Tia Seras
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Posted - 2007.10.25 15:41:00 -
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Of my two main characters, one is Amarr (my original pick when I started), the other is Caldari. At the time I didn't know the intricacies of the racial makeup of the player base, I just thought the Amarr as sort of duty bound Roman legionaires toward the end of the empire. Slaves are traded openly in Amarr, and even if I have 30 slaves from some mission I keep them in a hangar, drinking Quafe, as I am loathe to sell Eve flesh. (Since they aren't worth much anyway I can afford this moral stance). I'll gladly give them to a Minmitar character but I do believe there is no vehicle for actually "freeing" slaves in-game. If I try to fly them to Minmitar space I'll get busted for sure, so they play dice, ogle Amarrian women,and await their fate. Just like the 40 militants I have doing odd jobs and keeping the place clean.
Since Amarrians are politically incorrect given their slaver backgrounds, are they deliberately being kept down by the Devs? Maintaining this tactical inequality may be a deliberate intent, since they seem to be an odious bunch. But a 51% good, 49% evil universe will still appeal to Carebears, so let the Amarr be the reviled ones!
My Amarr character is currently satisfied with being a successful merchant, gathering ISK, flying an occasional mission to keep sharp, and ratting for loot and salvage. Joining a corporation just to get ganked to and from Jita sounds like a lot of stress to me, and having to meet at system "X" to mine ore to build the next capital behemoth for the glory of corporate and alliance warfare just seems like work.
I've always liked the underdog, miserable curs we may be. But moaning because another race has an advantage? Pretty people have an advantage in the real world, and Gallente ships all look like they were designed from a pile of disembodied human organs anyway.
My consciousness drifts in and out of Eve, in and out of character. Do I want to be the Caldari lab-coated mousy production and mining genius today? Or do I want to strap myself in my Arbitrator and hunt Sansha's Minions? PvP? Naw, sounds like even more work, the game is challenging enough at this point. Maybe later when I have 15m+ skills or so.
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