Intergalactic Summit

Unfortunately it is not. As Vero and Tuulinen - on either side of the fence here I might add - have agreed, the aggression of neutrals is very nearly impossible to avoid. Even with a working policy of leaving neutrals alone it is frequently impossible to do so. This campaign is being run differently, however, and I applaud that clarity.

I don't think most people would consider me very aggressive, and I have a negative sec status myself. I spend what I consider a wasteful amount of time having to bump it back up. Neutrals are very arguably more of a threat than the militias, and there can be quite a bit of mindgames to play on gates to this regard.

Tell your lies elsewhere Gallente scum etc etc etc.

The Truth

Dude. You know you can't do that. You'll bring down the wrath of my minions, who I set to auto-aggress any who break my laws.

If Soter wants to be "free", then get a damn shuttle, warp to any planet with indigenous life, leave all your posessions and clothes behind in the shuttle, blow it up, and run to the woods naked, to live with animals like an animal, FREE.

Meanwhile we are here fight for humanity and civilization against your savagery. If you want to go free and become another filthy animal, please go ahead and do so. But while you try to enforce your ideal of savagery into others, you will be stopped by our bullets.

And have a nice jam.

Glad I grabbed some earlier.

*hands over a bowl of popcorn*

For some reason I keep picturing someone sitting inside one of the Stations hiding out and Station Trading. Oh wait, that's me hehehehehe.

The aggression of neutrals is not the point... I have taken part into that militia business for several years and I am well aware of all the situations that can happen.

All I am saying is that stating that there is no general rule and that appreciation is left to every fleet commander is indeed, ambiguous, and eventually lead to unconscious and sloppy policies.

I have always played by the rules (NRDS) and handled every situation perfectly fine. Some other groups like PIE Inc are a testimony to the validity of those policies. I still think humbly that doing otherwise by eluding the question is done only by disregard towards those issues, and sometimes, a certain willingness to actually get kills to conform to the capsuleer society where killboards are the only currency.

I was talking about universal freedom, not your gallentish "concepts".
But, looking at gallente actions you could simply derive a formula for gallentean form of... "freedom", which would be something like that: "What gallentean can do, is not allowed to others"

Personally speaking I would say ISK is the only currency worth a damn and killboards remain simply a statistical metric. However I certainly don't populate my own killboard for the simple pursuit of mere statistics and kill-to-death ratios. The pleasure of the pursuit and chase, the combat itself, the struggle followed by triumph or defeat these are reasons enough to engage in acts of violence for me. Killboard statistics ticking over in some DED database are simply the end-results but never the end-goal.

rofl

What Gallanteans lack in technology, they compensate with blind rage, war and killings.

I am not surprised.