Dually noted oh pious one, be wary of what you say for those of us who take pleasure in twisting your words to suit our needs will do so without hesitation.

I'm not fighting, you bastard. I am running.

I fight for Isk. If you pay me enough ( 75% in advance for supply costs ( supply cost include hiring cost of mercs that I will hire personally for you) ) and tell me to take down a titan. I will do it. Also I fight against idiots who support country especially the amarr and with what my family did to me.

I fight that one day my people might not fear that Ammarians might snatch them from their homes without remorse. Though the isk helps.

Why run?

Why not face your consequences and eliminate them? Get rid of them and you can easily start anew; without any worries.

Yet, those battles resolved without conflict never seem to happen as often as those with.

Because Mirage-haan, I don't want to end up like you.

There is no battle to fight anymore. All I can do is refrain from allowing myself to slip any further than I already have into violence. The Dragonaurs turned me into a weapon, and I did not realize how much they had broken me until far afterwards. Thankfully, friends have shown me that I can be far more than that.

Why fight for something of no true value?

Yes yes it is at all cost ( until you loose profit) you should fight for isk

While ISK may pale in the light of God's grace, templar, and while I understand very well why you feel the need to express this sentiment to our very "mercenary" mercenary colleague, you have to admit that an Imperial scrambler rifle doesn't go amiss in helping to spread God's will.

If you'll forgive the observation, stained glass and heat-resistant lenses seem like two crafts whose artisans rarely go hungry in the Empire.

I fight for my faith, brotherhood,, empire and for vengeance

Amarr Victor

When you put it that way you make it sound so noble.

Thank you, I feel like I have a much better grip on the concept. At least, a better one than most. I can only assume how lost an individual who doesn't have any standard cultural link to the Achura might be. I believe now I understand your spirituality, at least partially.

Still not sure if I support it though. If we are all indeed different faces of this universe, then we should welcome this gift of succeeding from a greater being, at least for as long as we have in this world. If the hardships in life have taught me anything, it is that this life is a forge to test and temper a soul before it can be claimed by the spirits. Perhaps this might serve a greater context: Just because I accept the inevitability of my fate in my existence as an immortal does not mean I am in any hurry to embrace it. Rather than taking the path of least resistance, you adapt to blaze a new way for others to follow.

Unless we enter a state of totalitarian communism, developing a society where we are all free to indulge in a malleable trance of ignorance is (thankfully) a far off dream. After all, when you have finally reached Totality what will you have become besides a slave to the universe? Maybe it is my Civire speaking, but I think we can be stronger than that. When the world bites you, you bite back.

I understand full well that you wish to perceive this Totality. However you can not deny your past claim that the reason you fight is to attempt to forfeit your grip on you own self and surrender that part of you to a state of serenity. (Which should be noted, that isn't perfection you are feeling. It is a hyper-alert combat high that your body has been hard wired initiate. You can get the same chemical reaction from a syringe.)

To be honest, I am curious of your goal of becoming a weapon for the use of another would be as easily accepted by Minmatar slave soldiers forced to become such tools for the Amarr. I get that your goals are supposedly more pure because they are not subject to malevolent master of any sort to speak of, but the concept is still the same. Were others fight tooth and nail for freedom, you actively seek out the bondage of your Totality.

You can wrap that in a bow seven times and that fact still won't look pretty.

((Point of technicality, Galm is half Intaki half Civire, but the Achura share a similar cultural bond with both. Try to keep up Amarr player. X3 ))

If by willingly you mean not choosing to be shot on the spot... And I'm talking about slaves not your religion...

I fight to set all my kin free and to end all slavery for good.

For the Republic, brothers and sisters! For the Republic!

It is a double standard in the sense that you are not dealing in the absolute. In a curious fashion you choose to disregard the opinions of the Minmatar and selectively choose the path of the soldier despite their suffering.

You ask why do I fight, and my reply must be because I will never surrender.

I will move forward regardless of the price that must be paid, I will see my hopes and dreams forged into reality amongst the stars.

Little remains of the man I used to be, thinking back on it is like trying to remember an old dream that always slips away into the darkness. But I do remember a family and them being taken from me by those who were supposed to protect us and when all seemed lost the Templar program took me.

It was worse than hell what I went through, I didn't even want to be there and there was no escape from it. I had become their slave and weapon.

I remember the whispering and those burning eyes in my dreams back then, something totally alien but familiar at the same time. I refused to let it in, but it in time it allowed me to regain part of myself from the indoctrination I had been subjected too. I remembered my family and person I had once been, I began to plan my escape.

My chance came by complete surprise when I was ambushed by troops from Mordus Legion. They said they could take me in and break the Empires hold on me, they were surprised when I agreed. I was transferred onto clean tech and the whispers stopped. The engineers believe that my memories of my family may have even been created by it trying to get me to break. But I know deep down that they where real, I doubt they are still alive but I will still search for them.

I have become a something else from what I was and for that I am almost grateful, however to be broken and made to kneel before another's Empress is something that I will never forgive. I now stand as a bastion against all of the Empires advances.

I will never stop, never rest, never surrender. I will stand fast and resolute in my own beliefs and I will see the Empire burn.

I am a daemon, a monster, a beast that has broken its chains, I am the Snagman. Run and hide Empress Jamyl I am coming.

If you do not fear me then your beliefs have blinded you to the threats your own Empire creates against itself.

I may not have faith as you put it but I do have loyalty to those who will stand beside me, those who will support me and to those yet to come. And it is for them and those they are loyal to that I will fight for so that I see my dreams become reality.

I look forward to the day we meet warrior of the Empire, it will be a great battle not just of might but of beliefs.

Fear is a perspective of an unfavourable situation that we can find ourselves in. Wether or not you fear me is of no concern but myself and those with the same goal are something which is unfavourable to the Empire.

I am blinded by my goal but I accepted this a long time ago, I know it has cost me much this far but not nearly as much as was taken from me and after my goal is completed I may never be able to find rest. But I will have completed what I set out to do which to me will be my greatest victory, at long last through my own will and strength I will reach my own goal.

I am glad to have met such stalwart individuals but I must ask what will you sacrifice to complete your own goals and to protect your own beliefs?

I will return tomorrow my connection in this transit is sporadic at best.

bring it on, I love the sound of explosions everywhere

Then I will bring a starship. I know a guy.

Forge Guns are useful for that sort of thing.

That is why I carry a SMG

I can also just kill him with the Forge Gun; I'm a pretty good shot, or so I like to think

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the information; it just gives me an even easier time killing him.

I wasn't referencing anything...

Turns out that Void is actually a pretty decent mercenary; sadly, we haven't run into each other on opposing sides of a contract yet...

its not a cheat if its made to be used