Intergalactic Summit

"difference in beliefs"? ... Uhm... Oh... Okay.

Yes. He honours his word and is very consistent, even predictable, within the limits of his insanity. This does not make him less of a madman and heretic.

I doubt that his words about "God demands suffering and sarifice of all Minmatar slaves", consistently backed with actions, are his concern alone.

Thank you. Though none of those "mortals", as you call them, are really innocent unless they are little babies (and certainly not innocent if they are enslaved criminals or prisoners of war), they are the souls that need guidance to light, and not horrible abuse and murder.

See, that's the difference between Nauplius and, for example, Funk. Funk, as a hardcore Blood Raider, goes for the "pure" clone blood and has little interest in baseliners. Most of her kills are small frigates, shuttles or capsuleer pods. Nauplius, on the other hand, mass murders helpless slaves who will never have a chance for a payback, or even have this atrocity noticed by the hypocrites of CONCORD.

Are you sure?

I've seen hints of this sort of idea, but if it were the case in any very straightforward way, there would be no reason to release any enslaved people. There are certainly Amarr, including at least one I consider a friend, who talk about sinful blood, but there's another interpretation.

If slavery is a sort of spiritual and social apprenticeship, an entry-level introduction of persons into the Amarrian society, there is reason to be cautious about past influences-- especially in someone who has been Reclaimed by force, or who is only a couple generations removed from someone who was. Lingering resentments could be held, even cherished, for decades and generations. If those possessing them are allowed much freedom, those ideas could spread. Empire society seems to be very cautious about things like that; even the possibility isn't really acceptable, since any given incident is likely to mean souls lost, maybe irrevocably, from their god's kingdom.

Even when things like that diminish into someone's personal background, there's a risk of resurgence, and the Amarr, culturally, are really, really patient. They also don't seem to care very much about any single person's interests, even to the point of being really reluctant to promote someone within the society based on personal merit.

In more religious terms, the "sin" doesn't persist in the blood, but resonates in the social bond between parent and child. By the choices ancestors have made, they speak to their descendants until those choices are thoroughly forgotten.

Indeed, the parents' sins do accumulate on their children, starting with their ancestors' original sin of abandoning God. Thus God punishes those who, in their blind and rebellious selfishness, reject the truth. But one must differentiate between the sins inherited and the sins willfully committed through one's choices in life. For it is written:

"To know the true path, but yet, to never follow it. That is possibly the gravest sin"

Each new generation starts with no sins of their own, but only with the dark legacy of their short-sighted forefathers. Each newborn may yet be saved in the future, may see the light and redeem the curse of inherited sins weighing upon his soul. This task is hard, but, through the purifying devotion of oneself to God, it is possible. For it is written:

"So the Lord sent forth the Chosen,
to bring forth the light of faith
And those who embrace his love
Shall be saved by his grace"

God's wisdom and mercy is all-encompassing. God is above understanding of a mortal creature. Who are you, Nauplius, to decide which soul is predestined to eventually be saved by God and which is not? Who are you to butcher hope, to interfere with the process of bringing the lost peoples to His light, the great Reclaiming of souls?

Oh wait, you're the man who tried to write his own Scripture.

I'm quite sure that neither mine, nor Cpt. Tamiroth Alet Azaph's Faith cause delusions like yours, heretic. That's why you don't have Faith but are a creature of superstition and, worse, heresy.

I considered to post most of this in Aria Jenneth's "Sojourn" thread, but decided not to derail it, and so this goes here.

Seeing what Nauplius and many others like him do on daily basis and the aftermath of it... Is... unbearable anymore. One madman, no matter how industrious, can be impeded and ultimately eliminated. But he's not the disease. He's a festering pustule, but he's but a symptom.

What that monster does with people casts a shadow not only on him, or all of Sani Sabik, or the entire Amarr Empire, because we were either unable or not willing to stop him.

It casts a shadow on the humanity as a whole, because no other species are able to mass produce suffering on such scale as we do now with capsuleers' help.

But first and foremost, it's the Jovians who are guilty. They started this horrid uncontrolled social experiment that should not be. Their poisoned "gift" started the human weapons race that allows things like Nauplius to exist.

I curse them all and what they've done to us, and I reject their fake immortality and their technology, because I just can't... I feel disgust when I see the capsule interface again and feel the pod goo. Enough of this. I hate this. I refuse to participate in this experiment anymore.

With this, I send all the best wishes to all the good people I met in SFRIM and other Imperial loyalists; and everyone else who managed to stay human despite the horrors that this Jovian trap brought upon us all.

For now, it would be best for me to return home, to live in peace.

See you :)

You can not run from what you are Tamiroth, especially knowing that there is still work to be done.