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True Adamance
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2013.10.31 22:05:00 -
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Well it would just be nice if we could issue medals like in EVE, though Dust side people would spam the medal function to give their corpies medals which mean nothing.
I believe I have been issued two medals by PIE, one for defensive actions at Arzad, and one for our rapid conquest of the Minmatar during the fortnight leading up to the FW event.
Those actually mean something.... I still need to issue those medals to those other loyalists who supported us.
"All things were created by the Divine, and so the glory of our faith is inherent to us all"
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True Adamance
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
3855
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Posted - 2013.10.31 22:31:00 -
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Vyzion Eyri wrote:I don't think mercs deserve 'medals, in the official sense of the word. Medals go to mortal soldiers who fight, risking their lives at every turn, for the victory of their faction, for the safety of their families.
We don't have those connections. But besides that point, I agree that I'd like some award to acknowledge my achievements. But now I can't think of anything else to call it. Battlefield achievements?
How do we describe the achievements of an immortal clone? Things which form the timeline of this clone's active term. Hmm...
But Immortal cloning tech is no guarantee that you will not die. Technical failure of implants, implant being destroyed before death, etc. There is every chance that a mercenary can and could be killed in combat, however unlikely that is.
Medals are, as I see them a means for corporations, especially in my case a loyalist corporation of showing devotion, skill at arms, and more.
I do not think that because we attach the term mercenary to ourselves that we are not eligible for medals. It is a sand box, I am not a mercenary, I am a loyalist and a soldier of the empire.
As for links to the Amarrian authorities, Ministry of War, Ministry of Internal Order, etc. PIE has been mentioned directly in cannon as being given medals of the highest honour by the Empire. I have the connections I assure you.
"All things were created by the Divine, and so the glory of our faith is inherent to us all"
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True Adamance
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
3855
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Posted - 2013.10.31 22:36:00 -
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Wilhelm Klingspor wrote:Vyzion Eyri wrote:I don't think mercs deserve 'medals, in the official sense of the word. Medals go to mortal soldiers who fight, risking their lives at every turn, for the victory of their faction, for the safety of their families.
We don't have those connections. But besides that point, I agree that I'd like some award to acknowledge my achievements. But now I can't think of anything else to call it. Battlefield achievements?
How do we describe the achievements of an immortal clone? Things which form the timeline of this clone's active term. Hmm... Nice, the first 2 replies are actually sensible ones, and i think Vyzion has a point, you can't pin a medal on a replaceable clone so Battlefield Badges are better.
I don't see why not. Capsuleers do it all the time, they are effectively the same as us, immortal in some sense and as mercenary and fickle, if not more so than we will ever be.
PIE may well be a paramilitary organisation that does not mean we do not have the same traditions as the organisations we are mirroring.
"All things were created by the Divine, and so the glory of our faith is inherent to us all"
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