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I'm looking for contacts within the Empire and the Kingdom, specifically anyone who understands the legal position regarding freeing slaves and anyone with contacts within the Theology Council, Ministry of Internal Order and the Civic Court.

Some of you may have seen me in the Summit but most of you won't have. I live a fairly low-profile life, I'm an independent pilot, I'm not part of one of the newsworthy corporations and my private life has largely stayed private. I try not to foster grudges.

Recently the above mentioned organisations have been mounting a low-visibility campaign to punish me for certain viewpoints that I have expressed regarding the state of the institution of Slavery within the Empire. I'm not a radical Abolitionist, but more and more frequently I have found myself publicly expressing the opinion that Holders who do not meet the religious obligations of their status should no longer be allowed to keep Slaves and that any Slaves who are being kept for solely economic or prestige purposes should immediately be freed at the Holders expense to the slave's choice of either the Federation or the Republic.

Finding myself unable to justify the traditional practice of including slaves amongst the crew of my ships, I was also morally unable to sell them to a slave broker, for fear that they should end up in thrall to an abusive Holder of the type I described above. Like most of you, I am more than wealthy enough to maintain a few thousand slaves in comfort, but as a non-Holder I am legally unable to own Slaves that are not crewing my ships. The only solution I could find was to ship my Slaves to the nearest Federation system, where they were seized by the authorities and freed.

My background is in trading, my parents are still legally subordinate to their Liege Lord, a Holder who runs trading concerns based on Afnakat VI and who manages a meaningful piece of the trade that flows between the Kingdom and the Empire. This man is an arch-traditionalist and has taken my statements on the abuse of Holder status very personally. He has managed to convince the authorities that my actions constitute illegal freeing of slaves and that I have acted in a way that brings the Empire into disrepute.

My every interaction with Amarrian bureaucracy is now a living hell. I cannot gain the necessary permissions to even leave the Capsuleer portion of orbitals around Empire worlds, let alone gain access to the planets below! Any permit or piece of paperwork that I need is routinely denied, lost or referred to committee. I have been placed onto some sort of a watchlist for illegal slave traders and my ships are searched with monotonous regularity at gates.

Until this blows over I have been forced to relocate to Gallente space, I'm an effective exile in my home Empire! Any advice on how to handle or resolve this situation would be gratefully recieved!

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This statement will get you about as far in the Kingdom as trying to mandate forced religious education and indentured servitude would in the Federation.

To put it simpler; take your nonsense ideas with you on the way out, and don't let the door hit you in the rear.

While you are completely right about Ms. Mai's status, Edaine, her relatives may still be considered baseliners - even if they have a capsuleer in their midst. Therefore, they're still bound by the Empire rules, and i understand her concerns about the possible adverse consequences.

Ms. Mai, my original home world adopted some practices that may benefit your slaves. Feel free to check our commented history (it may point out to some interesting facts about our local culture) and let me know if i can be of any help.

Mrs. Mai,

I am interested in hearing what you believe our "God Given obligations" are to our slaves?

I understand perfectly what you mean. My personal advice would be to remain under the aegis of CONCORD law and let partisan institutions be as petty as they please, but that's obviously not what you want.

You're asking for legal advice here, but if this Holder is working within the framework of the system against you - and I suspect he is - then there's not really any legal action you can take against him. Even if his efforts to sabotage your life do infringe on the law in some minor way, I suspect finding proof that will hold up in court will be difficult - especially since he obviously has influence within the very institutions that would examine that evidence.

This may sound crude, but I expect your best option in this situation would be to send the Holder in question a well-written apology, coupled with a suitably extravagant (but by capsuleer standards, affordable) gift. That approach seems to go a long way towards amending "soft power" problems.

I'm almost certain that the Federation has found a way to weaponize smugness.

The speed of their ship correlates to their own sense of self satisfaction.

While I do not normally keep tabs on all of these side conversations, this one caught my eye....its not overly common that I should see myself referred to in the greater galactic political debates...but I digress.

What Ms d'Hanguest says is quite true, I am always looking to take on additional...personnel...to help us with our various projects. In return they receive the best spiritual education through a process of soul cleansing labor and religious education. I am pleased to say that many of my current personnel very rarely require corporal or other forms of discipline from my Master of Slaves, as they have seen that the end - their reclamation into the Faith - more than justifies the means we employ.

It is our sacred duty as Holders to ensure that those entrusted to us by the Almighty are educated in the Faith and given every opportunity to better themselves, soul, body and mind.

These days many Holders, reveling in their new found capsuleer immortality have become more sadistic, some even forgetting the ultimate purpose behind our Holding slaves at all. It is not for our benefit, but for theirs. Rarely does the sheep understand the methods of the Sheppard, so to do so few Minimatar realize the importance of our work as Holders.


Once more, I have digressed. I am always willing to take on additional personnel, whatever condition they may be in.

Really? That's pretty naive.

You're assuming these slaves would actually prefer the Republic to where they are right now when Ms. Mai hasn't even said anything about their ethnicity. For all we know they are of Ealur origin, or Ni-kunni or Khanid, or even a disgraced Amarrian family and their place as a slave is rightly so.

Besides that I think you are over estimating the possibility of a faithful Matari slave, likely multiple generations descended, to be painlessly integrated into a culture that will definitely not take too kindly to their beliefs. Think on this for a while. It's just more trouble for everyone than it's even worth.

To the topic at hand, I urge Ms. Mai to do the right thing and place these people in the hands of a proper holder.