Wow the Frogs are even more sensitive than I thought
The Caldari will take it soon.
You must have a deadfully low opinion of anyone fighting on behalf of the empires. It doesnât seem you can imagine an individual actually having stakes in some of these systems, or wanting to secure their resources for as long as one can, or even that people are simply loyal to their chosen empire and decide to serve in a method that keeps ones skills honed
To be honest though, your opinion of us mirrors my opinion of those of you in nullsec. So hopped up on your own glory, and so intent on being rebellious little conquerers that you think what youâre doing is safe outside of Empire control. You seem to honestly believe that if you actually posed a threat, the Empires WOULDNâT just shut down the fluid routers, turn off your gates, and disable your capsules, leaving your populations to starve to death in the darkness between the stars.
Anyone who becomes a capsuleer accepts the leash around their necks. Weâre dogs who know who our masters are. Youâre dogs who pretend that youâre free.
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Not at all. I think there are basically three kinds of capsuleers fighting for the empires.
- Navy capsuleersâobviously, theyâre outside the scope of my opinions on the warzone, and why I feel the fighting in the warzone is meaningless1.
- True Believer LoyalistsâBy this, I donât just mean Amarr Faithful. I mean the people who truly believe in the cause for their nation, but (for whatever reason2) arenât in their nationâs navy. True believersâ goals line up with those of their nation, because theyâre fighting in order to serve the needs of their people3. Serving your people is an honorable and noble pursuit. Itâs just not always one thatâs terribly meaningful in the larger scheme of things.
- âFarmersââThese capsuleers arenât engaging other militia capsuleers. Theyâre just there to make money. They have no personal loyalty to the nation theyâre flying for (which probably changes with the vagaries of the warzone). Their goals are just âget richâ, and they tend to avoid fights with other capsuleers.
Of the three, the only ones I hold in low esteem are the third group.
You really know very little about us. Outside the empiresâ control? More like âbeyond their caringâ. If the empires wanted, they could crush us like bugs. But they donât, and itâs not at all difficult to understand why. They donât crush us because, just like those loyalists, weâre doing exactly what they want us doing.
Weâre killing 257 titans in a single day. Weâre killing 2500 subcapitals in a single fight. If the empires didnât want us out here doing this, they wouldnât have built multiple monuments to days like M2-XFE and B-R5RB.
Weâre doing it, and that means they donât have to. Weâre developing doctrines, developing tactics, and then developing counters, and iterating through that process as many as a dozen times in a single month. Weâre a laboratory experiment, and all they have to do is keep records of what weâre doing, take everything we learn, and apply those lessons to their own doctrines and fleets.
And it costs them�
Nothing. Nothing at all. Most of the time, weâre happily collecting bounties from CONCORD, killing the pirate nations the empires would rather see forced into perpetual rebuilding.
So tell me again how I believe that Iâm âsafe outside of empire controlâ? The fact that weâre pursuing our own agendas, for our own reasons, doesnât change that. It just means the empires know how to make use of that, too.
Weâre not dogs. Dogs are valued. Capsuleers arenât. Weâre bullets: not just expendable, but frequently-expended, and easily replaced. Weâre so easy to replace, nobody even notices when it happens.
1. Because youâll note, thatâs why my opinion was about: the actual activity of fighting to take and hold systems in the warzone. It wasnât about the people.
2. Maybe they washed out of Navy training. Maybe they ended up with a criminal record after the came out of flight school, so the best they can do is fly in the militia. Maybe theyâre delusional and believe being part of the militia makes them a real and legitimate part of their nationâs navy. Lots of reasons these folks are in this group, not the first one.
3. These capsuleers have, historically, been a minority of the participants in the warzone. They just happen to be the ones who make the biggest splash, because the third group⌠well. Theyâre the third group.
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