Intergalactic Summit

Having someone agree with me is a form of power. To acknowledge that I'm right demands that they share my view of the world.

It seems to me that forcing someone to do what you demand pales in power to making them believe what you believe. Who has more power over you? The person who controls your body, or the person who controls your heart and mind?

What your saying might hold some truth Ms.Jenneth but those holders who pick slaves based only in there heritage are doing wrong in my opinion. The scriptures call for people to be enslaved so that they can learn about God and become part of the Holy Armarr Empire as a citizen. This dose not focus on race or culture at all but the idea of slavery as a means to enlighten a group of people.

Oh, of course. The practice doesn't seem to be inherently racialized, but:

* The command to unite humanity under one rule is given, at least initially, to one people, the Amarr. This tends to racialize its pursuit of compliance with that command.

* The practice of enslavement has frequently been applied to individuals or families within the Empire, but is practiced on the grandest scale when conquering a whole neighboring civilization. Individual civilizations in New Eden tend to have their own unique ethnicities. This tends to racialize the practice.

* The advanced-but-feudal nature of Amarrian governance results in mastery passing largely through lines of descent. These lines tend to find their roots in the True Amarrian ethnicity; even the Khanid, though apparently close friends to the True Amarr, were not ultimately allowed to govern their own. Rather, the True Amarrian family given the role of governing Khanid territory chose to honor the Khanid people by taking on the Khanid name. This tendency of the True Amarr to rule and others to follow tends to racialize their relationship.

* Long gaps between conquests, amounting, I gather, to multiple hundreds of years, result in racialized "shifts" of slaves. It's now relatively hard to find an enslaved Udorian; as I understand it, they've passed their spiritual apprenticeship and been fully integrated into Amarrian society long-since. The Ni-Kunni are now largely free citizens, but many of them are still enslaved. Apparently, the largest-scale emancipation of Matari (other than by revolt) has occurred only in the last few years. How likely a given person is to be a slave can therefore be broken down pretty easily along racial lines. One third of ethnic Matari presently living remain enslaved in the Amarr Empire-- well, probably a little less than that, with the Empress's decree.

* Presumably, had Vak'Atioth gone a bit differently, virtually all ethnic Jove would now be slaves. If you met a Jove on the street in the Empire, you'd be well justified in assuming you were looking at a slave based upon race alone.

All of this occurs independent of any clear-cut racial supremacist sentiment or racial animosity. Add it all together, and you get racial divisions and distinctions all over the place, even if you don't want them. It doesn't matter what you intended to write if the result is a sign reading, "THIS HOLY EMPIRE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE CHOSEN OF GOD, THE SUPREME TRUE AMARRIAN RACE," in letters a thousand meters high.

There is no racial component to slavery as it is practiced in the Empire, that is a common misconception. There are True Amarr in slavery just as there are Khanid, Ni-Kunni, Udorians and Ealur. The greatest number of slaves are indeed of Matari decent but that is not a racial curve it is simply that they are more multiple in number than any other race we've encountered (indeed, I do believe they have the largest number of individuals in the cluster).

As to your first point: An Amarr who thinks he's superior by nature is reading incorrectly into the Scriptures and is therefore conceited and arrogant, just as any other individual of any other race doing so would be. The difficulty is that this apparently happens more often from Amarr which has less to do with our faith or the practice of slavery and more to do with improper instruction during upbringing.

As to your second point: See point one.

As to your third point: It will be a long time indeed, many Ni-Kunni have not attempted to elevate themselves to such a position (that is not necessarily to their fault). However, "taking a long time" and "never happening" are extremely different things.

Mr.Amith

You manged to say what I wanted to but in a way which 1) most likely made more since, and 2) is exactly what I was trying to get across but you did a HIGHLY superior job of it.

I would also like to applaud you at your efforts to make the empire and the word of God more understandable and less intimidating for outsiders.

It's 'khumaak' not 'khumack.'

I can give my sympathy to the people who are caught up in the fighting. However, I can only give it to the civilians and not the ones who resist.

We neither want, nor would we accept your sympathies, slaver.

Considering this entire "operation" was a farce, I find it ironic that you would even label this a "second Day of Darkness."

A Day of Reckoning will come, but it is not today and it is not what you perceive it to be. I am saddened by the loss of lives that will result from this ridiculous charade and I pray your Republic can better handle the influx of refugees than it has in the past. At least you can take care of their physical needs to some degree.

My condolences to the families that have been destroyed, lives that have been shattered and the atrocities committed against non-militant Amarr as a result of these activities. My condolences further to those slaves that are stripped from the lives and families they know and love as the Tribal Liberation Force impress their own wills upon them or slay them for choosing not to go with them.

I too would like to know of these "atrocities". As one who fought in numerous battles to liberate the systems surrounding Taff I saw no such activities. As a commissioned officer in the TLF I can state that there are no official, systematic acts of violence being committed against Amarrian (or Amarrian sympathizing) civilians. No imperials are being rounded up and herded like cattle into re-education centers, no glaive collars, no vitoc, and no shock whips are used. That is the hallmark of the "reclaimers" of the 24 IC, not the TLF.

If Pilot Amith has hard proof of war crimes or genocide then share it with the Scope by all means so it can be investigated and the details made available for the entire cluster to see. Otherwise, please stop with the vile propaganda and personal invective.