Intergalactic Summit

I like Gehen Sealbreaker's proposal with one additional proposal, to have an Inspector General's office which is independent of the leadership, scientific, and administrative body in addition to the ethics committee. I think the ethics committee needs to focus on ensuring all is well internally and on a day to day basis, while the inspector general's office certifies major decisions, runs elections, and organizes forum discussions and symposiums just like this one.

Basically someone to expand on Joe Themachine's current temporary assignment and on a permanent basis. The inspector general's mandate would be to:

-Schedule, organize, and certify officer elections (if any)
-Run forums and discussions in a fair and equitable manner (and without interfering in the content of those forums)
-Be a neutral party, when called upon, to resolve disputes.
-audit material, financial, and resource usage to ensure donations are used for the purpose to which they are assigned.
-Investigate issues, misappropriations, misuse, and corruption.

And other responsibilities as mandated.

Instead of calling it this person an Inspector General I believe we should call him "Superior Agent of the Council"

To be transparent, Drake, you were voted out of your position as SEC lead by a two-thirds majority vote (10-5 as I recall). This was due not only to concerns regarding your position as a militant Nation sympathist but also due to aggressive actions taken against other members of the project and, later, projects under the umbrella of Arek'Jaalan itself.

To paint it any other way is to recall history through a heavily rose-tinted filter.

I would suggest that if we are to avoid some of the inter-factional strife that certainly did occur previously we pursue either:

1. A hard policy of total exclusion for you and yours (and anyone else who threatens the project directly or indirectly)

or

2. Request that you - and indeed all members - agree to abide by a NPSI ROE (or similar) while in fleets and also agree to take no aggressive action either individually or as part of a group (gang/corp/alliance) against projects within Arek'Jaalan.

While I make no secret of personally favouring the first I do recognize the fact that to enforce it would be both difficult to achieve and perhaps ultimately contrary to the stated goals of the project itself.

In any case I would not be supporting your return to any SEC related role.

Val didn't mean anything in any official capacity. She's simply referring to the same old status quo cliques calling the shots with people agreeing with them simply because if they're fame.

Cliques are bad unless it's our clique running the show? Sounds like every organization I've ever known. Ever.

Your emotions are getting the best of you today, Dr. Valate. So far, in this symposium, the idea of ditching the Council proposal does not seem very popular. I, too, think such an organ is vital to discuss such important matters. Joe TheMachine will tell us what it boils down to in the end, but I believe this idea will not go down without a vote.

Regarding Dr. Tukoss' materials not being made available yet, this is the safest course of action for now, as we precisely don't have all the information in hands, and no Council to examine this matter. Status quo, for a few more days or weeks, after three years of absence, will probably not change anything.



This is interesting, and I too think this would indeed add some much needed organization here.
However, as I stated before, I fear we might be a bit cluttered by Divisions actually, and merging some of them would be beneficial to a smoother day-to-day management. Why not expanding the Ethics Commitee's roles to this? Or, there was an old Administration Division.



I am, to a certain extent, admiring the sheer audacity of this proposal, Citizen Arson.
Do you really think there would be no-one in Arek'Jalaan knowing how deep your integration to Nation became?
Arek'Jalaan requires curiosity, empathy, and a passion for knowledge. Things that are only possible to a free mind. You might have kept more of your former personality than most of your True Slaves, but you are not your own master.
Arek'Jalaan has no use for puppets, and if your puppeteer himself wants to join the think tank - a grotesque idea - I think most of us would ask for the ongoing invasions and abductions of innocents to cease before we even listen, if you see what I mean.

To end on a lighter note, since this was pretty dramatic:



Who?

Mr. Sealbreaker,

I am an outsider, and don't understand most of specifics of the project. However, if your project is open and you take ideas from outsiders as well, I have a significant point of concern, as there were said nothing about origin of division leaders. I believe, if you can set an obligatory practice of screening all and everyone of the project members to check if they were of gallentean origin or had gallentean DNA in their genes, to be stripped from all their positions at once.

I hope that my idea will let you maintain your organization clean and prosperous.

Thanks, but I don't need remarks about "mental bars" from a tribal for whom even laying on ground mental bar would be too high.

I know that, Mr. Tuulinen.
My remark, although a bit hash, was more intended to knock Anslo off his high horse than a real question.

But I concede it was cold. People died in the numberous engagements of Huola Coalition you mention, and I did not mean to insult their memories by implying the battles they fought were meaningless. My apologies.

However, even if not meaningless, they are irrelevant. Arek'Jalaan is indeed a scientific body, what you seem to have overlooked. We have no claims on specific territory - apart our station in Eram - not even an official CONCORD registration. My corporation is a small, simple one, dedicated to the studies of some spatial phenomena. I take pride in that combat record you seem to view as insulting. Science doesn't exactly amount to "blowing up ****."

As a more combat-oriented pilot, if you wish to offer Arek'Jalaan assistance when the need arise, you will be most welcome, and praised, even, if you actions lead to protecting a great scientific advancement that would otherwise have been compromised. But still, our purpose is to research, invent, and develop the tools you use everyday, not use them.



This is a more delicate topic.

The opposition with Sansha's Nation is pretty straightforward, since the official threat issued by Sansha Kuvakei, though the channel of Slave Endoma01, during the attack on Madirmilire on the 30th of July YC113. Also, Arek'Jalaan mission statement is highly incompatible with Nation's actions.
But in the end, Arek'Jalaan is "at war" with Nation, not because they are not welcomed, but simply because that was was declared on Nation's side, and it's a war they wage against all the rest of New Eden. I doubt any of us don't personally know a crew or station personnel member who had a relative abducted by now.

Other "pirate" factions have helped or still help Arek'Jalaan, however, and the principle of presumptive meritocracy pushed forward by our founder, Hilen Tukoss, makes them welcome to. (See especially the line "A known pirate joining the collective being afforded the same opportunities, privileges and access rights as any other member.")

Most of the experiments undertaken by the Blood Raiders are unnerving, and, since you're so adamant on the value of combat records, you have probably noticed that I have to shoot down some of their ships daily. They do not like me at all, and, I must say, that sentiment is very well mirrored. However, I am not Arek'Jalaan. And unless the Council - or whatever structure replaces it - votes a recommendation of the Ethics Commitee barring all known Blood Raiders affiliates to participate, I will have to put my feelings aside.
Surprisingly, that can sometimes lead to interesting discussions, as Dr. Valate here made me realize you can be of Sani Sabik faith and not insane.



By all means, share ideas. This symposium was meant for this, I believe.

However, this particular screening is not reasonable, I fear. See "presumptive meritocracy", above. Again, I am only a cog in the machine, but I would be surprised if such motion was ever to be adopted by Arek'Jalaan.

I would like to reassure all readers that "new blood" is welcomed in Arek'Jalaan, as far as I'm concerned. What may seem a rigid extension of cliques and power games is merely "business as usual" in New Eden corporate world.

Since the requirement for entry as a simple member in Arek'Jalaan is "Anyone with an idea and not a Sansha Loyalist" (see above), which is quite low, it's quite normal that leading positions (sort of "officers") are subject to a much more rigid screening. And veterans of the project will be preferred, since we know them to be reliable, and not double-agents. With all the assets and firepower available to Arek'Jalaan governing body, it's a normal precaution to take. Think of this as appointing new Directors to your own corporation. You're going to trust your old friends more than outsiders.

You're going to regret this.

Madam Kim, your baseless bigotry and racism is neither welcome nor tolerated in any sort of educated circle.