Intergalactic Summit

When a holder is obliged to entrust a slave with certain responsibilities, I still contend that a mere Vitoc addiction is probably more humane than a neat little scar behind the ear caused by the surgical removal of a person's sense of self and free will. Granted I'm sure the Amarr have more evasive tools at their disposal, but I believe my initial point was that the matari should be grateful when those are not used.

Ironically, you'll encounter a similar sort of thinking in Matari society. We're nowhere near as stratified or rigid as the Empire, but we aren't as fluid as the Federation either.

Clans and sub-clans often work in similar professions. My clan has an inordinate number of bankers and financial types. Others are soldiers or scientists. I've even heard of a sub-clan where everyone is a stone-mason, and another that's composed entirely of surgeons.

The right Voluval can open doors; make people respect or fear you. The wrong one will earn you a glossectomy, or a one-way ticket to Vo'shun. Being born into a certain family won't doom you to a life of manual labor, or confer immutable privileges, but it does impact one's lot in life. Tradition and family are important. A Minmatar born into a family of soldiers is likely to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors. You will certainly find Brutor engineers and travelling Sebiestor mystics, but they are the exception, rather than the rule.

From a business perspective, the tribal nature of our society makes it very difficult for foreign baseliners to rise to great heights without some kind of sponsorship or other link (e.g., marriage). As a capsuleer you'll be able to build a command center and a few factories wherever you go, but give up any dreams of acquiring a controlling stake a in Republic corporation, running for office, or climbing to a position of power within the non-militia military hierarchy. If you're looking for social acceptance, well, you're never going to be "one of us." This has already been discussed by some previous posters, so I'm not going to elaborate further.

The easiest thing for you to do would be to stay station-side, in the hermetically sealed capsuleer sections. However, based on your post, it looks like you want to know about living planet-side. I'd strongly advise against this, even if you weren't Amarr, but I'm feeling chatty so I'll humor you.

As a capsuleer you'll have an easier time than some planet-bound defector or emigrant. You won't need to worry about holding down a job, or being able to afford the exorbitant prices you're likely to be charged for accommodations and other essentials.

I would stick to Pator, or similarly populated worlds in Heimatar and Metropolis. In the more cosmopolitan parts of the Republic you'll probably be fine. We Matari usually mind our own business, and you're not likely to receive trouble from neighbors, store clerks, and the like.

Avoid the local cops at all costs and stay out of the shadier parts of town. Otherwise, you're liable to be murdered or fall victim to some terrible "accident." There seems to be an inordinate number of people falling off of roofs and drowning in their own bathtubs these days.

If you move to Molden Heath, look for a place in Gelfiven or Teonusude. If you enjoy living dangerously, are very stupid, or simply must purchase that beachfront villa on Hrober V (or some other low-sec backwater), then I'd advise you to hire a lot of bodyguards. Not the beefy kind who push bottle rats out of your VIP booth, but trained killers. The kind of people who will open fire on an unarmed crowd of women and children if they swarm your armored PV. Make nice with the local powers that be (bribe them), mind your own business, and you should be fine.

Another thing, I would avoid contact with recently freed slaves and our "rediscovered" Nefantar and Starkmanir brethren. Folk are suspicious of the once-Ammatar. Some are desperate to join the struggle and prove their loyalty to the cause. Others simply don't like getting bricks thrown through their windows at night or getting spit on in the market. They might seek acceptance, or a temporary reprieve from abuse, at your expense. I shouldn't have to spell out why it's prudent to avoid freed slaves.


Best of luck. Feel free to contact me if you have questions.

Such things are not for me to know, and best not questioned. I'm not eager to wake up with a neat little incision behind the ear myself.

I'm not sure what you mean by "basic Caldari ethics". Unless you're referring to unquestioning loyalty to the State and one's corporation, you seem to be under the presumption that certain ethical hindrances shared by State liberals and various patriotic groups are in fact universal, especially among the practical elite.

Be that as it may I found this in the archives as well. Seems your so called "people" are not above some rather crude and expectedly primitive interrogation techniques of their own, except I don't think I've ever heard of a State official hearing talking lizards or seeing ghosts.

And I fail to see what exactly brought you to the conclusion that I am a "psychopath" as you put it, when I've never heard so much as a talking newt. Also sorry I didn't ask sooner but, who are you and why should I care? Actually don't bother answering that, being yet another foul mouthed matari heathen among so many others, I doubt theirs a legitimate reason.

Thanks, but if I wanted to eat with an animal I would purchase a slaver hound.

Well if the information presented in the archives is to be taken at face value it would seem that minmatar interrogation techniques are not only the most barbaric of the four empires, but some of their interrogators are certifiable schizophrenics to boot. With that in mind I find it amusing that you think I'm the psychotic one.

I wouldn't know, I'll let you know when I find one.

Teasing a Minmatar about their marks. ((1)) This is new and interesting.

Perhaps you're not a psychopath. Perhaps you're just frightfully dull.

Only a victim of violence at the hand of your beloved Holder over-lords, dear.