I would say that’s quite possibly the most grossly inaccurate statement you’ve made in this entire thread.
I don’t hate “God” by any means whatsoever, in fact quite the opposite. Perhaps a perusal through my commentary regarding my own personal belief of “God” would be worth taking time to read, should you be so inclined as to question your own perception of me.
The discussion began here, should you choose to read it. Perhaps our perceptions of “God” are more similar than what you may be so inclined to believe.
No, I do not -hate- God by any means…
What I detest is the use of “God’s Name” to declare genetic superiority over others.
What I despise is the use of “God’s Name” to justify domination of all others you basically outlined in the beginning of this discussions as “Those With Inferior Blood”.
What I -hate-… is the self fulfilling prophecy that Amarrian’s are supposedly the ‘Only Blood’ that inherently are chosen by “God” to rule over others simply by virtue of the interpretation of the Theology Council.
No no, that vastly pre-dates the Theology Council. It goes like this:
Amarr: ‘Hey, you all have to do what I say.’
Other: ‘Why?’
Amarr: ‘It says so in a book!’
Other: ‘What book?’
Amarr: ‘This book!’
Other: ‘Did you write the book?’
Amarr [hides pen behind back]: ‘No, God did!’
Other: ‘Prove it.’
Amarr scribbles something in the margins: ‘Well, see, it says so, right here in the book…’
Well, probably not the best place to post this, but I’m going to anyway.
Thanks to a new capsuleer run bounty service, cbounty.space, a place where bounties can be placed upon, and extracted from capsuleers I have decided to place a 50 mil isk reward on our dear Rynna Alcerys head.
The crime:
Not being pure blooded enough. Turns out, House of Records couldn’t dig up any evidence that she contains a single drop of Civire blood in those veins.
A truly heinous crime to say the least. So, something had to be done!
I don’t need to be called “not pure blooded enough” by you, filth. I’m hardly surprised, though, this is far from the first time I’ve had people after my life.
The value of my life? I am the holder of the Alcerys family, a name that has quite a bit of sway in some rather prominent circles. I own an entire city on my home planet, full of adoring admirers who celebrate my family’s many victories. My mother was feared by the Minmatar Liberationists, and now that I have inherited her business as a slaver, so am I. I am a pure, glimmering, golden warrior, chosen by God to spread His Word. That you would dare say something like that to me is irrefutable proof of your blindness.
Rather small circles as no one has ever heard of your family before.
Just one?
I can read between the lines.
Is that something to be proud of? Do you also own breeding facilities?
You need to lay off the gold body spray. That stuff is bad for your long term health.
Cold Wind says no.
The isk value of your life, according to my irrefutable calculations and the god of finance (wasn’t it you that said the Caldari worship money?) says it’s not worth that much.
I am very proud of Inahka, as are the people who live there. Your feeble mind couldn’t even imagine its beauty. It’s the largest and most glorious city on the continent. Tall, golden spires that stretch to the horizon, architectural wonders that would make your mind bend, touching both the glorious sky and the majestic ocean to the south. Inahka is absolutely divine, and you can thank my family for that.
My people are not scared, they rejoice in my accomplishments. Has a city’s shipyard ever built a battleship for you in celebration? Have people erected a statue in your honour? No? Then you have no clue what it means to be valued by the people who admire you.
How dare you fail to recognise the value of my being.
Your “irrefutable calculations” (I suspect you didn’t think about this at all) couldn’t be further from the truth. I’ve had a price on my head before, and believe me, it’s more money than you can stomach to look at. But I’ve survived every single attempt on my life. I challenge any so-called bounty hunter to try their luck. I can guarantee you, it won’t work.
I can’t really be surprised with your hubris though, seeing as you’re all muscle and no brain. Either way, it would be better for all of us if you were to refrain from speaking on things you know nothing about.
And keep the thought of me in body paint out of your mind.
Well, it’s something that is worth being proud of.
No, they are terrorized, because they know exactly what will happen to them if they don’t celebrate, correctly, who you are and your accomplishments.
No, I did recognize the value of your being. You just happen to disagree with it and are offended by it.
I put as much effort into those calculations as you personally put sweat equity into building that city of yours!
Which is to say, none.
Oh good, so you should have fun with this!
Thank you! I worked really hard for this body!
Princess, you were the one that implanted that mind worm into my brain in the first place and no amount of mind bleach is going cleanse that horrible image.
You realize that it doesn’t count if you own the city, right? It’d be like bragging ‘Has your chef ever cooked a meal for you?’ It’s their job. Do you brag about how the planet manages to keep turning, too?
(Also: A whole battleship? Wow, there’s a flex.)
Yes. And it’s not exactly uncommon around here. Heck, Mizhara’s butt got declared a deity.
Right now, looks like it’s around 50m.
See, now I’m curious as to how much it was in ISK.
That stupid training stuff hardly counts as a direct attempt on my life. What about my use of jump clones, do those count as successful, direct attempts on my life? How far are we going to stretch reality to pretend you have some sort of gotcha against me?
And that’s enough cackling, Anabella. I don’t need you calling me names and adding nothing else here, especially since you lost a Stabber to a single Punisher.
But, to counter what you were saying, it isn’t Inahka Manufacturing’s job to build me an Abaddon to celebrate my graduation from the capsuleer program. They didn’t do it because I told them to, I didn’t tell them to. They did it to show their appreciation.
“A whole battleship?” Yes. I was referring to the action itself, a gesture of appreciation, a gift to me. It doesn’t matter that I didn’t get a titan, or whatever. The whole point is that I was accused of ruling my city by fear, which simply isn’t the case. Not that any of you people will listen, of course, you’re free to pretend that people you’ve never met are afraid of me.
Your use of jump clones doesn’t entail someone else trying to kill you. Also, the clone you jump out of… or, to be more technically accurate, the person who walks into the medbay, lays down in the medical stasis unit, and gets a brain-scan immediately prior to going into cold storage… doesn’t die.
Their brain-state gets scanned1, converted to data, and the brain2 of the person in cold storage that’s being ‘jumped into’ gets a quick bit of additional flash-growth to make the new connections, the chemical state of that brain is adjusted, and that still-living person wakes up. If ‘you’ jump back into the previous clone… that is literally the previous clone. No death involved.
Your pod exploding did, not only see someone die, it also entailed someone attempting to kill ‘you’. However, most importantly?
It was pretty blatantly just mild teasing, at most.
Sure. It’s not the servants’ job to suck up to management. In a legal framework where insufficient bowing and scraping can have someone executed, of course it is.
Once again, you miss the teasing aspect of things. You could have simply said ‘a ship’, but you came across like you were making a big deal of it being a battleship. So I poked fun at the idea that a battleship is anything significant to most capsuleers.
Well, mine was that people who are actively dependent upon your goodwill for their continued ability to house and feed their families maybe can’t be trusted to be the most objective or sincere of well-wishers. After all, it’s not like they have much choice.
Purely hypothetically, what would happen if one of your subjects were to express, in a very public forum, with a cogent and well-developed and supported argument, that they felt your rule was oppressive, that you were unfit for your position, or that you’re undeserving of the blessings your position has entitled you to?
I’m not saying any of them feel that way. For all I know, you’re 100% perfectly correct about how they view you. But if one did feel that way, and made their case someplace public… what would the consequences be?
1. The medical bay’s scanner doesn’t kill you because it doesn’t have to. The burn scanner in your pod is reacting to the imminent destruction of the pod, and so has to work basically immediately. The medbay scanner… in addition to being a fair bit larger because it’s not trying to all be stuffed into the narrow hull of a pod… can take a few seconds, so it doesn’t have to damage the brain.
2. Remember, now that you’ve gone through the ‘got your implants’ death, your brain is a flash-grown lump of biomass. They just give it another hit of the chemical cocktail they use for the initial growth.
It would seem that you are having trouble with the new reality of transitioning into capsuleer life. No matter how important, respected, powerfull, etc. that you were/are before becomming a capsuleer, you have entered a different societal circle in wich all of that means nothing.
It is a harsh transition and going back to what you are in the non-capsuleer circles and expecting it to also apply to you as a capsuleer is foolish. You are doing yourself a disservice with you current behavior, replies and insults to the other nations, their population and capsuleers. Isolating yourself this early in your capsuleer career is not wise.
If any of my people were to express their concerns, I would approach it with understanding. Every opinion comes from somewhere, so I would try to understand the root of their feelings. I’m not some tyrant, people have had their complaints in the past and I’ve been there to listen to them.
I truly do value the citizens of Inahka, just as they value me. In fact, it pains me that some would suggest that I don’t. People are what make a place great, and I know that very well.
In a legal framework where insufficient bowing and scraping can have someone executed, of course it is.