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In Memoriam, Empress Jamyl of Amarr - A Personal Statement
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Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#1 - 2015-08-21 18:51:23 UTC
I am utterly devastated. The whole of the Empire, all of us, will be in a state of shock and mourning. Jamyl was a wonderful, warm and compassionate person who people, not just in Amarr, but throughout the cluster, loved and will mourn as a friend. My thoughts and prayers are with her family, and with all of the families bereaved in this quite appalling tragedy.

I feel like everyone else in the Empire right now – utterly devastated. We are today a nation, in Amarr, in a state of shock, in mourning, in grief that is so deeply painful for us.

She was a wonderful and warm human being. Though her own life was often sadly touched by tragedy, she touched the lives of so many others in Amarr – throughout the cluster – with joy and with comfort. How many times shall we remember her, in how many different ways, with the sick, the dying, with children, with the needy, when, with just a look or a gesture that spoke so much more than words, she would reveal to all of us the depth of her compassion and her humanity. How difficult things were for her from time to time, surely we can only guess at – but the people everywhere, not just here in Amarr but everywhere, they kept faith with Empress Jamyl, they liked her, they loved her, they regarded her as one of the people. She was the people’s Empress and that’s how she will stay, how she will remain in our hearts and in our memories forever.

She seemed full of happiness, full of life. I'm told that she was great fun to be with and she was an unusual but a really warm character and personality and I will remember her with very great affection. I think the whole Empire will remember her with the deepest affection and love and that is why our grief is so deep today.

Dolce et decorum est pro Imperium mori
Markus Reese
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2015-08-21 19:02:59 UTC
An exellent and touching epitath if she was indeed killed.

However, such thoughts dishonor the amarrian nobility. In my time working with amarrians, i have expressed distaste for the secular attitude but held in high regard the pride and unity so many possess.

So I ask you, if she indeed has been assassinated, is it not better to rally instead of mourn? Is that not the true will of the empress?

To quote Lfod Shi

The ratting itself is PvE. Getting away with it is PvP.
Shaddam Daphiti
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2015-08-21 19:19:39 UTC
Make no mistake Mr. Reese, Amarr is rallying... but we also mourn as you would the loss of any loved one.
Her Holiness was at once Mother, Sister and Priestess to all of Amarr. So yes we don our black... but we also load our lasers.

We shall overcome this atrocity... make no mistake!
Markus Reese
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2015-08-21 19:37:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Markus Reese
I have never been amongst amarr in private mourning. I had not considered. I offer my respect, condolences and an apology for my brashness.

((OOC, never considered donning black. Guaranteed an avatar change in support when I get back on this evening))

As I pledged before, my purpose is protection of those who believe in justice and freedom. Too many innocents cost at what I otherwise would have stayed sideline to. As such, my full arsenal is now directed without reservation to the drifters. There is no justification. Plenty of alternatives if it was just jamyl they were after. Clearly diplomacy never wws considered.

To quote Lfod Shi

The ratting itself is PvE. Getting away with it is PvP.
Pieter Tuulinen
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#5 - 2015-08-21 21:49:49 UTC
Despite any harsh words that may have been exchanged by our organisations in the past, I offer you the sincere condolences of an ally for the potential loss in combat of your leader.

For the first time since I started the conversation, he looks me dead in the eye. In his gaze are steel jackhammers, quiet vengeance, a hundred thousand orbital bombs frozen in still life.
Vlad Cetes
Original Sinners
Pandemic Legion
#6 - 2015-08-21 22:24:19 UTC
There is a saying we use in null security space for this type of engagement:

Headshot.

While headshotting fleet commanders is not unheard of, this is the first time I have seen a head of state headshotted.