Intergalactic Summit

The only people so far, besides myself, speaking about poor treatment of religious minorities have thus far been Amarrian.

I wonder; if i were to move to the Empire, and practice my religion openly, would as many Amarr rise in their windy wrath to prevent *my* persecution?

Sorry, but it needed saying.

Pot, ring ring, it's the kettle.

I apologize, captain Starfire. I should have let it go by.



That would depend on the amarrian. The AVCL, for example, asks for no conversion to join their ranks, while the PAUX does. I'm just using those examples because I know them better, but same could be said about different organizations and persons.

I, for one, wouldn't care who you worship, as long as you don't harm the Empire. While others would mind. The Empire is big, both in amount of space controlled and internal diversity. And, being a pod pilot, no one can force you to change your ideology, or force you into slavery in any case.

I think that she meant for baseliners.

But I doubt that both cases are comparable since the Republic preaches freedom of faith, where the Empire preaches only one religion.

But maybe some in the Republic also want it to be secular, minus the Amarrian faith.

A noble sentiment.

Hailing from Nexus I am acquainted with many of your kin that yearn to live in the Republic.

You're close... but it's not a thirst for revenge. It's just a thirst for blood in general.

The first slaves were taken over seven centuries ago. No matari living in the Republic bears any relationship still living in the Empire or Mandate unless they can trace back their lineage over fifteen generations and claim that one ancestor was somehow enslaved and yet somehow the other was not. Anyone who says they can do that is lying.

So revenge? Revenge for what? People they've never met and who they have nothing in common with except some vague concept of a "bloodline" that apparently means more than a person's culture, upbringing, religion, or anything else that has shaped them & their families for over seven centuries.

In fact, these "bloodlines" matter more than a person's own desires or loyalties, because if you happen to have a drop of matari blood in you then as far as the Republic is concerned you're their property and they have the right to come to whatever planet you happen to be living on, kidnap you, and drag you back to the Republic and be made to serve their government.

In the end it's just trading one master for another.

But the important thing isn't freedom, it's resources. Human resources. Removing labor from the Empire's pool and adding it to the Republic's so they can have more soldiers, more workers, more labor for the effort of their eternal war against all things not-tribal and all people non-matari.

Revenge, freedom and liberation are just meaningless buzzwords to hide the truth: Bloodlust. A common enemy is the only thing that can unite the tribes and keep them from reverting back to fighting each other as they did in ages past.

Revenge, freedom and liberation are the excuses. War itself is the reason.

No, you're the one mistaken, captain Anansi. Your nation didn't exist until recently. We weren't raiding "other nations" when taking Minmatarr slaves, we were managing our own population.

You do realize that the taking of slaves has been recanted by both the Empire and forbidden by CONCORD right? The only way new slaves come about is if their born. When you destroy a transport your destroying a commerce vessel.

Your killing the pilot, the technicians, the janitors, the cooks, the general crew who had nothing to do with slavery and never could own slaves, not a slaver. These are just people simply trying to make a living on the space lanes. As long as you continue a crusade of violence slavery will never end.

Whether or not we're related to those taken by your Amarrian masters is of no consequence. All Matari have been irreversibly harmed by the thousand year occupation of our worlds and the systematic dismantling of our culture and ethnic identity. Our growth as a civilization and as a people was stopped for over a millennium as the Amarr attempted to remake us in their image in order to serve them and add to their labor pool.

As for your assertion that it's somehow Republic policy to force people to live here or to forcibly remove people from the Empire or its vassal state, your home, that's a damned lie. Show me any proof of this being official Matari state policy. You can't because it's not. Individual citizens or entities acting on their own initiatives do not make for official policy any more than the independent slave raiders, acting outside Imperial law, represent official Imperial policy.

I don't know what it would take to cleanse your mind of the bias and hatred you have pilot but please, for the sake of your mental well being, seek help. Your ceaseless ranting and perverse fascination with the Republic is unhealthy. We get that you had a hard early life at the hands of certain individuals but, that's no reason to blame everyone in the Republic. Your hatred is consuming you and has blinded you.

If you spent half as much time working to better the lives of those living in the Mandate as you do on the IGS slinging mud at the Republic who knows how much better things could be there.

I'm pretty sure we can all see quite clearly who's displayed the most racist, violent, and out of touch with reality point of view thus far in this thread.

Hint.

FInd the closest mirror.

PS. Anytime you feel like discussing your opinion of myself and my people face to face, you need but ask.

First and foremost, I was pointing out that when you buy a thousand slaves it doesn't imminently get replaced by a thousand more just like that. Those slaves have to be conceived, born and then brought to maturity before the ones bought can be 'replaced'. This is a process that takes years and an investment of time and money. What your doing is justifying piracy and death instead of using your brain to save lives.



Not at all Matari, I'm clarifying what your doing, there is no need to put words in your mouth.



Which is what? Fighting one wrong with another?



This is not at all the only thing you can do, its the thing you chose to do. Next time you think about calling someone 'morally confused' you might wait until you know a bit of their background aye?

Now there are other options, and destroying slave ships doesn't harm the slave industry. It never has, it never will. Reform from within is the only thing that will change things, and it certainly doesn't help that you make your people look like brutes.