Intergalactic Summit

It is as we feared, the Court Chamberlain has confirmed that Her Imperial Majesty Jamyl I is no longer with us.

However, I implore all the Faithful to remember that we should not dwell on thoughts of sorrow, though they come easy and in great torrents as is only natural in such tragedies. We must remember what our Faith teaches us. She now sits in Heaven with God the Divine and all the countless trillions of Faithful who have been elevated from this world in the past millennia of this most Ancient and Holy Empire. From the lowliest slave, true to the Faith and its promise of redemption, to the Emperors who passed into the Beyond having steered the Empire during their watch. God has given us no Emperor to serve forever and each has ruled in the time and been replaced in the way that the Divine Plan of the Lord, which surpasses the understanding of all but Him, requires for the Ultimate Salvation and Reclamation.

The events of today do not represent a defeat for the Empire. And they certainly do not represent a victory for its enemies. So, if we are to do anything, I hope that it is to remember Her legacy, not despair in Her passing. To celebrate Her ascension into Heaven, not bemoan Her absence on this worldly plane. And most of all to not fear the threats that attempt to topple Our Empire but take strength from the knowledge that it endures through the dying of its champions.

Mournfulness, hopelessness, and fear. These emotions are best reserved to weigh on the hearts of our enemies. For as Scripture tells us, "Surround yourself with the faithful, Stand together, for there is no strength like it under the heavens."

I graduated just yesterday and then the first news I heard after my first cloning print was that the Empress had been killed. I feel like I made the wrong choice to clone myself and I have somehow ended up in an infernal reality and I am damned, and that this is a message from God. I must destroy this clone body and will be submitting myself to the biomass queue immediately.

I don't even know if I am alive or if you all are real.

Well said...Thank you.

The family is inconsolable, I have spent the past days in services all over my family's holdings. This is the worst sort of day for us and is the test of faith for many I'm sure.

And that girl submitting herself to the biomass queue, ugh, awful. It's too late to stop her apparently, I checked into it, the order went through this morning. It should never have been allowed given the circumstances.

The Empress is surely with God so I indeed only mourn for Amarr in its current state, but there should be an inquiry into the events that transpired. Who advised the Empress to make such a rash decision to go about in Safizon as if it was not under attack? Did someone reassure her it was fine? I have already discussed elsewhere and more intimately with family the gross mismanagement of communications within the Navy and I see this as more evidence of an apparent breakdown of discipline.

No more than any other terroristic attack is a "victory". Seeing as they have failed to inspire terror but have, in fact, strengthened the resolve of the Empire against them I would classify their efforts as failed even by the low standards of terrorism.

And you have what evidence to demonstrate that causing terror was their objective?

You are right. I assigned a specific motive where only a general one can be reasonably inferred. I apologize for my imprecise use of terminology. But I do stand by the intent of my words which is that if, generally speaking, successes are those things which contribute to victory and failures are those things that contribute to defeat then I have faith beyond measure that the atrocity committed by the Drifters was a failure. Loyalists will purge them with a flame all the purer in response to this crime against the Empire.

If their intent was specifically to kill the Empress, then their strike was a success. There may be unexpected consequences, but I find it difficult to label it a failure.