Phosphorus Palladium
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Posted - 2010.09.01 11:08:00 -
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Edited by: Phosphorus Palladium on 01/09/2010 11:15:17
 Originally by: Codo Yagari
...fight the piracy that is NBSI.
So you say: NBSI = Piracy
An interesting definition that I am inclined to agree with somewhat.
Let me tell you an interesting story:
A friend of mine used to life in no sec.
His buddies and himself patroled their space following the NBSI doctrine.
They would set up gate camps in "their" space, and kill anything not blue that tried to get through.
But it did not stop there.
They would also go roaming through space that they did not claim.
Killing everything they found, causing carnage and horror.
Some victims tried to survive by ejecting from their ships,
in those cases people in my friends gang in cheap ships would eject as well
and take the abandoned vessels as their own.
My friend said, in his mind they were hunters. Doing it for the sport.
The more a pilot killed, the higher his recognition became.
My friends recognition was very high, because he was always out for "blood".
"I was waiting for the 'kick' that others said I would get from blowing up a victims ship"
these are his words on why he did what he did.
But, he says, this kick never came for him.
"I felt nothing in battle. No euphory, no fear, just nothing. No feelings at all.
I guess that is what made me such a successfull killer. When others either paniced or fell for traps I would stay completely calm and could take the right decisions to engage or not engage, to win or abandon a fight. That is also the reason why I later became one of those to lead our gangs. My gangs never lost."
Then one day, when he was on a shopping trip in high security space, he says he heard some people he did not know chatting in the local channel about him. They talked about him being a dangerous pirate.
"I had recognized people try dock in stations or try to get out when I entered the systems. They knew, when I came, my gang would soon follow. And then we would kill all those who had not managed to get to safety.
But it shocked me to hear foreigners talk about me as a pirate.I never saw myself as a pirate. I saw myself as a sportsman."
He said, that being called a pirate made him think about what he had been doing.
He came to the conclusion that he was not a pirate.
"Because we did not do it to gain material goods. Of course we took them when they were floating around after the battles. When I thought about it, we were worse than pirates. We were murderers without a cause."
He said, the more he thought about it, the less he liked what he was doing.
"I never got a kick as I said. So why was I killing all those people I did not even know? For sport, yes.
But in the end killing as a sport is a bit sick. And others saw me as a pirate, not a sportsman."
My friend stopped. He flew back to high security empire, and never boarded a space ship again.
"Maybe I will fly again some day" he says "but then I want a cause. A noble reason to fight.
I am a good fighter. But just killing everybody in sight only because I can just does not seem right to me anymore.
Until I have found that noble reason, I will not enter a ship again."
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