Intergalactic Summit

Greetings fellow pilots,

Recently I have been made aware of a horrid practice that needs to be stopped. It seems that, in an attempt to abide by the laws of the states they are entering, some pilots are jettisoning human cargo into space. I along with other Holders and non Holders alike abhor this practice and feel that it must be stopped.

The sad reality is that because of the oppressive laws of the various states, human property - or slaves to use the more common term - is not permitted to be transported across many borders, thus resulting in these unscrupulous transport pilots tossing many innocent lives into space. Often these pilots leave them in jettison cans with a short supply of breathable air and only time to contemplate their inevitable fate.

Some of these individuals are picked up by passing vessels while many more are left to die. Some organisations have taken this opportunity to press their political agendas and force these slaves to embrace the cold reality of freedom - taking beings who have been provided every necessity of life for service and forcing them to fend for themselves in this cruel, careless universe. I wish to offer an alternative.

The next time you are passing through the borderlands between the Empire and another of the states and come across a jet can filled with innocents, I would ask that you rescue them and return them to the closest station in that system. Once docked, please send a message to myself. I would be more than willing to compensate you for the time and resources expended in rescuing them and returning them to the Empire. Contracts also work well, however the prices are negotiable.

I promise that I will take good care of the rescued individuals, ensure that they get any medical attention they need and are returned to their rightful place in the universe. I may even choose to 'adopt' some of them myself and find them meaningful work at one of my facilities.


Thank you for helping your fellow man.

That's a very amusing spin on the situation. That's actually called releasing people that are unlawfully and unfairly held for forced cheap labor to the local authorities so they can be looked after and reintroduced to a normal society.

My research, and that of several highly respected galactic sociologists, suggests that introducing them into the larger Minmatar society is actually harmful to these individuals. How many of the 'graduates' - for lack of a better term - of the matriculation programs suffer serious psychological trauma as a result of the overwhelming burden placed on them to sink or swim in the cut-throat Minmatar society?

The best thing for them is to be returned to the life and society they were raised in, be it at a planetary settlement and factory or aboard station at an assembly facility. To tear them away from the lives they know, confine them and force them to fend for themselves is tantamount to torture. We offer a safe and secure environment where service earns them salvation.

So you're saying the Amarr have studied how incompetent they are at educating their slaves?

Oh, that's rich. That's really a good one, there.

You've already taken them from the 'lives they know'. We offer freedom, instead of forced labor. Choice, instead of punishment. Most of all, we reconnect them with the families you stole them from.

What bothers you more, captain: that we left Amarr for a better life, or that we did it on your watch?

Keeping in mind that they have been born into our service, raised in our facilities and live with their families - for the most part- as the work for the glory of God and the Empire. How is it that returning them to all they have ever known is harmful? You say that we are stealing their lives form them, I would suggest that is exactly what you are doing in uprooting and forcing them to fend for themselves....becoming just another mouth for your so-called Republic to feed and abuse.

We offer them safety and security, food, water, shelter and a chance to better themselves through service. You offer them instability, chaos and a quick death if they fail to readjust themselves to your harsh reality.

With us they are productive, creative and capable. Under the banner of the republic they have a chance to apply more tape to your ships?

Safety and security. Right. I suppose that's why my 'owner' decided to burn my face when I wouldn't let him take his liberties with me. Or why I had a badly-insulated shack to sleep in, and no bed to sleep on. Or why the factory to which I was confined during the day was unbearably hot, and the less 'productive' workers disappeared without warning.

Under the banner of the Republic, they will regain the culture that you seem determined to destroy. We will show them a world where they are not going to be beaten for spilling a cup of water, or dropping a plate of food. They will know what is is to be Matari.

They will participate as equals in their tribe and their clan, and they will know their heritage.

If the Empire provides such a 'paradise' as you claim, then why did the pilot of that ship leave them to die?

In my career i didn't found any "people" in a jetcan no where.

Because that particular commodity was no longer of any use?

Ah yes, yet another bigoted imperial lackey spouting off about the supposed wretched living conditions inside the Republic.

Let me ask you pilot, how long have you lived in Minmatar space? Which tribe and clan are you a member of? Which schools did you attend? How about your family and friends, do they live here? Oh, that's right, you're Khanid and have no bloody idea what life is like here, do you? In fact all you know of us and our way of life is what you've been indoctrinated in via your government, religious hierarchy and media. I'll let you in on a secret; you've been lied to. Logic would dictate that if conditions were so horrible here that people would attempt to flee, by any means at their disposal, to the other empires. The fact that this isn't happening would tend to undercut your thesis.

I invite you to do some research, make some personal observations and come to your own conclusions, pilot. Don't automatically accept as fact everything you've been told.

And as for your jab about our ships being held together with tape you should recall that it was an armada of these same ships that brought the mighty CONCORD to its knees and fought its way to the Amarrian core worlds virtually unscratched. Just one more of your deeply held beliefs that you might want to re-examine...