With
everything that's
happening ICly, I thought it would be prudent to explain things a bit OOC, so everyone knows where I stand on things.
First off, background. Basically, when I first developed Nikita as a character, she was violent, short sighted, temperamental, slightly crazy, and overall, just very listless. She had no direction, and just sort of floated around doing what others told her.
As I played the character more and more, this gradually faded away, she started caring what people thought of her, she started caring about what she was doing to people, and through her interactions with the matari in particular, she realized how much of a monster she was, and had been for a long time. She'd lost sight of why she was fighting, who she was fighting for. She hurt people, she killed, and tortured, but she didn't know why. She was a soldier without a cause. She'd lost touch with why she was fighting in the first place, and through some interesting RP
(♥Ava♥) She came to realize this. She saw what she was doing to people, pointlessly, and decided that if she wanted to continue doing it, she needed to understand what it did to people, what it felt like.
(bit shaky logic here, but it made sense to do it the way it came out of the RP
) So, Nikita backs up her DNA, hands it off to a number of people she can trust, and injects herself with Vitoxin. During the initial phase of the infection during which the vitoc barely kept her alive and didn't actually make her not sick,
(this is not exactly PF, but it was how we did it because it was how we heard about it, and there are probably enough strains of vitoxin we could safely claim whatever we wanted
)Nikita spent the last week in vitoxin induced delerium,
(which you can read all about in my
blog) during which time she talked to 'spirits' and went on what was essentially a vision quest. She drew all over the walls and cut marks into her skin and all sorts of fun stuff.
She came out of that with a number of realisations:
- That her loyalty was to the Angels, the people of Curse and the other nullsec regions the Cartel controlled, not to the Cartel itself.
- That the cartel as an organisation was not one she wanted to support at all or be a part of.
- That Slavery as an institution was bad and wrong.
- That she had a tribe, that tribe being all those outcast from Matari society.
- That she was going to have a daughter in the next two year. (wooo strange spirit premonitions wooo)
This has led to Nikita deciding/finding/understanding her 'path' as it were.
Which is to unite all of the various outcast peoples of New Eden, and reform the cartel into an "Angel Nation," a proper empire worthy of consideration by the Big4. A shinier, brighter world for her people. And she's willing to be a horrible, cruel, vicious, person, to do that. Utopia Justifies the Means sort of logic.
So, what does this mean for Risen Angels stance on things:
- We're still pirates. And will continue to be pirates. We will just be pirates with morals of sorts.
- We're loyal to ourselves, and anyone wanting to help our cause.
- We're still NBSI for now, although NRDS changes have been discussed for the future.
- We're still willing to accept merc work, although keep in mind, pirates often make terrible mercenaries.
- We're still angels, we're just not members of the Cartel.
- We're still allies with our allies (though how long this remains depends on their willingness to put up with our shenanigans.)
So what does the future entail? All sorts of things! Shady deals with the devil, backroom bargaining with questionable allies, daring raids into hostile space, rescuing outcasts from Arzad, trying to build a power base to challenge the Cartel for control of Angel Space...oh, the future looks fun. Its so interesting to have goals and directions for my character, especially ones that are effectively unreachable, since that basically just means I will always have something to do with the character.
I will now take your questions.
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Topic: The tides of change (Read 9145 times)