Intergalactic Summit

Also: in "Kyonoke Inquest Overshadowed by Defamation":

One of the individuals who is quoted, and has their actions described, is "Counter-intelligence operative Tarek Raimo". The author. This is disengenuous and cheap, as it attempts to distance Raimo-as-authort from Raimo-as-subject. Writers: don't do this. Editors: don't let them. Identify that that's you, and present that bit as direct observation. Own your perspective, or you'll find yourself accused of deception and fraud, and your credibility (and that of the entire site that publishes your work) tarnished.

It's likely not an intentional deception in this case. It almost never is. It's just a writer trying to 'be objective'.

Nobody is objective. Never. No reporter is objective. No editorializer is objective. Ever. It's not possible: you will always have your subjective viewpoint. Own it. Acknowledge it. Let your reader know 'this is what I saw directly, it is influenced by my experience' rather than 'this was events as recorded and/or reconstructed from multiple accounts. Even when you're giving quotes. Especially when you're giving quotes.

And why the hell are you quoting yourself? You're the writer. Just say it. Quoting yourself reads like you're trying to give yourself more of an air of authority than your reader would otherwise give you. Tell the reader you're an experienced COINTEL operative and go from there.

But again: this is something lots of writers do. They don't mean to be creating false impressions, they're just not necessarily experienced COINTEL operatives and experienced reporters. That's why there are editors. And if there aren't editors there (and it looks a lot like there aren't) then get some. Because you need it.

Do you have any idea how much time that woman needs to meet her shiptoasting quotas?

I beg to differ. By the end of the third day when it was clear that a vaccine had been produced, an Amarr clergyman still fervently called for the destruction of the outbreak site. I also heard several Amarr capsuleers express that they "didn't believe" in the vaccine because of strong Minmatar involvement and they also still supported destruction.

To begin with, I would say it was never a prerogative of the Amarr to call for the destruction of Myrskaa. It is not their territory and therefore not their call to make



You mean if Diana Kim were to start a Provist propaganda site?

Personally I would welcome that because by following those who support such a publication we would be able to pinpoint the remnants of Provist threat that plague us all.

I welcome and endorse any source of Intel.

The activities of Gallente loyalists in New Eden seem to consequently generate lucrative business opportunities for us.

Wow, Arrendis. Actually helpful criticism?

+1

Did you really just ignore everything I said after? Including immediately after?

The doomsayer was a very sick man even on Day 1. He wasn't even about on Day 2. By Day 3, he was ranting his luckless head off. Kyonoke affects the brain, or had you forgotten?

I still wish I'd remembered that we'd approved involuntary treatment; I did get him to the lab, but he wouldn't sit still to be cured.

The call for the destruction of affected areas was a joint proposal by both the Caldari and Amarr-- and Myrskaa is in Caldari territory. (The Amarr also had an infected zone within their territory, though that was in the SOCT station that, kind of impressively, actually managed to keep the pathogen quarantined.)

And I can't really speak to what you might have heard Amarrian capsuleers say, pilot. I was present as part of the SFRIM delegation, and we were working with ARC; CVA voted with us in the end, I believe; I'm not sure there was another Amarrian loyalist element present.

Behold the power of Pedantry.

So far, mostly, sir? That you don't actually know what my beliefs and/or loyalties are or why.

(It's understandable; I'm an outlier.)

What I'm not really getting is why you'd hold me (or anybody) responsible for the doomsayer, who was, quite directly, sick. There were rumors early on that the holy water at the shrine was tainted, and this did actually turn out to be the case. How long he'd been ill it was a little hard to say, but he was already raving a bit on Day 1. By Day 3 he was ... as you saw.

I won't say religion had nothing to do with that, but he wasn't sane at that point, either. Possibly he wasn't, before the Inquest, either, but ... that's a little hard to say.

But-- returning to your thoughts: I didn't exercise authority over someone I perceived myself to have no authority over ... and this is bad?

It's not like there was a chain of command; we were, as we normally are as capsuleers, independent operators. In that role, having no authority to stop him, I kind of did what I could. I tried to get his microphone; it didn't work. I conspired with a ally of the moment to steal his hat, hoping he'd be reluctant to continue without proper marks of authority; he continued preaching without it. I tried to get him to submit to treatment; he wouldn't have it. We even tried to file a noise complaint with SoCT security!

It was a little tempting to tie him up, gag him, and leave him in the back row of the meeting hall (maybe get him the cure while we were at it), but then we'd have been the security issue.

In the end, it's not like he had voting power himself or authority to command us. He was just a distraction. I knew he wasn't exactly representing the Empire well, but, we had bigger issues. Like making sure we finished the cure and caught the saboteur before he could undo whatever good we'd done.

Making sure, in other words, those Caldari citizens you seem for some reason to think I wanted dead, didn't have to wind up that way.

Seconded.