It seems right, Not comfortable with Corporate states Autonomists are less bad

I don't have any real ties to anyone. Criminals, Firewall, the LLA, the PC, the AA, I've helped them all. I'll patch up whoever needs it, and I'll keep my patient confidentiality seriously no matter who's asking. In my workshop, you are not your community. You are a person, and I will treat with with the respect and decency that commands.

I was welcomed into lethal perfection and you will be too.

****FLASH PRIORITY MESSAGE**** TO: Proxy Sigma-9-Alpha SUBJECT: Xeno Dragoness BODY: Location Trace for exsurgant known as Xeno Dragoness coming in from OORT sector 63. 4 Known habs in the Area. ****VIOLET PRIORITY MESSAGE**** FROM: Proxy Simga-9-Apha To: Erasure Squads, 22, 12, 3, 9 SUBJECT: Major Exsurgant Threat Priority Target Xeno Dragoness Potentially Located. Proceed to designated Habs and Eliminate threat. Extremely Dangerous, Extreme Measures Authorized.

I'm with Extropia largely for idealogical purposes. I believe in the limitless potential of transhumanity and think that is best manifested by unfettered individuality. I call the Anarchists, Scum, and the Commonwealth my allies, though the former mostwhile seem to despise me. No matter, I'm sure not all hold that feeling and it is their choice regardless. Having been born on Earth, saw the rise of the Jovian Junta, and lived briefly amongst the Anarchist; I have seen tyranny and oppression in many forms. The Extropians fit most what I define as freedom, and to it's ideology I pledged my sword. My crew, they we come from many backgrounds, can all agree on that.

Even though I don't consider myself one - it's just where I was... trained... I guess is the word I'm looking for. Spent many years before the Fall in space, piloting ships, taking research scientists from place to place out on the Rim looking for anomalies, (desperately hoping not to find them, especially after the first one I tripped over). Probably almost a Brinker, but, not. Ya know? I've got too many ... skills ... to be ignored by Firewall, or by anyone else that can afford to hire me. Spending so much time on Mars at present, I have permanent rust-stains in my skin - there's far too much work for a guy like me.

Honestly, I'm not really affiliated with anyone, specifically. I consider all forms of transhumanity to be at least somewhat Viable, even if I wished some sides toned things down. (outright criminal organizations may be the exception.) That being said, Biocons, and Argonauts are the Factions I support most whenever I can. (If you can even call Biocon *without* the Jovian Junta a faction. The Jovies are pretty nasty, if you ask me.) Contradictory? Maybe a little, but It all ties together. See, I think we have a responsibility to take our tech slowly and carefully, and a lot of transhuman practices... Make me uncomfortable. I perceive nanomachines and Resleeving to be necessary, but kind of scary thing to be so surrounded by, I mean.. The way those techs can be subverted is pretty horrific. That being said, we *should* forge forward and advance science, and I think The argonaut method is the best option, as they are impartial, intelligent, and generally responsible in what Ive seen.

I consider every faction to have it's pros and cons, but none strikes a cord with me. It seems to me that not one of them knows what must be done and those that do know are doing it the wrong way. Basically, I consider Transhumanity as it stand little more than a joke that'll be gobbled up alive the moment someone does something stupid - and it's only a matter of time until someone does. Considering that the most logical option is to represent one's own self-interest and work with everyone. That way when one fails, do what needs to be done - adapt and move on.

@Leng Plateau I'd rather not derail the thread with an unrelated discussion - I'm not the "chaotic element" type. If you want we can discuss it somewhere else. In another thread perhaps or via PM. If another thread on the topic exists already, I'd be very grateful if you could point me to it. I'm rather new to the forums. Although don't expect much from me as I'm only a flawed human being and I don't claim to hold all the answers. I'm flexible enough to say that I hold little true convictions. As for the quote - H.L. Mencken is entitled to his own opinion, but I find it lacking practicality.

I want to be surrounded by people who didn't commit suicide so their forks could go explore the universe (no offense) but I ain't one for being ground under the jackboot of the Republic (bless their hearts and their maliciously incompetent brains) or living in a state dependent on water imports from the Consortium. So Jove, Luna and Mars are out. So if I want to find my fellow survivors but don't want to live with 5 of them in a tin can, Titan's the place. For now at least. The goal of course is to raise enough rep (it's difficult seeing as everyone hates you for not liking Momo, let alone thinking they're all a bunch of computer programs who believe they're not forks) and kroner to but passage through Pandora to some habitable-enough planet and get a viable colony going. Then we can all alter our morphs back to roughly human (bar some necessary mods, but hey, the brain is what qualifies you as human to me), get a genetically viable population (we may need to... get some donated genetic info for the artificial wombs, if someone on Jove's willing to sneak it out) and point enough guns at the local gates to make sure that if anything tries to come through despite the warnings it'll get itself and everything within the next half-kilometer reduced to high-energy plasma. Then we'll finally be safe from some exsurgent-infected prick deciding that our neighbourhood is a good place to tour, presuming we can screen ourselves well enough that nobody infected makes in it in the first place.

I am with the Scum these days. Before I awoke, I was a program for an MMO. My purpose was to make humans happy, and help them have fun. The Scum help me continue that work... And flitting between Scum swarms lets me do my other hobby too.