Intergalactic Summit

To be fair, our default POS password is so much an open secret, it's a common joke among the swarm.

The False Empress should be afforded no special privileges to avoid being on the receiving end of an Entosis Link. As far as I see it, she deserves no more protection from the Amarr Navy than the captain of a freighter loaded with exotic dancers; in fact, I might even argue that she deserves less, as the exotic dancers would produce much more happiness throughout the Empire.

She clearly has something to hide, and the clear disregard for the importance of investigating existential threats just goes to show that she is in fact herself an existential threat and should be dealt with. Fortunately, Maximillian Singularity had the foresight to identify her as such before this incident, and she will be removed soon enough.

As a minor note, my esteemed alliance-mate said exotic dancers, not prostitutes. While I will not claim there is no overlap in the two groups, an exotic dancer is not automatically a prostitute, and does not necessarily work under the same conditions. That said, I don't really think the dancers give more happiness, considering the sheer number of people who find happiness in having enough structure and order in their lives that they need not make any choices for themselves.

And before any member of the Imperium (note: I do not refer to the Amarr Empire with this) thinks to claim our membership is immune to this tendency, I will say simply that if you have not heard the words, 'Don't think for yourselves, just do what you're told' from either me, a fleet commander, any number of members of senior leadership, or directly from the Mittani over our commsystem, you are still very new indeed.

That said, I encourage you all to think for yourselves, except for when it's time to shut up and soldier.

And patience! Been sitting in bos for like 13 hours now, feet up and engines cooling. What's a goon gotta do to get a drink around here?

Mebbe I'll find out t'morrow.

The only explanation I can see is that something was considered so important that those considerations became secondary... I guess.

The poor False Empress in her Titan could not withstand the might of a single unsupported Gnosis-class battleship that she had to call in the Amarr Navy and anyone else within range to help her after said ship complied with the orders given on the scene. Seems the actions of the insane: "Do what I say or my men will open fire!" "Okay, I'll do what you say." "OPEN FIRE!"



Well, exotic dancers are not always prostitutes. Perhaps in the places you frequent, it is so. For others, they are entertainers.

ambiguously?
he said from the start that he was there to perform an investigation.
The purpose of an investigation is to uncover information.
Prior to being fired upon, he said he had gained the information he required.

so... where's the ambiguity?

Ginia, it might be better to simply allow this one to delude himself.
His earlier arguments failed after he contradicted his own points then claimed they were irrefutable.
I see no difference in his choice of methodology here.

The Entosis Link appeared to be operating in a pattern similar to the Circadian Seeker's scanning system, which would seem to indicate that the Society understands the technology better than your average capsuleer does. This doesn't mean anything is special about her imperial majesty, or her imperial majesty's ship.

Still, it remains a scan.

The analogy of the security response to a squirt gun seems an inaccurate one; I'd prefer the analogy of a man with a cream pie. Sure, he's exceeding his bounds and the security detail would be right to tackle him, but it's unreasonable to assume that the cream pie is full of acid and thus shoot him dead.

Well, combine the fact that it functioned thus AND the response was so severe even after the scans were complete. Famous last words are apparently, "Very well, we have learned what we needed to learn." The question is, did they learn something from the link... or from the response? Often times, how a person reacts can tell you more about them than what any of our best scanning devices.

If a man is insane, Cargo Scan, Ship Scan, D-Scan and Probe Scanning will tell you none of it-- well, okay, sometimes you can tell if someone is insane by how they fit their ship. But still, actions sometimes speak louder than scans.

The Empress got no problem violating the rights and privacy of other people on a daily basis. But someone does it to her and she turns the slave hounds on them.

So typical.