Your previous thread suggests you don't even have a rudimentary understanding of starship engineering. So I'm going to say - joining the Amarr militia? For you, bad idea. For the TLF? Good idea. Best idea.

You should totally do it.

Well there's a surprise.

I thought you Amarr had to be held back from joining up and forcing your ridiculous beliefs on anyone unable to stand up to you.

Ha ha! You guys crack me up!

1. How much of a threat is the minmatar forces, really?

2. If 1. is "not much", are more militia really needed? Would I be contributing meaningfully or just getting in the way? Is there somewhere else I could deploy myself more effectively? Or do we have the situation basically under control which means that I can go shopping for clothes and shoes and not worry?

3. I've heard that many Amarr militia talk in strange dialects that an Amarr girl of polite society like myself wouldn't understand. Any truth in this? I don't want to rub shoulders with uncouth lower-class feral types who can't express themselves properly and drool excessively.

4. I like the thought of helping the Empire but combat seems a bit icky. I can handle things blowing up in a ball of fire which would be kind of amazing actually but I don't want to see corpses depressurize, I think that would look gross. Am I forced to look at that? How much blood and guts is there? Also, does dying hurt? I'm not really into pain.

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1. That is a bit scary. Do you think it could spill over to outside the warzone? That's what concerns me most.

3. I suppose it would. So who are the real knuckle-draggers?

4. You're not really selling me much on this you know.

Of course, my opinion is just my own and doesn't represent all Amarr or anything. I know others think different.

I think there's room for everybody in the galaxy.

The Federation could use someone like you.

It looks to me like you've got all the qualifications the Empire is looking for these days, and based on you intelligent and astute postings you'll make Admiral in no time.

Or join PIE, you'll be running the place inside of a month.

In my first couple of weeks of capsuleering I've made about 8 million ISK. I know that's nothing to you super-rich folks but personally I could easily just give up and go back planetside and retire on that. However, because I'm such a morally upstanding citizen, I feel the urge to do more for my society now that I'm in this position of power to generate far more income than I know what to do with.

How much of a threat is the minmatar forces, really?

Would I be contributing meaningfully or just getting in the way? Is there somewhere else I could deploy myself more effectively? Or do we have the situation basically under control which means that I can go shopping for clothes and shoes and not worry?

I've heard that many Amarr militia talk in strange dialects that an Amarr girl of polite society like myself wouldn't understand. Any truth in this? I don't want to rub shoulders with uncouth lower-class feral types who can't express themselves properly and drool excessively.

The last time I had questions on this forum, some of you genetically inferior specimens complained that I left you out, even though I made it clear that I wasn't addressing you anyway. So, to any minmatar reading, here are some bonus questions just for you, so you can be happy and complain less.

Is it the minimatar intention to take over the entire Empire, or just the dirty bits that look like the same colour as your ships?

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You would need to ask someone more experienced. Though I hear poor comments about Fweddit.

Or join PIE, you'll be running the place inside of a month.

You really should get that obsession of yours sorted out.

Buy a Retriever.

1. How much of a threat is the minmatar forces, really?

2. If 1. is "not much", are more militia really needed? Would I be contributing meaningfully or just getting in the way? Is there somewhere else I could deploy myself more effectively? Or do we have the situation basically under control which means that I can go shopping for clothes and shoes and not worry?

3. I've heard that many Amarr militia talk in strange dialects that an Amarr girl of polite society like myself wouldn't understand. Any truth in this? I don't want to rub shoulders with uncouth lower-class feral types who can't express themselves properly and drool excessively.

4. I like the thought of helping the Empire but combat seems a bit icky. I can handle things blowing up in a ball of fire which would be kind of amazing actually but I don't want to see corpses depressurize, I think that would look gross. Am I forced to look at that? How much blood and guts is there?

Also, does dying hurt? I'm not really into pain.

It's not about selling it. It is not about what you want, it is about serving and defending the Empire.

If you are selfless enough to do so, then you should do so. But if you are not then you should not. I am merely telling you the reality of it.

Now that is funny.

I didn't think you guys had opinions.

I stand corrected.

Or start you're own corp and run it from day one.

I hear militia work is well nasty, and half the time you undock, some joker's gonna blow you arse over ****.

On the other hand they got these militia lotteries where you win shiny navy ships, and you gets to hang around Amarrian blokes in uniform. So it can't be all bad.

Buy a Retriever.

You will be outnumbered three to one on a good day. Some will argue that's not the case based on enrollment numbers, but enrollment doesn't mean "active" and very, very few militia pilots are actually anymore. Those who are are either A) in massive fleet organizations that are very paranoid about taking in any new people/outsiders or B) still flying solo/small gang and getting constantly thumped due to the above mentioned bad odds.

So unless you've got an uncle or something in PIE then you can pretty much forget about being anything other than a cheap kill-mail for a gang of insufferably arrogant tribals.

The situation is basically screwed and that's exactly why you should just buy clothes.

The Empire? No. New Eden? Yes. And only if by "take over" you mean "exterminate all non-Matari life." Their goal is utter & complete genocide, plain and simple, first of us and then eventually everyone else who isn't of "superior tribal blood."

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If you cannot stand the idea of violence then I suggest you look elsewhere for employment opportunities. This is war and it will take a part of your innocence and idealism away, if not most of it.

You are clearly not ready to delve into this aspect of capsuleerhood. I suggest you either leave the life now or ease into your inevitable fate and enjoy what you have left of your innocence now.

That said, militia work is not for the selfish. When you join the 24th Imperial Crusade you are not doing it for yourself, but for the peoples of the Amarr Empire. You are there to protect them, not your queasy stomach. If you cannot get over that fact then do not bother.

You will see bits.

You will also listen to your own crews as they die if you keep the internal comms on.

Glad to see you made the right choice.

There is no shame in taking the path of peace. In fact, it is rather preferable. We fight so that the innocent such as yourself do not have to. I would not like to see a gun forced into your hand when you can devote your life to such better causes.

Mr. Coventina is quite right. You should consider contacting me when you have the chance. I will introduce you to who and what you need to take part in the greater Amarrian loyalist bloc and perhaps begin to supply us with materials.

Make me.

Yes, the Federation thinks there's room for everybody in the galaxy.

As long as the Federation are the one's in charge of it all.

The Empire? No. New Eden? Yes. And only if by "take over" you mean "exterminate all non-Matari life." Their goal is utter & complete genocide, plain and simple, first of us and then eventually everyone else who isn't of "superior tribal blood."

Naturally we think our way of life is better, but no, we're not looking to "exterminate" other peoples as some kind of "master race" imperative.

That's your culture, not ours.

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I'm sorry but if a bowel flies by my ship, that's totally going to bother me. I'm easily distracted like that. Seriously, minmatar could just load up a projectile cannon full of body parts and fire it at my windshield and I would be totally freaking out and no good in combat at all. Wow, I can't believe I just thought that up. Gross. Any minmatar reading, you didn't read this bit just now.

You got it wrong. We wich not to exterminate you, but to show you our world views and accept you into the Empire. We're exactly as you painted yourselves. If we wanted to exterminate you, we would have already done so when we first conquered Pator.

You enter the Amarr Empire and raid and take our people following your "Elder Fleet". We do so against you so many years ago and take your people from Pator. The only difference is in your eyes, not in the facts.

We don't come for "your" people knucklehead, we come for ours.

They're not legally yours until you reimburse the slave market purchase price! AHAHAHAHAHAHA *ducks*

All jokes and trolling aside, this thread is about ME so let's steer it back on topic..

Pot, kettle, black.

We don't come for "your" people knucklehead, we come for ours.

And we'll continue to raid your worlds until all are free.

Wow.

This one sentence.

It's like the entire IGS in microcosm.

We don't come for "your" people knucklehead, we come for ours.

And we'll continue to raid your worlds until all are free.

Funny, your kind rant endlessly about the Amarr "slavers" and then go around saying that somehow you have a "right" to take ownership of people born and raised on Amarrian worlds, kidnap them, and drag them across the galaxy to go and do the bidding of your government.

Despite what your racist "scientists" have to say I am not and never was your people. Too bad hundreds had to die before you knuckle-draggers got that through your thick heads. And there are billions like me. In the Empire, in the Mandate, even in the Khanid Kingdom. Billions of people who carry your oh so precious Matari DNA to some degree or another whom owe absolutely zero loyalty to your oh so precious Republic. Billions of people who will resist you and fight you to the death rather than be dragged away from our homes, families and loved ones over your twisted and hypocritical ideas of "freedom."

How dare you think there's some equivalence between our culture and yours?