<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=163921.msg7741564#msg7741564">Quote from: CarnivalOfTheGoat on 18-02-2013, 03:22:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Because just like in the real world, religiously-isolated communities that make a point of loudly being "isolated" often employ smugglers to get things from and to places they don't want to have open contact with. That was the case here, they maintained themselves by being an out-of-the-way smuggling hub. A very central smuggling hub which was in the Belt (not your assumed "asscrack of the solar system"), so not as isolated as all that. You seem to make an awful lot of assumptions. And you've gone from 'was this really heroic' to 'was this really necessary' in an attempt to divert attention from them. You've shifted the discussion from 'what is heroism' to 'your story sounds silly and foolish, I doubt its verity'.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Any and all assumptions made on the part of this individual are made in the absence of information telling me otherwise.  That is all.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=163921.msg7741564#msg7741564">Quote from: CarnivalOfTheGoat on 18-02-2013, 03:22:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As a side note, quite a few of the exsurgent viruses affect the way infectees think. Allowing such to spread in an "isolated" community is likely to cause that "isolated" community to suddenly try to communicate it to as many people as possible, because the virus makes them do so. They aren't the common cold and they aren't zombie plagues. Exsurgent viruses can mutate people into all manner of different things, modify their mental processes, and even cause groups of them to work together on projects to further spread the virus. That's RAW.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yes.  I know.<em>Glory</em>.<br/><br/><br/>And lastly, better for both of us to walk away, thinking we've made our point and/or won the argument than force someone to come in and apply ye old banhammer.<br/><br/><br/><br/>EDIT: Can someone tell me if my link is good?  Is the silence just because everyone is busy, or...what, exactly?