Learn what a freelancer is.
I presume not since she is not part of the Navy, but the Protectorate. Different organizations.
Also learn what a mercenary is.
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Ms. Remi, unfortunately, it seems that Capsuleer Dementia Syndrome can affect everone. People lose connection to reality and become drooling fools.
Usually I recognize damaged clone brains when they start calling me mercenary or something like that.
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Learn what a freelancer is.
freelance (plural freelances)
Describe a mercenary warrior or âfree-lanceâ (indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lordâs services).
And if not this then why âpendulum swingsâ are possible?
And this is why I so much dislike all this CEMWPA thing. If empires want war then better for them to have balls for real war and to lead and control those who picked the side. If they donât want war then why all this circusâŚ
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Great, you found the definition, now, do you think this matches Commander Kim who, as far as I know, has remained employed under the Protectorate and affiliated organizations pretty much since her graduation? Seems pretty âlong-termâ to me.
Yet itâs her actual choice. Which in fact makes her even more respectable. To keep loyalty no matter what⌠And I do respect Commander. I talked only about all those âmilitia warsâ.
Isnât it the choice of all SAF members beyond their compulsory service? Any member serving beyond that three-year period can resign at any point- just as Protectorate members can. They are indefinitely employed otherwise.
Yet they have orders still for disobeying of which they would be punished. I know, you didnât noticed but when your triangle friends had fun there was mobilization. And say, would retired SAF officier be able to say ânope, sorry, donât want to fightâ? And capsuleer from Protectorate?
The Protectorateâs responsibilities lie elsewhere, and they do get punished and stripped of rank as punishment for violating their, admittedly pretty relaxed, directives.
Also, State Protectorate enlisted pilots are perfectly free to switch sides and enlist under the Federal Defense Union at a momentâs notice, which fits with the status of the old fashioned free lances very well.
We used to call them Condotta, a fairly respectable position but not the same as the Royal army.
Sidenote, but personally I am not sure what the problem with calling someone a mercenary or a privateer or âfreelanceâ or whatever similar thing is. These are honorable professions and the niche of many well-respected clan.
Being a private military contractor of any sort does not imply you are obliged to take any job offered - quite the opposite, a lot of mercenaries are quite picky, and state outright they will not take contracts from a particular nation or people loyal to it, or will only take contracts in line of the goals of their home region, or that contracts against a particular allied bloc are out of the question.
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Absolutely, I work for a corp that provides ancillary services to an organisation that is the successor to one of Morthaneâs old free companies and can assure you they take great pride in that heritage and reputation.
The only âproblemâ is that DK insists sheâs part of the State military proper. Which, obviously, she isnât. Sheâs a mercenary being paid by the objective, not drawing any regular salary or subject to the normal chain of command or disciplinary measures.
Instead, at most, she gets dinged a few points on her scoreboard, which might result in loss of ârankâ, but really makes absolutely no difference. No crime she can commit, no violation of orders, no act of aggression against the Caldari State or its allies, would be sufficient to see the State force her out of the warzone or imprison her. None of it impacts the potential for future promotion once she regains the right number of points.
None of it has any consequence whatsoever to her or her livelihood. Because she, like all militia pilots, is a mercenary in a paramilitary group, contracting with one of the empires until such time as the mercenaries feel like leaving. And, as you say, there is nothing dishonorable about that. It is a perfectly respectable and time-honored profession.
But not to her.
Itâs not a question of it being insulting, it is merely inaccurate. A mercenary is a foreign third party only involved in a conflict for the rewards provided by the side they support. One can certainly find mercenaries in the service of all four militias, it just does not apply in this case.
I said âsidenoteâ. Not talking about Kim, now have any interest to. Donât really get your obsession with her.
Eh, sheâs a reliable chew-toy. In this context, though, sheâs the matter theyâre discussing, so I addressed the side note in the context of the current conversation.
ETA:
Mercenaries do not need to be foreign. Nor do they need to be involved only for the rewards provided. If youâre a paramilitary contractor, youâre a mercenary.
It depends.
First of all, calling someone a profession they donât do is simple incorrect or straightforward lying. Would you like if Iâll call you a cook, a terrorist or a janitor, if you donât do that job?
Second, for some peoples word âterroristâ could be considered insulting, just as for others - word âmercenaryâ. For example, for me mercenaries are people who arenât much different from pirates, and having an experiene of talking with certain person who was calling himself proudly âmercenaryâ, while straightforwardly betraying people who hiring him and then going into the most depraved group we know of - gurista pirates - I sort of have strong dislike to mercenaries in general. The name of that disgrace was something like Yaken, but itâs not really important.
The third, and hopefully, the last point, is that, unfortunately, these boards arenât protected from simply depraved and toxic personalities that like to apply names to people whom they donât belong for the sake of their own entertainment. And the example of me being called a âmercenaryâ is only a little example of that mischief that this pollution brings here, and which I, obviously, notice the most. Of course there are many other examples (and others surely will notice more things that would be said about them instead - naturally), but as for me, they arenât really worth that much attention.
Okay, not mercenary but freelance â will this be better? Returning to where we started today I must admit â I never delved into meaning of âmercenaryâ and used this word where I shouldnât.
But my point was a bit different. I greatly respect you as a Warrior who fight for the State for oh so long⌠but Iâm not sure if I can name the Caldari Officier a person who can withdraw, join opposite side and not being stripped from their rank after doing so. Too much freedom. While those in Navy, Peacekeepers, Army give themselves to the State entirely and they have no ability to do whatever they please, to change sides and even to simply leavy service at any minute. Why I would name all those in capsuleer militias free lances â still free, still unbound.
Again, I greatly respect you and even more so considering you being free yet still staying loyal. This is something of the great value. But here we are.
Thatâs a nonsence, really.
Every Caldari Officer can withdraw, run away and join opposite side. Grab a ship under your command, point it to the gate and youâre out in hostile territory before the Command knows it, then just go to your enemies and ask to serve them, hoping they wonât shoot you on contact.
But that we can doesnât mean we WILL.
Because every Soldier of the State gave an Oath of Allegiance to the State.
Those who violate that are worse than scum. Thatâs the greatest dishonor one could have commit. They probably could live relatively safely abroad, but, you know⌠itâs just selling your honor, your friends, your life and your potential for something insât even comparable to what State can provide. Itâs utter stupidity and utter disgrace. And if they for some reason return to the State, theyâre just hunted down as an animals they are.
Peacekeepers simply donât have ships to pull that.
But Navy, Protectorate? We all have ability to do that. And we do have Honor and Brains not to. Technically, any Navy pilot can just grab a ship and zip away with that to Guristas. But nobody sane will.
Yet for Protectorate Capsuleers it wouldnât be a violation of law, thatâs a point. They can go back and forth whenever and wherever they please. This is simply about independent capsuleers, CONCORD and CEMWPA.
But then again, this is also the reason to respect you even more.
For Capsuleers there is simply no violation of law by itself⌠Provided theyâre only capsuleers and not Citizen Capsuleers. Citizens still have to oblige the law.
Oh, and when one gets into baseline sections of the State⌠in that case capsuleer âoutlawingâ can be turned against the violators, as if they sided with gurista or gallente, they can simply be shot down by guards even without a trial: crime is a crime and shall be punished, and the State doesnât consider non-citizen capsuleers as legal entities to provide them judical services⌠or even minimal protection.
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