Intergalactic Summit

I'll be totally honest - I'm not really sure. It might take six months, or a year, or more, or less, but remember that my trust isn't really what you need to worry about - I'm not a part of the TLF. I mean, if you desire my trust, that's a different matter, but while of course I consider my opinion important, I'm realistic enough to freely admit there are way more important opinions in this particular matter. You've convinced them to trust you enough to let you into their corporation - for now, that's enough.

I've seen turncoats before - and, with the most respect possible, that is what you are, even if I think in this case you made the right choice. Most people simply don't have the capacity to turn their backs on their homelands. I've felt the temptation to abandon the Federation several times, but I've never been able to do it, and I don't think I ever will. In abandoning the Amarr Empire, whether or not you've abandoned God or other beliefs (such as the divinity of the Empress, etc.), you've abandoned a part of yourself, no matter how unpleasant and misguided that part might have been. Now, as far as I can tell, you're sincere about replacing that part of yourself with a loyalty to the Minmatar Republic. The thing is, you've already shown that you can turn your back on something you pledged loyalty to once - and with any moral dilemma, the first time is always the hardest. A lot of people - Amarrian and Minmatar both - are simply waiting for you to do it again, because if you do, it will undoubtedly be easier the second time. There's a reason people really don't trust the Nefantar.

You will be judged by your actions, not by your words or intentions, and both sides - for fairly similar reasons, ironically - will judge you pretty harshly no matter what you do.

But no-one said doing the right thing was easy, and if you can accomplish what you've set out to do despite that adversity, reaching the end of your journey will be all the more rewarding.

I wish you the best of luck with this choice, I think you made the right choice too. I admire your dedication to your ideals over corporation or nation. Truly you are a strong person in order to do that.

While I can congratulate you on your decision to take arms against the Empire, I must caution you on your adherence to the very religion that brought that Empire to darken the skies of my homeworld in the first place. Many of us do not trust any who would preach its tenets, and some will not welcome you.

You should continue to consider your both your words and actions with care as you walk among us.

Just as true Faith can never be found in the sharp end of a Vitoc Needle, true change can never be brought to the Amarrian culture at the barrel-end of an Autocannon Turret.

The cause of ending Amarrian Slavery is one worth persuit.

However, you will never have a meaningful part in making that change happen from the outside, as a member of a violent paramillitary organization.

Change will come to Amarr, and it will come from within.

Of that, we can be certain. The only question is one of time.

But people who wage War on Amarr do more to serve the old pro-slavery hardliners than they do the modern liberal Amarrians cause.

Every Slave Ship you kill, every Amarrian Transport destroyed, serves only as grist to the Amarrian Establishment that the Matari are still savage, brutal killers who need to be brought to heel in the Faith.

Slavery will end, and it will end diplomaticly and culturally.

it will never end by the gun.

It didn't get started with hugs and kisses. Without violence the first of the post-Amarr Minmatar wouldn't have escaped. Without violence, they wouldn't have freed more. Diplomacy is fine and should be the source of our compromise and eventual peace, but putting down our guns will not brings us any closer to mutual prosperity than Vitoc did.

Pre-Capsuleer Time is meaningless. The verse has changed on a fundamental level, and what came before is nothing.

Since the dawn of the New Age, there has already been progress, and more made every day.

The fact that I, an Amarrian, faithful to GOD, not the theocracy, am free to be openly liberal on the issue of Slavery, openly call for it's end, and a new course taken by the Faith to bring it's wisdom to those who seek it, speaks volumes in and of itself.

Time is the greatest weapon against the darkness of Slavery.

Time.

And with Time, the black and bloody scar on the Amarrian Soul that Slavery is WILL be laid low.



When, since the dawn of man, has shooting a man changed his mind?

It's a laughable childish tactic, used by wrongheaded fools throughout human history.

Progress cannot be made by force.

If it could, the Amarrian way, of slavery by force, would have worked.

The fact you don;t see the irony here is stunning.

In effect, you argue that Amarrian Faith can never convert by force, but Matari liberalism can.

Foolish children. Given the gift of being a Capsuleer, but apparently not enough sense to see the Slave Holders and the Slave Fighters are two sides of the same violent, circular repetative cycle coin.

That every ship you destroy or Amarrian settlement you raid, provides the Amarrian hardliners the fodder they need to plead their case against you in the Imperial Court of the Empress.

True change comes not from violence. But from diplomacy and conversation and time. Always time, especially now, in this new age, where men like us can and do rule Empires of our own.

Remember, Empires rarely fall due to threats from outside. They always fall from within.

You are so not invited to my party now.

Oh, I don't know -- we could use a new pinata.

Captain Goldcore, I'll accept your implicit challenge. You think you can 'crush' us?

Bring...it...on.

Wait, wait... it worked once, maybe it'll work again.

Thgil Goldcore... join us.

I'm going to start calling you Scagga.