Intergalactic Summit

On the eve of the unnecessary deaths of millions, a clear response to some of the ideas put forth by Maximilian Singularity is necessary. At the present juncture, my words will do nothing to prevent the carnage soon to come, but I present them as a continued confession of faith, a declaration of Amarr identity in the face of an assault that seeks to destroy it. This attack upon what it is to be Amarr seeks to substitute the clarity of God, Scripture, and history for the glory of one man and the expediencies of one moment. This attack must be resisted. This attack is a test, and in this test the Faith will find strength but not in the way Singularity expects.

The great danger of this attack and how it is clearly opposed to God can be most easily seen in the organization and the individual who leads it. The assault upon the Empire and the Faith has been described as a cleansing “inquisition” and the action of a “Sixth Empire,” under the direction of a “pope” who would be an emperor if he could. I will first respond to what Singularity describes his so-called “Sixth Empire” to be. I will then describe what this organization actually is.

Singularity’s Empire makes no mention of the Lord, but many references to both himself and to capsuleers as if they were gods. Regard how he has described the “Sixth Empire” to me:
“The Sixth Empire is not a thing you can join, nor quit. It is not a thing that is united, in fact, it excels when it is divided. It can not fall, it can only rise. It is the very thing that has made CVA, The Imperium and all the alliances stronger over the years. It is the exclusive realm of Capsuleers where we strengthen by our divided adversity. It is a realization. An idea. A bad idea, a good idea both in one where duality of confusion leads only to the infusion of STRENGTH.”

These notions make little logical sense and even less sense when an attempt is made to reconcile them with the Lord’s Scriptures and the Amarr tradition. Even the most unlearned seminary student can see these flaws, and I apologise for rehearsing basic elements of Amarr doctrine in my response to them. The duty of the Reclaiming is unity. This unity is the goal of the Lord, who wishes that all of His creatures be returned to Him. Singularity says that his “empire,” in contrast thrives on permanent division: “It is not a thing that is united, in fact it excels when it is divided.” In these words, he seems to suggest that the final goal of the “empire” is not a Reclaiming to God but endless division, death, and self-glory. Where is any reference to God? Where is any reference to the Scriptures? This is not a faithful “empire” it is something else.

In addition, Singularity calls for legal inquest while breaking the law. Amarr law is based on the Lord and His Scriptures. Singularity cites none of these. What law does he claim to enforce? If one enforces notions born from one’s own mind outside of any tradition or legitimate government, this is not law. It is pure tyranny, a farcical pantomime of legitimacy. He promises you freedom and an end of slavery, as long as you submit to his novel notions and all his demands. To all others he offers only death, with endless contempt for the rest of humanity. He participated in what his band of terrorists called “Burn Amarr” feeling “no pity” for the countless thousands killed (even the crews of merchant ships whose “crime” was travelling in a system he had chosen to indiscriminately attack for the promulgation of terror). He does all these actions to underline the Empress’ supposed wickedness and his own supposed nobility. Judging by their evident fruits, which is the more poisoned? Indeed, far from heaping scorn on the Empress, he exalts her by comparison.

Singularity appears to discount that capsuleers are involved with and, in fact, servants to the Lord. Our role is to further His plan for all of humanity, not just ourselves. An exclusive “empire” of capsuleers is an offense against this basic truth. We are servants of the Lord, even those of us who do not know it. What singularity outlines is not the Amarr faith; it is a capsuleer-centred death cult. Indeed, the so-called “Sixth Empire” resembles more a monument of homicidal vanity, a twisted idolatry of the self to the expense of God. As I have argued before, submission to the Lord above all else is the essence of Amarr (https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5831129). Singularity promises you a slavery to the self, rather than submission to God that will make you free. The Lord’s true Empire is for all of humanity. It is the destination of all peoples. Let us, faithful, re-affirm our ultimate allegiance to the Lord, to His plan and to his one, only, holy, Amarr Empire. Amarr Victor! Faithful to God forever!

Given by Brother Honorius, Lord and Holder of the Vitellius Family, Servant of God and His Empire

Fear not. The Goon puppet is hollow. Amarr victor!

Add some jello to this and we could charge admission for this show.

I'm fairly sure that Singularity is a Blood Raider. His philosophy is certainly pretty close to a Raider's ideals of personal glory, hierarchy of power, blood sacrifice wherein Capsuleers are the most worthy targets for bloodletting, and strength through conflict.

I wonder what Old Omar thinks of this?

Thank you Dr. Scherezad for this insight. I admit I was mulling over Equilbrium of Mankind leanings for him given his fixation on the various types of deaths, but this may be closer to the mark as to the underlying and to date undisclosed sources of his heresy.

It's my understanding that we've slowly been marshaling fleets of our new Type-D Rifters in previously unknown wormho-... hang on, excuse me...


... actually, that's something else completely. Carry on! I was wondering how they got a doomsday on a frigate...

Brother Honorius, as an avowed heretic who finds the Amarr faith to be strange, alien, and frankly completely devoid of moral worth, I will admit that you and I will have our differences of opinion. Also, apologies in advance, as I may display a tendency to become a bit wordy and long-winded in expressing my thoughts, and slightly prone to focusing on tangential minutiae, eh, little fi-er... Dr. Scherezad?

As... I seem to have already done. Right then. Back to the point. With that stipulation, I was hoping you might entertain a question I have concerning the very doctrine of unity that you have espoused in your encyclical. Unity, as you may have heard, is held to be one of the primary virtues of the Imperium, as well as a watchword of the Amarr faith, and so there may be some common ground to build from on that particular front. However - so as not to get side-tracked again....

You have stated:



Reclaiming has been used as the justification for slavery throughout the history of the Amarr. To many, however, the moral burden of the Reclaiming is that it is not slavery for the sake of maintaining personal wealth in the form of chattel property, but rather a way to bring the wayward and the heretical into the fold under the care of those of true faith. The purpose of this caretaking is to guide and instruct the benighted souls into greater communion with your god. In this, the physical aspects of the Reclaiming are subordinate to the spiritual aspects.

This approach - that the physical aspects of Unity and Reclaiming are not the important ones - can be best seen in the continued relationship between the Amarr and the Khanid, despite the latter's secession from the Empire and brief but bloody civil war. The Khanid continue to practice the Amarr faith in their way, and as far as I am aware, there have not been popular outcries for a forceful Reclaiming of the Khanid for at least the length of my lifetime.

Given that, is it not reasonable to say that there can be temporal conflict among the faithful, and that unity with your God does not necessarily require unity with your political apparatus?

Similarly, one does not redirect a moving starship by ramming it into a station and expecting it to bounce in the right direction, with no harm or damage inflicted or taken. You set your planned heading, and turn the ship slowly, through a constant curve. Is it not also reasonable to think that Maximilian Singularity may be attempting to guide capsuleers by degrees? To first harness their energy in a way that will later allow him to introduce them to concepts from the Amarr faith and scriptures, rather than attempt to stand in front of them and yell out scripture verse now in a gesture that would surely be almost completely ignored and ineffective?

To be fair, as Brother Honorius has said, Max hasn't said a 'Sixth Empire of God'. In that parlance, there are already five commonly-held 'Empires' - the Amarr, Gallente, Caldari, and Minmatar are the first four - despite, strictly speaking, three of them not being Empires - and the fifth is (was?) the Jovians. Though of course, something may have happened to the Jove. It's in that context that the capsuleers would represent a 'Sixth' empire.

True, but CONCORD generally holds to the 'four empires' outlook, and the Jovian Empire, by virtue of its undeniable (if possibly already extinct) military prowess cannot be ignored. The others... even CONCORD doesn't often seem to acknowledge that they've ever existed.

Generally speaking, because we've found overdoing it on propaganda really does seem to get folks like you worked up.