Intergalactic Summit

Certain intel agents managed to track down her new medical clone after the assassination. She's a capsuleer after all, and wouldn't be so unimaginably stupid that she wouldn't have a clone ready and waiting. That said, I doubt we'll ever see her again in any official capacity. Whatever life she chooses to lead is probably going to be in the shadows, evading the boneheaded and anachronistic superstitions about 'godflesh' and such nonsense.

At least those intel reports confirm that these rulers don't take their own religious dogma to heart, other than as a tool to use in their political machinations.

Fact: this Empress was a capsuleer.

Fact: capsuleers have access to medical clones.

Fact: this Empress could afford a medical clone.

Fact: when the pod is destroyed, consciousness transfers to the medical clone.

Fact: this Empress has already made use of a medical clone at least once in the past.

Fact: this Empress possessed extraordinary knowledge of Sleeper civilization because she took a fleet through a wormhole and returned with the technology to create mechanized shock troops.

Fact: the technology used to create mechanized shock troops is more advanced than capsuleer pod technology because it dispenses with the need to have a pod at all.

Fact: this Empress didn't just "have access" to the technology used to dispense with the need to have a pod at all, she was the one who developed it for our Cluster.

Fact: this Empress didn't just "know of" the existence of extraordinarily powerful superweapons, this Empress used one personally.

Fact: the Drifter attack on this Empress was not the first documented use of the Drifter superweapons.

Fact: this Empress therefore knew that Drifter ships possess superweapons.

Fact: this Empress further knew that Drifters are capable of spawning wormholes in any security level of space.

Conclusion based on above facts: this Empress possessed both the means to protect herself against death and the knowledge that death could come at any time.

Because the facts outlined above overwhelmingly support the contention that she could have avoided death as easily as even the least competent new born mechanized shock trooper, the only people "guessing" are those who insist that she is actually dead. Yes, yes, the Amarrian propaganda machine says "she is dead." Oh! An eye rolled out of my head! If only I were as young as Pieter! Come back here! Come back!

Cylindrical Kameira! An eye has gone missing!

Wait... it occurs to me that the Sisters of EVE also possess extraordinary knowledge of ancient technology and, if I am not mistaken, were recently discovered to have been (or are still) operating a remarkable fleet in J-space - a domain in which it further occurs to me (again) that the Empress possessed unusual competence. Yes, this part here is "a guess."

I agree there would be an element of "not this trick again" should she return.

'Obtuse' is certainly one word for it. Though I have sometimes wondered if it is merely a fault in his translation software going from one dialect to another.

What more do you people ******* want? She's gone and if this crap about her having cloned were even true it's been pointed out she'd not likely be able to return, so why would she? It's been months, and here we are still with people rubbing that tired old line in while we're trying to move on.

All the Heirs are capsuleers, will we point fingers at them and say the Shathol'Syn is just a big scam too?

Modern moral standing. Right. Because the Federation's morals are Universal and should apply to every culture.

And what about executing people by means of biological immolation? Getting a crowd so ramped up, that their voices literally activate a chemically induced execution live for everyone to view on the GalNet? How very moral and upright, a great means of enforcing liberty and reforming otherwise talented criminals.

But please, you can go along pretending somehow the Federation knows best. The Empire's methods of Succession have lasted it well for a long time, if it was so harmful it would have stopped being practiced long ago. The Scriptures and the Imperial Laws aren't static and can change and evolve as required.

Quiet with that talk, you'll summon those people who go on and on about "The War of Gallente Aggression", when referring to the first or second Caldari-Gallente wars.

If change is required, I'll not have some pompous well-to-do aristocratic Libertarian telling me what it needs to be. Change will come from within the Empire, as it always has, as and when it is deemed necessary. Aye, the Empire could do with shedding some inefficiencies, but we don't need to swallow the Federation's particular brand of medicine.

What an odd post. A better example of the "If my Auntie had balls, she'd be..." argument would be hard to find.

In essence, if the Amarr Empire gave up everything that defines it, it would be like the Federation.

If the Federation gave up everything that defines it, it would be like the Amarr Empire.

I suspect that even you are not holding your breath for this scenario.