Intergalactic Summit

My views are based on 3 years spent in the militia.

You do not seem to understand what NRDS is about. If you have people flagged in hostile/red, you usually try to engage them. Be it with baits or other methods. Here, they apparently engaged bait subcapitals with their capitals. I do not say that their strategy was clever, though. They did not really seem to be seasonned pilots used to capsuleer vs capsuleer combat.

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Your deliberate refusal to believe anything outside your own extremely narrow view troubles me. I suggested you join those organizations because you seem to already be on thier side anyway. Perhaps not EM, but definitely whoever these neutrals you keep defending for no reason.

The difference is I don't blindly support Goonswarm, whereas you blatantly stated you would support an NRDS entity over an NBSI one without any consideration of any other factors.

I have already explained the actual implimentation of our policy and the ways in which it differs from the policy of an entity like Goonswarm, which I did, as it so happens, used to fly with as one of their allies.

I would understand your position if we were literally shooting everything in space, but we are not. Hence, the narrowness of your view is in your inability to consider the possibility that our policy is anything other than your preconception of NBSI. It is telling that even Admiral Blake, a notoriously rigid and closed-minded fellow, has adopted a wait and see stance, but you are throwing out KOS rhetoric.

A few issues. 1) We are not the Knighthood. So, keep that in mind. 2) I am thankful that my corp doesn't have to prove anything to you. My only reason in arguing with you at all is for any silent audience out there to have a better understanding. Otherwise, your condemnation of my organization is basically meaningless. Who do you represent?

Besides, since you are content to stick to your definition of piracy and privateering as whatever you say it is, any attempt of mine to say otherwise will be meaningless to you. Further, any justification I might present will be cleverly restructured to somehow discredit or disregard whatever evidence I bring you, as in the case we've been discussing, where militia defended themselves against an aggressor, that somehow you see as an act of privateering.

So, continue to operate in a world where facts are fluidly shifting to fit whatever you need them to be. But, be careful calling people pirates. I was one, and frankly, I find the insinuations here to be ridiculous. If I go pirate, there won't be any ambiguity about it.

In summation, you are entitled to your opinions. I am just very surprised at the disdain with which you view your former comrades, the black brush you paint us with, and the ease with which you can twist and distort the truth to suit your prejudices. I used to hold you in high regard, and expected better of you.

Miss Farel,

Thank you for your continued support and dedication to the Amarr Empire your personal morals. It always puts a smile on my face when I think about how people perceived I was a Minmatar agent sent in to cause chaos and create rifts inside the Empire when clearly such agents are unnecessary with exceptional pilots like you. When I heard you set us KOS, I must admit, it made me chuckle for quite a while. It still does.

Your KOS standings have been returned without a second thought. Remember that it was you who chose this path. Thank you, and have a nice day.

Next?

I agree with Ms Rhiannon, my own views are more or less the same. When I speak of NRDS, I do not refer to absurd NRDS policies setting everyone in red without reasons, to clarify. My apologies for not having mentionned it clearly until now.



You have my thanks in return : you are one of the first to understand that.

Excellent question, Kuan. This issue has not been discussed yet on a corporate level. I will bring it to the attention of the I.LAW directors and get back to you as soon as I have an answer.

I have intentionally tried to keep KotMC out of this thread discussion, as it is a separate entity from Imperial Outlaws. However, to answer your question, Ms. Rhiannon, no, KotMC never made that an official corp stance. Such things were left to the individual pilots. Many, including myself, espoused anti-slavery sentiments, often for differing political or moral reasons.

As stated previously, slavery in its current form is likely not going to be around much longer. It is a right and proper reading of scripture, as the theology council declared, but not the only possible one.

First, an economical perspective: A "free" subsistence-wage worker costs very little more than a properly supervised and vitoc'ed slave. Unsurprising, since the worker receives basically the slaves food and shelter, disguised as currency. In some colonies I visited, the "currency" in fact never left the hands of the sponsors, since the workers only could spend it in the company store. On the other hand, a skilled and educated specialist slave saves immensely over an employee - but that saving is only possible after huge investments into the slave's education. Prohibitive investments, frequently.

Secondly, a moral one: The goal of slavery is to bring a soul into the light. Hard labor is invaluable in this, but scarcely sufficient on its own. I imagine that soon, slavery will become a much more monastic part of our culture, where religious education and psychological conversion will take a more central role, and physical labor a reduced one.

So, why fly for the Milita if not to herd a few million minmatar into the next transport and cackle manically? Because it is the right thing to do for an Amarr. It is the right thing to do to defend our civilization, our culture and our faith from those who would bring it down, and replace it with tribal chanting. To secure the greatest empire ever against all threats internal and external. And not the least to put a scalpels point to my own faith. If it doesn't hurt, it does not count.