Intergalactic Summit

Respectfully, I'm aware of the attention-getting aspect.

He's proselytizing.

Because we are bored and also want attention.

.... she said to the guy whose most-discussed ship on the IGS was an unarmed Probe.

Innuendo... fail.

Hush. You are making my Breacher jealous.

Ms. Ball-and-Chain will do bad things to me when she's jealous.

Wow yo.

Shut up.

Update:

Whatever daemonic entity Nauplius worships under the moniker of the "Red God", it apparently didn't hear the heretic's prayers today, because his Rifter was successfully terminated.

Some people expressed concern that this loss was pre-arranged by Nauplius as another form of human sacrifice. Well, if that was so, he miserably failed at that, too. The slave crew of his rifter survived and was rescued by me from the wreck after the fight.

God is merciful. Amarr Victor.

Congratulations.

Nauplius is a terrible pilot and you just prove to be slightly less terrible.

Today I visited the rescued slave crew member in our medical facility in Mehatoor in a rather futile attempt to question him. The medics said that he suffered moderate barotrauma during the ship destruction, but otherwise no serious injuries and already regained consciousness, so I hoped to have a talk, but...

The rescued is a male of biological age 26-28, probably of Sebiestor ancestry. He keeps referring of himself as "number 3418675" or "this slave" and is not cooperative. He tried to resist our Ni-Kunni medical personnel, calling them "servants of the Deceiver", so they had to ultimately restrain him. He also keeps complaining that the "Master" will ultimately find and punish him, and then he'll be damned to Hell.

Physical assessment discovered both Vitoc and a Transcranial Microcontroller chip present. There are numerous scars from the electric lash, both new and healed. The slave is malnourished, with obvious vitamin deficiencies, long-term lack of medical help and critical levels of stress evident. In this state, and considering that he's basically stark raving mad and that we'll have to remove the TCMC, he'll take weeks to a couple of months to fully recover.

This is disgusting. Mr. Nauplius, you obviously aren't a very practical man. Do you even realize that treating your ship crew like this poor soul does not improve the performance of your vessels in the slightest? Think, how many of your losses and other "accidents" might actually be the results of sabotage, or exhausted and sick crewmen failing to perform their tasks?

During our last encounter, there was a distinct pause between your Rifters' guns salvos at my Crucifier. At first, I thought that you simply changed your target to my drones that were doing most of the damage to you. Then, I came to the conclusion that you might have done this on purpose to sacrifice the Rifter and the slave in it to the Red God (failing to do so). But now, I'm not so sure.

Perhaps, your poor crewman's TCMC just malfunctioned, or he fainted on his post from another high-G turn, and it took you those precious seconds to regain control - enough that I ended in structure, but you, in a wreck?

As for the rescued slave, I'll consult the superiors about what to do with him next.

Ah, yes, indeed! You had Barrage loaded and tried to shoot drones with it!.. The drones received no damage at all, by the way.

Now I have the answer, thank you.