Intergalactic Summit

The thing is, even if this individual were a baseliner using this girl's NeoCom to post, he is at least aware enough of how capsuleer society works to know where to post his video. If he knows that, then I'm quite sure he is equally aware of all that capsuleers have done, and are willing to do, to slaves - often for sheer enjoyment. In fact, his choice of victim probably had a lot to do with that fact.

All of us are as bad as the worst of us. The capsuleers who grab headlines dirtside, the ones who slaughter thousands or millions publicly without hesitation, those individuals form the image that exists in every mind about what a capsuleer is, what they do.

Killing slaves as a retalitory action would do nothing but solidify this individual's resolve, Miz. But I'm sure you know that. Killing prisoners of war doesn't really fit either, since their language suggests they are outside the conflict and indifferent to soldiers. I'm not even entirely convinced it's a Matari.



No, Diana, the language of monsters is fear, ignorance, and hate. Their stock and trade is in human suffering. It is universal. To claim that monsters don't exist amongst our own is to invite disaster.

*Enkil "Havohej" Akheteru appears in a cozily lit parlor, reclining in an overstuffed leather chair, a slaver hound panting to his left, and an Amarrian boy roughly 19 years of age kneeling to his right. As he speaks, he pets the boy's hair idly as though he's mistaken the young man for the dog.*


No Amarrian prisoners of war were ever handled by Du'uma Fiisi Integrated Astrometrics. We purchased one thousand Amarrian slaves from the Angel Cartel, in a deal brokered by Aria Jenneth - then a member of the Cartel.

Du'uma Fiisi did not wish to murder those people. I did. However, I was not disappointed by the surprising outcome.

Not a single one of the Matari freed into Du'uma Fiisi's care were sold back into slavery. They were all subjected to a three-phase program of Evaluation, Education and Re-evaluation, save for a few thousand who were subjected to an even more specialized and strenuous regimen personally overseen by Mizhara Del'thul, at the time one of my best and most respected pilots.

Of the one million Matari freed by our efforts, a few dozen thousand were, after several months of intensive educational programming, deemed to be too thoroughly brainwashed by generations of indoctrination in the Amarr Empire. Rather than release these people into the republic - several tens of thousand new "Abel Jareks" to corrupt Minmatar youth and inject their twisted slaver's faith into Minmatar culture and society - Du'uma Fiisi had to make a decision. Kill them, or give them back to the slaver.

Du'uma Fiisi would never, under any circumstances, surrender a Matari to the slaver's whip. They were told that they would be returned to Oris. They were loaded onto a Fenrir-class freighter. That freighter was then destroyed by Du'uma Fiisi director Zuzanna Alondra.

The rest of the freed Matari, the great majority of them, were taught new trades and shuttled to the numerous customs outposts set up by the Republic to receive the newly-free Starkmanir and Nefantar from the Mandate, for reintegration into Minmatar society.

I don't know what manner of half-assed intrigues go on in the Empire. I don't care. Keep me out of it.


Idiot. Yes, you can. I don't want my enemies to change. I want them to suffer.

For instance, I now own 40 Amarrian slaves. Like the ones I bought from the Angel Cartel several years ago, these are not "prisoners of war." They were free Amarrians, minding their own business, taken unlawfully by all standards - including the Empire's. Be that as it may, now they are mine. And they are being treated as "fairly" as any Holder treats their stock, I assure you.

I am considering taking the Evaluation and Re-education facilities we used several years ago out of mothball and purchasing more Amarrians for a.... socio-religous experiment. But I haven't decided, yet. Anyway...

I doubt there is anything worth reading beyond the first page of this thread, so I won't bother. At this point, I am bored of defending or explaining our actions with regard to the one million Matari slaves we freed back then. I know that we made the right decision - the decision entities like Electus Matari were too weak to make - and that is all that matters.

Anyone who doesn't like what we did, who still has a bug up their bums about it... you can either put a bounty on my head, or come and find me in the Bleaks.

End transmission.

*At his Master's terse command, the young Amarrian scurries forward to reach for the button and the transmission terminates.*

Never saw them, because even a thought of these abominations on our ancestral planet makes me vomit.

But I highly doubt that Caldari would ever do to them what Gallente are doing with our POWs.

Returning to these enclaves, Tibus Heth-haan was too merciful to them. I would prefer them to be wiped clean from face of our Home, so not a single subhuman filth ever defiled with their presence the place our ancestors came from.

Right, so, first of all - anyone from Scope Works who doesn't like the calibre of people I fly with can now shut their mouths. That guy is so unbalanced he probably leans at a 45 degree angle when he walks. I'll also consider my point about becoming a monster to fight monsters proven, as well.

You can argue that Havo is his own, special, kind of crazy - but he isn't. He's just the end of the path the rest of you are on. A special degree of a very normal kind of crazy caused by not being told 'no' often enough. Like many in his situation, he derives far more satisfaction from fighting for 'the cause' than he ever would in actually achieving it. The man said it himself - he doesn't want his enemies to change, he wants them to suffer.

It's only when I look at people like this that I realise how far I am from hitting bottom. I actually cared more about a resolution of my cause than I cared about fighting for it and, however badly you think I've handled it, I'm managing to come to terms with a Universe without that cause in it.

Capsuleers. Discussing morality and ethics... All the baseliners we have killed are rolling in their graves.

...you really gonna rest on laurels from FIVE years ago Ixiris? Jeesh.

That was sort of my point.

That's...kind of sad. I mean if you had something more recent, ok. But...meh whatever.



Go for it.

I dunno. The fleets we've ran together have been anything but sad. Actually anything but ANY negative adjective to be honest.

Are you gonna rage and declare your undying hatred for me again now?

Pretty sure it's more than some ONE. Dunno if I can say the same for you.