Intergalactic Summit

Just remember that when you start killing Amarrians - not all of us support slavery. Some, like me, oppose it even while remaining loyal to the Empire as a whole. The Empire is not slavery. If the Empress were to abolish slavery tomorrow, we'd survive. And frankly, I think an economic downturn would be suitable penance for all the abuses that have occurred under slavery's banner.

Indeed, I can. As a matter of fact, I'm currently residing in the Federation. But I choose to remain loyal to my homeland. Because while it was the Empire that enslaved me, it was also the Empire that rescued me and freed me. I admit that my nation has many flaws, but I believe it can still be something better.

After that impressive display of cohesion, vocabulary and sentence structure, I would say that being outsmarted by Amarrians was somewhat of a forgone conclusion, yes?

Would someone care to educate Mr.Bachir on how many decades out of date his information is?

Since their rebellion over 125 years ago there have been zero sanctioned invasions of the Republic by the Empire.

If only everyone was so good at upholding treaties, hmm?

(PS - I eagerly await the knee-jerk responses on how upholding treaties is a sign of weakness or something.)

That the Elder Fleet attack on CONCORD wasn't sanctioned is an oft touted excuse, and if one were to believe it then by that same train of thought one could invade a dozen Republic worlds under the same masque.

However, this has not happened. My point still stands.

I think she was referring to the comments on enslavement. We have a bevy of treaties and the law of the Empress that does not allow us to forcibly enslave anyone from another empire unless they are directly engaging us in combat and are captured (thus becoming subject to our penal code). Warfare may be continuing according to factional dictates, but we aren't randomly enslaving all the Matari in systems that capsuleers are conquering or re-conquering on the Empire's behalf. Not only is that a largely dated practice, it's proven to not work in practice; the number of people who actually need to be enslaved to be converted is far less than a completely subjugated population.

So yes, that information is wrong and out of date. While conflict continues, you need to have evidence to "convict" people and send them into slavery these days. Slavers who don't like the new rules and haven't changed professional practice are generally working for other slaveholding organizations who are less scrupulous than the Amarrian Empire.

Should you encounter a registered Amarrian slaver trying to smuggle elicit slaves into the general population, do contact our civic authorities. Trust me, most of them have every reason to enjoy stripping dodgy slavers of their freedom. Those who intentionally falsify records to subvert the will of the Empress find themselves wishing slavery was an option for their punishment.

These days, if you're being swept up by a slaver as a non-criminal civilian, you're generally being taken to a Blood Raider farm, a Sansha operating table, or worse.

I fly around in Matari space armed with rockets. Do I get to be a nightmarish invader as well? That would be about the first time anyone has ever described me as a threat to peace.

The empires did legislate a war. Other than that, they really don't tend to invade each other with the epic displays you're referring to. Not only does CONCORD tend to get involved in that sort of thing, but the empires themselves don't make any headway doing that. If the Elder War proved anything, it's that such invasions tend to cost more than they're worth.

Are you sure you're not seeing capsuleer nationalist fleets shooting at each other? Those tend to be a lot more common and quite a bit less dangerous to planetside populations. For sure, they tend to care about little other than themselves.

Indeed. I would heartily support new mutual and beneficial endeavours between the Federation and the Amarr Empire. Especially now that the war between the Federation and the State has become stale, and even more absurd than before.

The Minmatar are a hindrance and a drain on our economy and social stability, as well as just a pure threat to the safety of our worlds. One has to be blind not to see the evidence of that.

Everywhere in the news.

Saves people from ignorance, does it? If so, you could use a few years of the collar and whip Blake.

There'll always be some Gallente hypocrites who love to reap the benefits of the Minmatar working men and women building their ships, maintaining their drones, dying in their wars, but hate to acknowledge their sacrifices, contributions and experiences.