Intergalactic Summit

Aha, you have fallen into my cunningly designed trap, denouncing my truthful statements as Imperial propaganda, while ignoring that I am not an Imperial True Amarr.

Perhaps you should focus your "superpower's military might" on rescuing your people imprisoned and subjugated on Caldari Prime, or finally finding some kind of stability in Placid and Intaki.

The Federation gave us aid in the Great Rebellion. for which we will always owe a debt of gratitude. We did the fighting, and the dying. Do not forget that. Normally I ignore your ignorance, as do most Matari, but you trying to somehow take credit for the victory that was hard won by millions of Matari slaves turned soldiers is something I find insulting. Take your patronizing and your poor and outdated strategic analysis and go , if you have nothing worthy to add.

Strategic analysis?

How does a Republic with the third smallest armed force with even smaller capabilities in power projection and conquest, the third smallest population, the weakest economy in New Eden, and the highest level of sectarian violence and domestic instability hope to defeat the largest, most powerful and most stable empire known to man?

Not alone, that's how.

I'll be first to admit the current conflict with Tibus Heth is short-sighted in the long-run. While the Caldari might consider their archnemesis to be us Gallenteans, the truth is, is that our archnemesis is the Empire. In the same way, if Amarrian superiority allowed for them to have the concept of an archnemesis, it's the Federation, the only other expansionist power in New Eden.

You're not the greatest threat to them. We are.

If you think you can defeat them by conquering some outlying territories that don't even house the bulk of your enslaved people, then you're throwing your lives away for nothing.

This is as revolting a work of enemy propaganda as anything Jamyl's minions could have designed, but from a so-called ally. Where did you compose this piece? In a scriptorium-mortuary on Amarr Prime itself? I only hope that your Gallentean friends and sponsors have a more constructive approach when working with Minmatar towards a better future for our joint peoples' chidren and their childrens' chidren, than you do.

Additionally, among your tractor statistics. Seriphyn Inhonores, you conveniently choose to forget that a certain percentage of our people - good free Matar of the Six tribes to cite one example -do not necessarily fall under the political aegis of the Republic, nor would wish to. When faced with constant adversity, all good Matar give and receive to and from their Minmatar brothers and sisters without debt incurred, wherever they may be found. The current entity known as The Republic is just one facet of the diamond, Seriphyn Inhonores. There are others that shine more brightly but are merely occluded.

All that is left for me to say, here, is Ura Matar. to you.

Good day.

And why would they? The Republic is a shambles.

The Empress is hard to decipher, compared to proved progressists like the 2 last Emperors. I am still waiting to see what will happen, considering that at the same time she managed to shake a lot of the Amarrian tradition to move forward when it was needed, and she also managed to launch a new Reclaiming, with a very ambigous meaning behind.

It is also true that some slaves prefer to remain slaves under a (most of the time, benevolent) master. I have witnessed that phenomenon in my own childhood. But I think they would probably do not mind to get emancipated and work as standard workers do, except of course, for the few of them that are very, very fervent believers.

I would also add that there is a lot more racism in the Republic, to my opinion. It suffice to see how different people are treated in the Republic, or how each tribe hold severe grudges against some other tribes.

Also, the Empire and the Federation are already at war, at least in a proxy war as much as the Republic and the Empire are.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that your side's military is the largest challenger to the Amarrian fleets, which is of course incorrect: That would be the State Navy, which many have argued is in fact more powerful than the Imperial Fleet (Though I doubt its odds against all three of the Amarrian states). The Capsuleer-centric nature of the Empyrean wars has allowed the Republic and Federation to sustain the illusion that they are on equal footing with their enemies, when in fact a full out war would be a rather one-sided affair.

The Republic would fall quickly to the combined might of the Imperial Fleet, the Royal Khanid Navy, and the Ammatar Fleet. If the Caldari had not already overtaken the Federation by that point, the Amarrian states would then quickly move to support their allies. The Federation would be split between the two, with the Amarr taking their fair share of POW's to enslave for the effort. I cannot see this action taking more than a decade to complete, which is where we get into why this has not been done: Resistance.

The Empire could not ensure the subjugation of the Minmatar when slavery was unrestricted and the Matari had nothing to their name that was not given to them by the Federation or Empire (All of their noteworthy accomplishments having been wiped out long ago by the Empire at that point). The State is, quite simply, not terribly interested in aggressive expansion or the costs associated with occupation. Even in victory, you see, the two factions would suffer great burdens in trying to keep what they claimed, so total war is not economical for them. They are content to risk a few border constellations and a fraction of their military assets on a more even conflict. But do not be fooled, Gallente: you are no true threat.

Because of what the Empire did to us.

If your Empire hadn't arrived on our world seven hundred years ago, we might be facing a very different Republic today (if it could be called a Republic at that point).

That's the one thing that none of you seem to grasp: we were just fine before you landed. Our culture was developing at its own pace, our people were (aside from inter-tribal conflicts) relatively peaceful, and we had a spirituality and a heritage that we could be proud of.

And then, the Empire arrived. You enslaved our children, scattered our people, and set to work systematically eradicating anything that made us Matari. Because of you, I didn't see my parents for sixteen years. Because of you, my father is dead and my mother a widow.

You fill our veins with a poison when we won't behave to your standards. You see no problem with trading us like livestock. And you continually find ways to rationalize such barbaric practices, and tell yourselves that you're doing 'god's work'.

So, yeah. The Republic is a shambles, but keep in mind exactly how that happened, Captain Blake.

I'm not going to pretend that mistakes were not made but I have to ask you at what point is the Republic responsible for itself. The Gallentean according to you have done a great job getting you running but when does the direction become you own?



And that is the point I was going to get to.

People can claim one way or another who was more in the right or wrong but that will never change the truth and sadly no matter who is shown the truth they will never accept it.

What is important is that you take responsibility for yourselves.

You can jump and scream and pout all you like that slaves are still in the empire but if you don't have a good home for them to return to it would be just as great a crime to free them as it was in your eyes to enslave them.

You make a good point, Kithrus -- it's true that the Republic isn't as stable as we'd like it to be.

My point, however, is this: the state of the Republic as it stands is as much the Empire's fault as it is our own. There would have been no need for a Republic to form if the Empire hadn't come in with their slave-takers so long ago.

Now that the Republic is here -- as flawed as it may be, it's all we have. We're taking responsibility for ourselves as best we can, given our current situation, but the Empire has got to acknowledge its own part in the Republic's formation if there's to be any hope for either of our peoples.

Like it or not, Kithrus, through the Empire's own actions, they created their own worst enemy. It's as much your fault as it is ours.