They know about him..... Summit is where Foley likes to talk crazy....

I'm an Achur, soldier, not Caldari.

Regardless, I look forward to seeing what you consider an appropriate response.

I'd hardly call it an argument as much as the meaningless babble of an idiot and the misguided attempts of a fellow countryman to silence it.

Why act like one of those weakling mortals? We are not humans. We are Mercenaries. Be strong, Foley Jones, you are not insane, my friend. The insane ones are the ones calling us humans.

Mr. Jones,

If you and Fae-haan can stop sparring for a moment, something you may wish to consider.

Sanity, being subjective, is normally judged by distance from base-line normal thought. The more you think like an ordinary, workaday human being, the saner you are judged to be.

By this standard, I, myself, am not particularly sane. I feel little empathy for most people, I'm capable of treating cold-blooded murder with equanimity, most of my moral considerations are focused on ensuring my personal survival, and I'm capable of sacrificing hundreds or thousands of lives to my sense of aesthetics. Like Ms. Askarii suggests, people typically are what they are, and obey the call of their nature; I am no different.

There is another way of judging sanity, however, which is the distance of a person's perception from objective reality. It seems as though that is what you mean when you say that you are more sane than those around you. If you are correct, if you are indeed sane to the point of embracing bitter reality when others wrap themselves in comforting illusion, then you may be aberrant in a way similar to how I am.

Horribly, horribly sane.

I hope that is not the case; it is not a pleasant or maybe even useful (perhaps even particularly enlightened or enlightening) way to be. Worse, it would imply that clone soldiers generally are perhaps subject to the sickness I suffer from. Perhaps I am not unusual. That would be a problem.

I suggest you to avoid this kind of sanity if you can. It is better to be a little mad, but functional, even useful, than sane, and a blight.

Notice I said "function like a human being."

Ryeon-haani and I have traded thoughts on the question of if we are still human. It's an internal conflict that shreds most of our kind, and for good reason. I've come to find that the actual answer to this question however is irrelevant. Whatever I am, I walk among the living. I feel human, I look human, I think like a human.

The only thing that separates us from a scientific monstrosity and a weapon is how much we can convince ourselves that this mask we wear is our true form. People like Foley, however break the illusion and threaten the one bit of faux security we have in this world.

You.guys could.just stop cloning yourselves and finally step out. I doubt many would notice, or even care.