Intergalactic Summit

How about we just pull the 'victim' card? Because you will be. Soon. Authority, as the Empress demonstrated in Sarum Prime, comes from having the biggest number of the biggest guns. And you don't.

Squeeze what sadistic joy you can from your station, 'holder'. We are coming.

There's nothing particularily horrible about slavery. If one finds themselves a slave, they should perhaps consider why God is pissed off at them, quite frankly. They've probably been little a**holes.

What is binding is Scripture, and Scripture defines that only Holders have spiritual authority to own slaves.

And Amarr does hold the monopoly. No other nation has any right to engage in the practice.

Utter bollocks.

Scripture clearly states that only Holders may own slaves.

Lord Mokk,

In the interests of diplomacy, I shall offer only the following in response to your comments:

I disagree.

This petition has absolutely nothing to do with abolition. It is about restoring our traditional values, by eliminating the liberal business practices that have allowed non-Holders to own slaves. Scripture clearly defines the divine rights of Holders, among which is the sole ownership of slaves. This is a tradition that must be reclaimed. Commoners and foreigners have no right to own slaves.

I don't know if you noticed this, but, there are a lot of other traditional Amarrian values the merchants in those markets have not adopted.

It's still illegal in Amarr, but since when have our laws ever stopped the Godless?

This is like battling an ocean of sin with a hairdryer. The root of the evil is not in this action of selling slaves, it is merely a symptom of a greater sin of not recognizing God's authority and Amarrian authority.

I am more concerned with research and development of warfare technology to permit Amarrians to reclaim the Godless, rather than playing their game on their terms.

I spit on petitions!

But you're not going to the Civic Court station and buying slaves. That's your choice. People may choose to sin all the time, that doesn't mean we should analyze ever transaction that happens.

I can't be bothered to go pick up slaves my mother assigns me, and I wouldn't appreciate having to personally travel to the middle of nowhere, interrupting my work in the war machine to have to somehow micromanage slave transactions. She certainly would NOT appreciate having to go there herself either and would probably just reassign holdership as a proxy to someone who would then spend all of their time managing slave transactions in person. Does that sound like Amarrian tradition?

We are granted authority by God, not restrictions based on the shortcomings of others. I will not be bound by this.

This is just going to restrict progress, business, technological advancement and make for longer waits in the holding areas for the slaves.


When my agents go to the markets they are buying more than slaves, and since slaves are replaced so infrequently it is simply not practical to just buy slaves, they need to be in the broader market just for the sake of convenience.

I am not going to have my businesses suffer because some unauthorized and lawless person might see fit to take Sin upon him or herself. That is between them, God and the Inquisition or Concord, whichever jurisdiction they fall under, once that act is committed.

That's not what the "petition" is about. Actually it's not even a well written petition it's just a paragraph from a liberal fruit dictating to Holders how they should conduct business in Amarr.

If every slave in the markets had a Holder standing right next to them they still wouldn't be happy.