Intergalactic Summit

I think you have fun and masochism confused there, pilot.

Small? Elegant? When was the last time you actually shot somebody in person?

... have you ever, or are you using rodent hunting ammunition?

EDIT - I'm just going to answer my own question and assume you've only ever used small caliber handguns.

EDIT EDIT - Oh, and your tough girl 'look at me I can shoot people' isn't fooling anyone. The ability to kill somebody is not unique or special to you around here.

Divinity's Edge Diana, would you just shut up already? We get it, you don't like Gallente. Go try killing some of us instead of pumping IGS with this constant crap. Gods dammit...

I think the words of the Idama Súrnyá are somewhat relevant in this instance -

"Men have bones and flesh. Bones shatter and flesh tears, and the man becomes a corpse.
Castle shave stones and wood. Stones crumble and wood splinters, and the castle becomes a ruin.
But how would a man kill an idea? How could a castle trap an idea?
Ideas have no bones to be shattered nor stones to be crumbled.
Ideas have no flesh to be torn or wood to be splintered.
Have not the legends of great men lived long after their flesh and bone became corpses?
Have not the memories of great castles lived long after their wood and stone fell to ruin?
Would that I could become an idea, and fear death no longer."

Stitcher, just stop it already. Trying to reason with Kim is like trying to teach Quantum physics to a Fedo.

Not if you want to drink Hak'len, they aren't.

The post you quoted was in fact in response to Andreus' comment. It wasn't addressed at Kim at all.




And I have empirical evidence that their "Nobility and Honour" end at the border. The Amarr think they are answerable to their god's law, not to the treaties and laws of mere mortals and empyreans. I've blown up Amarr Navy assets that were conducting slavery operations well outside of Amarr space, in the Federation and Republic.

Trusting the Amarr is like being nice to the shark in the hopes that it'll eat you last.

Lady Devonshire:

There at least you have given me something to think about. However, I consider your entire religion to be a barbaric and oppressive myth. Given that Amarr the religion is the foundation for, and in many cases is indistinguishable from Amarr the Empire, I think you can appreciate what a dim view I take of the idea that Caldari thinkers might one day contribute to its writings. I take a dim view of the idea that anybody should contribute further to the scriptures.

They belong in the archives, as examples of a powerful and inspirational but ultimately fatally flawed philosophy that has been central to the growth of New Eden as it is today, but their merit is purely historical. I find precious little in the Amarr faith that I would consider to be good and worthy of keeping.

My late uncle was born in the Gallente Federation, but it was the Minmatar who slit his throat. Though when I was a kid I remember traveling through there with him & my aunt and saw something really weird, at least to me. We had just arrived at this big space station when this skinny man in filthy clothes came up and asked us for money. I asked him who his holder was and he looked at me confused. Then I asked again who is holder was and why they weren't taking better care of him. Keep in mind I was still just a kid and I'd never seen an actual beggar before... because, well, we just don't have them.

As the Caldari say "everything is a trade" (general physics agrees) and I understand why the Gallente don't care for our slaves... but hey, at least someone does. No, they don't have all the same freedoms as citizens, but on the other hand they never get left out to die from sickness & hunger in some dingy alleyway, either. Homelessness isn't even a thing in the Empire. They can debate the morality of it all they want, but it's not the one-sided argument they make it out to be. It's a question of trade: One one end of the scale is personal freedom... but on the other is safety, security, and whatever other benefits a holder may offer them (obviously some are more generous than others - in both material needs & personal liberties).

That is the issue they should be intelligently debating instead of just thumping their chests and waving their sabres around all the time. Heck, even we have been debating it for some time. The Empress' decrees are a matter of public record. Even my own family has been petitioning the local government to replace "traditional" old fashioned slavery with simple indentured servitude contracts. I'm sure the Caldari can appreciate that as a step in the right direction.

After all, the more slaves we set free the more obvious it becomes that the Republic simply wants war for it's own sake and not because of some paper-thin notions of high morality. And when that becomes more clear to the Gallente maybe they'll want to reconsider their position as their allies. And when that happens they'll hopefully be more willing to make a real lasting peace with the Caldari.

I don't think it's the case. Their 'high morality' neither were, not are, not will be morality standards, but rather poor excuses for war. There will be no slavery? They will say there are still alive former slavers, who have to be killed. All slavers will be deported? They will say that the religion that born slavery have to be destroyed.

And with Republic staying loyal to wretched gallentean ideals, the Federation will use it as a meat shield and expendable strike force against the Empire and the State. While there are still peoples like Rella, the Republic is easily manipulated by gallenteans.

Score one for Kit-Kat.