Intergalactic Summit

Mostly the latter, where synaptic disorders can occur following certain patterns when non compliance to security protocols is observed, either though provoked discontinuity, or through raw erasing. Memory oblivion is the latter, and occasional wetware induced schizophrenia can sometimes be the former.

And what of those slavers who keep slaves long after they should have been freed?

You're the reason everyone thinks we're a bunch of crazy psychos.

Of course, all slaveholders in the Amarr Empire must obey the Empress in such matters.

Many misguided individuals do consider me a lunatic because I think respect for God's justice and holiness and glory demands exquisite punishment for the Gallente and other sinners, and I celebrate such punishments (because God is glorified in them) and enjoy writing about them.


Because unlike the Gallente scum, we see reward and punishment not (only) as something meted out to individuals, but to families and races and nations and other collectives. For example, the Amarr became the Chosen long ago, and retain such status to this day, and the boundaries between the Chosen and the Non-Chosen move slowly over time. Nine generations of slavery is a flash of time on such a scale.

But a child of a slave who was raised by an Amarrian family would be Amarrian in every way that matters. Not race, true, but she would be Amarrian in her language, her culture, her view, and her beliefs.

Not on the lunatic fringe, but definitely on the lunatic mainstream...

They all blend together after a while, don't they? No longer distinct, they've become a single wordless wail of impotence, their lives made infinitely miserable by the fact that the Federation existed, still exists and will continue to exist for a very, very long time.

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Oh, this is the part where I'm meant to insincerely imply that I feel some sympathy for their plight, isn't it?

Hmm. Hmm. How do I... oh, yes, this should do.

Ahem. And that's terrible.

We didn't want that tortured relationship metaphor anyway.

If you ever see me in hisec as well, I'm good for that beer. Or cognac, actually. The best way to bring the Word is to be a part of the cultural exchange. I've always thought the Scriptures stand the test of time and the faith stands solidly on its own as a good idea. There's really no reason to go and chain people up arbitrarily. If experience teaches anything, it's that such actions probably aren't the most effective means of conversion.

Besides that, if you get too tangled up in your own imperial image, you miss out on all the great things that come from other empires. The best part of my job is that so much of it is getting back exactly what I'm trying to put in. People will listen very intently to you preach the Word in Gallente space when they know you're also learning from them. So many times, I go to a university, conduct my sermon, and end up in an art gallery afterwards.

My favorite was the seminar I conducted last year that concluded with being invited to learn how to skeleton race down an ice-chute. That turned into a week-long party and eventually led to, last month, the ordination of one of the people I'd preached to in the priesthood.

Fantastic times!

You mean that you had a part of your memory rewritten that caused memory oblivion or schizophrenia ?



It mostly depends what people call "holy". Saint patrons of Amarr religion were men too. They are not holy because they come from the divine, they are holy for what they embody or represent, much like the scriptures.

Also, well, if you can find me a story including all the scientific, academic, religious (etc) texts of a culture, thus all its knowledge combined, with millions of contributing authors, I would be rather interested.