Intergalactic Summit

Who died and left you in charge of the universe Shutaq? Oh, and good luck with coming after Arrendis or any of the rest of us who oppose your magical deity/slavery cult empire.

Avenging angel my ass...

Wow, someone starts to think for herself and questions Imperial dogma and suddenly the unthinking zealots attack her and offer to give her some private brainwashing sessions.

Leave the poor girl alone and quit trying to bully her, both of you.

And those of us who don't believe thought the original decree was backwards, reactionary and stupid. We surely didn't admire the Amarr for it. By any objective measurement, the Empire is less stupid because of the change.

It caused genuine distress to loyalist capsuleers and seemed nothing more than prejudice and a tantrum from Holders who couldn't accept that there was something they wanted that they couldn't obtain through money, power, influence or violence.

From the perspective of the believers, you have the anointed of God reaching out through the Theology Council.
From the perspective of the rest of us you have, perhaps, the least ******** thing to come out of a government agency in quite awhile.

From either perspective, I'm not sure what has YOUR underwear all bunched up.

Are you insane? Do you think I'm completely bonkers? Aldrith, how many Minmatar slaves are there still within the Empire? What would the Empire's collapse do to them? Stop, take a deep breath, and remember who it was who could explain to the mouth-breathers why the destabilization of the Empire was a direct threat against your children.

It's just as much a direct threat against my distant kin, and while I won't begin to claim I care for them as intently and deeply as any parent does for their child, blood is blood, man. Do I want to see them free to decide the course of their lives for themselves? Of course. Do I want to plunge them into devastation and civil war to do it? Spirits below, do I look like Nauplius?



You don't get it. You think you do, and I respect that, but you don't get it, and you really don't want to get it. I'd love for the Empire—for all four 'empires'—to formally incorporate capsuleer forces into their militaries. We'd reduce the number of lives lost in most conflicts, and we'd improve unit performance across the board. More, it'd be an avenue for more of us to have a positive, recognized impact back home.

This program offers no threat to the null blocs. If you think Horde, Brave, TEST, and Karmafleet aren't salivating over this, you're mad. Seriously. Even if the Amarr funnel every one of these new capsuleers into their service, it's no threat to us. The Empire cannot expand its borders militarily into null without violating the treaties that created 'sovereign' nullsec to begin with. CONCORD administers those territories, and the Federation and Republic would move to block the move just as surely as the Empire and State would block an expansion by the Republic or Federation. It's not the null powers who'd be threatened by a military build-up of capsuleers loyal to the Empires. It's the low-security powers who'd have problems with increased patrols and stability, and the corresponding decrease in CONCORD response time (down from 'infinity' does leave a lot of room, but still).



Does that mean you're not coming to 9CG?

More infighting to be viewed by the peanut gallery.

And this is why the Amarr religion must be destroyed! No, not really. There's plenty of other reasons but I won't waste my time writing them.

Admittedly I can't see how your god gives you some divine gift (well, the Jove indirectly did technically but that's beside the point) and you can't see it as being right using it. Then again I also can't see how PIE can ignore numerous other ships due to them not being of Amarr design.

He's dead now though isn't he? We are not all-forgiving and we are very, very patient.

As he has shown no remorse and continues to spew his heresy I see no reason why Her Majesty would overturn the ruling of the Privy Council.

What are you implying, Ms Kernher?

You know exactly what I'm implying, Lady Newelle.

And on goes the 'honest concerned citizen' switch.

You're a liar, Arrendis, and I do not respect that. You do not care about Amarr theology, the sanctity of the Empress - Theology Council relationship, or the truth about the state of a clone's soul. You care about getting your way, and your way is leisurely watching the Empire made weaker by what you see as foolish dogma, then shaking the base of Amarr power when they go rescind those dogmas by calling them self-interested and lacking in divine purpose.

The exhortation confirms what has already been an obvious truth to most people in the Empire, and the cluster at large. Clones are people. Even if it is a crass political move, (which is not possible because ALL moves made by the Empress are God's will, advantageous to herself or not) I do not give a single damn. The state of my family, my corporation, and my Empire are made better for it. I am confirmed to have a soul. My children are not the products of abominations. My alliance is a recognized body of faithful warriors, and now my Empire gets to accept more of those warriors to fight on her behalf and better compete in the changing arena of warfare. The fact that you utterly fail to mention any of this until your motives are questioned is telling.

Now the task is to seek revelation on what laws clones must abide by. Surely they must not be allowed to hold positions indefinitely within the Empire. Surely they must be held to standards whereby they do not abuse their power. Certainly they will not be able to have multiple copies of themselves active at one time. Amarr has always changed with the times, and recognized that the future is just as important as the past. We will be given God's will on this matter and abide by it as we always have.

As for any potential talk of Khanid not being pure, let the inquisitors figure that out. Honestly, how hard is it for you people to keep your damn mouths shut?!