Intergalactic Summit

I also have people I want to protect, of course. I just hate having my arm twisted when I didn't even attend the arm-wrestling convention.

Ms. Priano, I will be in touch by secure communications with you in regards to this matter. I am going to be conducting an investigation of this activity as soon as I can prepare a ship and crew for departure this week. Thank you.

There is evidence, unless you want to disregard it. Let me make an argument here:

First the Circadian Seekers appeared. We didn't and still don't really know what they were and are doing - our best guess is that they were scanning our infrastructure, our ships, perhaps our people even. And they picked apart and studied the Jovian Observatories the same as us. To me this would imply that they were interested in us - we were an enigma to them as much as they are to us. And perhaps this desire to know more included a desire in communicating with us. Perhaps not. We don't know, but I'm not one to throw this option out. First and foremost they were after knowledge, nothing more, least of all our heads.

Then "we" started destroying these seekers. It is alien to us, therefore it must be a threat, right? Even then they didn't start attacking us right away, they let us destroy these "seeker" units for months.

To anyone with a shred of intelligence this should be obvious, that their "aggression" had been mostly reactionary. They didn't want us poking around the Observatories, we did anyway. They didn't want us poking around their technology and people, we did so anyway. For the longest time they left us alone so long we did not interfere with whatever they were doing.

I know I'm going to get a lot of flak for this thought, but it is no secret that the Amarr have spearheaded the research in to Sleeper and Drifter technology. Their assassination of the Amarr Empress was mostly a show of force, and secondly, reviewing their prior actions, who are we to say this too wasn't a reaction as well to some Amarrian aggression conducted in secret towards them? We simply cannot know for sure, but it would seem logical.

What we do know, that they have shown a capability of wielding vast armadas and obliterating our strongest vessels in the blink of an eye. Yet they have done this only once, likely as a warning. They could have obliterated CONCORD headquarters, but they did not. They could have destroyed everything we hold dear by now, but they have not. And it would do well to ask - why not? Is our aggression towards them actually warranted?

I suppose, like you said, these question should now be asked in past tense, because it does seem our theoretical relations with them are now soured to the point of most likely not recoverable.

Clearly you were not there first, so you do not have a legitimate claim to anoikis either.

Wasn't there a span of time where they were attacking them along with empire forces on gates and such? Before their incursions and Jamyl. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that but I thought that was the case.

That doesn't change the fact that the empires can't just say "Ok, everyone out! Sorry about your time, money, ambitions and the lives of thousands of people that you've invested into your projects"

The point of us moving out here was to get away from people who think that way and oppose them at every turn.