Intergalactic Summit

Pilots, we need your assistance. Last week, as part of a valiant community service, several of our people dropped in on a planet that had just seen intense combat of an undisclosed nature, and proceeded to assist the locals in tidying up the rubble, cleaning up the mess, and putting away any hazardous materials that might've otherwise posed a threat to local interests. Unfortunately, due to a serious misunderstanding on the behalf of certain outside forces, our orbital teams were blown out of the sky.

As a result, our troops on the ground have been trapped there for days, subsisting on whatever meager resources they were able to extract from their immediate surroundings. I am reliably informed they can go the rest of their lives without tasting Fedo meat ever again. We are mounting a rescue operation in the near future and wish to offer any interested parties with an affinity for the Guristas to sign up and assist us. We would require your presence as we come in, swoop up our people, and transport them several jumps to a safe drop-off site.

Anyone who is willing to support the cause of the Guristas, please sign up for the mailing list "Gurista supporters". Further details will be released upon your joining the list.

You mean this null capsuleer alliance, you know they kill for sake of killing.

My opinions with regard to your criminal activity in this system are well documented in your previous brazen missive.

I offer 50 million isk per confirmed Guristas Capsuleer [[OOC: CCP Actors Only]] Battleship
25 million per Guristas Capsuleer Cruiser
10 million per Guristas Capsuleer Faction Frigate (no tech 1 or 2 will be included in this scheme).

My budget is 500 million isk, after which no additional pay outs will be honored. Only the killing blow counts, only evemailed kill reports sanctioned by the DED combat activity system will be accepted, no third party extrapolation or statistics services will be acknowledged.

Should the Guristas be completely prevented from recovering their forces, or their forces are apprehended by State authorities, the bounty values and budget will double. (100/50/20 with a 1 bill budget)

Please allow 2-3 days for payment after receiving your kill reports to allow confirmation of the kill and to take into consideration that I offer this bounty as a service to our glorious State due to my busy stationside schedule preventing me from taking direct action.

I hope this provides incentive on top of the obvious social and ethical reasons for purging these criminals from our space.

Due to Nation interference, confirmed kills of Nation starships will carry a 20 million isk reward, no reward for capsules is offered at this time. Only kills achieved in the system of engagement will count towards this bounty system. Only killing blows will be recognised. These kills are not subject to State victory doubling. This pay out for Sansha kills is capped at 200 million total.

The terms of this offer hold for the duration of any engagement. Engagement is defined as being the time at which the first Guristas messages of intent are timestamped, up until the destruction of the last Guristas vessel and/or declaration of their success or failure (again timestamped in local chat). This applies to both target groups.

Good day pilots, fight well.

This is interesting. I wonder what good you think it will do.

Aside from hopefully mitigating the effects of individual or small fleet Nation supporters attempting to expedite Guristas activity, very little. Hence why the sum matches the target activity in scope - you should know me well enough from when you were still a rational man to know I don't overspend.

There is no debating with Sanshas Nation. My reasons are readily to apparent to those with a less blinkered view of the world, but I will say this for your benefit: I value the destruction of Sansha and Guristas vessels at a given sum of currency. I value the destruction of Guristas vessels higher, should the forces on that planet be exterminated or apprehended and placed in State custody. I offer this bounty as a representation of the assets I myself would have been willing to put on the line should I have been likely to participate in any further action - something that my current schedule makes extremely unlikely.

As for your assessment of Drake Arson's activities, capable thought he was, he did little but brush aside an enthusiastic, commendable but ill-organised attempt to tackle the situation (in fact my friends in that fleet communicated as such, to their merit). The intervention of null-sec capsuleers was anticipated and their helpful actions greatly appreciated. Should they wish to repeat their performance, or should the participants in the early attempts last time present a more formidable front, this funding will hopefully reward their efforts. I only wish I had been more prepared to analyse the worth of the previous engagement prior to the clashes that occurred.

I'll save you further discomfort attempting to contort my words to serve your sick philosophy's need for self-justification and depart with this, what is so strange about a State citizen of means, rewarding those that serve the interests of the State?

I'm a well-wisher to, in that I don't wish you any specific harm at this moment.

But come tomorrow who knows what wil happen

My fellow Gurista. You have our understanding in this matter. We expect your utmost success in your affairs.

We Nation wish you well.

Where is Verone when you need him?

So what your saying is, your raiding party got stranded because the operation went FUBAR, and now you'd like them back because:

A: You're concerned harm might come to whatever they have in their possession, or that it will be recovered by someone else.

B: One of them is actually a higher rank than "expendable" and has actual value to the organisation.

C: Of the increasing risk that they will be captured, and are likely to talk about something you'd rather they didn't during interrogation.


Still, I'm sure this is a terrible situation, being separated from people you have a concern for the well-being and safety of. I'm sure the families of Henric Touvolle and Taromi Umailen are more than sympathetic to your plight...