Intergalactic Summit

Do you ever vet what you say? Yes, Kalaratiri is a former Angel, yes some of the pilots she flies with have Sansha sympathies and yes, our corporation has a contract with the 24th IC.

An outspoken grudge against the Republic? Pyre is, at heart, a Kaalakiotaa backed corporation. It is based in the State which the Republic is AT WAR WITH.

The Tower got reinforced by a PYRE fleet and, earlier, finished by a fleet led by PIE.
You've got to ask them what they found inside the wreckage or whether there were any survivors.

My thanks extend to all of PYRE, especially Evi for the initiative she showed. This is the PYRE that I consider it a point of pride to have served, even for a short time with. I only wish you had been able to rise above and see it through to the end.

It is pleasing to hear that Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris coordinated the removal of the structure. As for the destruction of the Ishukone-Raata observer at the hands of PYRE is concerning, but not surprising. A pity.

My condolences for the loss of your new tower, Mr Nauplius.

Doesn't sound like you had much stront, sir. Better luck next time.

Towers are often a labor of love. I've lost towers in the past, I blame Shelby, but they've always risen again. Once all these vultures stop bickering and fighting over your spoils I'm sure you'll rise again too.

So that bored privateer organizations, mercenaries and loyalists can kick it down over and over and over at the expense of who knows how many unlawfully-confined individuals?

It was inevitable Tuulinen-haan, yes. I would not tarnish my honor, nor integrity by setting our very steep differences aside in order for us to have a working relationship.. While we have been tip-toeing around this for the past year, Ishukone-Raata was never the aggressor. I'd advise you to pin the blame elsewhere.

You failed yourself, and your ancestors the moment you threw yourself in with that lot of exiles and criminals. We shall see how long your honor lasts with the company you keep Tuulinen-haan, after all a foundation is only as solid as the land its settled.

We are communicating in text.

Okay, let's remedy that. Next time we try to convey sarcasm, we should end the sentence with this punctuation mark: (!)

Or we can use italics.

I encourage everyone to build their own tower, create their own home for themselves.

Preferably in Anoikis.

While they're flying with us they are required to shoot a tightly defined subset of the people they would normally be shooting and are working in concert with organisations that have goals aligned with, instead of directly opposed to, two of the four Empires. This is the only part of it that actually does makes sense to me - we have taken people who would normally be a blight upon the stars of New Eden and made them operate as a force for good in their professional lives - no matter what they believe in their heads or get up to in their private lives. The concrete benefits are immediate and provable through the use of simple metrics.

If you want to get into ideological and metaphysical discussions then I freely admit that they are still Angels, Sansha, Freebooters or whatever else they were before they left and they still will be on their departure. Many of them are thoroughly vile in their personal habits, vices and opinions. Nobody is saying that Vincent Pryce is no longer an Angel Loyalist - but he isn't flying for the Angels while he's with us. He is obeying our Rules of Engagement and provided your life choices haven't put you in a position to be engaged by us, you are now demonstrably safer.

People have laughably discussed what might need to be done to bring the former-TSF pilots back into the fold of polite and civilised society. I am not in the business of 'pie in the sky' and will settle for the fact that we originally achieved stopping TSF from processing State pilots into drones, proceeded through to them only processing Pirate crews and have now achieved them not taking POWs at all. Gwen, you are quite welcome to visit our current FOB and try and do better in a sit-down meeting with your chosen Sansha aligned pilot.

I would have thought that the actions of people like Nauplius would have made some sort of an impression. You can't interdict the actions of Capsuleers using the behavioral models we have inherited from our time as baseliners. Capsuleers are mercurial and, once they willingly surrender their need to be part of our society, largely unchained by our laws and morality.

Not that I have a great deal of faith in the so-called integrity and honour of other capsuleers. They are far too often used as excuses, in my opinion, for people far too willing to commit evil acts under the cover of some surface-ideology. I will not be party to that kind of failure of leadership or personal ethics. My honour will not be fed at the expense of feeding a starving child or healing a sick person or employing the dispossessed. It neither excuses nor acts in a form of moral alchemy to purify the actions of the cruel or cowardly.