IGS, D'K and GW

Damu'Khonde has announced they are coming home, specifically to Great Wildlands.

Supposedly they did not want Providence anyway.

IGS, Blood raiders and bullying

Some pilots from Blood Inquisition are speaking against bullying on the IGS.

Considering their corporation is aligned with Blood raiders, I am inclined to think this is likely a troll, a scam, or worse.

IGS, Entertainment abroad ship

On IGS, there was a question about possible entertainment for Minmatar passengers.

The thread did not start particularly well, but as the thread starter did not seem too happy about the trolling I decided to try to be helpful nevertheless:

How about dancing?

In addition to modest amount of space and sound system, you'll need music recordings and possibly instructional holos depending on whether your passengers share a dance tradition. Such can be easily bought in the Republic, and downloaded from well-stocked entertainment and ethnic stores in other civilized space.

If your ship has good facilities for physical exercise, different sports, games and martial arts are also pretty popular in the area of Matar I come from.

Terrorists and tradeoffs

From IGS: Press release about Du'uma Fiisi re-education program survivality rates.

Where is the line between terrorists and traitors? Does one measure success by results - lives gained and lives lost? By objectives? By intentions?

If Du'uma Fiisi had not done what they did, 650 000 less of our kin would be free.
If Du'uma Fiisi had not done what they did, 350 000 less of our kin would be dead.

Will those people who think it is better to die free than live a slave consider that a good exchange?

IGS, Strix disbanding

Post to IGS:

I was very sorry to hear of this. Strix was the first Federation loyalist corporation I heard of years ago of as a new pilot, and it is sad to see it gone.

Good luck to all former Strix pilots.

Strix was for years one of the foremost Federation loyalist corporations. They were strong and true. I will remember.

IGS, The Planetary Development Treaty

On IGS:

A change like this is likely to have several effects.

One of them is potential for more interdependence. Interdependence of planetary and space economies, but also of the capsuleer and non-capsuleer populations. Indirectly, such interdependence raises the stakes of a total war between the four nations.

Incidentally, the treaty also makes CONCORD more powerful, and more difficult to replace.

IGS, about religion

Post to IGS:

There is no single Matari religion. Clans have their own ways.

In my clan, we believe in the existence of gods, but we do not worship them or follow their commands. We honor our ancestors, with whom we share body and spirit. We understand virtues, honor and duty, and assert that there is a difference between right and wrong.

Not really in reply to Archbishop, more to educate others who may read it.

As if a religion should necessarily be about gods or afterlife, or that the existence of a god necessitates following her will.

IGS, about soul

Post to IGS:

My clan believes spirit or soul is our personal part of the spirit of our kin, stored in the unity of flesh and mind.

This unity is forever lost when one is emergency cloned or clone jumps. After that what remains is a copy with the belief it is the original.

The spiritual part of kinship cannot survive serialization to data. The physical part of the kinship is lost when one moves to borrowed flesh. And even if both persisted, separating one from another breaks the whole.

Does soullessness make somebody a monster? Not necessarily. Ethics and morals are also a concious choice. Being able to do evil does not make such deeds a necessity, just like being able to do good does not force one to goodness.

I have not been in the habit of posting to IGS before. I wonder if participating in such conversation was particularly smart.