I fight for the winner. I will never fight for country. The winner is the winner. What I am saying with is that at the moment I am fighting for the minmatar and gallente. Not because of their stupid beliefs but for the profit. If you fight for only one or two countries then your options are very limited., but if you fight for the winner such as I you will always have the freedom to make a lucrative profit. If the amarr start to win the war against the minmatar then i will start fighting for them. When i fight for the winner i am also fighting for isk. The winner is winning because of isk. They have money to buy the better mercs. The better mercs are the ones who get a better pay. Which means if you fight for the winners then you will always make more money. This may seem wrong but with more money means more power. All humans have their price. The President of the Caldari or gallente , The Empress of the Amarr, and A chieftain of the Minmatar can all be bribed. They can all be puppets of a true mercenary.

Amarr Victor!

what i just said means i fight not for profit, or wealth or power.
Those materialistic gains are empty and false i fight for the faith and hope of millions of the rightous and true people who make up the Holy True Empire.



((also dat empress is hot :) giggity! ))

You call it materialistic gain, I call it my pursuit of happiness and property.

Hm. Well, "property" is easy. "Happiness" ... beyond the point of being financially secure, most indications are that money does little, if anything, for happiness. So ... good luck with that, soldier?

Actually, money buys bigger toys, and, as such, can lead to happiness.

"Bigger toys," in the case of consumer goods, typically produce a brief burst of pleasure before becoming the new "baseline"-- the consumer's level of satisfaction reverts to where it was before the purchase. The "want" that the purchase satisfied promptly finds a new target.

Materialism thereby becomes an exercise in always pursuing that next desire-- rather self-defeating, really.

Spoken of a true caldari. One with its drugs.

Spoken of a true caldari. One with its drugs.

"Bigger toys," in the case of consumer goods, typically produce a brief burst of pleasure before becoming the new "baseline"-- the consumer's level of satisfaction reverts to where it was before the purchase. The "want" that the purchase satisfied promptly finds a new target.

Materialism thereby becomes an exercise in always pursuing that next desire-- rather self-defeating, really.

Of course, if you mean literally "bigger toys" in the sense of better tools, that's another matter. Job satisfaction has a definite charm to it-- all the more if you're fighting for something you actually care about, I should think.

Um. Respectfully, soldier ... are you saying I'm on drugs? Or that the Caldari generally are?

Or am I just mistaking your meaning completely?

While I have some sympathies for the trials and tribulations of fellow Minmatar, I think Knight has the right idea. The entities who hire us as their immortal toy soldiers generally don't give much of a hoot who fights for them, indifference toward who we work for is perfectly rational.

Mercenary work doesn't sound glamorous, but it's a surprising way to stand outside the usual factional quibbling. Get a contract, shoot some guns, man some turrets, make things blow up spectacularly, get paid, repeat. For mercenaries to get ideological is foolishness as it limits their potential employers, and risks making it personal with other mercs. A conscience is well and good, not shooting civilians, wounded enemies receiving quarter, that sort of thing. Still, I prefer to label acts like those as "good manners."

Oh I am sure the empire do care who fights for them why else would they pay such exorbitant rates for mere mercs?

Simply because impressive mercs don't usually fight for the loosing amarrian cause. They're smart enough to fight for the victor in any war.

Faith will win the field any day.

I use to think that as well. Until i realized true faith is not through a organized religion controlling a empire