Davlos
Omerta Syndicate
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Posted - 2008.11.22 14:04:00 -
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Edited by: Davlos on 22/11/2008 14:06:18
I will quote a story from a long-gone civilization which name I cannot recall:
A king once sailed forth on a massive sailboat and conquered very many nations, establishing a vast kingdom for himself which heralded a golden age that lasted for a century. His people preserved the ship from whence he departed from when he returned home a glorious king, and they endeavored for very many centuries, whilst parts of the ship rotted and had to be replaced on very, many uncountable occasions.
The people labored on, with this procession of restoration becoming tradition and increasingly steeped in meaningless and banal rituals, to the point that a growing number of people began to question this endeavor because nobody knew how the ship really looked like anymore, and wondered if any part of the ship was authentic any longer.
Pragmatism, as the legend of the king imparted, spurred the philosophers of the land to agree upon letting this icon dedicated to the memory of the king rot and disintegrate, for it was the memory and lessons that he taught which mattered, not the icon itself.
Stitcher-haan, if I did not have any concern for the Caldari, nor our collective identity, I would not have answered the call of the Old Man to take up arms (metaphorically-speaking, in this day and age) in pro-active defense. I have a wife-to-be, and a horde of freed Matari children to care for, and to nurture and educate for the latter. I have the Caldari's long-term well-being at heart, and this short-sighted, hare-brained and half-baked clawing and clamoring for Caldari Prime has irked me for many a year. We have New Caldari. Let that be our new homeworld. For a people to claim itself as the most pragmatic race in the cluster, the Patriots are proving themselves to be a horde of spoilt children when it comes to that desolate, slagged floating rock that has no strategic nor economic value whatsoever that's stuck in the middle of the sovereign space of another nation.
The starsc****r is based on rock that is no longer there, and exists as much as imaginary numbers do in the mathematical problems that schoolchildren grapple with.
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 Originally by: Revan Neferis
Scientific category of gravitation fields and velocity is force....
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