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Babs Johnson
Legio Geminatus
Gentlemen's Agreement
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Posted - 2011.11.14 05:10:00 -
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Silas Vitalia wrote:Your reputation is all that matters.
And enjoying yourself.
And leaving a fabulous looking corpse.
And having someone make a martini for you after you wake up in the clone vat. |
Babs Johnson
Legio Geminatus
Gentlemen's Agreement
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Posted - 2011.11.14 05:37:00 -
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Pax Thar wrote:Vitalia is correct. In this age of immortality and combat, we capsuleers should value nothing more than our honor and reputation.
Utter nonsense.
ItGÇÖs all about the sport. You try to blow up my ship and I try to blow up your ship, and we might dress it all up in some sort of grandiose silliness about it all being for the honor, or the Republic, or the magic fairy in the sky, but stripped to its core, itGÇÖs about the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction of the kill.
And when we do have the misfortune of dying with our ship, we wake up in our clone with softer skin and a few less wrinkles, get a manicure and our hair styled, go buy another ship, and rejoin the hunt. We give the quaint miner folk and the merchant class something to do. ItGÇÖs not only a sport GÇô itGÇÖs an employment program!
ItGÇÖs a fact of life out here in the vacuum GÇô youGÇÖre going to kill and youGÇÖre going to be killed. So you may as well enjoy it. Otherwise thereGÇÖs no point to it.
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Babs Johnson
Legio Geminatus
Gentlemen's Agreement
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Posted - 2011.11.14 06:34:00 -
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My dear Uraniae, you contradict yourself. First you say we will be forgotten once our final clone contract expires, then you say we will be judged by how we conduct ourselves.
I do agree with your first point. Once I am gone, I will be dust, and anyone's judgment of me will matter not. To the extent that I am remembered, I would like it said that "she got what she wanted, and she looked fabulous getting it."
Quaint notions like honor take a good bit of fun out of life. Hot dropping a twenty ship fleet on an industrial or pouncing on an undefended miner in a belt or baiting a rube into a duel are hardly "honorable" endeavors. But they are fun. And they are what most of us do every day. And in this brutal life we have all chosen, one may as well have fun. Otherwise there is no point. |
Babs Johnson
Legio Geminatus
Gentlemen's Agreement
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Posted - 2011.11.14 07:06:00 -
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The "defenseless" will wake up in a clone vat, just like your little friend who was deceived in the duel, just like the rest of us.
We wake up, get our bearings, have a cocktail, get a manicure and our hair styled, buy another ship, and head back out again to resume the hunt. It's what we capsuleers do. |
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