Intergalactic Summit

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Villore - According to a leaked Federal security briefing, House Sarum of the Amarr Empire has allegedly been commissioning several flotillas of large transport barges for the purposes of launching slave raids into war torn systems of the Minmatar Republic. The leak also provides information regarding the training of extra numbers of small-sized military squads, considered a particularly curious detail given Amarr military doctrine typically prefers to press numerical advantages when possible.

Only 3 Minmatar systems are currently under Amarrian occupation and can I suppose be considered "war torn" But those systems will soon be back under Republic control as Amarrian Militia forces seem in disarray.

Any Amarrian vessels invading our space will of course be met with deadly force.

So much for the "age of slavery coming to an end," right?
So much for staying out of the Minmatar Republic's affairs, right?
So much for desiring peace, right?
So much for respecting CONCORD rule of law, right?

Whore.

Yes. It is better to return to traditional ways.

And CONCORD's laws have only ever served to weaken the Empire.

I see the Republic has learned to imitate the Federations techniques of spoofing 'leaked' intelligence as a propaganda tool.

The building of new ships is a routine matter. The apparent change in Imperial War Doctrine as applied by this particular House is far more interesting than speculation that these ships may be used for slave raids.

Good. It's clear the Empire cannot be trusted to live like civilized human beings. Better to burn it.

All you can say about this is as mentioned above several times. It is the word of the Gallente. Though the possibilities are endless. I shall look into this matter.

As much as it would be entertaining to see the liberal holders squirm if this should come to pass, as an entrepreneur I'm not too comfortable with the idea of a sudden influx of a large batch of new livestock on the free market.

I hope the Empire is preparing some kind of economic edicts and measurements to counter the possible market over-saturation or even worse, inflation. Otherwise, the crash in slave prices might affect us all.




I am afraid you're giving Msr. Ixiris too much credit.

Law has no spirit, only letters. CONCORD and I have always been in perfect agreement, there. That does not mean CONCORD will fail to use legal ambiguity to its own advantage, of course.

House Sarum would be within its legal rights to take slaves from captured planets, or so it appears to me. Whether this would serve the Empire's best political interest is doubtful, since I imagine it would quickly trigger a retaliatory response of hostage-taking by the Minmatar Republic in turn, in the systems they occupy.

Go down this road, and you virtually ensure that soon, every person who can afford to get out of the low-security "war zone" will do so - and take their savings with them, ensuring a social and economic collapse throughout the regions.

All so that the factories comfortably squirrelled away in high security space can continue to churn out weapons of war, and you gladiators can continue to prance about looking pretty.