Intergalactic Summit

A lot has been happening as of late and I have gotten behind on my reporting. I have four rescues to report first, then also some exciting developments.

1. 48 brave souls rescued
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Pilot: GuardX 48 live
race/nation: (Deteis)
Corp: (Department of Manufactures)

2. 3 brave souls rescued
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Pilot: Abelard Nightbringer 3 lives
race/nation: (Civire)
Corp: (New Foundation)

3. 1 brave soul rescued. I will tell a little story about this man below.
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Pilot: Darkstar Herne 1 life
Race/nation: (Intaki)
Corp: (DarkstarRed)

4. 65 brave and patient souls rescued
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Pilot: Evil Pengwinz 65 lives
Race/nation: (Amarrian)
Corp: (Berserking Roid Beavers)

Rescue #3 involved a single former slave. When I transported him aboard, he told me a story of how he promised God, that if he was somehow saved from death, he would do all he could to aid in the plite of those enslaved. I told him of our work and "Farmer" (that is his name) said that he wanted to be a part of it. When we got back to the center Gladius processed Farmer and welcomed him into the fold. Later, they approached me with an idea. We have wanted to test transporting former slaves into free space. The scanner transponders in slave's bodies give off a signal that can be received by scanners. We needed to know if our cloaking technology would hide that signature sucessfully under actual conditions. Farmer was our volunteer. He is also a fit man and strong in endurance. We needed those qualities, because we also wanted to dock in Caldari space. We needed to be prepared.

All went without a hitch. As we were preparing to enter Caldari Space, we found another Jet Can with the 65 former slaves mentioned above. We had to delay the test while we took two trips to evacuate the group. When that was finished, we entered Caldari space undetected. We landed on a station in Caldari space exitted, stayed on the station for a little while and then left. We returned to the Center across the border. The Elutheria performed beyond expectation. We can begin transporting these former slaves into Republic, Federation, and Caldari space.

One last Wall of Shame

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The Minmatar, Gallente, and Caldari Governments for refusing to recognize these rescued slaves as free citizens and allowing them free travel throughout free space. May the stench of shame cover your faces!

Add 12 more very happy people to the census, rescued just a little while ago. This was a group of Older women. They said that they were sold as domestic slaves from a very large Holder operation by an under manager without the holder's consent, to "make room" for younger slaves. I would imagine that there is more of this kind of thing going on than meets the eye.

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Pilot: Megaskaweel 12 lives
Race/nation: (Achura)
Corp: (JOurneys End)

Now is the time to announce that the Disciples of Ston have opened a Vocational Training Center for former slaves in State Territory. We will begin transporting interested Matriculants to this center to live and to train. Ultimately they will be transported to other places withing State, Federation, and Republic territory.

We declare now to the State, Republic, and Federation officials that we intend to break your laws by transporting former slaves through your space to our center and on to other places. We will do this covertly, because you are too thick headed and greedy to do what is needed to offer a free, self-determined existence for these rescued individuals.

We cannot wait for you to act, because it appears that you may never act. Pathetic Bureaucrats!

Two rescues were conducted this morning, one of 27 lives and one of 7 lives. I am thankful for the ship with the larger cargo capacity and the ability to make rescues very quickly. 3 of the rescued people were suffering from frostbite and all were quite frightened. These two groups seemed very traumatized. Gladius is concerned.

I have never noted this before but have often thought it. One great disadvantage of being a capsuleer is the inability, as captain of the rescue ship, to personally greet and welcome the rescued ones as they board the ship. This is left to my crew who do an excellent job. I feel removed until station-side when I can get out of the egg and among the people.

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Pilot: Soumineito 27 lives
Race/nation: (Ni-Kunni)
Corp: (Holy Hand Grenade Investment Bank)

Pilot: Keloric En Chaline 7 lives
Race/nation: (Intaki)
Corp: (The Black and Gold Dragon Manufacturing Corp)

May you hang your heads in disgrace and shame.

I was returning from my business in the Gallentean core systems to join Manwe and share rescue duties and right away was abl to rescue 37 former slaves as I entered the area. I was in my mining vessel and had minimal crew for the transfer for the transfer but plenty of quarter space. All arrived safely at the center and were greeted by Elder Feanor.

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Pilot: Monat 5 lives
race/nation: (Gallente)
Corp: (Ashen Federation)

Pilot: Marcus Salt 32 lives
race/nation: (Gallente)
Corp: (The Scope)

I will be doing some rescue work and some funding work while I am here. I have found good reining facilities in the area.

I decided that I needed to write this now, while it was happening. I am in a crowded receiving area in Matriculation Center #3. Gladius the Elder is directing staff to see to the needs of 425 rescued former slaves. You can't hear what I am hearing right now. It is the sound of trauma and relief all mixed together. 425 humans, men, women, and children, whole families, were left to die. Now they are safe and their needs are being tended to.

What brazen disregard for life can one person stoop to? How can anyone see this and not be impacted?

What if I hadn't gotten there before the two hours were up? What then? 425 people would have died a horrible death. When massive rescues like this occur, I cannot help but think about the rescues we miss. How many go unrescued? How many die that we know nothing about?

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Pilot: Sirakii 472 lives left to die
Race: (Achura)
Corp: (Mining and Co)

May the outcry of humanity against you echo in your heart.

The Elutheria was put through its paces again today. First, I transported 40 former slaves, a group of scholars and students to our Academic Learning Center at our facility in Caldari space. This group consist of primarily those who were trained in partical and wave physics while slaves. They wished to continue their studies.

While in the area, I transported 3 former slaves who were rescued by another pilot and transferred to us. Ston had asked me to use the Elutheria to take them back to our Matriculation Center in Amarr space.

When you transport former slaves through State, Federation, or Republic territory, there appears a skull and crossbones symbol next to the passengers in the cargo manifest. The moment you pass into Empire space, the symbol vanishes and you no longer need to cloak. As far as the law is concerned, we are slave smugglers. This will have to do until the laws are changed and these rescued people receive official status as citizens.

Gallente, Minmatar, and Caldari governments will never admit this, but it is likely that they are afraid of the economic impact of changing the status of rescued slaves. What would they "do" with all these people? They would have to spend precious resources.

The silence of the governments tells much.

I have a couple things to report.

First, I was able to perform our first transport of former slaves to reunite with family in Republic space. This was a Brutor pair, grandparents to be exact. They were enslaved when their settlement was raided. Their children were killed but their grandchildren survived and live in Rens.

The plan was to contact officials in Auga who would verify the identity of my passengers and then direct us on to Rens to where the reunion would occur. The final destination was one of the SOE stations in Rens. At the end of the day, the mission was a success and they are now with family and under the protection of the Sisters in the Rens system.

However, there is some serious self-evaluation that I must do and I am afraid that I must grade myself poorly. "D minus" maybe... When we arrived safely in Auga and dicked at the Brutor tribe station there. What happened next shows my inexperience and tendency to panic when caught off guard. It also illustrates the need to plan every step and procedure very carefully when in 0.4 space and below. When I exited the station, I should have immediately warped to the gate, but instead I kept thinking about getting far enough away from the station to activate my cloak. There was an outlaw nearby. I was targetted and fired upon before I could cloak. I panicked. I should have immediately warped away instead of thinking about cloaking.

He was able to drop my shields and half my armor before I was able to cloak, get my head about me and warp. I din't even know where I was warping. It ended up being a planet in the system. I do not know how I escaped. The outlaw may have simple stopped firing at me. I don't know who he was. Many of the details are a blur because I panicked. Grandma and Grandpa Brutor just laughed at me as would be expected.

As I realized that I would probably be destroyed and maybe podded, I thought about my passengers that would be killed for good and about a reunion that wouldn't happen. I was lucky or perhaps blessed by the Divine One. Who knows? The point is that I panicked when I made the incorrect decision to try to gain distance from the station rather than immediately warping. Bad mistake as a result of poor planning and inability to anticipate possible danger. This is maybe OK when I am by myself, but I had passengers.

What to do? I need to get out into low sec and practice where the risk is only me.

19 former slaves were rescued early this afternoon. It was a unique situation that I have never encountered before. I approached the border gate and there were two abandoned (blue) cans, one labelled "free slaves" and the other labelled "*expletive* slaves." I set course for the latter and transported 19 souls aboard. while doing that, someone else retrieved the others. They warped out and I did not see who it was. We may never know what happened to those in the other can. We hope that your lives from this point will respected and given the dignity they deserve.

I don't feel like commenting right now on the kind of person who would label a can in such a way. It is interesting that someone took the time to label the cans at all and to abandon them. Ask the pilot listed below if you wish.

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Pilot: Red Wyrm 19 lives
race: (Civire)
corp: (Caldari Provisions)

This morning's rescue was one of those interesting poetic justice sorts of situations. Along with 32 former slaves were found 4 slave traders and 10 slaver hounds on board. We interview those rescued to get an idea of the slaver hounds and whether or not they can be retrained and kept as pets. In some cases, the creatures have become attached to the former slaves and those rescued request to keep them.

The slave traders will be taken to our criminal detention facilities in Korama.

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Pilot: Don Umberto 36 human lives 10 slaver hounds
race: (Civire)
Corp: (Don-Coil)