Intergalactic Summit

In law, silence is taken to mean consent.

The lack of comment is, in my view, simply the delay caused by reflection and bureaucracy. Nonetheless, whilst other governments decline making their views known, Lord Mokk is correct in his claim that this silence can be construed as consent to the actions of the Empress.

He activated an entosis link, or what appeared to be one, however I was running passive scans of the entire system throughout the whole event.
I also scanned the titan, but it's shields were up so I couldn't get anything conclusive.

Incorrect. My opinion is driven by a dislike of arbitrary violence being exercised against the seekers-of-knowledge. To me, this isn't about her imperial majesty's nobility of person, but about Raish's acting within the bounds of interstellar law and being killed at the whim of a sovereign.



Excepting that an Entosis Link is not a gun and has never been a gun. Claims to the contrary are fanciful.

Ships should not be destroyed due to fancy.

What a incredibly interesting series of events.

A SOCT vessel bothers to attend a event in Amarr space equipped with some kind of prototype presumably non lethal device to use on a head of state that said head of state responding with an unusually violent reaction to the use of said prototype when directed at them.

I think the answers for why this series of events unfolded is going to be very interesting.

If it had been a quickly made decision, it would have been less interesting and more understandable, yes. It wasn't. The decision came only after he was done and publicly stated his business was concluded, which quite clearly was taken as a far greater threat than the (for combat pilots at least) quite significant amount of time he spent actually engaging in his scanning.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that this is noted with interest.

Indeed, security complications are dynamic and highly-charged - and the trained, professional security assets on-field did not take action against him except to insist he desist and back away. They clearly considered his actions inappropriate, but not an imminent threat. That assessment was made by a personally-aggrieved party who had, after all, just been successfully defied. In public. At a ceremony where she was trumpeting a victory that would ensure the Matari would never dare set foot in that place again.

While we were already there.

Someone who's used to getting her way and being obeyed without question isn't going to take kindly to being made to look impotent in public, and that's exactly what Raish did. She blew up a capsuleer's ship. She didn't prevent him from doing what he wanted to do, and she didn't prevent him from relaying anything he wanted to relay back to the Society - either through real-time packet forwarding or by just storing the data in his wetware and spitting it back out when he woke up in the clone bay. And she knew it. And she was - visibly, demonstrably - angry about it.

Yeah, she did a good little bit of spin on it, using it as a 'and so shall those who defy us fall blah blah' moment, and yeah, the crowd ate it up, but I mean, really now. She shows up, talks up the victory seven years ago so all the Amarr get that nationalism puffing up their chests, then some guy turns up and defies her, so she unleashes the mob on him and gives them the bloodsport she'd been whipping them up to want. Of course they're going to eat that up. And nobody should be surprised. She's a politician. Manipulating the masses is her job, her vocation, and clearly, she's good at it.

I don't envy those Imperial Navy commanders the position they were in, not even a little. I wouldn't be surprised if she tore each and every one of them a new orifice once she got them and the head of the protection detail in private. But let's be real - she was never in any danger. Not with Aeons on the field for remote assistance, and probably an entire battlegroup on standby within 5LY in case of emergency. Just the assets she had on the field would have been able to keep that Avatar alive long enough to survive anything less than the combined volley-fire of something on the order of a thousand Maelstroms or Tornados - probably closer to fifteen-hundred. Unless the Imperial Navy was so lax that they somehow missed a significant dreadnought group moving into position, along with subcapital assets to distract CONCORD, the only thing that could have possibly threatened her life and the lives of her crew would have been a Drifter incursion.

The only things at risk there, no matter how much people want to claim that a Jovian-tech Entosis Link would have destabilized the ship and made it kill every puppy within a million light-years, were the information that she almost certainly failed to keep from Raisch, and her ego.

Heck, even I was standing ready to provide remote assistance in the event of any distress, but a Marmite Collective fleet decided that exercising their 'war' on my alliance was more important, and reduced my Scimitar to scrap. Other Matari pilots have also reported being attacked by anyone with an excuse, despite offering no hostile actions whatsoever, merely being there to observe the commemoration of a battle where both our nations lost lives.

Honestly, some folks just have no sense of occasion.

Well, I am sorry but I have not seen a single Jovian entity among the Society's ranks...

Maybe there actually are, all wearing tinfoil hats, but I do not think that the burden of proof lies on my shoulders here...

In this instance I must concur with Pieter's opinion.

A head of state within their own sovereignty is, or at least should be, the supreme authority.

Especially so within the Empire where sovereign authority is invested in the person of Empress Jamyl herself.

Comparing the Entosis Link to a "squirt gun" or that it holds little "potential for danger" because it is not a gun is hilarious. This is like saying that a Tachyon Beam Laser is nothing more than a Civilian Handgun and thus can't pierce even a shuttle's shields. This is a gross underestimation and negligent downplaying of its potential for damage.

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With regards to this, the SCOPE should better put Lina Ambre back to the desk duty. Her's, and Alton Haveri's, reports lack professionalism and contain amateurish mistakes. The last breaking news, for instance, puts the Sarum Prime system into the Throne Worlds constellation. It appears that Lina as well as her supervisors need a lesson in astrogeography and probably yet another pair of eyes to check for such disconcerting mistakes. Unless, of course, there is a ulterior motiv behind this kind of mistakes in the latest reports.

You're a smart bird, aren't you?

P.S.: While I appreciated your history lesson, here's one for you: I am a Khanid holder. We weren't there when Vak'Atioth and the Rebellion happened. From our perspective we always kicked butt, to use your wording, but never experienced to be kicked.