125mm is way better delivering the packages than the bigger cannons do.

Cetegus Morr disbelieved this. So it came that we both found us in Rifters around a moon in Alakgur. A few minutes later Cetegus had to reconsider the setups of all his ships. The fight had a clear outcome.

And the lesson of a fight like this is, that science is your friend. There are many things that you should distrust. But a formular that has proven to work many many times is something you can trust. And you can hold on better than on a god or any other from of superstition or wish how the world should be. Science wins.

Science shows us how the world is. And not how we would like it to be. So we would like to use bigger cannons and we expect to do more damage with them. But the world is more complicated than the bore of a barrel, measured in millimeter. Several factors like agility and that also have to be considered. And people always try to make their world easier than it is. So take a look into science - and win. It's a mighty tool to deal with complicated things - like this world. It's a better thing than to pray and pretend that the world is how it should be. This is what the Amarr do. And it's causing suffering and defeat.

After that one of the veterans asked about the outcome of the battle. I said: "Science has won. Like always."

That's all that has to be said about that. Join the winning team - join science. Join the punks.

Well said Ms. Wildfire.

Dear Log,

the Pandemic Legion forces in the warzone have some history and are heavy interfering with the ongoing war. They just hang around with their capital and more than that their supercapital fleets, wait until Minmatar brings something that's worth to fire the jumpdrives and hail destruction on the fleet.

It's not so much fun to fight with ten or twenty plaintech ships against several dozens of supercapitals and not one less carrier which support them. So it's no wonder that the Amarr are gatecamping unmatched in heavy Abaddon/Guardian fleets. The suppression on our side is suffocating.

Well we go nevertheless and kill Amarr where we can find them. That's what's our style and we have been fighting the largest Empire in New Eden even when we were unarmed slaves. So Pandemic Legion is just an other obstacle to freedom. They can't defeat us. Not even with their supercap fleets.

I found a comment about the typical fight against them from a militia pilot: "Baiting Maller. You point it, in comes an Archon. Someone points the Archon, in comes a Nyx. Guess what happens if somebody is infinipointing the Nyx?"

I checked the battle statistics and while it's serious, it's not too bad for Minmatar either. Even with their heavy capital fleets in backhand they get ripped apart often enough to count some losses. We are now facing the Amarr and PL. Still we're fighting. Still we're killing them. I have no idea why PL is supporting the slavers.

Like always we're with our back to the wall. That's where we fight best.

I have just this fantasy that the next time PL is fielding their supercap fleet somewhere in this universe an equal shark is sniffing blood and raining destruction on them. That would be fun and a day for celebration. It's not that we suffer from them or that I personally have any bad feelings. We had to face CVA fleets before and unequal encounters is nothing new for the Minmatar Militia. It's more that there are enough pilots out there that like to get a yummy supercap fleet.

And that I like to see carnage. Fleets are there to be destroyed. Not to pose for green pilots that want their Energy Management skillbook from Amamake Pator Tech School. The ultimate destiny for any fleet is the junkyard.

There it belongs to. And hopefully it was useful before it gets there.

Confirming that Pandemic Legion are third-party irritants. If they have a choice between chasing down an Amarr-loyal pilot or a Minmatar-loyal pilot, they just cyno in more carriers and assign fighters to both.

And misdirected hatred is not good! Alicia, if PL were working with the Empire they wouldn't just gatecamp. They'd gatecamp while broadcasting the hymn "God Our Lord and Protector" in local. Imagine that while warping away in pod!

Dear Log,

yesterdays log was eaten (again) by the forum. You must not put more work into a posting than 10 minutes or it will be eaten by CONCORD. Well in short I have been a guest speaker for Fish'n'Fun, a corporation I have some personal relationships to. I was giving a lesson about fitting ships, about all kind of tanks and that and how to make an idea, a strategy work on a ship.

After that I answered questions. It took three and a halve hour, what was planned as thirty minutes.

I sent a emissary into the ranks of RvB to give those of the FIA that want to test it some support. Yesterday his appliance was accepted and they tried our luck. But on the first evening they were not finding many targets and when they finally found some they were too heavy for the three of them and they lost their ships.

It's just not a good idea to attack a Vengeance when you don't have any serious firepower in fleet or to attack a fighting Rifter with nothing like a pseudo-Interceptor Rifter. Nevertheless he almost got the bastard. But alas I can understand my emissary -he just wanted to see blood- finally.

There was no training, just some veterans killing newbies mostly. That evening no fleet was building up. That's what I expected.

It was nothing like what we send our green pilots through when we school them for battle. But I told my emissary to use the situation and get some kills. There are not so many active pilots on the Red side like you would expect. So it's quite easy to analyze their tactics and ships and come up with some fine ideas how to shred them.

That will be the task for the greens that participate now.

Well there are some "neutral" corporations or alliances that have declared war on RvB so that it's a bit complicated to divide between "correct" targets and "hostiles". Those hostiles are the usual types of lowlife smacktalkers and I don't care about them. You have no problem ignoring their stupid dockingspot-games with halve hour smacking after they have blown a week old pilot out of his Slasher by having a working dock-off spot.

They'll try to ignore those people and wont give 'em a fight if they can. How sad is that, I ask? If I look at that it's more honorable to sit in a smartbomb battleship like a brain-dead on the Rancer route. Which is so brain-dead that I get headaches and blood dripping from my nose from imagining that alone.

PS: A sad news. I just learned to fly Caldari Cruisers on a level that allows me to fly Drakes. I hope I never will. I hate that flying bricks. But we were cleaning up some corp hangars and the ****** things were lying around everywhere and somebody had to move them. What? MESSAGE?! Certificate for being a Caldari Elite Soldier?! A Caldari Elite Special Forces!? You can use those two certificates where paper is usually used in rolls. I don't want them.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, Matari Anchestors! I will bath in blood when I have to sit in this Caldari crap and wash away the stink. There's nothing like flying Minmatar ships. I see that others have to exist because it's a shame to destroy Minmatar ships. We definitely need some targets out there.

Dear Log,

I have not much to report but the memo I got from my emissary at RvB, which I will quote here:

Salute Comrade,

RvB got a wardec from EVE-University. We were waiting for them most of the time finally we launched an attack into their main system at Aldrat. We had a nice fleet with 48 ships, not more than a third with battleships and battlecruisers, the rest support and only very few Caldari EWAR or logistic with us, guess people don't like to fly that crap.

When invading their home system they first hid inside the station and we had to wait for them for a good while. A solo Drake was undocking to see how the weather is and it got so hailed that it almost instantly popped.

Then their main fleet undocked, estimated 109 ships, not counted their plethora of logistic remote repairers, with heavy BS/BC, Logistic and swarms of EWAR Griffin frigates. It was what we expected. We as the aggressed stood our fight, even outnumbered 2:1 and outgayed something like 7:1 the evolving battle will be remembered as the "Opening slaughter of Aldrat".

Even under those unhealthy circumstances for us we parted from them with 43 kills to 36 losses. Yeah, they wiped almost our fleet and I lost my brave Rupture "Revenge" that I built around your specifications due to heavy primary fire of a shitload of battleships and crappy "launch de mizziles" Drakes.

It was a messy battle with EWAR frigs everywhere and every time one popped another took over. Not that alone there were so many frigates that it was like fighting against bunch of flies that found something… interesting. And everytime I thought: "This thing is going so down now", it got remote repair from somewhere and broke off. Fighting this swarm in my Rupture I was after about halve the fight not able to follow the orders for primary fire anymore (range, circumstances and my personal chaos with that hunting frig swarm) and tried to shred them instead, which is more or less the job of a Rupture in a situation like that. But the damn remote repairers took all the fun out of it. So finally I found myself kiting about ten frigates behind me, always shooting the ones that were coming too near until I pull them out of remote repair range to get a chance to shred them.

I managed that. And was in that moment on turn to be primary, tackled by a Merlin which I wasn't able to suck dry in time. My Rupture didn't survive longer than a few seconds. I got out in my pod, reshipped and am ready for the final execution of EVE University now. The weekend battle will show.

The battle was hilarious and besides our wipe we count it as one of those unforgettable historical battles from our history that were won even if all the Matari died during the fight.

You can check the battle on EVE-University battlereport site, Aldrat, 2011-09-22 around 20:00
Death to the aggressors! Freedom for the Teapot!

Yours Dian

P.S. send me more money, your 35 millions are already gone

Dear Log,

the RvB war against EVE-Uni ended with a sudden because their POS went down. There had been a few clearing statements between the two parties and while of cause we all strive for peace it was a very nice bloody war going down the drain, which made a lot of people angry and frustrated.

For the moment the war is over. Bugger.

So there's not much to report, dear Log. But you know that I'm reading a lot and following disputes on the IGS and elsewhere. And is found some funny conflicts between people when one starts to call the other a troll.

You may ask yourself: "What's a troll?"

And some might answer: "That's the people that are whoring for attention."

But everybody who writes something tries to say something interesting. Something important. Something that's putting weight into a dispute. Everybody is looking for attention. What's different with a troll? First of all it's never that easy. Most likely if you call someone a troll you are trolling yourself. Because what most people forget about dispute on the IGS and elsewhere is that what's counting are arguments.

When no arguments come but the things said are only repeated in an endless manner, or just "no it isn't like that"'s are following some real arguments, without showing some arguments themselves, it's most likely that you have met a troll. A troll is not interested in solving a problem or disputing an argument.

A troll just wants to talk. Or wants to be right. Without the need to bring arguments for that. Without the need to fire up some neurons.

Of cause the art to be "right" in a public argument is an other thing where you can divide the troll from the honest partner in a dispute. The honest partner can be exhausting and he can make you mad sometimes. But he's playing fair. He's giving arguments, he's not putting bald lies to support his point of view.

Please read the Art of being Right to avoid these tricks yourself and disclose the tricks if your opponent in a dispute is using them against you. If that happens, most likely he's a troll and you should not talk with him at all. The complete article of the 38 Tricks is sadly not available in galactic standard but just in a Sebiestor dialect. "The 38 No-Gos." Makes me think a bit why this is only available in Sebiestor dialect. Why nobody else cares about the true Art of War with tongues. Especially not the Amarr.

Because there's nothing to win. A dispute is happening between two people as a method to find the truth. If not both sides of the dispute are interested in finding the truth but one side is only interested in "winning" the argument, you should not talk with him at all. Because there's nothing coming from that.

In science disputes happen often and happen with much emotion. But in a serious dispute both parties just want one thing: finding the truth. So they might argue against each other but they in reality pull at the same string. Only fight with people who are fighting like that.

This is an important lesson for all those out there, dear Log, who want to become a true warrior. Find your motivation for battle. Fight for your right cause. But do not fight for the cause, always fight for the right. The one leads you to suffering, the other to enlightenment. Because "the cause" is never changing, it's the dogma. The "right" might change like the world changes around you. And it might change when you discover that the enemy has a true point in the thing for which he is fighting.

So the "right" might not be the victory. The "right" might be the compromise.

A troll does not do this. Stay away from trolls. You can disclose a troll not on his looks. Not if he's ugly or fair. You can't say if it's a troll or not if he's popular or not. There have been a lot trolls that were popular. In fact most of them are. Because to "win" arguments in public disputes by using a smear campaign is very popular. To make the intelligent look bad is even comical.

But just for the trolls and their kind. The rest will be disgusted.

The troll is often even not the one with the different argument. Often enough it's the other side of the one without arguments and a lot of tricks and the mindless minions that lick his boots and yell: "He's right! Yeah, suck that!" So take a sharp look yourself. Don't fall for what "everybody" thinks. Watch the arguments and the way of argumentation. The way of war. This discloses the troll, nothing else.

The way a fight is fought tells you much about the warrior. Many just fight "for the win". Like Gatecamping with twenty ships to kill a lone Industrial, smartbombing at Rancer or whatever. But that's wrong. It's the win of the loudest, not the best, the true. That's the way a troll is fighting. My advice to you, dear Log, to fight for the truth. And be true while fighting. This makes you a true warrior. And those who have their eyes open will see it. A win of a troll doesn't count. A fight with a troll doesn't count and changes nothing.

So try to avoid fighting with trolls and people who just do everything "for the win". It's lost time.

Fight where it matters, with people that matter.