Intergalactic Summit

I do find it odd that the same new organizations that can report on the Empress' latest headache cannot tell us anything about a shooter who's committed mass murder and been in custody for over a week.

It seems that -- all vitriol aside -- that the Federation is doing much as we have suspected it would. It will investigate and try the suspect on its own soil, and by its own laws. This isn't surprising. What is surprising is the confrontational -- even antagonistic -- tone of Federation authorities, when they could do so much to repair relations with the Republic by being conciliatory, by sharing what information they have.

Perhaps it isn't surprising, though. The various nations' governments have all come to power in a time of conflict, a time of war. In many cases, they came into power by explicitly inflaming the passion of their population. When all you have is a hammer...

It is not right that the Federal authorities have not released more details about the suspect, or the circumstances surrounding the attack.

I hope that this can be corrected as soon as possible.

Honey, I sincerely hope that simple dissenting words do not really get one labelled as "someone who needs to disappear" in a nation which prides itself on freedom of speech.

Obstinacy to the point of inciting your allies to violence. It's almost as if the Federation has something to hide.

What bothers me about this case is the increasing likelihood that the SDII is running this investigation. Given how they really enjoy their fetish for secrecy we may hear something... in 30 years when the label of secrecy wears out. This is highly bothersome for it's obvious effects both on Federation subjects who wants to know what the hell is going on and why this happened, and our Republic allies who are understandably angry with this. I do not even know the disposition of those hurt or killed in this incident - I have seen no information on how many involved where ethnic Minmatar, or even how many were citizens of what nation - all we know is that many Republicans and Federals have been killed or wounded.

The Supreme Court stated that the majority was Federation citizens, and Shakor stated that all the visiting Republicans were Matari with tribe and clan affiliations, who visited friends and family in the Federation. So we can likely assume that many - if not most - of the Federal subjects were ethnic Matari - most if not all also having tribe and clan affiliations of one stripe or another. But again, we don't know anything of this for sure.

To run the investigation and the due process on Federation soil is understandable, to not release any information at all is suspect in the extreme and only helps to fuel people's anger, mistrust and a host of unhealthy conspiracy theories.

Like this:



Why not start yelling it from the roof-tops, "I think the Federation did it and are hiding their own man from behind a sham-investigation" hmm? You either fail miserably in being subtle in your beliefs or you succeed greatly in being ambiguous to the point of easy misunderstanding.

I've heard many of these, claiming it was a Federation inside job, Republic inside job (Specifically that Shakor ordered it for his own good) and even a number of theories involving the new clone soldiers. We have no facts. People love to make up their own regardless of how it feeds people's fears and sows discord.

And then we have the usual "I love to rub salt in he wounds now that things are going badly between Federation and Republic" from the likes of Caine and Halete.

Angels are never far... so they will be there to remind you they still exist, by offering their worthless input in manners that don't concern them.



To be perfectly fair the only ones threatening open violence and reactions for this are extremists and known terrorists, official Republican parties has threatened nothing at all and besides one heated and ill-considered move over the border has done nothing violent so far. Even in the heat of passion in the border they seemed highly reluctant to do anything violent, and backed down when it was clear they would not get their way without resorting to it.

I honestly hope we get any kind of official response on this information blockade soon. Even knowing why they insist on not saying anything at all would be helpful, at least then we would know why no info is being shared. This current situation is unreasonable.

This episode is getting more and more out of proportions.

The republic is making demands when they should keep their mouth shut.
The federation is keeping their mouth shut, when they should be sharing information.
Radicals are trying to turn this into bloodshed, and might very well succeed.
This case will spin completely out of control, If we get a statement from the shooter, that he was hired by someone in the republic.

The death of 58 civilians is a horrible thing. It's even more horrible that it's being politicized. It seems that there are 2 governments involved that care more for saving face, than serving their people.

Give me a ring some time, I'd like to talk to you about this.

Releasing to much information into the media can sometimes lead to public hysteria, probably mean the individual would not be able to get a fair trial.

It sounds like there is going to be court case , so i guess the individual is pleading not guilty !

We might be hiding something, but what about the Republic? Less than 24 hours after the shooting and a sizable Minmatar fleet was already trying to invade Federation Hi-security space. Now everyone with a gun in the Republic is threatening to strike back against the Federation.

One of us is clearly hiding something, and to me it seems the nation that is willing to cause more violence and potentially lose an ally in the process is probably hiding more.



The Minmatar are still our allies and friends, even if they are a tad bit more aggressive than we are.

Hopefully these extremist groups don't speak for the whole of the Republic, for if that were the case your words might hold a little merit.



It's quite difficult to compare the punishment of a terrorist that killed and injured scores of people and gave himself up, to that of a traitor that caused the loss of a planet, the collapse of a political career, assisted a crazed war hungry dictator, and of course the hundreds of millions of lives lost in the fighting that would result over the years as a result of his actions.

His punishment was just, there could be no remorse for what he did, only indifference at the very least. His death if anything wasn't gruesome enough. The blood and fire that erupted from his body was an inconceivable fraction compared to the fires he started and the blood he spilled.