It's not so much a pre-occupation as an actual occupation.

Like it or not we were created to service engines of destruction. That's still a large part of what pays a Capsuleer's bread and butter.

Hypothetically, if someone wanted to buy these rescued figures to integrate them back into the appropriate channels, who would they need to reach out to in negotiating an arrangement for these rescued slaves?

Rescue Report:

115.10.22 19:03 Aktaion Angersen 93 people



One of the bedrock values of the Matriculation Program of DSTON is that absolutely under no circumstances will we ever sell those who have been rescued or have come into our program by other means. Never again will any of those former slaves or any other individuals be sold to anyone for any purpose.

Now, as far as integrating... The DSTON Matriculation program is so named because it is a holistic program designed to do just that. Through education, community development, vocation, holistic health care, etc. Matriculants are prepared for re-integration into society.

The sale of any Matriculant is strictly out of the question.

I'll be planning a trip soon to Ation and our center there. Now and then we encounter female survivors in deathcans who mysteriously contract some sort of space sickness that causes the delusion that they are some sort of space character named Oura Madusaari. We have several lodging in our therapy wing in Ation. They seem quite content to exist in their ongoing fantasy life. Our therapists have attempted a number of methods to connect them with reality but nothing seems to stick. We have researched the lore but have not determined the mental triggers that cause this ailment. The 22nd was a busy rescue day.

Damsel syndrome, right? Waiting to be rescued from a fate worse than death by a heroic capsuleer?

Rescue Report:

115.10.23 18:46 Hoko Sal 45 people



Well maybe that would be true except for these reasons:
1. We're just not the heroic typecast. We never ride in with "guns blazing." Neither my crew nor I have ever been quoted as saying, "Aw Shucks Ma'am." And we always return to the "Matriculation Center" instead of riding off into the sunset. Damsels love to ride into the sunset, but few really want to accompany their hero rescuer to the "Matriculation Center." For one thing its just too hard to say. And what is it anyway?
2. Its always Oura M. Its never Scarlet, Mary, or Rebecca; its always Oura. That's a funny name for a Damsel.
3. Our first question is always, "Can we help you enroll in a remedial education program?" The Damsels just don't go for that.
4. Oura never wants to be rescued and is typically rather hostile through the whole process. She's not your Damsel type.

Because of these reasons and others, the Ation staff has come up with some interesting arm-chair theories. My favorite is that a rogue infomorph was released from the anomaly when the Papyri had its accident. The conditions of the anomaly were such that Oura's infomorph was captured and preserved in a gravimetric disturbance. It travels the universe and under the right conditions takes root in certain brains; hence the multiple incidences of Oura.

There, I'm caught up for now on reporting. Its not hard to get behind on that responsibility. Rescue work has been steady and I am reminded that each individual we rescue is a valuable thread in the human tapestry. None of us knows about the full potential of each life we impact. Yes hindsight is 20/20 but it doesn't hurt to ask, "what if" now and then. There is a particular IGS personality that I have in mind. This person shows a level of unstable hate that begs the question, "If she had been loved as a child, what difference would that have made?" Or even if at some point someone would have countered the growing angst with grace before it became intractable hate what positive could have been generated? Even now, perhaps there is hope. Who knows?

We are too soft as it is. Children need to be taught that God burns with wrath; that He loosens fierce anger; that He drowns sinners in their own blood. They must learn to see blasphemy and heresy everywhere and unmask the modern-day Molok the Deceiver.

Rescue Report:

115.10.30 22:36 Toseen 13 people
115.10.31 13:04 Sasparella 43 people

The new waitress at the "Leaning Tower" is nice; not as talkative as the old one. She's younger, less life experienced, but nice non-the-less. She's getting used to our long coffee sessions and less irritated when we don't clear out. It might have to do with the fact that I encourage all of us to tip well. These waiters and waitresses work hard, are on their feet and get paid a pittance.

There is a myth: that the wealthy work harder for their money than the poor. Perhaps the wealthy are smarter or just luckier. But, you can't tell me that they work harder. The working poor are some of the hardest working people I have ever met. The judgments made upon the poor from the tower of wealth are just that, judgments. Who works harder, the miner in the pit or the mining company CEO in the tower? Its different work, no doubt but one would be hard pressed to say one works harder than the other or deserves to be paid so disproportionately more or less. At the end of the day, I tend to think the man in the pit deserves a bit more and the CEO in the tower a bit less.

If you don't work as hard as your crew, you only have yourself to blame. I lead my crew in physical conditioning training, I join them in maintenance drills and I have many other duties to do with my positions as Colonel of Marines and Diplomat that require extra work.

Maybe that's a Caldari thing.