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EALUR FOUND AMONG THOSE RESCUED

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#1 - 2012-01-12 15:00:11 UTC
It was toward the very end of my patrol shift when I discovered the death can with 16 people on board. As my crew took them in and the medical crew began to see to their needs, they made a remarkable discovery. There were four people, two men and two women, who were very different looking than the rest of the passengers. Having dark and swarthy complexions and very stout muscular bodies, they were first mistaken for Brutor tribes-people. What stood out was their stature. They were very short, not midget or dwarf sized but shorter than any Brutor we have ever encountered. In fact, they are shorter than any Minmatar we have ever encountered.

So we asked them. “We are Ealur,” they responded. Needless to say, we were taken aback. Never before have we had the privilege of meeting such a remarkable people. Most of us only vaguely recall ever hearing the word”Ealur” let alone understanding who these people are. We set our historical scholars to work and the Center Elders set a meal before our guests and sat down to get their story.

The Ealur are the forgotten tragedy of slavery. A peaceful, non-aggressive people, they were conquered and enslaved with only one Amarrian casualty due to resistance. They are an intelligent, non-violent people who had embraced simplicity and shunned technology, choosing instead to live in harmony with their peaceful, bountiful planet. Their Amarrian slave holders saw their lack of aggressiveness as sin and brutally worked them, killing millions and almost wiping them out of existence. Of all people I have ever met, the Ealur deserve to live in the self-determined peace and harmony of their history, yet they have been denied this. Hardly anyone has ever spoken for these delightful people in their tragic history of slavery to the Amarr.

Now to the story of the four who were rescued. They were sold by an Amarrian holder to a Caldarian industrialist to become “novelty slaves.” The pilot hired to transport them to Jita along with 12 other former slaves, bailed at the border and decided to leave them for dead. Apprentl, they were intended as breading stock for a new slavery business venture featuring “Ealur curio slaves.” These men and women are people of peaceful dignity. It burns my soul to see people treated in such a way. Little exists in the way of their original tribal culture on Ealur VI which is in Amarrian territory. In spite of this, I have invited Gladius, Feanor, Verin and the two Ealur couples to accompany me on a journey to Ealur VI to at least view their former home world from space.

It has been next to impossible for this race to establish a free culture anywhere since they are almost entirely enslaved. Perhaps these four can make a beginning. Just because a people are non-violent; just because a people are quiet; just because a people are peaceful, doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to be free. The slavery of the Minmatar has eclipsed the plight of the Ealur almost to utter silence. It is time to bring the plight of the Ealur to the attention of all capsuleers who love and defend freedom.

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The Disciples of Ston bid you peace

Ta Pang
Character Warehouse
#2 - 2012-01-12 15:04:15 UTC
A momentous day for freedomif ever there was one. I congratulate you on this and look forward to learning more about the Ealur from their own mouths.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#3 - 2012-01-12 15:07:18 UTC
While I certainly commend the rescue of these people, I do have to wonder if it really needed a 5th disciples of Ston thread, of it it could have fit into one of your other threads.

Soon this entire channel will be made up of nothing but Stonite threads.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#4 - 2012-01-12 15:08:12 UTC
In fact, its already in one of your threads.
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#5 - 2012-01-12 15:13:51 UTC
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
While I certainly commend the rescue of these people, I do have to wonder if it really needed a 5th disciples of Ston thread, of it it could have fit into one of your other threads.

Soon this entire channel will be made up of nothing but Stonite threads.


Believe it or not, I thought the very same thing and am willing to let this thread fade off the page and to address this from now on in our other threads. I chose a separate thread more to draw initial attention to a people who have been utterly ignored by free society. In a sense, I felt that they deserved their own thread if only for a short while. Readers will make a choice to attend to this or to ignore it. I am sure the collective will see that we do not monopolize the IGS.

The Disciples of Ston bid you peace

Silas Vitalia
Doomheim
#6 - 2012-01-12 15:26:14 UTC
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
While I certainly commend the rescue of these people, I do have to wonder if it really needed a 5th disciples of Ston thread, of it it could have fit into one of your other threads.

Soon this entire channel will be made up of nothing but Stonite threads.


Soon a new thread for each slave rescued!!

Sabik now, Sabik forever

Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#7 - 2012-01-12 15:47:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Ston Momaki
I find it a shame that instead of commenting upon the Ealur and their plight, both Mr. Thessalonia and Ms. Vitalia choose to focus their attention on the triviality of such things as the number of DSTON threads. Mr. Thessalonia has proven to be a well read man of deep intelligence, insight and thought. While we have disagreed about many things, I am most disappointed that he chose not to comment on the substance of the thread but on that which does not matter.

The Ealur deserve your insight, Mr. Thessalonia.

Edit: Spelling errors

The Disciples of Ston bid you peace

Arkady Sadik
Gradient
Electus Matari
#8 - 2012-01-12 16:04:01 UTC
It is one of the great tragedies resulting from Amarrian imperialism that many subjugated groups are forgotten in time as well as their achievements stolen and claimed as by the Amarr.

Good luck to those freed people, Disciples. And may your work continue for a long time.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#9 - 2012-01-12 16:14:40 UTC
Ston Momaki wrote:
I find it a shame that instead of commenting upon the Ealur and their plight, both mr. Thessalonia and Ms. Vitalia choose to focus their attention on the triviality of such things as the number of DSTON threads. Mr. Thessalonia has proven to be a well read man of deep intelligence, insight and thought. While we have disagreed about many things, I am most disappointed that he chose not to comment on the substance of the thread but on that which does not matter.

The Ealur deserve your insight, Mr. Thassalonia.


I will give them it, but in the already existing thread.
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#10 - 2012-01-12 16:53:50 UTC
What's tragic is when Ealurian slaves are violently emancipated by terrorists and then forcibly relocated to the Republic, a nation with a completely alien culture.

Dolce et decorum est pro Imperium mori

Caellach Marellus
Stormcrows
#11 - 2012-01-12 17:16:37 UTC
Rodj Blake wrote:
What's tragic is when Ealurian slaves are violently emancipated by terrorists and then forcibly relocated to the Republic, a nation with a completely alien culture.


I missed the bit where any of this was even hinted at, let alone mentioned. Jumping to conclusions Admiral?

When your gut instincts tell you something is wrong, trust them. When your heart tells you something is right, ignore it, check with your brain first. Accept nothing, challenge everything.

Silas Vitalia
Doomheim
#12 - 2012-01-12 19:55:22 UTC
Ston Momaki wrote:
I find it a shame that instead of commenting upon the Ealur and their plight, both Mr. Thessalonia and Ms. Vitalia choose to focus their attention on the triviality of such things as the number of DSTON threads.



It's not trivial; I can scarcely attempt to read the latest happenings without being assaulted by endless threads from you people prattling on about saving a handful of people from servitude.

Tell you what, if I purchase a few hundred thousand and just give them to you, will you shut up about it for a few weeks and give us some peace?




Sabik now, Sabik forever

Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#13 - 2012-01-12 20:02:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Tiberious Thessalonia
That would be more people than you have ever rescued in the past, Ston. They wouldn't have been saved from death cans, but it would allow you to emancipate more people than you've ever managed in the past.

I wonder if you have the resources to take them all in, though. One moment, communicating.

Edit:
I have been speaking with Kybernetes Moros, who runs the Safe Harbour Project. Yes, he is Sansha's Nation affiliated, but you know and I know that while we dont share the same goals as far as the primacy of free will is concerned, we have similar views about making the world a better place.

Doctor Moros has indicated that he would be willing to use the SHP in order to help you with this burden.
Arkady Sadik
Gradient
Electus Matari
#14 - 2012-01-12 20:17:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Arkady Sadik
For the record, we're also quite happy to support the Disciples in taking up those people should they require help. IF they accept this offer at all.
Aphoxema G
Khushakor Clan
#15 - 2012-01-12 20:38:32 UTC
Rodj Blake wrote:
What's tragic is when Ealurian slaves are violently emancipated by terrorists and then forcibly relocated to the Republic, a nation with a completely alien culture.


Yes, this is just a terrible fate for them. It's just a shame their ancestors were violently "emancipated" by terrorists and then forcibly relocated to the Empire, a nation with a completely alien culture.
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#16 - 2012-01-12 21:10:38 UTC
Aphoxema G wrote:
Rodj Blake wrote:
What's tragic is when Ealurian slaves are violently emancipated by terrorists and then forcibly relocated to the Republic, a nation with a completely alien culture.


Yes, this is just a terrible fate for them. It's just a shame their ancestors were violently "emancipated" by terrorists and then forcibly relocated to the Empire, a nation with a completely alien culture.


On the contrary, there was very little violence involved when we began civilising them.

Dolce et decorum est pro Imperium mori

Manwe Todako
Disciples of Ston
#17 - 2012-01-12 21:41:17 UTC
Rodj Blake wrote:

On the contrary, there was very little violence involved when we began civilising them.


When the Ealur were enslaved by the Amarr, the Amarr found a rustic, idyllic, agrarian civilization of tribes people at peace with their surroundings. They were non-aggressive, mellow people who were terrestrially intuitive yet not technologically adept. They were skilled in sufficient living and in the harmonious use of their planet.

The Amarr, noticing that they were not like them, assumed that they must be under the judgment of God. After-all, the Amarr reason, "anyone not like us must be under God's judgment." Assuming that, they further assumed that they ought to punish the Ealur on God's behalf. So that is what they did, reasoning as they do, "anyone not like us, being under God's judgment, should be punished by us." They literally worked the Ealur to death and millions died in Amarr mines and fields, Mr. Blake. So stop lying about how your "civilization of the Ealur" involved little violence. Are you now defining millions worked to death in harsh labor as non-violent?

The Ealur are more civilized than a slave holding Amarrian Empire can ever hope to be. They need to civilize you, not the other way around. You and I both know that the enslavement of the Ealur by the Amarrian Empire was cowardly, brutal, and completely unnecessary even to spread your religion among them. The Ealur are a very receptive and open minded people. Your missionaries could have accomplished a non-violent, non-slavery approach to proselytization. Your defense of your people's enslavement of the Ealur is beneath your intelligence. It is as wrong now as it was then.

SANKOFA

Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#18 - 2012-01-12 21:49:46 UTC
Further updates on the Ealur may be found here in deference to Mr. Thessalonia's legitimate criticism.

The Disciples of Ston bid you peace

Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#19 - 2012-01-12 22:16:17 UTC
Rodj Blake wrote:
What's tragic is when Ealurian slaves are violently emancipated by terrorists and then forcibly relocated to the Republic, a nation with a completely alien culture.


Oh look, it's Blake.

Right then, thread derailed, on to the nextUgh

Star Wars: the Old Republic may not be EVE. But I'll take the sound of dual blaster-pistols over "NURVV CLAOKING NAOW!!!11oneone!!" any day of the week.

Astrid Stjerna
Sebiestor Tribe
#20 - 2012-01-12 22:23:58 UTC
Rodj Blake wrote:
What's tragic is when Ealurian slaves are violently emancipated by terrorists and then forcibly relocated to the Republic, a nation with a completely alien culture.


Irony, thy name is Blake.

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