Stitcher
Caldari
Rin-Ruuka Kyun
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Posted - 2008.05.19 16:20:00 -
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Edited by: Stitcher on 19/05/2008 16:21:13
Well, it was late in coming... but better late than never at all.
 Originally by: Beletre
My question is how exactly did Noir pull off the manuvering of the Nyx? Such ships don't fly from a solo pilot, the senior crew at least had to be a part of the whole thing.
Not so: Noir was a capsuleer.
The advantage (and in this case, flaw) to the capsule system, as you're well aware, is that it negates the need for a CIC or command officers, even on capital and supercapital-sized vessels. As such, Noir's control over his vessel was absolute. Maybe the Gallente Navy maintain a CIC and command staff for redundancy purposes anyway - but I doubt anybody on board would have had the authority to lock out Noir's control of the vessel... or at least, not quickly enough to avert the collision.
As for why.... I have a theory.
Alexander Noir was a veteran - the only remaining veteran - of the Gallente-Caldari war.
Nobody endures a war unscarred, especially not one as ferocious and bloody as ours was. If you are lucky, the scars are merely physical. If not, the scars run deeper. I very much doubt that Noir's soil was left unmarked by the experience.
I suspect that his career, and the actions that led to his being awarded the Aidonis, may have been an attempt on his part to atone for his role in the conflict - an attempt to erase the stain left upon his soul.
But for what? Recognition? At the end of the day, the so-called "achievements" he worked on for a century unravelled effectively overnight, with open rioting on Caldari Prime, and dead citizens of both nations, killed by undercurrents of hatred and bigotry that he never erased, not with his entire long career of work.
And then one man stood up and achieved, in one speech, more than he himself had managed to accomplish in a hundred and ten years.
I think he snapped. Maybe that old wound on Noir's soul was reopened by the rioting, and that Otro Gariushi then, unknowingly, went and rubbed salt in it. Maybe the whole thing was driven by blinding jealousy.
Maybe he came to believe that if lifetime of hard work could not bring about peace, then the only way to end the violence was the eradication of one faction, and tried to steer the galaxy onto a course where it could happen.
Maybe he found himself in a Caldari system, at the head of a Gallente fleet, surrounded by a Caldari fleet, and had a flashback, a half-lucid hallucination that the war was still on.
My theory is that the man simply wasn't himself when he chose to ram the station.
Unfortunately, whatever thought it was that drove him to that end died with him. I doubt the people of New Eden will ever receive a satisfactory answer.
In the meantime, a friend of mine and I have been discussing how this event, and the warmongering, saber-rattling and jingoism it has prompted, could, in theory, be interpreted as matching the fourth of the Macaper prophecies. Personally, I've never brought into those things, but it made for interesting discussion...
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