Intergalactic Summit

Posted below is the exact text of a communication sent to Ston Momaki and forwarded to me by the same. We have been threatened if going public with the names of the person and organizations involved, but we cannot sit idly by and allow such threats to happen without informing the whole community. It took only moments after the Council of Elders convened to decide that this must go public without delay. No organization has the right to make such demands and threats and then to insist on anonymity besides.

24th Imperial Crusade Investigation
From: Thgil Goldcore
Sent: 2012.01.03 16:54
To: Ston Momaki

Mr Momaki;

I am to inform you that your Slave Maltruation program is to be investigated by the 24th Imperial Crusade. This investigation is to assure that resources within the Empire are not to be used against it. As such we will be looking for any connections to terrorist groups or supply lines to republic milita forces. Compliance is manditory and failing a proper inspection may result in millitary action.

I will be personally conducting the investigation and will expect a full tour of your facilities in which all areas will be open. I will be brining along a small team of spechalists who will also conduct a minor sweep of your facility to look for illegal activity. This should be a rather quick proccess and if you have nothing to hide, then you have absolutly nothing to fear.

You may publically announce that your being investigated, however, for security reasons you may not use my name or PIE inc. This is to prevent possible violence or loss of life of 24th imperial crusade personel. You may talk freely within your corporation, but if they break this rule you will have the same conciquences. Simply put, listing pubically or privately (outside your corporation at least) names of anyone involved will be considered an agressive act and delt with accordingly.

If you have any further questions, contact me. Otherwise expect coms from me to work out a time for the inspection. As I said, if you have nothing to hide this should be a rather quick inspection and wont take alot of your time.

Thgil Goldcore,
Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Why are you afraid, PIE? Why are you afraid, 24th Imperial Crusade? Why are you afraid, Thgil Goldcore of making your demands public? Why would you demand rather than politely request a tour of our facilities? Why would you threaten military action against a pacifist humanitarian corporation? What is a “small team of specialists” who will “sweep” our facilities?

Our priority is the continued freedom and safety of the residents of our Matriculation Centers. Should we just let PIE and the 24th IC sweep our facilities just because you say “compliance is mandatory?” I must admit, that I am a little taken aback by the heavy handedness of this.

Your threats and demands have been given to the Council of Elders in charge of our Matriculation Centers. They have issued the following response on behalf of our Matriculation Centers and program. Please note that our responses will be public.

Attention
Thgil Golcore, PIE, and the 24th IC,

We the Council of Elders of the Matriculation Centers of the Disciples of Ston cordially invite one representative of the 24th IC namely, Thgil Goldcore, to be accompanied by one representative of the Electus Matari and one representative of the Teraa Matar to a tour our Matriculation centers to be guided by the chief Elder Gladius and Sister Elder Verin. All parties will be unarmed during the tour. These conditions are established to maintain a check and balance and to provide for the safety of those in our centers. If these conditions are followed, we are glad to submit to an inspection by Ms. Thgil Goldcore.

The location of the Center will remain secret and transportation to and from the Center must be covert. We shall not risk the safety either of our residents or of those who provide facilities for our use. Many have risked a great deal to help us house and care for those we rescue. We will do nothing that may implicate them in any way or expose them to military or economic sanctions of those who oppose this work.

Our facilities have always been open to neutral parties. Both Concord and the SCC have been invited on numerous occasions to visit and inspect our facilities and that invitation remains open and without restriction.

On behalf of the Matriculation Centers of the Disciples of Ston,
Feanor, Elder

I would rather like to know who gave PIE the ability to speak for the entire 24th Imperial Crusade.

On a personal note, Manwe, I am very proud of you for calling Ms. Goldcore's bluff. You have my admiration and respect.

It's simply delightful how this Thgil or anyone from PIE have come to view themselves to be some kind of authority in the fair treatment of slaves.

My time in Aegis Militia made me consider for the first time the plight of my own people, for it was only in witnessing this atrocity myself that I came to believe that it was an issue worth concern. It opened my eyes to things that have taken a while to focus on, and every post on IGS about some slaver doing anything just screams to me hypocricy and a frightening madness where anyone could dare see another human as property.

Okay, let's break this down a little.

*You are concerned to the practices of this organization and demand disclosure.
*They are willing to disclose this information publicly, as in, all of New Eden.
*It's not okay that it's not just you.

You're not trying to protect anyone, you're a damned bully and not a very bright one now that you have publicly threatened someone for being too public about you being a bully.

As stated in the now public communication, I rather have settled this quickly and without incident if possible.

If any of you republic pilots are now planning on gate camping or starting war decing because of this, the need to keep it a private matter until it was settled is obvious and justified.

Oh, I just bet it was. You got caught making vague accusations and issuing threats to a humanitarian organization, and now you want to hush it up and walk away.

I volunteer to accompany any inspection teams that visit the Matriculation Center, if only to show up Ms. Goldcore's feeble attempt to bully her enemies into compliance.

Oh, ho, I see now. It was your own lives you were trying to "protect" with this "privacy". Now we should feel just terrible for knowing about your thoughtless and hysterical attack on other organizations and we should not even dare to think of acting against someone so just and righteous as yourself.

Here, I'll try to extrapolate an analogy for you...

It'd be interesting to see if this is infact sanctioned by the command of PIE Inc. Personal opinion of Captain Goldcore is that ever since she joined the corp (right from her first day with her big announcement) she's been a doe-eyed fangirl of her superiors, and this may just be another attempt to win favour, and possibly done without their backing.


If it IS with their backing, I'm suprised they didn't get someone higher up food chain to do the work, someone who might not completely screw up at the first contact diplomacy.

Teraa Matar of course will be more than happy to send a representative to accompany Commodore Goldcore on her investigation of your Matriculation Centers. We are honored to aid this enterprise any way we can.

Teraa Matar also recommend that PIE stop poking its fingers into places they simply dont belong. Of course, I want PIE to remain anonymous about this request, and not tell anyone.

Avlynka Surionen, Teraa Matar