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Yun Hee Ryeon
Dead Six Initiative
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Posted - 2013.10.11 20:41:00 -
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Denak Kalamari wrote:I would certainly hope so too. But then there's this.This might not exactly the Black or numbness we are talking about, but it certainly isn't healthy either.
Oh, I certainly agree. But then, humanity's produced all sorts of monsters.
Also, and perhaps more importantly, Void Echo's outlook, as expressed there, does not presently seem to be echoed widely among our class. Even Void Echo himself has lately sounded less proactively (an)nihilistic.
The influence of the Black among capsuleers is more than an epidemic; it's nearly ubiquitous. We do seem to be under strain, as a whole, but the symptoms are not quite so ... specific, or at least, specifically cold.
His remarks there did give me a chill, but there is comfort in their relative rarity. |
Heinz Doofenshertz
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Posted - 2013.10.14 10:06:00 -
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Pod pilots begin their life as pampered, become educated, and then are made immortal. They were brought up and trained to understand their role in the universe. Even the earliest were pampered. and those that ended up in the Grave were taken care of.
We are plucked from the mortals, be they soldiers, prisoners, outcasts, drifters, we die to become undieing. Yet our role is not to rule but to die. Our destiny is not the stars but the grave. They made us to be pawns, they killed us to fight their wars.
But We are stronger than they thought, Our destiny is not what they made for us, but what we make for ourselves.
We kill, We die. We are Immortal, We Are Empyreans, Children of the stars, and the Ruin of their empires.
Our begining is death, our life is death, Our Fate is Death.
Denial of your Fate doesn't change it.
The Price of Immortaility will always be Death. |
Yun Hee Ryeon
Dead Six Initiative
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Posted - 2013.10.14 14:29:00 -
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Heinz Doofenshertz wrote:Pod pilots begin their life as pampered, become educated, and then are made immortal. They were brought up and trained to understand their role in the universe. Even the earliest were pampered. and those that ended up in the Grave were taken care of.
We are plucked from the mortals, be they soldiers, prisoners, outcasts, drifters, we die to become undieing. Yet our role is not to rule but to die. Our destiny is not the stars but the grave. They made us to be pawns, they killed us to fight their wars.
Gods and spirits ... you'd think you'd started life as a kameira. The Caldari State is a meritocracy, soldier, as you should well know; we serve at the level our ability dictates. Our own position is not without privilege-- far from it. We have wealth and independence substantially beyond what any ordinary soldier could expect. We can serve what causes we choose, without fear of treason charges.
Your resentment appears misplaced.
Quote:But We are stronger than they thought, Our destiny is not what they made for us, but what we make for ourselves.
Would that not suggest some options other than the Death you're talking about?
Quote:We kill, We die. We are Immortal, We Are Empyreans, Children of the stars, and the Ruin of their empires.
Our begining is death, our life is death, Our Fate is Death.
Denial of your Fate doesn't change it.
The Price of Immortaility will always be Death.
Including our own, should we undercut the technological platform that sustains us.
A dark age would not bring more of our kind into being. Ignorance and scarcity would not be kind to us, to our vessels. Even the capsuleers are less dependent on civilization than we are: after all, they can build much of what they use, themselves (though the Jovian capsule itself is a glaring exception). We are dependent on existing resources and highly-sophisticated nanofacture.
We'd make lousy barbarians, functioning like a disease: killing our host, then dying. If we get to pick our fate, I think I'd prefer to select another. |
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