Intergalactic Summit

As a woman, I do not possess testicles. However, I am confident in saying that I have more balls than you, Vollhov.

Excuse me.
What is the problem ask what in the testament?
You loyalist !!!
You participated in succession.
You serve home Sarum.
Ask your Order Tetrimon.

Ahem.

You seem to forget that House Sarum is one of the more militaristic Royal Heir families of the Amarr Empire. Their push for a Reclaiming was quite well documented and it was a miracle (or more likely, because of CONCORD), that there hasn't been a violent push into neighbouring borders when a Sarum was on the Throne. I reckon it is far more likely that if the late Jamyl Sarum is still alive, her response to an assassination attempt by the Drifters would have been "Reclaim them."

Also, the succession had to be done or else there won't be an Emperor or an Empress to lead the Amarr Empire. What, you think the Empire votes an Emperor or Empress onto the Throne? No, they FIGHT for the position. Used to be they do it themselves. These days they get the best possible loyal combat capsuleer to fight on their behalf.

The last time governance was left to a Provisional Government, which might as well be 'Left to the Chamberlain', Karsoth happened. I doubt the Empire wants to allow any chance for another Karsoth to happen.

One, it can be argued that the Emancipation is also a political move to make the Republic look bad. If that's the intention, she has succeeded wonderfully.

Second, the ritual suicide of the Heirs was never meant to remove all competitors to the Throne. All it does is wipe the slate clean, remove resentment (at least by theory) of current Heirs and let the next generation of Heirs take their place (no guarantees that grudges do not get passed down though). Of course, this is what's supposed to happen on paper. In practice, it's a different matter entirely.

Finally, you forgot. This is the Amarr Empire, a nation so steeped in tradition that it tends to take milleniums for any kind of social change to happen, unless something really huge shook the nation (for example the Elder Fleet invasion, the Minmatar Rebellion, Vak'atioth, the Starkman Prime uprising, the encounter with the Gallente Federation, etc.).

And no, the standing government is NOT confident that the Drifters will not attack the Heirs and Catiz. However, it still has to be done since during the times of war, there needs to be a leader and a rallying point. One does not brave a war without a Head of State.

What did you think all that security is for?

Nice writeup.

And as a participant in both the aforementioned campaign and in this particular fleet, just like Alizabeth - I'm going to state, from a position of knowledge and authority, that you, as someone external to the entire thing, are wrong about much of this where your opinions and assertions are concerned.

Let's go down the line:

1) "The fact that is was executed by more then just pilots from the empire is why it can be claimed by all the people of New Eden."

With all due respect to Alizabeth, SERAPH is first and foremost an Amarr-centric outfit. It's even in the name - E for Empire, as in Amarr Empire. While similarly 'closed' in recruitment to what we internally referred to as the "Drifter Fight Club" during the Throne Worlds campaign, DFC was, in contrast, led and piloted in majority, by non-Amarr. I would have to go look through fleet rosters to check the exact demographics. (Which I can do, it'll just take some time. I'm rather busy dealing with a fair number of Drifters and Seekers on my doorstep today.)

The fleet on Friday had, of its twelve combatants, three people who aren't really affiliated with the Empire. One was with the State. The other two were independents. Neither the Republic, nor the Federation, really, get to lay any claim to this 'victory'.

The Throne Worlds campaign fleets, particularly the ones that I led, on the other hand, included pilots directly affiliated with the Federation and Republic, and therefore, actually could make that claim in some sense.

2) "[...] it is my opinion that the "human pilots engaged versus the Drifters are better served by setting aside human vs. human political disputes for the duration of the fight"."

Similarly to the above, this does not really apply to Friday's operation. Everyone in that fleet was largely on the same "side" before taking Drifters into account. If you want examples of your opinion in action, for the moment you should be looking at ARC's fleets instead, which regularly have members of opposing militia in fleet together.

Alizabeth can back me up on this: SERAPH's primary 'goal' is little more than just killing Drifters. It's not about cooperation, it's not about multiculturalism. It's about killing Drifters, full stop.

3) "Although you might be able to compare the number of destroyed vessels I think the outstanding kill to death ratio by a small group of skilled pilots is something that stands out. I can not agree it is nothing, regardless of what you compare it to."

Even if we put the number of Drifters destroyed in a single sitting aside, under my command, the fleets in the Throne Worlds campaign lost fewer crew over a period of months than were aboard the one Svipul that was lost last Friday in SERAPH's fleet. Individual engagements in that campaign were against thirteen or fourteen Drifters at once. At most, Friday encountered three.

If you want to give credit where credit is due, the breakthrough here is in the new fleet doctrine that was being tested more than it is in anything else. Everything else you suggest is a breakthrough, was accomplished months ago during the defense of the Throne Worlds.

I would argue that Alizabeth's second point that we confirmed that the Drifters are still a threat isn't much of a breakthrough, since we had been given no indication they had stopped being a threat, but all things considered that is a rather minor quibble and I don't think she or I need to waste time fussing back and forth over it.

I don't want any politics or motives assigned to my destruction of Drifters aside from the fact that I want to destroy Drifters, everywhere they are.

The trans-neural burner in her pod is deactivated. She's gone. Get over it.

Is there uh . . . a reason we don't consider the Drifters to be human?

Just curious.