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Feb 23, 2011 12:21

[Public | Audio]I once was told by a man that love was like magic. This is the closest that I've seen his assessment to be true, despite my arguments to him at the time. A science that I don't understand. An uncontrolled pursuit of perspective mates and forming of social bonds that would otherwise be unthinkable, but yet there was an obligation ( Read more... )

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strangehstorian February 24 2011, 02:15:20 UTC

Wardens have seen the Admiral, though. He's an extra-dimensional being, from what I perceived...

majorum_pride February 24 2011, 02:16:43 UTC

You can see an avatar, too. The ship itself is extra-dimensional, why should his avatar be so limited if that is the case?

strangehstorian February 24 2011, 02:33:11 UTC

You're proposing that the ship is a god, rather than the tool of one. Interesting. Why wouldn't it be the other way around?

majorum_pride February 24 2011, 02:45:49 UTC

[He almost argues with the concept of it being a god. But he leaves it at that.] I'm used to ships having their own personalities and representative figures. They can function independently in times of distress thanks to these figureheads. They are both the figurehead, and the ship. They can exist independently, but they are meant to function together. They are a way to communicate with the ship, a way for the ship to maintain itself, and a way for the ship to present itself to us in physical anthropomorphic form.

strangehstorian February 24 2011, 05:08:03 UTC

But it could just as easily be that the Admiral is a powerful being that manifested the ship. That's what I assumed, anyway. We might be getting into the-chicken-and-the-egg.

This is very interesting, though. How would an object be imbued with a personality? Do they have souls?

majorum_pride February 24 2011, 05:12:34 UTC

I believe that's what most people assume. Given my experiences, this is the explanation that seems to make the most sense to me.

They typically don't have true free will. [He assumes that's what she means by a soul.] They possess personalities, but they're dependent on a captain. They can develop free will, even if for the larger function of the vessel it's inadvisable.

strangehstorian February 24 2011, 05:22:55 UTC

[Souls are srs bsns on Azeroth.]

I have seen machines that can move and talk, mostly mechanically with a recorded voice, but it's never been applied to a whole ship. I would love to be able to see one one day - one of yours, rather than the Admiral, if he is an avatar. Where I'm from if something has true free will it is either born, not created, or is a leftover from the Titans that shaped the world.

majorum_pride February 24 2011, 05:48:08 UTC

I actually liked the personality of our ship. Warships are assertive. They command respect, and she was determined.

strangehstorian February 24 2011, 23:02:14 UTC

[Huge smile, because that's adorable.]

Different kinds of ships have different personal tendencies? Is that by design, or simply because of the jobs they find themselves assigned to?

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