Intergalactic Summit

And I thank you for being civil and for your your compliment, I suppose.

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It's really cute and edgy. Since Pyre seems to be quite fond of you lot, they should join in and get matching backgrounds too! It would br "desu kawaii" as Caldari youth seem to enjoy saying.

desu what now???

I don't know what "desu" is, but I feel that we need moar of it.....

wait a second

Your saying you are against pirates......


Yet your organization is suppose to be working with another organization affiliated with pirates.....

but is that also high treason to all 4 empires?


So......


That makes your organization Pirates and traitors......Orders or not, you are still working with the terrorists

Standing for my money answers precisely one question: "Do we shoot them?"

To which the answers are:

Red: yes
Orange: yes
Neutral: yes
Light blue: no.
Strong blue: no.

It's a system that's much too linear for more nuanced attitudes like "I respect you and recognise that we have common goals and allegiance but disagree with some of your political attitudes and am uneasy about some of your diplomatic arrangements."

Being neutral to ALXVP, Pyre Falcon were already shoot-on-sight if they entered Origin. Given that I doubt they ever will - after all, they have no reason to - that's not actually likely to result in either of us appearing on one another's killboards. It'd be a bit contrary of us to overturn our policy of neutrality when we ourselves only just reset our blue standings towards TS-F.

Show us where we have ever broken a deal, Stitcher.

Because you can't.

Because we haven't.

On the other hand, you managed to successfully turn Alexylva Paradox from a promising group that harboured differing but similar goals, and softer methods, into a group that is Just Another Group of Capsuleers.

So congratulations, you have managed to do reverse alchemy and turn dross gold into brilliant lead. Congratulations.

Tibs have i ever told you, that you are my 4th favorite person ever in New Eden? right under Tibus heth (because hes a badass to me) and Anslo, then Diana Kim....Because reasons

Oh, it does. In fact I already reminded them that it does. I distinctly recall mentioning the twin crimes against the laws of the State of selling people into slavery and of sentence without due process.

You could throw in all sorts. Aiding and abetting an enemy of the State, neglectful compromise of national security, unlawful business with a criminal faction... I bet a talented prosecutor could stretch the list out to be as long as my leg.

All of which is rendered slightly polemical by the capsuleer status of the involved parties. In practice, Empyreans are bound only by the laws they accept and submit to, and given that the empires know this it's rare for charges to be pressed. Although as I recall the last time that happened it turned out very interestingly.

The thing is, I believe in mistakes and in redemption. Honest failure to think things through happens to the best of us. Couple that with the frequent futility of legal process against an Empyrean, and... well.

There are only two ways this can go, really - I either say my bit, clarify and justify it where necessary, and hope that they agree and reconsider, or else I can devote my own resources and time to destroying their ships and assets in an attempt to bankrupt them by way of unofficial justice: an objective I highly doubt I could succeed at, even if I were inclined to make the attempt.



Hmm, and it seems that you're a touch upset about that. Was the gold I reverse-alchemized your golden opportunity or something?

I expressed an opinion to the board, we discussed it at length over some months, my reasoning was ultimately accepted after long deliberation, and we reset standings. The objectives of the Renaissance colony, Origin and everything that ALXVP are trying to accomplish there are completely unchanged. Independent transhumanism is still alive and well in that regard.

It's just that now, a corporation who vocally affiliate with a would-be nation that invades, abducts and enslaves vulnerable colonists is on the "get off our lawn" list. Deal-breakers or not, that one looks like a net gain in security to me. You are, after all, not actually empowered to make guarantees and write contracts for Nation, even if Nation itself could be trusted to honour them, which it can't.

Don't get too fixated on challenging me about whether or not you have ever broken a deal. Even if that were the case (laying aside for a second the question of whether you haven't, or whether you were just too smart to be caught) then that's just a cut at the periphery of my observations: the vital core remains unharmed, the central point is unrefuted.

Let me remind you of that core: Your ultimate goal is to advance Nation. You don't necessarily NEED to break a deal in order to accomplish that if honouring that deal yields a sufficient profit. Whether or not you are obedient to the terms of the agreement, you aren't returning those prisoners out of the goodness of your twisted little clockwork hearts. You're getting something out of that prisoner transfer, there's an angle you're working, some gain that pays for the time and resources spent making the exchange, and which is obtuse enough to not arouse suspicion.

If you're going to prove me wrong on THAT one, then you need to do a lot better than trying to obfuscate it by challenging me on the unimportant outlying details. If I've been unfair with regards to your history of honouring (or not) your deals, then I apologise... But I've not been unfair in calling you liars.

On-topic post: I am Intaki, and I fly Federation-designed ships (with a particular attachment to the Algos-class destroyer).