Intergalactic Summit

A law-abiding subject? I see.



It's been a rewarding night.

I made you a firm promise, and it is being kept. Many slaves were "reclaimed" (ho ho!) and snooked past customs to a new life. The Republic Fleet looked on, as bored as you like, as usual. Your gunners were asleep, so extra credit to them. Exactly 52 (fifty-two) surviving Amarr traffickers heard your name as the last thing they'll ever hear in this life-time. To honour you further, any remaining mechanical flotsam was also labelled in your name.

The only down-side is that Joint Harvesting are considered a 'wet' Corp by your kind. It spoils the triumph, a little.

Holo-vid on its way to you. Sneak preview one and two.

As I expected, there is the misconception here that a manumitted slave is released to someone. An ex-slave is free to make his home wherever he sees fit. The Empress didn't 'release' slaves to the Republic - she liberated slaves and some of those ex-slaves made the decision to to make the Republic their home. That the Republic wasn't and isn't able to deal with those immigrants isn't the responsibility of her Majesty.

All that aside, whether one can claim to be able to care for liberated slaves or not, it is against the act of liberation which manumission is to 'request' a 'release to someone' from the one holding the slave until that very act. It's showing ignorance of and disregard for the liberty of the manumitted and their right to decide on their own accord where they want to live.

The sudden arrival of millions of homeless, hungry mouths would test any society's mettle. I find it difficult to believe that Sarum could not have known that. The Republic were set up. Sarum and her dirty tricks department got a good laugh out of it. If the basics Ms Luftschreck demanded had been in surplus in the Republic, or provided by the Empire at the time, then Sarum's gesture might have had greater, and more lasting meaning. If there had been any sincerity in the act then I'm sure it would have been more successful.

She's not only telling you that she is pursuing the freedom of all slaves, but that they have to be 'released' to herself or 'the Minmatar people'. One has to keep in mind that of the slaves freed by the edict of the Empress, only a tiny fraction chose to migrate to the Republic. The majority stayed within the Empire and - not surprisingly - they don't have to deal with the same existential problems as the ones that went to the Republic.

Also, given how big even the Republic is, one can hardly say that 'the sudden arrival of millions of homeless, hungry mouths would test any society's mettle'. It's like saying a few hundreds of people that suddenly arrive at a metropolis couldn't possibly be cared for.

The main issue is not so much that they can be provided shelter by the Republic or not, but more a matter of principles and power with a contradictory context to what was unofficially expected.

In the case where the slaves are liberated by the Minmatar forces, there is a debt hierarchy involved. The liberators keep a moral power over the freed slaves.

In the current case where the slaves are released by the opposing enemy, and for those that come willingly back to the Republic, the hierarchy goes in the other way : the local power have no ascendancy over the released slaves.

This might be why Minmatar loyalists are still complaining. Added to the fact that they have a political agenda to pursue besides, of course.

What do you want? A poem? A eulogy to the ***** Sarum and Ardishapur X Y or Z or any of the other monkeys who went before her? Maybe one in advance to her own successor, who may not be such a wonderful species of despot.

At any rate, briefly scanning through the replies here, seems everyone's missed Luna's whole point, as expected. Clue is in a very small word indeed.

PS Talk? That's another 50 Mary slave-traffickers added to the to-do list. Lovely They'll thank you in "heaven" perhaps, chappie.

Amarrians or who ever wish to enlighten me !

alot of things are hard for me to understand, even if i try hard to look to the core of things, but at moments like this eyeing ower the logs of transpired comunication, i simply cant understand, or grasp the reason ? ... A earlier Amarr speaker mentioned that minmatar wouldent be released until they were educated, something in the lines of their not ready, you are all fueled by your belief that you and only the Amarian way is the right way and anything else is hearacy and should be converted into the fold, now this said, does not the Amarrians themself comit heracy by being allied with the Caldari, to my understanding they are ewen more, or ewen further away from the spiritual beliefs of the Amarrians, then the Minmatar tribes, or is there a dubble standard here or does your faith only serve when the enemy is weaker, things just dont logically add up here, please do enlighten me !

So long as the Empire insists on the backward and inefficient anachronism that is Slavery they'll never get an opportunity to wipe out the State. Have you seen the way they do business? Our CEOs would be Heirs within a decade!

It is not about "stimulating the economy", it is about bringing civilization, technology, and a shared culture to worlds populated by dirt-scratching, poor people. We were enslaved, and it is one of the best things to ever happen to us. We have emerged as free people, citizens of the largest and greatest empire in the universe, unified where once there were just isolated bands of people scratching at the dirt for water. An Amarrian slave is less productive than a Caldari wageslave, but the Caldari don't need to invest in the future of their workers learning to becoming Caldari for the first time. Sayings like "The nail that stands up will be hammered down" don't make sense when you have taken on the responsibility for whole worlds of people who haven't even been metaphorically refined into the metal you would make "nails" out of yet.