Intergalactic Summit

Any time! Bring your friends, you should be able to find me in the Seevadin or Homroon constellations, or most any place in lowsec Kingdom or Aridia.

You might want to upgrade your vessels though, I'm not sure if ships of your usual tonnage would fare well in our neighborhood. Lots of nasty folks about, things can be a bit rough on occasion.

I was aware that you are a sissy. But I wasn’t aware that you would even hide behind some stupid corp rules. And if you are certainly not going to exchange gun fire in form of an honourable duel with a member of an allied corporation, then why do you keep insulting this very member? I will fight for the Reclaiming until my last clone malfunctions, so who are you to ******* lecture me?

My sister will work out the details with you.

And if you so wish to exercise that right, feel free to do so. However, I do recall that in your faith, God and God alone passes final judgement, not man.



Ah, the classic "I'm just a soldier following orders". I can't tell you how many war crime trials I've covered where people thought that slaughtering the innocent is okay as long as you're wearing a uniform, and someone in a shinier uniform told you to do it.

Ms Mithra,

thank you for your explanations and comments.

1.) See 3.)
2.) The requirements to address Her Grace according to protocol and custom, are unrelated to her desires and wishes, or that of other parties.
3.) Although our lawyers point out that the juridical questions pertaining to the actual legal relationship between Kingdom and Empire are complex and remain largely unanswered, it is our legal opinion that since June 7th YC111 royal decrees are lodged at the Privy Council and the Imperial Chancellery, and are stored in their databases. The Privy Council holds authority over you, Ms Mithra, and His Majesty King Khanid II holds a seat under the name of “Lord Councillor Khanid of the Khanid Kingdom”. Royal decrees related to titles and holdings of the Kingdom are of full validity in the Empire.

As you have found yourself by consulting the Book of Records in Dam Torsad, Her Grace’s titles were granted by royal decree and have been in our family for generations uncountable. Your personal stance in this matter is as relevant as you were to opine that an elephant is not an elephant.

Yours sincerely,
Morijah d’Hanguest
CEO of Ishtirak d’Hanguest

Admiral Blake,

the Privy Council is an imperial, not a royal institution. Whoever holds a seat there possesses authority of varying degrees in the Empire, yet the Kingdom remains in independent entity regardless of His Majesty being recognised as a member of the Privy Council. Thus we were arguing solely on the basis of the imperial interpretation of law and its political framework. The opinion of the Kingdom is by no means touched, when discussing the aforementioned points.

Yours sincerely,
Morijah d’Hanguest
CEO of Ishtirak d’Hanguest

Every pilot deserves some rest, especially those who have been around for ten years. I'm not sure why Blake being out of pod makes his views any less meaningful. He's certainly done enough for the Empire over the years, I'd wager more than you have.

-Eran

A soldier is just a murderer with the government's blessing.

I seem to be on both sides of you, Fred. On the one hand, God's omnipotence is worked throughout the system. He doesn't usually reach in and rummage around in the cluster, He uses us as instruments of His will. Thus it is His will that we are having this conversation, for what purpose is left to us to discern.

On the other hand, I agree with the basic premise that you shouldn't judge someone completely by one past action. Truly, in a cluster full of heinous atrocities of blood sacrifice, genocide, and warfare, I don't think making a dirty movie rates very high on the outrage meter. I certainly don't think it necessarily means you can't make a rational judgement call about multiculturalism.

Obviously, I disagree with that judgement, but I don't think that the reason to find it questionable rests with her past film credits.

Of course, your faith believes that God gave humanity free will and it's ultimately up to us how we use this gift. Sure I suppose he can use us as tools and instruments in the same way us Gallenteans are so fond of AIs and Drones, but I it really doesn't make sense to me for God to rely on people to project his judgement. Then again, I don't believe in God and only know what I know about your faith through my own research as religious beliefs of all kind do fascinate me even if I don't follow them.

If I'm having dinner with a serial killer, I'm going to use a rational judgement to assume that he might just take the fork and shove it in my neck. On the other hand I'm not going to take this knowledge and identify him only by his crime. I've killed plenty of people, all of us capsuleers have, the only reason why this man went to jail and not me is because my killing was within the law, which doesn't make it any morally better in most cases.

I form my opinion of people the way they act and present themselves. This lady is a very nationalistic member of the Khanid royal family, not an adult holoreel star. She may have made such a film, but to judge her entire character based on something so trivial is ludicrous.



I explained it earlier, "selective faith" is when you only apply the principles of your religion when it's convenient for you. You are judging a woman's entire being and life based on one act, yet believe in an omnipotent God who he and he alone passes final judgement on our souls. But alas, you're going to overlook that little fact right now because it's doesn't fit your agenda.

An example not involving you would be a holder who believes that God is merciful and forgives those who ask for forgiveness, yet brutally beats his slaves when the make mistakes. Later, when arrested for some crime, lets say fraud, the holder begins pleading to the judge for forgiveness and to lessen his punishment because "that's what God would do" despite not adhering to this doctrine earlier.

What you're doing is similar to that of the holder. If you haven't been judged by others before, then you will in the future, it's an inevitable part of human life. And as a member of the faith, you'll probably be saying to yourself or even to them "I don't care what you people think, it's up to God to judge me!"

In the Federation, we believe that in a galaxy of people who drink the blood of orphans, slaughter entire communities for no apparent reason, and murder and butcher by the millions or billions, having a little fun on camera isn't so bad by comparison.

I am of nobility yet my father and I have rejected it simply because we believe that if we are living in a society that tries to pass itself off as equal, there shouldn't be any preferential treatment over which family you were born into. Nobility is something I find silly; all that power, wealth, and fame with nothing being done to deserve it other than being born. I'm suppose to be just some Gauron lord or whatever, so she probably does outrank me, I don't care. If I consider my own royal status stupid and irrelevant, then what more for another person?

Feel free to pick up my slack, I don't believe in God so it probably wouldn't hurt having someone to keep an eye on me. Whether or not I take your judgement into consideration or respect it is an entirely different story.

You on the other hand do believe in God, keep your judgmental nature in mind, for if your faith actually turns out to be correct, then God sure as hell will.

By the by, can you recommend a good brand of whiskey? I've only ever been a cognac man, but I'm going to an anniversary celebration and need to bring a good bottle. I've never been much of a whiskey man, but I'm hoping to turn things around.