Ava Starfire
Teraa Matar
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Posted - 2011.11.14 13:29:00 -
[1] - Quote
Everyone who knows me knows how far I like to push my own limits, and the limits of my vessel. I do it to force myself to improve, to
force the decisions I must make during the heat of a dogfight to achieve automaticy. Do I have a sense of "honor"? I dont know... when that fight starts, I will do anything in my power to beat my opponent(s). I would cause your neocom to crash and your pod to spontaneously implode if I could. I am fighting you to destroy you. Period.
However, I also have no use for cowards. If someone is unwilling or unable to face me, alone, then you have a choice to make; seek further training, or sit in the corner and allow someone of courage to take your place in the battle line. By being willingly less skilled than your opponent, you are handicapping your own efforts. I hold all of my pilots to an incredibly high standard, when theyre solo I expect them to pull off the "impossible". When you get half a dozen pilots like that in a fleet, magic happens.
Yesterday, I fought (after some initial miscommunication) a member of the Empire who, while still my enemy, has at least earned my respect. This is someone who, were our nations not at war, I would likely be friends with. We seek out those who we feel are similar to ourselves, and a pilot willing to push their limits happens to click with me, regardless of the flag they fly under.
Sad, really. The people who decry the behaviour of pirates, while in the service of the various militias or nation-based corporations, are the very people who dishonor 1v1s and scream about how "reputation dosent matter". So... a pirate's reputation means more to him, than the rep of someone fighting "the good fight" means to them?
Color me puzzled.
And yes, I frequently face the most skilled opponents, and the most "honorable", if we wish to use that term, who are members of pirate organizations. There are exceptions on both sides, of course, but the ratio is staggering. My reputation is everything to me. I am proud of what I have achieved, and proud of my right to wear marks that tell of those achievements. I understand not everyone agrees, and that is their right. I have no delusions; my nation is fighting to defeat the Empire. I will do anything I must to achieve that end... other than destroying my own reputation. I havent had a 1v1 "dishonored" in the militia yet. But Ill be damned if i havent had a few dozen "accidentally interrupted".... often by fleets of BCs or BS.
I leave you to determine how many were actually "accidental".
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