Intergalactic Summit

Between six and seven hundred million slaves were freed by the Empress's announcement. All of them either of the ninth generation or higher as well as Matari academics and religious figures. These people were not 'millions of unwanted people' They were specialists, academics, Shamans, and skilled workers.

"The numbers of trained and educated refugees we've been seeing are surprisingly high," reports Tjaard Mtaki, one of the career advisors employed by the integration facilities. "All of those immigrants who served on stations and ships have a high level of education in fields such as mathematics and physics. We've seen expert mechanics and engineers who can't read or write a word, but they can accurately explain the finer points of essential systems maintenance. We're finding the gaps in their education and helping to fill them."

The concern was not if the Republic could support them, it was what would happen to the Empire's economy when such a large number of skilled workers were removed.

"Who knows what crises that’s going to cause for the Empire? How they intend to replenish that kind of work force is beyond me. And, I mean, these aren’t glaive-collared factory drones, these are educated people, these are specialists. This is a brain trust we're talking about here.”

An actual problem encountered was that while the Empress decreed that they should be freed she failed to specify anything further. This resulted in many slaves simply left out on the streets with a citizenship and an open door to the Republic.

"The corporation released Onyeka’s entire family, forcing them to fend for themselves. ”It was before the Sisters [of EVE] started their work. We couldn’t afford to leave,” Inevne Djekatro, her mother, explains. ”We were told to leave the workers’ housing, but where are we going to go if there’s nowhere else?” With nowhere to go, the family was forced to take menial service jobs on the station in order to pay for lodging and food.

”We thought life would get better at first,” says Onyeka, ‘But it only got worse. We saved what we could, but it was months before we had enough for a place on a shuttle.” At the expense of reduced power to the family of eight’s single room apartment, they saved enough to send Onyeka to the Republic to begin a new life.

"One of the problems we encountered early on was that Holders who opted to send their former slaves to the Republic were reluctant to pay for passage further than was absolutely necessary," stated Immigration and Resettlement Officer Rais Ephrintak. "Oftentimes, ships would simply leave entire families there without any support. The stations in Rens simply weren't designed to handle such a mass influx of people."

Eventually, the Sisters of EVE offered offices and temporary housing space in their stations orbiting the moons of Rens VII. "It really was the best windfall we could have hoped for, under the circumstances," Ephrintak enthused. "Just having the stations to work from has made integrating the refugees much easier."

And this is the source of the myth of an 'overburdened' Republic. When the Empress made her announcement she failed to give an forewarning for any humanitarian or logistical preparation. Rens is the main immigration facility but like any orbital is designed to hold a finite amount of people. The Sisters of Eve solved the problem by providing free transportation out of the Empire as well as their donation of space for the initial overflow of people.

The Republic pays for the education, counseling, and substance of every single returnee for months, until they are able to be self sufficient. Unless complications arise, such as medical issues or an extreme unwillingness to incorporate, the new arrivals are moved within the first week to housing programs, where they receive further support and work placements or education.

"There were many tests," she says. "They wanted to see where my skills are, and there's so much to write! They want to know everything and more." In addition to basic aptitude examinations, all arrivals are given a basic medical scan and inoculations. Interviews are conducted in order to arrange suitable work placement and provide emotional support, if necessary.

You are perfectly free to read the articles yourself. I never claimed things were perfect but they were far far from the scene described before.

The scope reported this, not me.

Do you actually go out of your way to be wrong about damn near everything you jabber on about?

At least you guys had to insist the scope was lying in their news stories and the refugees were lying in their interviews to get angry at me this time Arrendis and Mizhara.

Until you consider the timing of the emancipation. The timing is convenient enough to be very inconvenient towards a rival nation that is still working out on which brick ought to go where to build a proper government.

Minmatar response to not freeing slaves: complain.

Minmatar response to freeing slaves: complain.

All Amarrians/Khanid are cruel, sadistic slavers like Nauplius, right?

Shall I make other broad sweeping generalizations in the same spirit as yours?