Intergalactic Summit

As I see it, the fewer people, the more valuable each slave becomes. And the more valuable each slave becomes, the more effort expended to keep him or her alive. Consequently, the solution to slave death is fewer people. And the quickest way to fewer people is, well... more war!

Rescue Report:

116.03.04 13:45 20 rescued (sorry I didn't get the pilot name)
116.03.03 20:20 Sandra N 10 (Manwe's patrol)

Since we were in pod and on patrol at the same time, Manwe said that I should go ahead and register his report too. Hatred and fear are rife in our Cluster no more apparent than in the recent mass murder. When such a thing registers on the mind and emotions, a reaction is to reach out to someone near and embrace them and say to them, "you are my brother." We may not all be in the same place, but we hope for a day when such hatred is just gone and a distant memory of less evolved time.

So you "rescue" them, then chain them, collar them, beat them, stuff them full of a disease, then murder them yourself in a massive display of sacrifice to your God.

Do I have that about right?

I think if I was about to be "rescued" by you, I'd have rather died in the damn jetcan.

116.03.05 12:20 - 25 slaves rescued.

They've been given food and medical aid where needed. I have transferred them to the Ardishapur Family, where they can be sorted and sent to responsible Holders and kept from the grasp of capricious capsuleers and commoners.

Rescue Report:

116.03.03 23:02 Ananam Besuda 240 Elite Slaves
116.03.06 23:15ff Ananam Besuda 240 Elite Slaves, 20 Slaves

Faith in the Matriculation Center

There is a saying that there are no atheists in deathcans. This may be a truism of sorts but it is a short-sell of the more complex spirituality that we see formed and forming among those we rescue. Over the last couple years we have been able to make observations and see general patterns in what we would call the “unique monotheism” of the average rescued former slave.
These observations are not a promotion of any religion or faith; just observations that might be of interest to some. If there is a spirituality present among those we rescue it is most often monotheistic and either formed or partly formed by the Slaves’ exposure to the Amarr faith. Those who were at some point in their lives with a holder who inculcated a positive sense of devotion to deity and the practice of prayer find that faith present in the deathcan. Let me explain…

Many former slaves in the deathcan experience describe praying to God that their suffering might be seen by the Deity and that deliverance may be offered in His mercy. When deliverance comes there is a reinforcement that God has responded in mercy and that their suffering has brought the favor/grace of the Deity to bear upon their plight. Many former slaves have told us that they have been taught that in time, through the travails of their labor, service and struggle, that they may find both the path to God and their freedom. There is a translation of this that happens upon rescue and often forms the basis of an ongoing monotheistic religious practice.

The upshot of this is our observation that there is a subtle shift in the view of the Deity as one of judgment to one of responsive mercy. This evolution of monotheism is an interesting phenomenon and goes on to be formative in the Matriculants’ adaptation to life beyond slavery. Through education and social exposure as well as through access to religious services (Amarr and Other), Matriculants develop religiously along various paths. Atheism is rare but not unheard of. An altered monotheism as just described is common.

What also develops as what I might call a syncretized monotheistic spiritualism that comes from a well-established monotheism added to growing curiosity and learning about tribal spirituality after they have been rescued. In this way, Matriculants grow to own their own faith, develop their own practice, ritual and sacrament. Finally there are some who move away from theistic spirituality toward spiritism. What most delights me is that as the diversity develops an irenic spirit persists in the community as a whole. Perhaps it is this irenic spirit that can best teach us as capsuleers who are in such desperate need for peace.

Wrong, all people are my people. You are no longer worthy of my paradise though.

Rescue Report:

116.03.08 01:36 Spongargh 50 rescued
116.03.08 17:25 gEEkin Rollard 27 rescued, Ahrie Serine 50 rescued
116.03.08 23:32 Whyloginn Miromme 112 rescued

The Kaap Center received these 200+ Matriculants in healthy condition with a minimum of trauma considering how horrible a deathcan really is. From initial interviews, it appears that we were able to rescue them not too long after they were jettisoned. The longer the time spent in the deathcan, the worse the condition becomes. The more frequent the patrol cycle, the better.

Rescue Report:

116.03.09 01:20 31 rescued (2nd party pilot rescue and transfer)
116.03.09 13:04 Turbo Parmala 10 rescued
116.03.10 13:40 gedenktesterven 472 rescued

The third rescue was the largest since patrolling the Niarja corridor in the DSS Plowshare. With this many rescued, the crew of the Plowshare was put to the test. EMT's and trauma techs performed with excellence.

While we are very glad for any people rescue and treated humanely, we do share any confidence that slaves delivered (sold) into SCC controlled capsuleer markets including those that do not directly sell the same will avoid ending up in capricious capsuleer hands. We have found no mechanism of verification that slaves sold either to Ardishapur Family or Amarr Civil Service will not be in turn sold again through Civic Court markets. We have already learned that the SCC market rules are so liberal to allow a madman capsuleer to buy from the open market and turn around and mass exterminate the same. There simply is no safe alternative to taking personal responsibility for those we rescue. The capsuleer slave market is just that, a slave market.

Blood Sacrifice Report:
2014-03-08 ~15:00 6 Slaves

6 Slaves, recovered from Jark-Odatrik, trying to reach the Republic. They came one jump short. Their failure was their destruction, and their destruction glorified God.

Chained. Collared. But not stuffed full of Vitoc; no, not these. Blooded. And one part of their blood was drunk deep, and the other part offered unto God. Amen. Amarr Victor.

116.03.11 00:43 - 1 slave. Rescued from the wreck of Nauplius' tormentor in Ezzara.
116.03.11 02:36 - 14 slaves. Rescued from a can in Niarja.

All have been given proper care. I'll be transferring them to Ardishapur Family in the morning, where they will be under no threat of Blooding.