Intergalactic Summit

Slavery is eternal, and any so-called Empress who thinks otherwise has vacated her throne, if she ever legitimately held it in the first place.

I know you like to proclaim what other people want and fight for so you can tear it down, but the strawmen you're knocking down need to be better camouflaged, Tuulinen. The slaves I want freed are all of them. If there are even a single one of them that fits within the Tribes, I don't know. I almost did, but it's not where I belong and I'm fairly sure most certainly do not. There's a difference between ending slavery and tripling the Republic's population overnight.

Most slaves in the Empire, my people or theirs, do not belong anywhere else. No one contests that. It's where I was born, it's where my closest kin where born and where most of them live. People just want to live their life, and most of them prefer to live where they always have.

The thing is, out of all those countless billions, there are those who do not. There are those who belong elsewhere. There are those who yearn for different lives, in other places be they within the Empire or otherwise. To do this, they need to be free. If there is even one of my people who desires a life other than slavery, then every second they remain enslaved is a crime and a travesty that is unforgivable.

Of course, you are right in one thing. The release of the slaves was a good thing. Every slave becoming a free man or woman is a good thing. The reason I do not show gratitude is the intent and motivation behind that act, which was a calculated and shrewd act with the intent to do as much harm as possible to her enemies while garnering a staggering amount of PR points. It's beautifully done and I applaud the shrewdness, but I do not pretend to be grateful knowing why she did it. She achieved more harm to her enemies and huge gains for herself by releasing slaves that are free only in name, with their minds remaining enslaved by chains stronger than any physical ones.

I will have to admit it is vexing to see you pretend to be stupid enough not to see this, just so you can justify fighting for her.

If it was hostile it was no more hostile than the sending of missionaries. And missionaries at least are deliberately sent. Those former slaves that chose to move to the Republic, did so because they wanted to, on their own free will for whatever myriad reasons they may have had. The Emancipation had no mandate-to-move. In fact, if anyone is to be blamed then it would people like SOE and Interbus for providing free transport to the Republic, and Republic officials for offering free citizenship and housing arrangements. Both encouraged a lot more to move who otherwise wouldn't have.

But really, I don't care what it was. What I care about is the response from Republicans who demand freedom for slaves and then treat those freed slaves like dirt because they don't follow the culture the Republicans were hoping for. If Republicans want Amarr's slaves to be free, then they'll have to deal with the fact that most of them will be culturally Amarr, not Minmatar. If they don't like that, then they can stop asking for it.

The end of slavery is also what Amarr seek, once it has served its purpose and is no longer needed.

Whatever Kernher. If your zombie empress had really wanted to do a good deed why the hell didn't she enter into discussions with the Republic to facilitate a orderly release and repatriation of those individuals? Instead she unilaterally "freed" (dumped) hundreds of millions of people with no thought given as to where they would go or how they would survive. If she truly cared she would have made them full imperial citizens and provided them a means to fully integrate into Amarrian society. The fact that she basically tossed them out onto the streets and suggested they board the next starship to Minmatar space tells me that Sarum was putting on a show and nothing more.

Or you could stop being an impatient troublesome little brat, sign yourself over to a proper Holder who will show you The Way, and help us along, hm?

Pilot Tuulinen I wonder how your supposed dispassionate outlook will survive when the imperials come for your people. You do realize that the "reclaiming" applies to the State as well? You may be partners of convenience for now but make no mistake that the Amarr view you Caldari the same as they view us Matari; as non-believers to be forcibly converted through the use of generational slavery, controlled with TCMCs and Vitoxin, as a culture not worthy of existing.

No.

Although superciious, sour-faced Amarrian prostitutes are, of course, always welcome to come and try to make me.

Don't do it, Mitara. RR Domi trap.

They WERE made full Imperial citizens. What the hell do you think emancipation is? Every single slave emancipated by Her Imperial Majesty, or any other Holder, is from then on regarded as a citizen in proper standing with the Empire. My family and I received our citizenship once we were freed, as happens with any other emancipated slave. And they had plenty of means to integrate into Amarr society, and most did. It was only a comparative few that moved to the Republic.

And why exactly would she have needed to confer with the Republic over actions taken by the Imperial government towards Imperial citizens? Former slaves are not Republic citizens unless they choose to be. The release was a release of Imperial citizens. A "repatriation" is a return to a person's place of origin and citizenship. Guess what? For former slaves, that's the Empire, not the Republic. That some chose to move to the Republic was a decision made of their own initiative with their own new independence.

Again, the Emancipation had no mandate for former slaves to move to the Republic. Any that went there, went there of their own choice, because they wanted to emigrate. The Empire had no reason whatsoever to have to confer in any way with the Republic government, because the Republic government has no authority over Imperial citizens. The only point at which they become a concern for the Republic is when they move to the Republic.