Intergalactic Summit

In recent weeks, the Tribal Liberation Force has swept through the systems claimed by the Amarr Empire, in Devoid and the Bleak Lands, driving out the Imperial forces.

At this time, all of the previously Amarr claimed systems are now occupied by Republic forces, allowing the Republic Fleet transports to evacuate any Minmatar people from the planets.

Only a handful of Minmatar systems are under nominal Imperial control, and these will be liberated shortly.

A source within the Tribal Liberation Force say their current efforts in the warzone relate to patrols to keep out any agents of the Amarr Certified News, who may be attempting to produce false footage claiming massacres of non-Minmatar people in the warzones.

Maleatu Shakor has not yet made any announcements regarding the TLF's historic victory, but is expected to comment once the remaining Minmatar systems are resecured.

"It's not about glory, it's about rescuing our kin from the Imperials", said one TLF member.
"We took away all our people, only the Ni-Kunni and Ealurian slaves are left on those hideous worlds, and who cares about them?" said another.

Some Republic politicians are agitating for the Fleet to mass for a strike on the Amarr throne worlds, to avenge the Elder Fleet's defeat at Sarum Prime, and to send a loud message to the Empress Jamyl.

Gutter Press will report on these events as needed.

Yeah well, Gutter Press appears to have "forgotten", that unless you got ground superiority too, you are not going to get many slaves moved anywhere.

O Minmatar Militia how great is the wrath you pile up for yourselves in God's holy storehouse.

For every Amarr Navy captain you destroy with your primitive, barbaric projectile weapons will testify against you at your Inquisition before God's holy throne; every "Loyalty Point" you gorge yourself upon will be repaid a hundred times over on the day of God's Judgement.

We in the Crusade will answer to God for our failures in prosecuting God's holiest charge — the Reclaiming — but how much more will you suffer for having committed the greatest of sins — the Un-Reclaiming?

So great is the wrath of God upon you, that only by defection to God's one and only instrument of salvation in this world — the Amarr Empire — might you have any chance at salvation. Better yet, sell yourselves into slavery, that after nine generations of the lash and the collar and the Vitoc may your decendants present themselves righteously before God.

Amen. Amarr Victor.

Do you know how much difference Amarrian rhetoric has made to the war effort against the Minmatar?

I'll give you a hint, you stupid little troll: it rhymes with "shmabsolutely shmucking shmothing you shmottom shlicker."

They who use foul language shall have their very words read back to them on the day of Judgement.

That would be a matter of Imperial Law, I believe Mr Blake. It's certain that they could enslave those who commit the sort of crimes for which people are habitually enslaved in the Empire. Legally and with the blessing of the Matari government, who signed the selfsame legislation that makes the emancipation of slaves in the sectors they occupy legal.

I don't think it's legal to just enslave people willy-nilly though, is it?

The Law may overturn Reason, but Reason may never overturn the Law.

The Empire is legally forbidden by CONCORD from enslaving citizens of other nations. It conveniently has no such provision forbidding the emancipation of slaves by non-Imperials, however.

Are there really Holders who hadn't removed their slaves from the warzone once our last invasion force departed for null-sec? I didn't know anyone still had assets out there.

Well, I suppose that is the risk they run if they are out there.

That was not the topic, Pieter and you know it.

The article puts forward that these people are being left there because they're not of the prescribed race, as opposed to any matter of consent. It is a concerning development, and I'd note that the Federation continues to offer support to all refugees and immigrant in equal measure, regardless of such concerns.

Not without precedent

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/entire-colony-of-minmatar-slaves-goes-missing-1/

You will see here, that Minmatar persons, raiding a slave training facility, only took away the Minmatar slaves, and left the Ealurian and Ni-Kunni slaves behind.

Indeed, the Ealurians and Ni-Kunni were, forced back into their cells, when the raiders saw they were not Minmatar.

Not just left behind, no. The raiders also took away all the weapons, with which those Ealurians and Ni-Kunni might have been able to fight for their freedom.

So, instead, the Ealurian and Ni-Kunni were, quite knowingly, abandoned to be slaves. No freedom for them.

If this is a "concerning development", it is most definitely not a recent one.

Remember, they say "we come for our people", not "we come for all the slaves".