Intergalactic Summit

17 May YC 115

Nonni III - Moon 1 - Kaalakiota Orbital

This is public notification that as of 0900 Hours 17 May YC 115, Pyre Falcon Defence and Security has divested 100% of common stock to a private investment conglomerate representing both individual and institutional interests within Kaalakiota Corporation, Wiyrkomi Corporation, and Lai Dai Corporation. The transaction was conducted through the Nonni Securities Exchange and stock was sold at a nominal price of 0.01 ISK per share brokered via a Halaima registered firm.

Current divestment of stock as divided by Company stake now stands at: 46% Kaalakiota Corporation; 32% Wiyrkomi Corporation; 22% Lai Dai Corporation. Pyre Falcon Defence and Security remains a private company and will not disclose further information regarding the identities of its investors at this point in time pursuant with the desire of current stakeholders to retain their privacy.

Current operations of Pyre Falcon Defence and Security and its subsidiaries will remain unaffected until such time scheduled closed session general meetings are concluded between the Executive Board and current stakeholders.

Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Chairwoman
Pyre Falcon Defence Combine

So you're gonna sell POWs into slavery?...

That is a particularly loaded and incorrect term for the program envisioned. It is simply the repayment of incurred associated debts such as clothing, feeding and construction of facilities for private detention through a negotiated indentured labour work program under the oversight of Khanid Kingdom Holders wishing to be part of the program.

Yeah, that's selling POWs into slavery. Good work becoming worse than our enemies.

It helps some people to justify their deeds with elaborate wording instead of facing the true reality of their actions. It is just deception of self as well as attempted deception of others. Hiding behind corporate jargon, edicts and frivolous descriptions as they fear what the lack of plausible deniability and brutal honesty would paint their true selves as.

These people are slavers, with every implication of the word.

It takes one to know one.

"Negotiated intendured labour work program" is simply very flowery doublespeak for "we'll have someone else do the slaveholding for us." What you're doing is taking POWs - who, incidentally, are legal combatants in this war - and giving them to the members of a civilization well known for keeping slaves who are, among that civilization, the most likely to be keeping slaves, to engage in indentured labour at private detention facilities. Just because you don't call it slavery, and just because you're outsourcing the implementation to someon eelse, it doesn't somehow make it not slavery, and it certainly doesn't insulate you from guilt.

You say that this is "repayment of incurred associated debts such as clothing, feeding and construction of facilitires for private detention?" Well, those things might well cost money but this being the case, I have to ask - whose fault is that? Pyre Falcon was operating under a perfectly reasonable method of dealing with prisoners that did not require extensive budget outlays for clothing, feeding and housing detainees. Pieter Tuulinen detailed it succinctly in this announcement:


You have, inexplicably, rescinded this policy in favour of either selling or just giving - I'm not precisely certain which one of those is worse - prisoners of war to Khanid slave camps.

There should never be a circumstance in which I, an Intaki Federal citizen, am forced to instruct a citizen of the State how to be Caldari. The fact that you leave me no choice is disgraceful. Members of Pyre Falcon: the State does not keep slaves. Citizens of the State do not do trade in human lives. If you are doing this at all, and particularly if you are doing this in the name of the State, you are failing at being a Caldari, and you are dishonouring the memory of the Raata.

Oh ****, son! Guess that means I don't actually do drugs then, since I'm beyond those particular laws at the moment. Nor do I kill when I send my drones after those that pester me, since it's not illegal. I mean, when you reflect on that **** I come out pristine and clean as a whistle.

Wait, no... I still do the drugs and I still do the killing.

I guess you're still doin' the slavin'. You just do it legally, hiding behind fairly poor legalese shields.

You don't actually think that makes it any better, do you?

Edit: Damn it, when Ixiris is better at being Caldari than you guys, something's seriously ******* wrong with the universe.
Get it together, seriously.

While the Khanid Kingdom is more liberal in regards to slavery on very small - household - scales, it is restricted to slavers and holders to take, trade or own slaves. You might want to keep that in mind before getting outraged.


Jinari Otsito,

Your behaviour can not be used to extrapolate the behaviour of others.

So what, you use legal jargon and contractual language to place POW in 'care' of an outsourced group which may state that what the Khanid do with them is their business so long as [insert loose language here]. I might play an idiot but I'm not an idiot.

Jinari I ...sorry. I don't know what to say. I didn't mean to assume...but uh...yeah my ..yeah. Sorry.

Alright. OK. Let's hypothesise for a moment. Let's say I go back to the FDU at some point, and wind up with a whole bunch of survivors from State Protectorate ships I kill. I decide I can't deal with them, so I look for some form of humanitarian organisation.

Oh, look, the True Slave Foundation say they're humanitarians. Hey, you know what, they rescue people without even being asked to! They clearly have the neccessary qualifications to look after my vast horde of Caldari POWs! Oh boy, TSF, you literally can't get those transports over here fast enough!

Now of course I trust TSF implicitly and without question (for any of you watching at home, the rhetorical tactic I'm currently employing is an obscure and little-used art known as "sarcasm," in which a person states something insincere for illustrative or comedic effect), and I can give you my assurance that their rights will be respected according to Federation and Nation law.

Colluding with cyborg zombies, you say? Perish the thought!