Intergalactic Summit

Give footage of staging points of these raiders within the Empire. Show that the raiders you encounter come from the Empire. And importantly: Show that nothing is done about this in the Empire. (As you say: Lack of evidence does not equal eveidence of your favorite theory. This goes both sides.)
While I could give you some evidence of those staging points, I can deliver the evidence that they've been dealt with directly with that. I usually do so personally, if I encounter them. Also: I get paid for it.

The thing is, it's no secret that the Empire and the Republic aren't having the most amiable relations. You're certainly right on that. Nobody is claiming that anything is calming down in the Empire since the Elder incident.
But it's not true that the Amarr do say and preach one thing and do the other. We do exactly what we say. The renewed effort towards a Reclaiming is no secret. Still, illegal slave raiders are punished, whenever there's the opportunity to do so. There's no contradiction in that.
What agitates me is the lop-sided account of people like you, Cpt. Sadik, who try to shove as much of the weight of responsibility off the collective shoulders of the Repulic and onto the shoulders of the Empire. You present the case as if the Empire is unredeemably evil, lying and twisting words wherever possible, scheme sinsiter schemes of the downfall of the Republic – whatever the Empire does in that impacts the Republic is – must be, in your view – for the reason of damaging the Republic and – even worse – the Matari people.

I tell you a secret now: The Republic has achieved a lot and it's grudgingly respected by the Amarr and probably the entire cluster, except, well, by the Matari themselves who apparenty refuse to leave the role of the victim behind, who still need someone to blame all their problems on. Thus, they do about everything to self-stigmatize themselves as the eternal victims of the evil Empire.

Don't get me wrong here, I don't want to claim that the Empire isn't responsible for some amount of troubles the Republic is in. Still, you should start to grow up and accept how the responsibility is factually distributed – and that you stopped to be the poor victims some time ago. There should be no need for you to stigmatize yourself and to build up the phantasm of an incredibly evil Empire hell-bent on your obliteration. That's not what's happening. What we have is a pretty normal war, something that happens between states from time to time and for which responsibility seldomly lies on one side mainly, but mostly on both sides equally – as it is between the Empire and the Repulic right now.

Believe it or not I used to hold a barony, inherited from my family who have managed the area for generations. A sizeable subcontinent on a planet in outer Aridia, it was like a primitive Eden. Could never say slavewrangling was a great passion of mine though so a lot of crude villages had formed along the coastlines and jungles, etc.; really it was rather interesting watching these societies develop in isolation over the decades. Of course, when I decided to pursue my interests in capsuleering, I passed the stewardship on to my brother and he seems to have truly worked to cleaning up the mess I left behind, organizing it all proper and such.

Who has the time in the day to both manage slaves and live as a capsuleer, I can't really imagine.

As I said, this is true. But punishing IA for that particular issue could be also seen as a sign of good gesture. After all, IA, even with its status of corporation, is one of the direct arms of the imperial administration (as stated directly in its title, unlike independant entities like Carthum, etc).

What is this incoherent prattling about green cows? Moving on..

Do you really think that the Minmatar people are not capable of anything but crime? They've made great strides in starship engineering and social institution. I don't think you have any base for your rabid racism.

You know, the borders of the Amarr Empire are pretty much open to interpretation, depending on how much you wanna 'reclaim.'


Oh and as for Imperial Armaments being sleazebags, I think Carthum Conglomerate have them beat. Here is a mission request one of my spies intercepted from them. Vitoxin was just the beginning. I have hijacked an entire Impel full of these new designer subjection drugs. They are indeed real and the imperialists are forcing stuff like this upon your people as I write this.

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Mission briefing
In order to get around the laws pertaining to the transportation of illegal drugs through Amarr Empire space, we have been forced to create new and unknown substances for use on, or by, rather, our various slave labor enclaves. This new drug, Blue Paradise, does away with many of the harmful chemicals previously used while actually increasing the pleasurable effects. We are certain that, properly controlled and distributed, introduction of this drug into the slave labor workforce will increase productivity by a substantial margin. We are counting on you to deliver it to the designation transshipment station as soon as possible.

Biochemical Agents for Improved Slave Workloads
We all know that there have been a long series of proclamations, laws, and rules banning the transportation of illegal drugs (and some legal drugs) in Amarr space for use in slave labor. These prohibitions have typically had no real teeth, unless of course the Empress herself sets forth an official decree specifically banning a given substance. The logical, time-tested way around this has been to create entirely new generations of performance enhancing biochemical drugs.

As slaves are typically wary of any pills or other obvious means of altering their behavior (recalling, as we must, the various slave uprisings that have occurred when we tried to openly force drugs on them), we’ve had to resort to less obvious methods. For example, we have surreptitiously and gradually delivered the drugs into laborer’s systems through aerosols in their habitat ventilation systems, impregnated substances into their foodstuffs and water supplies, and other rather clever means, I won’t go into here. What is important is that the result has almost always been a positive one, with significant increases in worker productivity.

The downside to this, however, has been a decline in overall slave lifespans due to the long term effects of these drugs. Normally, this would be considered simple attrition; a cost of doing businesses. However, as it continues to become more and more difficult to obtain new slaves (particularly given the intolerable and unjust interference of the other empires), this solution is less and less viable. We need them to live as long as possible. This reality, of course, leads us to the only other benign option – drugs as a part of a rewards system for those slaves who meet a certain work quota each day.

To this end, we shall continue to develop new substances to both avoid interference by Customs and police forces and to ensure the maximum possible output by our slave laborers.

Yeah. Considering the amount of horrible excuses I have heard so far, I think the Amarr are just trying a quite unsuccessfull propaganda move here. I do not understand why these Amarrians can not just either be loyal to their Empire and stand in for what the Empire is doing, or take a stance for their ideas and dissent from that Empire.

I've seen Amarrian breeder facilities in the Republic, Amarrian-run fake mining corporations with the aim to take the workers back to the Empire as slaves, Amarrians setting up bases in stations to do planetary raids for new slaves, trying to drop gas forms of Vitoxin to planets, their corporations - let into the Republic in good fate for a better coexistence - breaking our laws and doing just what the Amarr have always done.

And all of this for many years now, way before the war started. The Amarr have abused every bit of trust, friendliness and openness we have showed them, for over a hundred years now.

Still, some Amarr yammer endlessly on IGS on how they have done so much, and we Minmatar are so ungrateful.

I do hope for those Amarrians that their God appreciates dishonesty, because that's pretty much the last hope these people have for their afterlife. (Or wait, they're capsuleers, they probably do not fear that ...)

You can not be loyal to the current Empress and be progressive at the same time. You can not fight for the 24th Imperial Crusade and be pgoressive at the same time. Those who do that and claim to be progressive or interested in a peaceful solution to this conflict are hypocritical liars, and the only reason I can think of for their actions is that they're trying to appease to the ever-growing group of dissidents in the Empire, trying to safe the antiquated Empire of Reclaiming and Slavery from those who might give the Empire an actual future.

Too bad, I understood your concerns until I read that blanket nonsense. Very fractionite, by the way.

You're right. It wouldn't, because neither my spies nor myself have any loyalty to or affiliation with the Republic. I won't deny that RSS agents are indeed quite cutthroat though.

Imperial agents have never asked my spies to do anything, except to stay out of their underwear drawers.

My spies in this case were not asked to perform any mission except the one I have tasked them with. Which is spying.

Indeed the spy in question isn't even a capsuleer.