i normally steal trues prayer books just before i deploy while he is sleeping i normally find it quite calming knowing that the pain is for a reason, other than that i tend to look at who i shall be fighting and making sure i know what planet im fighting on to make sure i dont lose my self in endless slaughter

It's amazing what they teach you in the templar program advance classes :-D

1st Gens are the ultimate clones. You would be surprised to know how useful having multiple minds is.

Unpredictable? Yes. Dangerous? Of course.
Unstable?
No.

I am simply enlightened by the grace of God.

I usually put Sebiestor tribal designs on my first to be deployed dropsuit, and then I go to the deck and draw the planet, contemplating what my fiance back home in the hospital would think of living on the planet.

As the battles went on, I became frustrated with my drawing utensils; they were always of terrible quality and ruined whatever Matari paper I had with me. This led to me always asking a random merc for a pen and seeing what kind he had. I've seen some crazy styles and inks that I never dreamed possible (seriously, how many variations of a pen can the universe make?) The one I use now, though, is a gold plated Amarrian pen with a quill tip design. I couldn't help but tinker around with it, but it is still of the same appearance. It is quite ironic when I think of it; a piece of Minmatar paper and a pen made by the Amarr has come together to help me make the most beautiful works of art.

Apologies for getting sentimental; my solace in war has been drawing, so I tend to talk a lot about it when I get the chance.

That is largely what the Gallente wanted, and thought, and seemingly still think, templar.

We are comfortable with our own ways of life, our own ways of being, our own communities. We do not find it any more lonely than we did when we were isolated on our homeworlds and far more literally alone. Certain of us are happy to trade with outsiders; others would prefer that we retreat into seclusion almost entirely. I personally understand the former group, but sympathize more with the latter.

There are things we can learn from beyond our borders, but some lessons and beliefs, valid in their own contexts, are corrosive in ours. Gallentean individualism, which demands cultural liberalism, is a prime example. Its influence on our elites would make our nation an abusive plutocracy, and has done so before. The resulting tide of anger from the lower castes is what swept Tibus Heth into power.

If we believe in the validity and integrity of our ancestors' ways of life, in its applicability and worth in our own existences, then we should seek to preserve those ways. We seek to preserve what we have, and to fend off those who would change us.

We are a set of deeply conservative peoples.

For my own part, I view the Achur faith as a jewel of insight, which the State shelters and protects. I would see the rest of human society crumble to dust and ashes before I let that jewel come to harm.

That is who I am, templar, first and foremost: a defender of my culture and faith.

Impossible says I.