Intergalactic Summit

Three hundred and thirteen years ago, the Khanid Kingdom under King Garkeh Khanid the Second out of ambition for his own future, and that of his people cut ties with the Amarr Empire in a swift rebellion. Our soldiers and our citizens laid down their lives in the name of this ambition, which has guided us through times of hardship and forced austerity.

We may never know the toll in blood our secession cost us, but it bought a renewed vigor to our people.

The influx of liberal and progressive holders from diverse ethnic backgrounds lead to widespread adoption of egalitarian social policy and higher business investment. With greater liberties for the people to come together in the name of enterprise and determination to make new and exciting industries to counter the struggles our fledgling empire faced. No longer would a man be forced to have his line endure a thousand years of slavery in the hopes that one day, his ancestor will be a free citizen among us. No more would we ourselves be bound by repressive doctrine in the exploration of gods world. No more would we be shacked to superstitious conservatives in the exploration of new technology.

We forged an alliance with the Caldari, accepted millions of their people among us to become the Khaldari. The flow of ideas and information between us, free of the repressive Imperial trade laws or the violent enforcement of the orthodoxy saw us build a logistic foundation far more robust and dynamic than any within the Empire. Ever ready to swiftly adapt to changes in the world around us, and in our own needs.

The navy, founded by those soldiers who flocked to our side in the secession became stronger for it, our allies and our own ingenuity creating powerful new technologies and new applications for existing ones. Without hampering from ridiculous laws limiting processing power out of fear motors and power junctions may question instructions.

Our artists and intellectuals were able to create freely, without the absolute domination of a single tradition. Exploring foreign forms of art and making them our own. Enriching our culture in the process.

And finally we have escaped this disastrous proxy war, with Capsuleers throwing the lives of civilians, technicians and soldiers at the Minmatar Republic; a group we have no business fighting with threats such as Nation and the Blood Raider Covenant on the horizon and who have clearly suffered wounds to deep to allow them to be converted without a war that would kill far to many and destroy too many worlds to be beneficial to anyone.

Not a person in this galaxy can objectively look at the advancement we have made over the Empire, the freedom we have attained, the superstition we have gotten rid of and say "They have regressed as a society, made their lots in life worse."

So why now has our king chosen to ignore the benefit, why does he disgrace the sacrifices and struggles his own family made in order to supplicate ourselves once more to the Imperial throne? Simply because they tolerate the clone Sarum does not mean they will accept our disagreement with the God flesh doctrine. While they ally themselves with the Caldari, it does not make them friends of progress.

King Khanid the Second, do you forget how many of your people they have killed? How many of their own they burn in the name of the status quo, of religious orthodoxy or their superstitions? Do you forget that we were a haven to the groups persecuted and betrayed by the Imperial Throne for centuries, such as the Order of St. Tetrimon?

I request of you, as heir of Edani VI, to revoke your claim to the Imperial Throne, dismiss your champions and return us to a position of friendship with the Empire, not the subjugation you have been so diligently working towards. If not for the benefits our secession brought, then for the families the Empire destroyed because of it, for the sons that never came home, and the children who never again saw their fathers. Many of whom are still very much with us, my family included.

Yes, dear. Every immigrant to the Khanid Kingdom is strapped down, filled with cybernetics and put to work making microchips for export to the Caldari state. Ahh, how stressful it must be to believe everything you hear.

No, instead they're forced to prove their conviction to the Amarr faith in a variety of trials, or to put up a farce while maintaining their real beliefs outside of the eyes of the authorities.

As one of those so called Immigrants, I can only say I was more then happy to prove my faith in order to receive citizenship. You can believe what you want to believe about the Kingdom and what your King should or should not do, but do not presume for a second you speak for every case of migration to the Empire.

A few minor points:



a)Descendant.
b)How could anyone's line endure a thousand years of slavery in only three hundred thirteen years?



As it's been explained to me, the Theology Council can't overrule the Emperor. So if the Emperor officially decrees Sacred Flesh gone, it's gone. Otherwise? You know all those benefits you're citing? Perhaps he seeks to bring those benefits to the rest of the Empire, as well?

This was my first thought on reading Lady Tig'res' post.

King Khanid is known to be a man of strong opinion and clearly widely revered by his people. He had little need to stand in the succession trials. Surely his motivation must be to bring the 'virtues' espoused to the wider Empire?

Such a development of policy would certainly bring stronger trade links with the Federation, and possibly a further rapprochement, which must be desirable in the current threat state.

The Khaldari enclaves, our own local Ammatar populations and the comparatively far higher number of non True Amarr government officials and Holders would beg to differ with the idea that the Kingdom is not egalitarian. One does not need to be Khanid or True Amarr to advance to great heights within its ranks, we do not practice ideas of ethnic superiority as the Amarr do.

Could you provide me with sources to read about that? I would be rather interested.

All I know is that all Holders are either True Amarr or Khanid, as well as the whole aristocracy as a whole. Slaves are treated even lower than they are in the Empire, as mere manpower cattle, and while most Khanid citizens enjoy greater liberties in terms of trade and personal initiatives, I really, really doubt that they account for much more than they already do in the demesne of Tash-Murkon themselves, which do not seem to limit themselves only to the Caldari as partners...

Probably as many as the mittani.

Ignore Funk. She's just grasping at relevance and edginess but failing.

Add the sorry creature to your block list and move forward.