Intergalactic Summit

We will loose, the Empire will burn and you will stand around laughing joyfully.

Am I on your train of thought yet?
Because if I am you're a complete idiot.

No the Empire hasn't called for help, WE ARE. The Capsuleers loyal to the Empire are calling for help.
WE need help, the Empire all ready calls for us to aid, all you have to do to see that is fly to an Incursion site and read the global broadcast.

As a loyal pilot of the Kingdom, we need all the Capsuleer help we can.
I am not so short sighted and blind to ignore what is blatantly obvious to any with half a working brain.

Respectfully, Ms. Rella, in your irritation you've left out a lot of what I said.

What i said was:

Then the line that seems to have irritated you.


That's true. No hard evidence I know of.

There's circumstantial evidence gradually piling up, though: Sleeper devices, ships apparently related to the Machariel in their design. From the description Arek'Jaalan put together, a Drifter ship seems like a fusion of principles from both known space and Anoikis. Kind of like our "T3" vessels, maybe.

Maybe the Jove really are doing this. They have some reason not to care for the Amarr, and there was that bit with the SoCT.

But that leaves a lot of mysteries dangling. Why would the Jove reveal their own highly-effective surveillance network and then break it down for parts?

Maybe this is something from outside our experience. Maybe it's something truly new. That leaves even more mysteries, though.

Or ... maybe it's someone we've already met, someone with abundant reason to act against New Eden who already had access to a lot of the technology we're seeing. That would explain a lot of things.

Having accessed the observatories, they likely know an awful lot about us. Like: who's likely to be diplomatically isolated, and who has too much pride to call for help. Who they can pick, essentially, a one-on-one fight with by issuing the deadliest possible insult.

Perhaps I really am being condescending. All right; I guess that's maybe true. If so, I'm sorry. I'm sort of caught up in thinking about this. It's hard to be diplomatic when people are saying things like "let them burn." I don't entirely like the Empire, but I do have friends there.

That's not what's really bothering me, though.

If I'm right, you're being played. So are the Amarr, who haven't called for help even from the Caldari.

We all are.

If I'm scaring people, Ms. Rella, it's because ... I'm scared.

Laughing joyfully?

Not hardly. I don't have that much sympathy for the Empire nor its loyalists, but neutrality would be my stance.

Don't expect much help from the Minmatar, though.

I'm not.

You've more than proven, along with most of the Matari, that you wish nothing more than to see the Empire and by extension the Kingdom burn.

I would like you to remember this. Because I certainly will

You cling to old wounds and hate like it nothing I have ever seen. It will be the reason you burn

I agree with your assessment. The Caldari State must tread carefully and not muddy the waters or be dragged into a war that is not theirs to fight. However should the Drifters escalate beyond the Amarr Empire or begin to assault civilian facilities this would change things significantly. In this situation a fully unified response as per the Sansha Incursions would be called for.

We will defend our own homes. And when we are done, we will come for all of those who have chosen here to show how far their commitment to interstellar cooperation really goes.

CONCORD has been a failure.

Pride is rarely set aside in the name of peace. It is up to our corporations to reach out to one another and make cooperation a reality we cannot wait for the baseliner populations to do so since it isn't in human nature to do so. We could however, be the leadership the baselineers need if they see our groups set aside old grudges for a common threat.

The waters are, unfortunately, already muddied. Why have the Drifters escalated? Why do they target the Empire specifically? What are their grievances and motivations? Why attack the Empress in so personal a manner?

Currently I'd say it seems pretty clear cut that this is an issue the Drifters have with the Amarr. I would prefer the Amarr governing bodies to give any information they can as to what the cause may be.

As you say the attack on Empress Jamyl I seemed to be very personal indeed. If this is an issue between the Drifters and Amarr then the other Empires have no right or reason to be involved. Indeed their involvement very possibly could escalate a war involving a single Empire into a cluster wide conflict

The other Empires should of course make ready in case the Drifters do have designs on other regions. If this proves to be the case then immediate assistance should be given to the Amarr Empire and a concerted unified response directed against the Drifters.

Fine. Then burn at the hands of the Drifters, arrogant slaver mouthpiece. The same goes for the rest of you belligerent asses making veiled threats against the rest of us.

News flash; we Matari don't like you. Read a (non-imperial) history book to find out why. Why should we? Most of us however really don't give a tinker's damn what happens to you. That notwithstanding, we do care for our enslaved brothers and sisters and our Federation allies. Should there be convincing evidence that these beings constitute a clear and present danger to the Republic, Federation and/or State then, and only then, will we intervene.

Even then our intervention will be out of enlightened self-interest and not because we care whether you imperials live or die.