Intergalactic Summit

It is interesting how the same people can point out that were all slaves liberated, the Republic would struggle to provide for them all, and criticize the fact that when slaves are set free, we take in our own first. How can you require that when our resources are critically low, we use them to take care of other peoples' business? We are not Sisters of Eve, we are the Minmatar Republic.

That said, it is not unusual for Minmatar forces to take on board of evacuation vessels slaves of other races when there is room to do so, or in a hurry just take anyone they can board fast. Prioritizing kin does not mean we are heartless.

Elsebeth Rhiannon

I picked my side less by choosing to be with someone than by the fact that if the Minmatar do not stand united against the Empire with its Reclaiming policies, sooner or later we will be ran over, and my kin will be enslaved.

If that threat did not exist, I would not give a damn about what, say, the Brutor tribe did, as long as they paid back that courtesy. My only quarrel with the Caldari State is your aid to the Empire. In the current struggle, my opinions about the morality of the Minmatar Republic's actions as a whole are, unfortunately, almost completely irrelevant.

Elsebeth

Captain Kim; you make quite a cultural blunder mistaking "kin" for "friend", but this is not unusual for Caldari without much experience with tribal culture, so no offense taken. As to mutual respect, your words are spot on.

Elsebeth

The Minmatar claim victory over their alliance's mutual enemy and many Gallente use the opportunity to moralize condescendingly that not every slave was freed. Intriguing. The thin end of the wedge?

The Minmatar are to be respected for recognizing the exigencies of armed struggle. They understand that sacrifices must be made given their limited resources and are willing to shelve shallow sentimentality for the good of their tribe. The visceral savage in me approves of their steely approach to resistance. A shame I am duty-bound to keep them in bondage but that is as it must be - freedom is for those strong enough to take it for themselves.

There was a time when I viewed the existence of The Republic and the existence of the State as mutually exclusive. I thought their values were antithetical to the survival of a healthy social organism and that the Minmatar served anarchy rather than order, that their individualism threatened to pollute the code of duty and honor that form the stiff backbone of the Caldari citizen.

Such misguided opinions seeped into me osmotically during my time in the Empire, where I was stationed to crosstrain in Amarr and Caldari ship design. I now recognize that the strengths that bind the Caldari are much the same as those that bind the Minmatar. Constructs like "state" and "tribe" are of less concern to a people than the values that serve to defend those constructs. The irony is that it is those values that solidify our loyalty to the State and pit us against the Minmatar, but I do not think this will be a permanent condition as I once did.

The time will come when circumstances force us to recognize that the Minmatar need not be our enemy. Indeed, if our "allies" turn on us we may find that the Minmatar are not so deserving of our derision.

If your alleged deity, which is supposedly all powerful, so disapproves of my actions it's welcome to tell me so personally and to punish me right now. Why wait for pie in the sky by and by when you die? I'm docked at the RSS station in Pator ready to engage it in a dialogue.

As the young people in Caille like to say, "Come at me, bro".

Like the Amarr say, Mr. Ixiris, God punishes evil. In this case the Amarrians are discovering that the door in that particular aspect of their Scriptures happens to swing both ways.

Events of the last weekend proving this report to be inaccurate as usual. Sorry to dash your hopes of an improved Gutter Press.

I am quite happy with Gutter Press the way it is. I feared this article may have been a sign of change until their most recent article reinstated my faith in its satire.



I don't think Midular wanted to see war in the first place so I don't see how you can really honor her through war with the Amarr.

-Eran

It is gratifying to see that some remember history.

I confess to often wondering often how different things might be if the Ray of Matar had been allowed to continue her work. She to me was evidence that God's light does not fall on the True Amarr alone.