Intergalactic Summit

Soil herself with some heathen? Please.

How about they prove they didn't have some Entosis Link receiver onboard? I don't know. Recent tests show that Entosis Link does not even activate on other ships. Only Drifters can do that to others and as far as I remember they do not leave their shps intact when they explode.

A thousand years ago, the Imperial Guard shot and killed a thief who had stolen one of the then Empress Consort's undergarments.

He was heading away from the palace, and was thus no threat to the Empress.

Makes you wonder what he was looking for, doesn't it ?

Detain, try, execute according to the law. Or does the rule of law not apply, when the Empress disagrees with the Yulai Convention?

Oh, and Goldfinch. Were I to operate a Bastion device, I incur a weapons flag. Is this to say I should be freely engaged by all and sundry?

This hurts my brain.

Alright. We have an elder mentor of an organization that runs educational institutions conducting scans in what is essentially a public place, in a Gnosis, on an Avatar. What you're calling an offensive module does no damage, and has no effect on capsuleer ships. I know this, having tested these things extensively.

Explain to me how this makes him an assassin who discharged his weapon, a credible threat despite the established fact that CONCORD clearly didn't care. Explain it like I'm five, because your logic is frankly baffling to me now.

Boy, are you naive.

Vess, the Empress's ship had been scanned a number of times before it had cleared the Emperor Family Station in Amarr. During her appearance last week, she had been rammed repeatedly by Capsuleers who wanted to impede her travel. Last time and this time, I believe pilots had engaged her despite CONCORD rules, simply to make a political statement.

Unfortunately, this is a normal situation when a political leader's ship enters space.

My issue here is this: Raish's ship was downed under suspect circumstances. While clearly the situation was provocative, he was not clearly hostile, nor aggressive. All I want is more information, to establish what exactly Raish thought he was researching, and why exactly the Empress thought his scans were so much more threatening than anyone else's. Had she stated he was attempting to suborn ship's systems, or had the Empress's ship began to malfunction, then he was obviously a clear and present danger. Were it a Matari attempting novel scans, I would likewise not question the situation.

However, failing those things, we're presented with a situation where Raish, a representative of a reputable academic institution, was met with a response disproportionate to his actions.

This raises questions.

That the Empire loyalists seem intent on completely dismissing my concern is frankly insulting.

The vulnerability of Imperial capital ships to Entosis link cyberwarfare.

Thank you for the thorough and insightful legal analysis.

Knowing what he was researching I can understand the desire to know that. Though I do also wonder why as someone of a reputable academy he couldn't request to make these scans. Anyone writing a paper at a scholarly level would have to ask permission to use other peoples work, or to use their equipment. What he did is not the same as if you or I did it, that's absolutely right. Really I don't get why anyone was allowed near her in general.

Perhaps if CONCORD was more competent and willing to release the documents pertaining to the laws we should be following, miscommunication like this wouldn't happen.

Regardless, the Gnosis was no threat to a titan, escorted by a fleet of super carriers and Capsuleers and was retreating at the time of its destruction. They simply could have taken him into custody instead of destroying the vessel, then perhaps they would have someone to interrogate instead of being blind to his intentions.

The Empress has a trigger finger not unlike most Capsuleers.