Moving this here as I feel we were going off of the original topic.
I’m just asking EDENCOM to explain the appearance of corruption. I’d greatly prefer for it to be simply a misunderstanding and to find out that EDENCOM was operating in a completely unbiased manner for the whole of the invasions. If EDENCOM released evidence of such, I’d be quite happy. Your trying to paint me as some wack-job conspiracy theorist when dealing with actual issues of apparent corruption that I saw in my extensive service to EDENCOM is ignorant at best and dishonest at worst.
All I’m asking is for whoever knows why there were suddenly no Gunstars outside of Imperial Space in the middle of the invasions to tell us. If it was coincidentally the fault of the other three empires somehow conspiring to pull and re-install them on the say days then so be it. That would still be a problem that should be pointed out and addressed despite not having been EDENCOM’s problem.
Many of us swallowed our pride and worked with and supported EDENCOM despite the appearance of corruption. People like myself and many others put in hundreds of hours in empires that are not even our homes and though I don’t regret any of it, I do feel that we deserve answers as to why some of these problems happened and assurances that they will be avoided should we have a similar situation happen again in the future.
A secret service agent I met in a bar said to me: “I don’t mind being a tool for the greater good, it’s why I signed up. But I’m a lot more effective when people tell me if I’m supposed to be a hammer or a screwdriver”
I have just pointed out to a Kyber that blaming other Kyber in being a Kyber is probably as dumb as killing herself in a duel just to claim she “won” it. (Yes, Arrendiot did that too)
The dumber than this could be only assuming I was “defending” a kybernaut by attacking other one kybernaut.
And, of course, making a statement based on it about my backbone shows your utter lack of both competence and reasoning qualities. But, you be you, I guess your hatred to Caldari just prevents you from thinking clearly.
Anyway, the talk of EDENCOM transparency made me think.
Perhaps part of the reasoning behind the lack of transparency, is that capsuleers leak like a damn sieve, and any information given by EDENCOM would surely end up furthering the aims of the kybernut collaborators.
It’s not too surprising if entities are hesitant to share sensitive information with capsuleers who can oh so easily flip sides whenever it is convenient.
Though some people, like Oveg Drust, and King Khanid ⅔, are just buttes.
Except they haven’t, either, now have they? I mean, being forced to undergo mutation through ‘bioadaptation’ to make them something other than human… that’s really not ‘come out of the ordeal just fine’. That’s ‘come out of the ordeal permanently twisted into something else’.
citation needed, please. We have exactly no information as to the Collective’s actual state with regard to survival, economics, industry, etc. We don’t even really have anything from them we could base such statements on, and we certainly don’t have any way to independently corroborate the words of an invading force that shows no sign of having resources more functionally limited than all of New Eden combined.
Neither do you. Because there’s no way to reliably ascertain them.
Bodily autonomy, the right to use your own body in ways that you wish, is the first foundation of most systems of rights.
The Triglavians explicitly attack that right. Their bioadaptation denies the adapted the right to use their own body. For all their jibber jabber about “sanctity of mind” that apparently brought them into conflict with Sansha s Nation and the Drifters, it is worthless when they discard bodily autonomy.
Bioadaptation is the same as saying to a woman that she has to become pregnant, and doesn’t get to refuse.
Yeah, slightly different angle from me, but, if I accost you in an alley and stab you repeatedly in the stomach with a sliver of sharp-enough-to-get-the-job-done tool steel and leave you in a puddle of goo that not only heals you but gives you spooky powers and also guarantees that if you look in the mirror you’ll see a face that looks like it went missing at the back of the refrigerator for three months, are you going to thank me for that?
Right, because being forced to do things you didn’t want to do, without the opportunity to stop of your own accord, that’s, you know… self-determination and freedom, right?
I can’t help you being a brain-damaged lickspittle for inhuman invaders, only concerned with wanking off over their leavings, so no, I guess we’re not.
I have already stopped myself from responding to him last night with ‘dammit, you’re making me agree with Valerie, this is another crime for which you must answer’.
Frankly, the pathetic little piece of crap’s not even worth the effort of the annoyance I invest in your insipid crap, Val.