Intergalactic Summit

The key phrase here is "investigation of potential existential threats". I saw no potential existential threats to anyone on the field today, only Her Imperial Majesty, her escorts, and a hundred or so capsuleers. This would seem to render his quotation of the Yulai Convention void and moot.

If the Elder Mentor could explain what existential threat he and the SoCT believes the Empress and/or her ship presents and whom, I would love to hear it. I am sure it would be utter nonsense, but I'd still like to hear his justifications.

A scan produces information. Information can be used as a weapon. Simply put, what he did was espionage. Blatant, audacious secret delving for reasons unknown, not unlike what the Sleepers and Drifters were doing just weeks ago in the Empire. The Empress had just delivered a speech outlining how this was a threat.

I think you need to be sensible about this. If I saw you going through the ship schematics on my office desk and your only explanation was 'I think you are dangerous', I'd hit you in the head and escort you out. That is the equivalent of what happened today. You are foolish to believe things could or should have happened any differently.

He violated no laws and was not required to comply with orders from the Imperial Navy since he was operating under CONCORD jurisdiction, as all capsuleers do.

Maybe he was confirming if she was one.
That bodes ill.

The leader of a sovereign nation is obliged to act and order as they see fit within their own nation. Simply put, the entire Empire is the Empress's home, just as the Republic is Shakor's home and Caldari Prime is Yanala's de jure (though, alas, not de facto) home. Yes, Shakor would be within his legal rights to fire upon the Sisters ship. The example with Admiral Yanala, God rest her soul, is a more complicated matter, but I would argue that yes, she has the right to refuse scans from CONCORD. They constitute a search of property, a violation of privacy, and a potential hostile act as the information gained can be used to compromise the security of the individual and ship scanned. I am not biased in this regard.

But yes, I am a citizen of the Empire and I have sworn to uphold and protect the Empire and all of its facets, the Empress especially. Do you seriously expect me, or anyone else who considers themselves an Imperial loyalist, to refuse an order from the Empress herself? Imperial law applies in Imperial space. The Empress's word is Imperial law. CONCORD has no right to dictate what she does, as CONCORD treaty also includes allowances for national sovereignty. The only potential clause that might have saved the Elder Mentor from legal recourse was the codicil he quoted but conveniently neglected to explain just who was threatened and how.

There was no clear justification for Matshi Raish's actions. The Empire took offense to his undiplomatic actions. We took our own undiplomatic actions in return. Deal with it.

You know... 'Blatant' and 'audacious', I'll give you, but considering he did it in plain sight of everyone there... it was hardly 'secret delving'.

We know that the Circadian Seekers can use Entosis links on ships. They scanned The Game is Rigged more than once in ED-L9T before she was destroyed. So obviously, the Society's got a better grasp on this tech than we do. That's hardly shocking - the Society has had Jovian backing, and this tech is blatantly ripped off from the Jovians.

We've all been scanned by it at some point. I've seen titans scanned, no ill-effects. Anything they were going to find on a regular Avatar, I have to assume the Society already knows about.

So what were they looking for? Because whatever it was, she didn't order him executed until he told her he'd gotten it. And if all he needed was the answer to a yes/no question, like 'Do the Amarr know how to use X technology yet?' then killing a capsuleer's meatsuit doesn't exactly prevent that answer from getting passed back.

So why even bother?

And risk the life and health of the pony? Spirits below, that's KoS offense.

Like I've said elsewhere, it frankly doesn't matter to me if this was legal or not. I'm reasonably sure he broke no laws and it was thus an unprovoked murder of his crew, but it doesn't really matter. The biggest guns determine who gets to do what on a field, and in this case the firepower favored the Empress.

I'm more interested in finding out what got her **** in a twist, because it was quite obviously no danger to her ship or crew as he was already leaving. This implies that him getting away with whatever scan data he has was the real threat.

If the Tribal leaders started murdering people over being scanned in public, I'd start having some very pointed questions for them about what they have to hide and I would be hard-pressed not to demand answers, pony or not.

Of course, I don't tend to fall to my knees and lose sight of any human being's capacity to be a bastard just because they become a head of state, so I guess I can't relate to the Amarrian side of things.

Look above for your answer.

And ask CONCORD.

The EMPRESS does not answer to you.

Because she ain't even given me my bloody coffee yet! I sent the invoice hours ago, it doesn't take that long to sent an order in to the cafe in YA0 station.

It's the principle of the thing!

Principally... cuz yeah, I am. Stupid joneses....