Intergalactic Summit

Precisely.

There may be hope for you yet, Blake.

Have we capsuleers lost the art of masculinity and femininity? Spending time with baseliners and watching their everyday lives reminds me of some of the subtleties of masculinity and femininity, not just the outward extremes. As baseliners age, often their masculine and feminine qualities refine and inprove as the body become less important. Cloning has allowed us to shape our bodies and to maintain an out ward appearance of sometimes exaggerated female or male appearance. But what of the inner qualities?

For the masculine, what makes a man secure enough that the inner strength he possesses causes others to trust him?

For the feminine, what makes a woman secure enough that the inner beauty she possesses disarms others and allows the true power of influence to occur?

Many other such questions could be asked and my purpose is not to make false distinctions between the sexes. I only want to suggest that the false physicality of the capsuleer experience has perhaps atrophied the development of more stable qualities of manhood and womanhood. Maybe we need to spend more time with our ordinary human brothers and sisters.

This post is a follow-up to the earlier one regarding Janitors and their unique perspective and access.

“You are going to lose favor; ever thought of losing favor with purpose?” This question was posed to me by one of the Janitors I have hired to gather intelligence for me in my travels. We had been talking about my work for the SOE and the eventual loss of standing with Amarr and Amarrian interests.

“I’m not sure what you mean,” I replied. “What would you say if I told you that there are many citizens, not just slaves who want to leave the Empire?” He queried. “I’m not sure how to reply to that,” I said. He went on, “As a janitor, people are comfortable talking to me. I visit with people in the course of my work. People want to talk about their lives and their suffering, but there are few to trust. There are many people who are waiting for help to leave the Empire and begin life fresh elsewhere. Some of these you might expect, others you would not expect.” “I’m still not exactly tracking with you,” I said, “how exactly does this attach to my losing favor with purpose?” He continued, “With each successful mission with SOE, you lose a little standing and access to organizations such as the Theology Council, Carthum, etc. etc. You have all the time in the world to serve the Sisters, but you only have a limited time left to take advantage of your access to Amarrian agents. Why not choose how you lose standing? Your access to Amarrian agents means access to people who want help leaving the Empire. We can help you make those connections and help a lot of people. You will lose standing quickly as it is revealed what you are doing, but right now your access is slipping away unused.”

As he spoke, the light began to come on and I began to understand the direction he was heading. He told me of corporate employees, ordinary citizens, even Kameiras who wanted out of the Empire and into mostly Gallente space. He also told me of the intra-empire transportation of slaves and opportunities to pipeline slaves out of the Empire and back to the Republic via agent access. He also told me of the horrid conditions of the homeless on board stations everywhere, not just the Empire.

Although I am a man without a nation, I am not a man without purpose. I have found new direction and purpose through the ways of Arzad Hamri. Also, these “lowly” janitors have shown me a depth of understanding into the plight and suffering of all kinds of people. I still have some access to Amarr agents. With the guidance of my janitor friends, I have begun to find people who want to leave the Empire and begin life elsewhere. I’ll be telling some of their stories in the days to come. Until our people reject the way of slavery and embrace freedom and the sharing of the value of disparate cultures, our own citizens will seek to live elsewhere. As Arzad Hamri called Amarr leadership to embrace a different way, so the call continues today. It is heard in the voices of those who are fleeing oppression and searching for freedom.

In response to recent events and newly obtained knowledge, I have opened a Political Asylum Center in the Corporate HQ of the Arzad Hamri Fellowship in Yulai. This Center will be used as a first destination point for individuals and groups of people who wish to escape persecution, corruption, oppression or threat from wherever they may be experiencing it. Its location in Concord space separates it from any particular political interest. News of first arrivals will be posted here.

So now you're adding espionage to your list of crimes?

Cresthill,

You do understand that having it based in a CONCORD system does the exact opposite of removing them from a political situation and entity, right? CONCORD is a political entity.

The first arrivals have been welcomed to the Political Asylum Center in Yulai.

10 Gurista Militants (This group was destined for execution for defending an outpost housing their families. They were supposed to be delivered "for justice" by a capsuleer mercenary.)
4 Amarrian Scientists (Were jettisoned into space for refusing to continue development of further strains of vitoxin.)
1 Amarrian Diplomat (Requested asylum to avoid betraying agents no longer willing to support slavery within the Empire. The diplomat had been asked to arrange a trap for said agents where their location would be revealed to a capsuleer mercenary who would then kill them.)

Thanks again to the Janitors.

Edit: The janitors think of everything. They have also helped my find supplies such as food and clothing for the Center.

Some background review of the H.E.P. (Human Endurance Program) and the history of the Kameiras is in order. The upshot of this will be a claim that many will find difficult to accept or unwilling to accept but is a fact of the corruption of ideologies by simple corporate and individual greed.

The H.E.P. which by now is no longer an operational reality, was the program that eveloped the elite military group known as the Kameiras. The hallmark of these mostly Matari slave troops is that they were bred and trained specifically for strike force combat. Highly controlled by the Amarr military authority, these were the ultimate human combat machines, intelligent, adaptive and loyal to the death. Indoctrinated to believe that they were chosen forces to defend the Amarr faith to the death, they were designed to be in the most dangerous of all combat situations. More devout than even their regular Amarrian counterparts, the Kameiras knew that they were the most honorable of all warriors chosen for the most violent of all engagements.

It is important to note that these soldiers were bred to be controlled, but not as automatons. They were independent in thought and highly adaptable albeit loyal to their faith. These loyal soldiers were commanded by loyal and devoted commanders. They were never meant for anything but for the hardest and most violent of military combat duty and special force assignments and that they accepted proudly.

This raises a question. What happens when programs such as the H.E.P. decline, become decentralized and lose their unified purpose and control? What happens when the financial interests of empirical alliances dilute the once fine tuned chain of command and eventually reach the way that troops like the Kameiras are commanded and deployed? These are not simply machines; they are religiously loyal, devout and highly purposed soldiers. The Kameiras are bred to be fiercely loyal to their original indoctrination.

The Empire has changed. In particular, alliances with Caldari mega-corporate interests and even financial alliances with Gallente and Minmatar coprporate interests has changed the way Amarrian military forces are deployed and who is in charge of their deployment. This includes the Kameiras. What happens when you take someone who has been bred to die in battle for God and you assign them to trivial duty that has nothing to do with God or Empire or anything connected with their indoctrination?

I need not agree with the ideology of their indoctrination to admire the Kameiras as unique, proud and powerful individuals. One cannot help but feel a profound sadness when the deployment of these fine soldiers is placed within the authority of corporations to assist whatever other corporation pays the most or presents the most compelling interest. How do the Kameiras with the ashes of slain foes permanently marking the memorial wounds of their bodies react when assigned to pull guard duty on a corporate freighter? When their commander is not as loyal to God as he is loyal to the corporation? When they are sent for medical examinations in the stations of sworn enemies? All in the name of Money, not God?

The upshot: The Kameiras are defecting. They are leaving the Empire because their indoctrination is being violated by Amarrian, Caldari, Gallente, and Republic corporate interests. They are being hired out by the corporations in charge of their deployment to whoever will pay for them, irrespective of faith or loyalty.

The Homeless problem...

For the most part, the homeless are rather despised in this cluster. Often they are dumped from station to station, sometimes as a joke from agent to another. All in all they are treated more as bio-mass than human. The Janitors are very sensitive to this as they see the conditions in which the homeless live on the stations on which they find themselves.

I find myself the temporary caregiver of 1440 homeless people at the present time, with more being added. The Asylum Refuge isn't set up for long term care of the homeless. I am looking for people who are willing to take in and care for the homeless long term. Contact me if interested or if you know of others I may contact.

Yesterday a total of 2520 Kameiras were received into the Political Asylum Refuge from the following systems: Oremmulf, Mehatoor, Sharhelund, Thebeka, Ardishapur Prime, Irnin, Kador Prime, Sayartchen, Pashanai, and Pamah

The Janitors discovered these cadres assigned to work security aboard mostly Caldari mega-corporation freighters; the ultimate religious soldier, sold to the highest bidder as security guards. Not known to everyone is the fact that they are required to pass medical exams before serving in that capacity. These seasoned soldiers complete with their ashed scars from many battles fought in defense of and for the glory of their faith are now subject to security duty. The Kameiras are trained and indoctrinated for a very specific kind of combat and combat only. They are religiously motivated. Some have decided that they will not be sold to foreign corporations to pull security duty on commercial vessels.

Oremmulf...that should give pause. That system is in the republic. Three cadres of 70 each were discovered by the Janitors being prepared by the Imperial Armaments Station for freighter duty. What is alarming is that Imperial Armaments contracted the Republic Military School in a neighboring system to provide the medical examinations for these "new ship guards."

"They want to erase our scars before putting us on their ships," said one of the Kameiras.

One of the Janitors quipped recently, "Where ISK is involved, values, philosophy, ideals, even religion takes a back seat."

Since hiring the Janitors, I have found an extraordinary amount of corruption. It doesn't stop with the Kameiras. The corruption has reached the point where regular army units are also seeking asylum. I will soon be preparing to receive a significant number from many systems into the Refuge.