Intergalactic Summit

There was no "Blood Age".

It doesn't really look that way, no. For the Minmatar were not discovered until much later than the Moral Reforms.

I find it hard to properly interpret Nauplius's version of history, as it conflicts in several places with what I know of history.

Aren't we living in a sort of a Blood Age?
People are killing each other and dying for silly reasons. Some even die and reassemble their bodies just to kill again and again and again. Blood flows in rivers, clones and normal people turn into flesh piles, burnt ashes or frozen corpses, flying in cold void of silent space.

Does the history know periods with more deaths than we see now daily?

I have written before of the Blood Age and the cycle of Ages that followed it. We now live in the twilight of the Golden Age, the Age of the Amarr Empire. This age was preceded by the Dark Age, which was preceded by the Earth Age, which was preceded by the Blood Age.

Now, we cycle back to a new Blood Age. As Diana Kim has noted, the signs of the this new Blood Age are everywhere. Rampant violence. Slaves, totally under my power as it was in the last Blood Age. Embrace the coming of the Blood Age. Amen. Amarr Victor.

What's not fantasy is us. We just need a man like Nauplius here to farm us.

I'm referring to me, Samira, and all Minmatar.

After much thought and discussion with my companion, I had come to a conclusion that the reason why the Minmatar do not assimilate successfully while the Udorians, Ealur and etc were had much to do with circumstances. The Ni-kunni, for example, never had their culture and way of worship eradicated, merely modified and put in a different context. They still kept their beliefs on the sanctity of water, but now the sanctity is linked to God. Next, they were never subjected to having a planet’s worth of population eradicated like the Minmatar did.

Moreover, the Ni-kunni came from a water-scarce planet and they had to toil under the boots of a tyrannical minority. The Minmatar on the other hand came from a resource-rich world and was making pretty good progress and had much to look forward to. For the Ni-kunni, being conquered and assimilated by the Amarr was an improvement. For the Minmatar, it was the opposite. No idea about the Udorians and what they were like pre-Reclaiming so I have no comments on that.

There’s also the possibility that the way the slaves were treated changed over the ages, but there aren’t any documentations available to support or deny these assertions.


There is no, or at least very slight, difference between the creation of new ideas and the modification of existing ones. Both turn up as an attempt to address a ‘lack’.

Just as how the ideas of popular revolution are born from a lack of civic justice or an engineering idea is born from a need to provide an as-yet non-existent solution to a technical problem, heretical ideas are born as means to address a shortcoming or a flaw in an already existing Faith.

During the course of de-popularising a heretical idea, it is also a good move to look back at the Faith and see exactly how and why the heresy can spring up. Perhaps some passages of Scripture are simply too vague and open for a heretical interpretation. Maybe the Scripture didn’t address a certain conundrum in a particularly satisfactory manner. Once the problem is identified, get the theologians together and have them figure out how to fix the problem. You know, the usual ‘argue about the meaning of the Words, come into agreement, write a book about it, distribute it around and go around holding seminars’. That’s what theology is for, and they have the advantages of space-age information technology to help things along.

Finally, just because we have an idea on how to fix something does not mean that the idea will actually help to do so. Ideas are products of the human consciousness, and as such will always be vulnerable to human error. What's important is that the attempt is made, the flaws are identified and addressed and the idea be adjusted or discarded accordingly.

An idea, especially the one you are trying to be rid of, is like herpes. It does not really go away entirely. It remains, mutates, resurfaces, gets depopularised or suppressed, goes back underground, festers, mutates, etc and then resurfaces when the optimal conditions are met. It's best to treat an idea as a chronic viral infection than a stubborn stain on the carpet.

This is a different set of problem. My original argument was about containment of a dangerous idea, where the root of the problem comes from an issue found in the Scriptures and the Faith.

This kid problem you mention has a different root, a social root, and as such, requires a different set of prunes. In this instance, I think what the Amarr Empire would do is to either expel them or drag them to the courts and have them publically decried and made an example of. In no way does 'burning books' solve this particular problem. Personally, I believe in engaging the kids in dialogue is a better solution.

As for the adults, then the problem is less about the idea and more about the 'people'. They knowingly take on the misguided idea to advance their station. This is a different from containing the spread of a dangerous idea.

As for the 'merit' issue, well, if you don't want more dangerous ideas spring up because of it, maybe fix it? As I already mentioned, an idea, especially dangerous ones, is like herpes and is to be treated as such. What is one of the ways to prevent infection and incubation of said infection and the resurgence of said infection? Make the conditions unsuitable for infection to grow.

Again, I emphasize that the birth or the resurgence of an idea is tied to a need to address a 'lack'. If you remove the 'lack', you remove the conditions that allows the birth or the resurgence of the idea. As for an idea that is already born, either anew or from the buds of an existing one, and circulating around, you depopularise it to discourage the population from taking on the idea.

Perhaps it's time for the Federation to become Reclaimed and look to the future?

Tell that to the new Emperor/Empress ?