Intergalactic Summit

Many have forgotten about this horrific event, four years ago, when the capital city of Evaulon was destroyed by Serpentis Corporation Moros-class dreadnaughts in orbit with no effective response by Gallente Federation officials. Indeed, the attack came only weeks after President Roden pledged to strengthen defenses against further attacks of this type. The souls lost in the destruction of Rilnais, must be avenged.

The Villore Accords has planned long and hard for this moment, when our vengeance may be made reality. With the liberation of Outer Ring Excavations from its Serpentis puppet-masters, and the development of Citadel-class station technology, the opportunity is now at hand. The Serpentis shall answer for their war crimes... as will the Coreli corporation, who participated in this barbaric act of planetary bombardment.

This is even more urgent now that the Serpentis are known to be developing Vanquisher-class Titans, capable of rivaling any force in the existence of New Eden, supported by Vehement-class Dreadnaughts and Vendetta-class supercarriers.

I call upon all loyal and willing pilots of the Gallente Federation to join the Villore Accords in this cause of ridding the New Eden Cluster of the Serpentis Corporation disease that has infected our democracy and killed our citizens, along with all organizations that support it. Evemail me if you wish to participate, there is much to plan, and much to do. The reward of our hard work will be a Free and Secure Federation; the penalty of our failure will be yet more deaths of Federal citizens, and more enslaved victims of Serpentis-supported criminality.

To put it simply, the goal of the Villore Accords is to root out the conspirators that supported the annihilation of Rilnais, wherever they may be, in lowsec or nullsec, and to send an unequivocal message to Salvador Sarpati that his efforts to undermine the Federation will not succeed. Every Serpentis and Serpentis-loyalist capsuleer that we find, we will destroy, and return promptly to their cloning bays, or die in the attempt.

Julianus Soter, Executor of the Villore Accords

Luminaire General Julianus Soter, Executor of the Villore Accords,

The Jin-Mei people have always stood with the Federation proudly giving our soul and body in service to her ideals, honoured to stand beside our comrades in the Federation. As a capsuleer organisation dedicated to the peace and prosperity of the Jin-Mei people within the Federation; we recognise the enormous threat posed to not only our people, but also the Federation, by the continued unchecked growth of these organisations.

So for justice for the souls of the dead, and for peace for those souls as yet unborn, Sanxing will of course stand proudly with the Villore Accords in this matter.

Sang Do Xun Yu
Taishou of Sanxing

Normally, I don't give a flying **** about the FDU or Villore.

Law enforcement isn't in my skillset. Quite the opposite.

But I am an Intaki and we have a saying, "Learn to steal, learn to hang." It's a saying that I've passed around the Guristas and now the Horde. It basically means, "Don't crime if you can't afford the sentence," or in some ways, "Don't undock what you can't afford to lose." I guess no one bothered to give Serpentis the memo.

The Gahdinnal keep trying to operate up here in Fade, I got no problem teaching them this lesson on a daily basis. They keep being stupid and undocking battleships and dreadnoughts in my sky, I'll keep blowing them up.

Ms. Angelis;

On one hand, Soter's myopic Federation focus does both him and the cluster a disservice. After all, Capsuleers in recent days have witnessed capital ships in combat from the Blood Raiders, the Sansha, the Angels, and the Guristas, as well. The Serpentis have not been the sole party to deploy capital ships, despite their hacking a major comms feed during the Amarr succession trials.

On the other hand, he may consider the Drifters largely contained. With the withdrawal of the Drifters from known space, and the routine engagement of Drifters in their Hives, the perceived threat is reduced. Indeed, even the deployment of new, more difficult to destroy Drifters in core wormhole systems may seem distant, considering that we as yet have not seen these ships deployed to known space.

Ultimately, if you're concerned about the Drifters, I'd recommend joining the neocom channel Consortium Operations to join ARC's operations against the Drifters.

As for this, well, I wish Soter luck. I just suspect many of the cluster's pilots look at his myopic focus on the Federation and shrug.

To be fair, Soter, I'd be a great deal more trusting of your claims of broad-mindedness if you'd been a member of the Synenose Accords for more than four months, and if you'd not draped every element of this call-to-arms in Federal imagery and associations.

As it stands, while there are rumors that the Serpentis capital development program is more advanced than those of other states, we've been seeing Sansha-developed supercarriers for years, and capsuleers across the cluster have sighted capital ships belonging to all the major non-signatory powers.

My concern is less the Serpentis, and more the need for more advanced capital ship designs from the CONCORD signatory states. While the development of specialized capital logistics in the form of Force Auxiliaries is a major step, I hope for more moving forward.

If it's possible, I'll push for ARC's work on that matter.

On this matter, I'm not completely sure what your plan is, or what your objective is: the destruction of Serpentis fleet yards in Fountain? A deployment to null security space to fight Serpentis capital ships being deployed?

Four years already, time flies.
Even after those events I have nothing personal against Serpentis, a lot of capsules commit war crimes, maybe even those you see when you look in the mirror.
About those new ships they have been developing you say "capable of rivaling any force in the existence of New Eden" isn't this an exaggeration especially when heavy industry isn't there main field of specialization.
Most, if not all of so called pirate factions lack the military/industrial potential of the empires.

How very noble.

I would mention to you Mr. Soter, and to you Ms. Priano, that you are engaging in an exercise of futility.

To be frank, you can make all the pretty speeches you want, but in the end, you will not effect our operations one bit. And at your core, you know this. Why? Because it's never worked before. Oh you might achieve the occasional short-term goal, or have some minor success here and there. But for everything you do, we create a workaround.

You're following the CONCORD doctrine of trying to contain what we do, when time and again you see how badly that works. And you know you can't eradicate us. Any government that tried would leave themselves too open to their other enemies. So truthfully? We're not impressed.

At the end of the day, those of us who operate under the banners of the various NullSec organizations do exactly the same thing you do. We are the same. We just don't hide behind pomp and circumstance and a hypocritical display of "morality." In a very real way, we're a lot more honest. We're bastards of the working day. We don't engage in atrocity and then use propaganda to keep the masses mollified. We're very up front about who we are and what we do and why we do it. You cannot say the same.

Mr. Soter, would you care to discuss why the Federation and Combined Harvest were pumping ISK and resources into the Rilnais economy in the first place? It wasn't because those Isirus poppies smell nice. And Ms. Priano, who was it who suggested that that a recent Guristas convoy deserved to die because they were stupid enough to get caught? Ah yes, the State. Should we say same the same about the people of Rilnais? And who do your governments turn to when they want to get something done, but don't want to get their hands dirty?

But I digress...

The Drifters and to a lesser extant, Sansha and the Rogue Drones represent a far greater (if currently existential) threat to Humanity as a whole; especially on a long enough timeline. Do try and keep the big picture in mind. Spend your resources trying to stop us, and you make yourself a very sweet little target for them. The Drifters have already shown the capacity and dedication to remove one Head of State. Maybe you should be worrying more about the life of your President and the sustainability of the Federation than the activities of organizations that may one day be needed to pull your collective nuts out of the fire.

It's a pretty little government you have there Soter. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.

And Mokk appears to think I am invested in Soter's latest grand pronouncement, which is a gross misreading.

I never thought I'd find myself undermining the threat Serpentis pose to the Federation, it's a sign of the great many dangers New Eden faces that we are even having this debate. I remember a time before Titans and Wormholes became common place, and our cluster was a much safer place, relatively speaking...

But which ever menace awaits to strike us next, it will always be the civilians and colonists which suffer the most, so you are right to remember the innocents that perished in this massacre. Im certain the relatives of those lost at Rilnais will applaud your initiative and know that they are not forgotten.

I wouldn't be much help on the battlefield, but I would like to add my own little voice to the chorus of supporters to this cause. In the interests of discouraging similar civilian attacks I hope GMVA is able to find those responsible for what transpired at Rilnais and set an example.



Well I suspect the Drifters withdrawal is by their own volition rather than a response to any resistance they faced, I wouldn't call them "contained" but I do see your point... For now atleast, the Drifters have ceased their hostilities.

Thankyou for the invite, as you've probably guessed unknown space is an area of interest for me so you can be sure I will be along to introduce myself and find out a little more about your organization.

Julianus is welcome to call for a banding-together of pilots to fight the Serpentis "menace" or what-have-you. Within reason, it's a free forum. I expect, however - or would hope, at least - that he accepts the reality that as a very loud Federation supporter, the results of such a call are not likely to be quite as diverse as he might desire, doubly-so given the identity and goals of the organization he is representing.

It doesn't diminish the potential need for pilots to work together, but it does hinder some parties' willingness to flock under the particular banner or behind the person holding it.

I think, without getting further mired in tweaking each others' noses, we can at the very least conclude the following:

• In the meantime, ARC will continue its operations, investigating the Drifters and assessing their capabilities.
• In the meantime, no doubt GMVA will continue its operations in the warzone.
• If sufficient evidence of an immediate and credible threat posed by the Serpentis appears (because, let's face it, while Sarpati's little intrusion might have been cause for concern, we've no real indication that he, rather than any other group, has any serious capability to back up those words), then I doubt there will be difficulty persuading pilots - ARC or otherwise - to participate in dealing with it. Especially if it turns out there are shiny baubles up for grabs.

We all know how much capsuleers just love their shiny baubles.