Intergalactic Summit

Apostles? These kind of repairs are good for something makeshift. You know, to make sure the ship survives the engagement and doesn't fall apart, or its power systems don't implode. Proper maintenance takes time, resources, people, drones, tests and a proper dockyard.

I am not sure why I'm telling you all this, but here you go.

Yup. Because locally-fitted nanoassemblers couldn't rebuild the plates in a matter of hours, just like we do regularly. Let's be honest, Purity is going to be in gravdock for eight weeks because they'll want to take the time to make sure the freighters weren't a distraction, with the explosions being used as a way to crack the plates and get something else inside the hull. So they're going to be cautious, what with the whole 'insurrection', and they're going to make a big show of going over the ship to 'fix' everything while they quintuple-check every bulkhead for hidden bombs or surveillance systems, let the crew who were injured by the concussive force heal up, and redouble the background checks on all of them.

Meanwhile, the non-capsuleer Empress has no reason to need the ship in the intervening time. It's not going to be part of normal combat patrols. It's there in case she needs to go someplace. Which she doesn't, and won't for the forseeable future, as she's likely to be busy getting settled into the business of being Empress for the next while. They say the first hundred days is important, after all.

So why rush things? Put it in gravdock for eight weeks. Take it nice and slow, and be thorough. The ship is almost certainly already combat-ready again. The six Apostle-class Force Auxiliaries that were present would have needed roughly thirteen minutes to completely rebuild the armor plate across the entire ship, even if it had been completely stripped, which we all know it wasn't. What's more, you know that. You're not Ronin—you're just as capable as I am of doing the math on the performance specifications of an Apostle and how long it takes to rebuild the armor plate on an Avatar-class titan, even taking into account the new capital-scale plates. Even pretending you buy into the 'we crippled the ship for eight weeks' nonsense for purposes of your own chest-beating just makes you look more clownish than before.

So yes. You made a big splash that was pretty much erased by the time you got here to brag. Which means it had no effect.

Which makes you ineffective. And investing so much effort into bragging about your ineffectiveness? It's one thing from a line member. In the guy who's supposedly running the whole Alliance and should have better things to do with his time? It's ridiculous.

Yeah, that's actually not true, Arrendis. Or we'd have Avatars built in an hour, repairs and refittings done in a second.

Sounds crazy, right?

Empress's ship may as well be full of hand-crafted gold statues of, I don't know, Amarr Heroes or something. People pay top notch money for this kind of stuff.

I think I'll leave you to your fantasies.

I sure wouldn't like to serve on goon ships. Never know when the duct tape falls off along with the hull, warp core and engines.

That's certainly a possibility. I still think it's more likely an overabundance of caution.

And Jaret: One of these days, perhaps you'll get a clue.

Why would they give you their clues? I'm sure they need them.

Nano assemblers like the ones projected during tether can repair a ship very quickly.

Either way, 8 weeks or a few minutes, you are still bragging about failing to do anything else but inconvenience the largest nation in New Eden and the richest person in New Eden for a short time. Rote feels that this is some crowning achievement that demonstrates their "noble" ideals. It is not.

An impotent terrorist who swayed no people and had no message.

We were not trying to sway those who would take the collar upon themselves and call it a gift, but if it feeds into your feeling of self-worth then so be it.
The message was seen by those who needed to see it. The point was not to kill the Empress... that would have just been an added benefit. So you can bicker about the relevance of our deeds, or the lasting effects on the "Empire." Your words here will not change what is to come, and they are nothing but a passing fancy to us.

I don't know if you're a naif or an idealistic idiot. This is what Rote Kapelle is. Lady Lagann is an outlier, not the baseline.
As far as what is going to happen to Rote: nothing. Do you actually think that CONCORD is going to deactivate the clones of an entire alliance just because they tried to kill the Empress?
A few years ago, I tried to arrange an assassination of one of the Tribal chiefs. I think that MiniLuv tried to hit the Starkmanir one, but I'd have to go look. Not only did Goonswarm make the attempt, they exposed that CONCORD was illegally letting the Minmatar use their shielding technology, which is why the assassination attempt failed. (Sorry, Arrendis.)
Nothing happened to Goons. Nothing happened to me. Nothing happened to Warr's fleet. There was a security status hit, but that was all.
Rote Kapelle already lives in low security space. People already try to kill them. I am sure that if someone sent pilots after them, they would just enjoy the targets. The Serpentis are just targets to capsuleers, Rote can fight back.
As far as a lawsuit goes, I had an explanation, but I can't type and laugh at the same time.

You might be thinking of the time CONCORD dropped the hammer on you all for Tukoss's brain. The simple fact is that they got away with it because they had leverage on you all. You were weak. Any of the other capsuleer groups would have laughed and gone back to ignoring CONCORD.

As for me? I get it. I'm leashed. But I know what it's like to run free in the wild. And Rote doesn't give a ****. None of this will be settled with words, or in a court room. It will be settled in space, vi et armis. Either put missiles in your tubes or shut up.