Intergalactic Summit

You side with Sansha and the Empire. You are even less Matari than I ever was. I would see PIE or CVA take them over someone as vile as you.

"It's just business"

Do not take my contempt for the Republic and it's methods to mean that I do not still care for my kin. My current employments is intended as.. shock therapy.

You can say much about the enemies of my people, be they PIE, the Empire, CVA or whoever else threatens my kin. At least they have principles and a cause, misguided as they may be. "It's just business" reveals how little you possess of both.

I have offered my aid. It is at the very limits of what can be done when dealing with Sansha without hitting a moral and ethical bedrock. If there'd been even the slightest hint of decency in Pyre or yourself, the offer would have been accepted without grandstanding and "staking claim".

And any "principle or cause" that makes you side with Sansha are bankrupt by default, and you know it.

The help you offered, while the offer itself is appreciated, is not what is needed.

However, more guns is always appreciated. Burning a tower is slow work and not much fun for anyone involved, and things that make that go faster are rewarded with increased respect and a seat at the negotiating table when it comes time to determine what to do with the rescued.

Any corporation capable of but not passing that small gateway (did you shoot at the tower) will not be considered for such a seat, and in fact if they are making demands or suggestions, will likely be sneered at with contempt because if there is one thing we cannot stand it is people who talk a big game but who have no follow-through.

There is no negotiating table, there are no demands nor diplomatic ventures to put on said table. There is an offer to aid those in need of it. It's been freely given and it is a measure of Pyre's fall from any vestige of honor or principle that these people are to be considered assets to be negotiated over.

I am less than impressed by the grandstanding on display. Pyre has been shown more than once that they are outnumbered and outmatched when push comes to shove, so this chestbeating is odd to watch.

The offer has been made and rejected, which eliminates at least some potential motivations. Any decent ones, for one.

No, she's clearly constitutionally unable - just as she is constitutionally unable to tell the difference between grandstanding and telling people to stop shouting at us.

I'd remind you that Nauplius was the one who advertised the fact that we were involved, obviously for the precise reason of trying to get as many capsuleers from differing factions to show up at the same time in the hopes of causing precisely this kind of charlie-fox. Who knows, perhaps he also enjoys the experience of having half the capsuleers who frequent this facility turning up and incontinently posting gibberish and threats?

What's hillarious was that we went fishing for an organisation to perform the second half of this operation precisely to avoid what's happened here and none of you would commit to it, you were either all 'too busy' or else just interested in who might turn up to get ambushed. Those of you who are interested in quietly talking towards the end of getting something achieved rather than just shiptoasting in here, anyway.

No. The poor slaves being treated so monstrously will neither be inducted into Nation or sold to the highest bidder as human chattel. Do not mistake the impulse to tell people trying to dictate terms to us to take a long walk off a short docking gantry as anything other than that.

I suspect the corporation will find it inconvenient to contribute to this thread any further.

I fail to see where anyone has tried to dictate terms to anyone, other than Tiberious here. We have offered aid, even going so far as to going through neutral third parties to give a degree of safety from violent shenanigans towards you, with no conditions or demands.

This has been met with blatant hostility, demands for violent interjection, potentially jeopardizing both our own and any survivors by making ourselves vulnerable to ambush for seemingly no reason other than a desire to create a conflict.

And I'd remind you Pieter, that Pyre were the ones advertising the fact that you had done this over the Summit, long before Nauplius posted anything here.

It is so nice to see that the one time someone other than PIE orchestrates an operation against the Butcher's towers, it turns into a public fiasco.

The Butcher does not need all of this attention. If you're going to assist in some way, then just do it. If you need to coordinate, then do it directly over private communication channels instead of over a public medium like this.

This is ridiculous.

At this point, I'd take any PIE involvement over the yammering chestbeating from the TS-F exiles. For all your moral failures in regards to human beings, there's at least a semblance of civility and I suspect simple offers of humanitarian aid would have been met with something other than "bring the spaceviolence or gtfo" thing.