Intergalactic Summit

I blame faulty text to speech software. I'll correct it. You can go back to being ineffective at pretty much everything.

Nice of you to focus on one tiny detail and miss the overall message, Pilot Vea. If Crow chooses to move forward with this enterprise it will only result in bloodshed. I know that I wouldn't feel very safe if my neighbors, already "converted" to the Amarrian religion and culture, were suddenly also armed and trained by Imperials and I'd have to contemplate how to proactively deal with the new threat. I'd probably just choose to be hyper-vigilant. Others might decide that such a threat on their doorstep to be intolerable and take preemptive action to neutralize it. Neither of these scenarios are conducive to peaceful relations.

The law is not a tiny detail. I know several instances off hand wherein Caldari Corps gained, or lost, millions due to a misplaced comma, or an 'and' in place of an 'or.' If you want to live in a free society, then you accept everything that comes with it. Or, pass a law that restricts the right of anyone with an Amarrian faith and prove yourselves to be no different from them.

I think you're confusing the Republic for somewhere else, pilot. We Matari have never set ourselves up as the "chosen" of mankind or the arbiters of all morality. We've never glassed a planet from orbit in order to prove a point. We've never invaded peaceful planets and enslaved billions of people. We've never rounded up entire groups and marched them off to be murdered because of their beliefs or ethnicity.

Just because you had a bad experience in the Republic (unlike the billions who freely live here or emigrate here) doesn't make the Republic the evil thing you rail against constantly. Your judgements have been emotionally compromised by hatred. In that you're no better than those "bigots and racists" you complain about ad nauseum.

To be fair, Natalcya, they never expected us to retain things within living memory.

It is true, mister Murn. Even if the government and many Minmatar capsuleers are united and respectful of their religion and background, there are many extremists who aren't (like the Murientor Tribe).

I do agree that shuttle fare would be a better option than weapons, since I doubt the latter would even make it past Republic customs. Though it would also require additional money to get started in whatever empire they wished to settle in.

I never claimed anything of the sort Mr. Crow.

I pointed out that the people you are attempting to aid are free to travel elsewhere if they do not like their current environment. A freedom that cannot be claimed by many within the Empire.

Yes they are also free to believe whatever they wish. A freedom that cannot be claimed by any within the Empire. They are also free to arm themselves in self defense. I believe small arms are illegal in the Empire, so that would be another freedom that this supposedly at risk community enjoys in Republic space that similar communities could not claim within the Empire.

It does not only applies to Stain.

Sarum Prime, Kor Azor Prime, Jarizza... For the invading bit, at least, since the enslavement was more akin of a genocide than anything else.

Pots and kettles.

Watch the bee calling others bugs.

Actually, no I'm not. You don't read the news much, do you?

"A Brutor Tribe-owned Minmatar refugee settlement in Abudban endured a violent riot last night, during which visiting Starkmanir Sage Uldas Dreeter was killed by anti-theists who were protesting his public services"

"PATOR - The Minmatar People's Theatre's main stage was bombed this morning, only a few short hours after the opening night of controversial play ‘Plantation.’ "

"Pashanai - The Bloody Hands of Matar, one of the most notorious terrorist organizations in New Eden, has come forward to claim responsibility for the massive explosion on a Ministry of War station at Pashanai III earlier today which claimed the lives of just under 5600 people and destroyed several billion ISK's worth of infrastructure."

"Pator – Abel Jarek, the leader of the Salvation Crusade, a movement of former slaves preaching the Amarrian faith, died yesterday during an attack by masked vigilantes in the township he founded for his followers in the Tronhadar Valley region of Matar."

"Illuin - Scope News has just obtained confirmation of the mass-murder of hundreds of municipal and regional government officials and throughout the Minmatar Republic. The assassins, believed to be aligned with the same Minmatar-Thukker strike force invading the Amarr Empire, are allegedly leaving evidence of the victim's complicity with Amarrian intelligence services with each corpse. This "purge", as the attackers have allegedly described, was clearly timed to coincide with the invasion. Police detectives have remarked that the Minmatar-Thukker operation was "flawless", leaving "no opportunity for police forces to react."

"Yulai - *** This is a breaking news story *** Scope News has confirmed that CONCORD Bureau Station in Yulai has been destroyed, and that all rapid-reaction defense capabilities of the police agency have been disabled."


The day that the Amarr decided that brute force conquest of New Eden was no longer our goal was the day that the Republic decided it would become theirs.

Oh, and a bit of historical trivia that you types love to forget: The Amarr Empire never conquered the Minmatar Republic. We conquered the Minmatar Empire. That's right, kids - the Minmatar were once an Empire, same as us. Oh no, truth seeping into skulls... quick, grab the memory erase pills!