Intergalactic Summit

Rescue Report:

115.11.06 01:24 Brinth Villenuve 9 former slaves, 8 hounds, 5 slavers

Eerily quiet. Very seldom do we encounter such a lack of activity around the major commerce traffic areas on patrol. There was not one Concord ship; not one customs ship. There were very few other ships. We all noted the curious lack of activity. The report above was from an earlier patrol as we did not discover any cans either. We decided to head back to the center. A peppermint tea was ordered at the Leaning Tower as a change of pace.

Rescue Report:

115.11.09 16:13 Jaderic en Divalone 7 people

"Would you care for our exclusive service agreement on that new module sir?" No thanks; my mechanics are quite capable of servicing and repairing our ships and modules. "But..." It took nearly ten minutes to beg off the salesman and escape his pitches for a service agreement on a simple capacitor module for the DSS Assist. Each pitch was more oriented toward fear than the previous. Fear tends to make us spend too much in the wrong places ending up with the same risks and insecurities. The service contract industry seems to built on this human capacity. The pitch has that emotional edge and almost always creates an inner doubt. Ironic that the question begged is seldom asked, "If your product is so great, why bend over backward to convince me that it will most certainly break and put me in need of your service contract?"

The work continues

Rescue Report:

115.11.10 21:41 Eulalia Braun 10 people

The suspect timer...an automatic timeout to catch up on paperwork, check ship systems, grab a quick cup of coffee. If only it were so. The life of the capsuleer on these quick station pauses, necessarily means waiting in the pod. Unless I am prepared to de-pod, cleanup, and take a longer break, otherwise in the pod I wait. On a rescue like the one reported, I monitor the disembarkation and the crew reports on preparations for return to patrol. I'll meet the new Matriculants when I have time to spend out of the pod. For now the crew is getting ready for a quick turn around and back out we go. I do hope there will come a time when the technology will be such that we need no longer float in this sea of isolation.

Rescue Report:

115.11.11 18:21 Gurmanis Hemah 182 people
115.11.11 22:24 Comrade thak 9 people
115.11.11 23:37 Atach Hann (50 former Slaves, 43 Former Slaves, 9 hounds, 2 Slavers)

Today there is a compelling need for the wise to discern the subtle differences between "loyalty" and "centrism." Loyalty to one's nation, culture, and family involves a broad view that sees not just the near term but the long term. Loyalty isn't rigid or myopic. It is visionary. Loyalty to one's culture does not require disrespect of other cultures nor does it involve a closed mind to the growth and evolution of one's own culture to embrace the new. Centrism is closed, bigoted, prejudiced and fearful. Those who confuse Loyalty with Centrism often justify their ignorance and violence with the claim of loyalty. Actually, Cultural Centrism turns out to be one of the most disloyal ways of life, for it most assuredly eventually spells the doom of the very culture. So it begs the question, "Who among you is loyal?"

Rescue Report:

115.11.13 19:04 Strictler1990 8 people

I believe they were bounty hunters; there were three of them. They were on us very quickly even though we did not have a suspect tag. There was little warning and we barely escaped. We suffered structural damage to the DSS Mayflower and some crew injuries are reported.

This attack troubles me because, once again, it was almost disastrous. Mine was the fault for again sliding into the "routine" mentality. We have taken many precautions in procedure and method to protect ourselves once we are criminally tagged but we have not taken into account what happened today. The fact that we took as much damage as we did was due to my marginal skills as a pilot. I wish I could say I am getting better at this, but apparently not. That said, I recorded some new pre-patrol procedures that will be a part of every flight from now on. It will not prevent attack, but it will raise the likelihood of survival.

I am going to go and visit injured crew members now.

Rescue Report:

115.11.14 21:45 GreenCaleria 97 people
115.11.14 22:41 (10 militants, Blue Pill, Exile, X-Instinct, a Corpse)

We believe they are a group of drug dealers trying to smuggle their wares into the lucrative Jita drug market. However, these militant drug dealers did not account for the capsuleer pilot willing to take their transport fare but not willing to risk customs fines. Either that or the pilot got caught and was destroyed. The dealers are not talking. Eventually, they will end up in our Yulai center. The corpse is a bit of a mystery. We are not sure of the drug dealers were involved in the death or not.

In other news: For the first time since we opened our Matriculation Program, one of our rescued orphans is likely going to be adopted by a capsuleer couple. Remaining anonymous for now, the couple has undergone required foster care training, home evaluation, and screening and is prepared for the process of adopting the orphan Abigail, mentioned in several posts. We are excited and hopeful that this will be good for all involved. May Cotton, our Social Programs Director has initiated contact with the couple. We are preparing to hand the process over to the couples local HHS jurisdiction for the remainder of the process just as soon as we hear back from the couple. SCC has granted Abigail "injured slave" status due to her PTSD diagnosis. This is a positive development, because it means her travel papers are good for all jurisdictions.

Rescue Report:

115.11.16 01:11 Xert Madullier 48 people
115.11.16 14:32 Yasik Momaki 10 people

Related? Doubtful. But then again, we are all of the same human family ultimately and our fate is tied together. Mr. Momaki's actions bear heavily upon me just as Mr. Madullier's actions bear heavily upon me. Let none of us wash our hands of the actions of others as if we have nothing to do with it. Let us rather look at the collective whole as if we really do have an influence on the future of that collective. Let our individual actions be conducted in such a way that they become the maxim for the whole.

Rescue Report:

115.11.17 14:29 Mining Mole 26 former slaves, 11 hounds, 7 slavers
115.11.17 20:10 Aaron Merric 35 people
115.11.17 22:25 Caldron Karr'lay 10 people
115.11.18 13:43 Psykick Lyrikah 26 people

The 17th was an active rescue day, but also an active confiscation day. We were able to confiscate another set of five 1400 mm siege cannons. These devices rest from war and destruction in perpetuity. We cannot correct the ills of society without addressing the root causes of violence and hatred. The violent spirit cannot maintain a peaceful society. One need not be a pacifist to recognize that violence must decrease of the prosperity of a society is to increase. War is inefficient and wasteful and should be recognized as the relic that it is.

Rescue Report:

115.11.19 15:29 Quywex 35 people, Zoxar 13 people
115.11.19 18:30 naois raghnall (13 former slaves, 3 slavers, 7 hounds, 10 long-limb Roes, 10 water, 10 wheat)

It isn't that often that we see a pilot discarding commodities along with passengers. Such was the case in the second report above. Mining operations that use slave labor sometimes dispatch mining crews across borders with included supplies for an extended stay. If they contract with a capsuleer pilot for transport, they take the risk of never arriving at their destination. Such was the case here.

Rescue Report:

115.11.21 13:43 Enyalie 56 people

Never assume that laws within a system or groups of systems are consistent with each other. Unfortunately, the legal system is not like nature. Politics have determined that laws governing such things as inter-sovereignty slave transport do not impact intra-sovereignty slave sales between capsuleers. Apart from all the arguments and endless debate regarding slavery and religion, slave ownership among capsuleers remains a highly unreligious matter.

Those we rescue are technically "owned" by any number of capsuleers religious, pagan, atheistic... They are not object of religious devotion by Holders and somehow lost or stolen. They are object of commerce bought and sold on the capsuleer market. Until and unless their legal status is changed and they become unsalable, they remain so objectified.

DSTON believes that ultimately, all slaves that pass out of slave territories should automatically be given a new legal status whereby they cannot be sold. We don't hold our breath in hope that this will happen, but we bring it up now and then as a matter of value