Intergalactic Summit

I agree. Any excuse for violence against someone not from the same genome group is indeed second nature to the Minmatar.




Agreed. Peace is poison to the Minmatar.




Hanzo is laughing again. He says "Torture? Grandson would agree about homework."




Self-righteous? Kettle. Pot. Black.

Empty faith? Come back when you actually have a faith to be called empty.

When two are fighting to find out who is right its not the true what they bring to the surface.
It is blood.

You keep your brothers as slaves. Then you tell me they enjoy it.


Right.

Free your slaves, than I wont have to kill you.

You are the monsters, drugging people, abusing, raping and killing. You then justify this by calling it a reclaimation and act morally superior. At least we recgonize criminals for what they are. You worship them. Reality is that you wont let them go. Someone has to do the work for amarrians after alll. It is the minmatar who keep your economy going. Slavery and abuse is what you live by. I prefer being a barbarian thank you. Beats being you any day.

What does it mean? For me it means doing what you can for your clan and kin, and being able to fend for yourself and stand tall.

This may stun a few people considering my position... But there is alot to admire about the Minmatar people. They are resourceful and strong under almost any circumstance and are willing to commit acts of extreme self sacrifice to their cause. Genetically they are a mighty people with quick wit and fortitude to back it up. None can deny these things...

However...

By themselves with their own perverse values in which they throw themselves into they can be monstrous. The same fortitude and self sacrifice that can be harnessed for actions of great good can also be twisted to terrorism and wholesale slaughter of innocence.

When in service to themselves they can be cruel, violent, and brutish race where their redeemable qualities are marred by sin.

In service to God, they are a glorious race able to compliment the Empire is so many ways.

So what do you want it to mean to be minmatar?

Yes, I would like to see the Minmatar people flurish as part of the Empire. However service to yourself as you believe is not soaring to the heavens, its diving into hell.

It is really sad how us Minmatar have turned out. Here, in a thread on the iGS, we are asking what makes us who we are?... the we cleary about us Minmatar.

The Amarr and the Minmatar, the Empire and the Republic. They are entirely two different sides, clearly defined by the colors of black and white, or light and dark. They were never there to be put together, but due to the times of history, they can never be brought apart. For they have woven the other side to become a part of them.

The Empire many, many, many years ago, decided to enslave the Matari people for that is what their God had said when they first lay their eyes on the Matari planets. Before that, before the enslavement, I believe that being Minmatar was to be with your family. To stand alongside each other during times of hardship. To support each other, and to care for each other. To have to right to believe whatever you wished to believe, and live life to its fullest.

Because of the slavery, and the Empire, most Amarrians think that the Matari are savages. Brutal, and all killers. Republic space is where they breed like animals. Why have they become that? Why won't they accept our God and work as slaves? To believe in God should help them, they should be shown the light! Why do they have to rebel with such violence?

It's easy to understand for everyone but the Amarr. Even if they look to their books to understand. But they never will. If the Amarr never came, I believe that the Republic would be about the same, maybe bigger. But they did come, and put generations of Matari in the dark when they eagerly casted their light.

With all that said, nowadays, most Minmatar believe that to become Minmatar, one must become everything the Amarr are not. One can easily turn to a dictionary and look up the word Freedom. Which is defined as the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint. There are many other definitions that say about the same thing. With that said, having strangers come and say you have to believe in their God because your life has been in the wrong, in their eyes, is not the definition of Freedom. The hell many Ammarians speak of is actually our heaven. The heaven many Amarrians speak of is actually our hell. Throughout our history of coexisting, many have never understood that.

If you read this far, I am glad. I could have said it in one of two sentences, but it won't have the same effect.

To be Minmatar, one should have the right to believe in what they wish. They could life a blessed life without even touching or laying eyes on the Amarrian book of God. Their freedom in choice would make them stronger, and become closer to family and friends. And to support each other in times of hardship.

Flourish? By being "allowed", after nine generations of hard bondage, to become second-class citizens who still service their "betters" the so-called True Amarr? That hardly qualifies as flourishing by any definition of the word that I'm familiar with.

If perpetual servitude (to other men considered as superior or to an invisible deity) is what you Amarrians consider heaven then I say better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven.

As 2nd in command of our entire company I often have to ask myself: Do I want to fly my Gila or Rattlesnake against Sansha's peons today? Or would I rather spend time training and helping out the new members? I guess I'll decide after get done checking some company contracts. Oh woe is me. I am so destitute and oppressed.