# \[Excubitoris Chapter\] Faith and Loyalty in Troubled Times **URL:** \ **Category:** Intergalactic Summit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/excubitoris-chapter-faith-and-loyalty-in-troubled-times/197173 "2019-10-23T05:03:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Aldrith\_Shutaq](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/aldrith_shutaq/32/378618_2.png) [@Aldrith\_Shutaq](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Aldrith_Shutaq)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 7:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/excubitoris-chapter-faith-and-loyalty-in-troubled-times/197173/7 "2019-10-23T07:54:11Z")
1. Your rhetoric is old and boring. 2. Go away. To my Chapter Master, I offer my support to your message and thank you for it. I am one of the many that tried their best to uphold the ideals of the Pax Amarria and the beauty of the vision for the Empire and cluster it espoused. I still very much wish to, as well. However, this past decade, and year especially, have challenged my ideals unceasingly. I am forced to admit that perhaps the path of peace is closed to us, blocked by a rage-tainted enemy who seeks to take advantage of every virture percieved as weakness we present, be it patience, mercy, or open-mindedness. I often feel that every move we have made to reform and appease has merely emboldened that enemy, making them believe their treachery and violence is working to their benefit. I cannot in good conscious keep this kindness up, not when there are so many we must protect. Still, I pray at least some form of Pax shall bless us, one day. I pray a new policy of deterrence may begin to slow the thousand slights we are given every day as a reward for our efforts to create a better Empire and cluster. I pray that my brothers and sisters will realise a new path is here, and we must take it lest we be slain and left in a ditch by the road to peace for the crime of trying to walk it. If peace by the sword is all that will be understood, then so be it. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/excubitoris-chapter-faith-and-loyalty-in-troubled-times/197173)._