Intergalactic Summit

'Heavy Handed'? This goes way past that, I haven't seen such huge bounties before, surely arrest warrants and search warrants would have made more sense. Any loss of life here will be on CONCORD's hands, it is they who are threatening violence and inciting others to the same.

I'm sorry but it's hard to justify working with a bunch of vindictive thugs when they condemn everyone for the bullheaded actions of a single idiot.

Indeed we are in no position to dictate terms to either DED or CONCORD assembly, but we have every right to defend ourselves from false accusations and overuse of any intergalactic body's authority.

Um ... we are talking about capsuleers and CONCORD, aren't we?

Considering the record on either side, and especially CONCORD's usual approach to punishing capsuleers ... wouldn't it be much more surprising if nobody died?

(I agree that it's maybe not a good idea to be defying CONCORD, but it's going to be pretty neat to see whether we can, and how far....)

Actually ...

If everyone concerned wanted to resolve the "bounty" issue with minimal loss of life....

Supposing all the bounty subjects, at a certain date and time, gather at a certain station (perhaps CONCORD HQ in Yulai?) in unmodified or minimally-modified clones, along with a volunteer corps of other outlaw capsuleers (whoever wanted to participate)?

At a certain time, all the targets, plus the random outlaw "chaff," undock and begin to make their way along a path of their own choosing through highsec towards a predetermined location. Any fast-locking capsuleers (prepared or otherwise) along the route get to take a crack at the passing swarm of capsules in hopes of catching one of the bounties. They'll be hard targets, but everyone has an issue with their navigation sooner or later.

A good time is had by all, bounties are cleared, justice, as envisioned by CONCORD, is done, and the resulting renegade capsuleer biomass can be returned to CONCORD HQ for either CONCORD's use as it sees fit or as protest material.

(Though might that last result in a Seeker feeding frenzy? Hm. ... that might make for a better protest, even, for those so inclined.)

I am going to do the only thing I can do. Implore both sides to see reason. But given CONCORDS rather brutish and ignorant flexing of power I very much doubt they are as willing to listen like my fellow capsuleers.

As I said, you're either wagering what they've said is a bluff, or ignoring the very real consequences it will have it they aren't. While I dearly hope for the former, I'm more inclined on belief of the latter.



It's not about working with them. CONCORD has made it clear they don't want to work with us, but rather simply comply with their demands.

That may be a hard pill to swallow, but I'd hope many of us would rather pay this fee with their pride rather than their crewmen.



While not wrong Ms. Jenneth, it doesn't justify further loss, especially over what is essentially already a corpse.



Be careful what you wish for....

Ms. Kernher,

I'm quite concerned with your blatant misrepresentation of both the Court Chamberlains words as well as SFRIM's actions in this matter.

The Court Chamberlain clearly criticized CONCORD for its heavy handed actions, which you frame one-sidedly as "solidarity with Concord in this matter". While there is some sympathy to see in the Court Chamberlains condemnation of the desecration of the remains of Dr. Tukoss, the Court Chamberlain has given a much more differentiated stance than the one you're ascribing.

If you'd have been in communication on these matters with your superiors, like Fleet Captain Shutaq, you'd know that SFRIM has so far tried to bring this situation to a solution by convincing Cpt. Raholan to comply with CONCORD.

SFRIM will continue to do so, and while we don't condone his actions in this matter - and already haven taken disciplinary measures, to the degree possible - we very much agree with the Court Chancelor in the cirtique of the Directive Enforcement Department and its heavy handed actions: If more resonable steps would have been taken, SFRIM would have had much more opportunity to bring this situation to resolution, than we have now. In the end, even though pilot Raholan is a member of our organisation, we can't force him to comply with these DED's demands and strategy of CONCORD in handling this severely limited our ability to convince Lucas Raholan to comply.

Therefore, SFRIM sees the escalation strategy by CONCORD and the DED in this matter with concern. Yet, we will keep on woring towards a resolution.

Our sympathies are especially with those capsuleers that have to suffer under sanctions without having any ability to comply with CONCORD's demands.

Regards,
- N. Mithra
Directix/CEO
[SFRIM]

Then you should've had no reason to misrepresent the actions taken by SFRIM: You should have known that we don't - at all - support any defiance to legal authority. Yet you did misrepresent our actions as such in your previous post.

Also, whether we will have to remove pilot Raholan or if we will be able to convince him to do the right thing is yet open: There is no need for you to speculate on this. Much less do you need to speculate on what actions SFRIM will take if this situation will find no reasonable solution: You can rest assured that SFRIM will do the right thing.

I have speculated on nothing. I have only said that if SFRIM does not convince him to hand over the biomass, or remove him, then there will be issues for the corporation. If SFRIM does convince him, or alternatively removes him, then there won't be issues.

I apologize if the 'if-then' statement in my posts was unclear.

I'm confident that I-RED's decision to detain Cpt. Scherezad is for the best of all involved parties. Thorugh it, they show that they are quite capable of level-headed decisions.