Intergalactic Summit

Get ready for the angry claims that the Federation is now holding Midular hostage.

Comments like this do nothing to foster any sort of cooperation or trust between our people. You really should stop.

These events strike very close to my heart.

I hope that all of the Sebiestor understand what a delicate and grave situation Mrs. Midular is in now - I cannot stress enough how dangerous it would be for her to be moved or interfered with. She needs peace and well-wishing to surround her now, not politics and confusion. At the moment, she has confusion enough.

I urge all of her esteemable Tribe to stand in solidarity with her at this critical juncture. As she served you to strive for lasting peace, now she needs you to stand for peace while she is unable.

Though it may be grim, she is not lost to you yet.

Prayers and well-wishes, Mrs. Midular. You aren't alone.

- Scherezad

It makes me sad to read things like this.

Forgive me if this sounds insensitive, but the treatment of Karin Midular is not currently a Sebiestor matter. To make it a Sebiestor matter at this stage could well cost her life, and to count another death as a result of this attack is the absolute last thing anybody wants.

Any 'force' attempting a border crossing without permission into a sovereign state can count on being challenged, friend or not, ally or not. RSS can't expect special treatment and understanding when they tear off on a tangent like that. I certainly cannot fault Roden for declining to entertain an armed fleet of Matari with an axe to grind over how this sorry situation ever came to pass in the first place. Friends don't do what the RSS tried to do.

I understand you don't like it, I guess I wouldn't either if I was Sebiestor, but please respect our house and our rules. We want the same thing you do - to return Karin Midular once she is recovered, and learn the truth of what's behind this.

If Midular returns to Minmatar space in her current condition, she will die.

I don't think backups of tribal leaders are matters anyone should publish here, even if they knew about such things.


Only if you assume that the Federation is unable to hand control of her treatment and security to Sebiestor personnel while she remains on Gallente soil. Which is a statement in itself.

Which Sebiestor personnel are you talking about specifically? Are they the best qualified neurosurgeons on hand? Are they on the spot at the time, well rested and ready to go to work?

I'm not so eager to keep it all in the Sebiestor family that I'd fantasize that as a solution to the Matari crisis of confidence in us. As priorities go, I think the ethnicity of the people treating Karin Midular shouldn't really be near the top of the list right now.

We want her to survive, with all her faculties intact. To get the desired result and salvage her from this entire affair it doesn't matter whether her doctors are Gallente, Intaki, Sebiestor or Ni Kunni, as long as they're the best we have available.

Sympathy: "I'm sorry this happened to you."
Empathy: "I grieve as if it happened to me."

What we need are Federation leaders who balance the demands of sovereignty with empathy for an friend who is feeling a loss beyond the description of mere words. Mr. Roden, put aside your political sensibilities for a moment and allow empathy to temper your judgment. Invite Mr. Shakor to meet with you at the hospital. Put you hand on his shoulder and say that you grieve with him and mean it.

Balance the values of the medical community and their truma orientation with the fact that the soul of your closest friend is in pain.

Big egos need to give way to big hearts. Cool heads need the warmth of compassion if the heat of war is to be avoided.

She's right. The LEAST the Federation could do is let some Sebbie docs in to help out. For all you know, they may know a few Minmatar specific medical tricks that no doc in the Fed would know.

The military getting antsy about Matari ships coming in, I sort of understand. I emphasize SORT of.

Not letting medical personnel in? What the hell Roden? What's wrong with you?

Aside from you stirring **** along with everyone else who'd like to see the Federation get into a **** show, you're wrong about moving her.

Clinically, the patient has suffered deep neural damage from what I believe was a semi-automatic rifle. Assuming this was NOT done with an electrically based weapon such as a rail rifle or other magnetic field utilizing weapon system, a projectile being lodged in there is...approachable but still no laughing matter.

I know more about infectious diseases, bacteria, and virology, and Stitcher can correct me if I'm wrong here, but typical brain trauma at this point is a highly sensitive matter due to the sheer amount of hemorrhaging occurring within the brain. That blood is irritating neural tissue causing it to swell, badly.

Bleeding can occur inside the brain, between the brain and the membranes that cover it, between the layers of the brain's covering or between the skull and the covering of the brain. It can literally be anywhere. And I doubt exploratory surgery in this situation is something ANYONE wants to do. The slightest error in movement could worsen it beyond repair.

And this is just stationary. If an attempt is made to move her onto a ship, no matter how advanced, that hemorrhaging could worsen and kill her before she hits the deck of the ship.

NOW.

That being said, there's still absolutely ZERO excuse not to let Minmatar doctors assist in the situation in a cooperative clinical team during the situation. They won't give a name, a face, nothing about the killer. The least you jokers in the political and policy making sphere could do is let a gods damned DOCTOR IN WHO IS FROM AN ALLIED ENTITY.

Morons.