Intergalactic Summit

While it does seem suspicious to me, you make a good point, Pieter. On the other hand, this is also a more delicate situation than such a thing would normally be.

I meant politically delicate, but yes, I agree. I just hope the investigators are both impartial and forthcoming.

I hope politics is kept out of it as far as possible. That's the only way to MAKE this impartial.

This is a complex investigation with many facets that need to be examined minutely. Give the investigators time and the space they need to do their jobs. If it's any consolation, I would consider the Brutor student to be a vital person of interest in the case and would also have had him detained.

It's far too easy to slip onto a shuttle and be across the border.

This post was useful in levelling my mood. Thank you.

Indeed. Heat coffee. Acquire Donuts. Read Paper.


Commence investigation.

Hmm. Considering the empires have a habit of evaporating hundreds of thousands, if not millions, over small slights and outright power grabs, I'm somewhat surprised that it became news that someone killed three people.

We can always be optimistic. Perhaps three murders being newsworthy means we have shifted our perspective if ever so slightly.

True enough, though I would not be so impressed by the numbers. It would depend, quite a bit, on who those three were. I have had some amount of formal combat training, so it would hardly be difficult for me to kill three unarmed civilians, no matter how belligerent or what I was armed with.

I suppose that, in the case your theory is correct, we can assume one of three things is suspicious. Either he killed someone important enough to warrant an investigation into whether it was well and truly self defense (empires tend to dig until they find the evidence they want to find about their favored sons), he managed to kill three people that no average citizen should have the capacity to kill (such as well-trained riot teams or soldiers) and thus they are questioning his amateur status, or Gallente and Matari relations have fallen to the point where even cases of reported self defense warrant deep investigation.

Either way, hopefully we can all look forward to days when political outcry rabbles over three deaths. We had an industrial mining accident not far from Amarr that killed ten slaves and their handler. That didn't even make the local headline.

You realise, of course, that you have just slaughtered a fair percentage of the crew of that Mackinaw? Someone, somewhere, knows the names and numbers of those dead men and women and will be seeking out Brutor corpses to balance the scales.

Vigilante Justice is not Justice. It breeds response and escalation. There are many who say that the Matari will NEVER know peace for so long as they cannot act according to civilised norms.

Let the authorities deal with it.

Congrats, you've managed to give the inbred U-Nats a Casus Belli to continue to discriminate and commit acts of violence against your people.

They was already doing so, an didn't look to be in a hurry to stop, I'm simply providing consequences for that.

It's reciprocation.

When they stop, when they free my brother, then I'll stop feeding anti matter to those that by action or inaction support them.