Intergalactic Summit

How many of you have seen this mission description? It is one of the easiest missions to accomplish.

For you, my friend, there's always something.One commodity we all have a hard time living without is hot air. One of our buyers is on the IGS and is close to running out of hot air, so I want you to fly over to The IGS and give them a bit more. You will find the readers of the IGS are easily irritated and will give their own hot air in great quantity if you just give a little your own. So, go now and irritate a few people. It will be easy for a pilot of your skills. You will be surprised at how easy it will be to keep the hot air going and going and going.
Declining a mission from a particular agent more than once every 4 hours will result in a loss of standing with that agent.

That tiny light in your own heart is calling out to you, Ms. Goldcore. You need only answer that call and emerge from the darkness that is your own self-deception. I see that you are already feeling the crushing weight of your own sins, sins you have lived in all your life and justified in the name of the religion that has been falsely taught to you since you were a child. There is salvation for you yet, but you must be brave to realize it. I pray that you will be brave.

Well damn. he really thinks he is reaching me. You are right Tiberious, he is not worth the breath.

You are reached.

Yes, hide posts, but not threads. Now, lets see if you have the strength to not peak.

amazing!

True... there are alot whom look at the negatives talking here and never the positives. Always picking apart to find a flaw and then make it look bigger and more worse then it really is. Then that one flaw, that was so tiny moments ago, is so big that others who were once friends see only that and turn their backs on that flaw's owner.

I have had those times as well... one actually was about a week ago where I decided to field test a Claw. I had the speed to pull off evasive tanking, but not the firepower nor ammo to hold the offensive for too long. That, and ocationally I would take a hit or two and loose about half of what sheilds the thing had. I got pictures from a camera drone during it and was later surprised of how much lasers were missing my ship. Reminded me of a Gallentean rave party. So I called a friend with a bigger ship... and with everyone trying to take out me, they ignored my friend and she rained shells upon those cruisers.

You got it right, just know what your errors were and learn from them. Think up ways to counter, and not hold a fight for too long like I might have ended up doing were it not for the assistance from my friend. Take into acount how much time you are given, if it is enough you could aways do a quick scout before making an attack. Then you can decide what is best suited, or whether you need a friend to help out.

If you need any help, don't hesitate to throw a comm call in my direction. Two ships are aways better then one.

Arzad Hamri, the great Amarrian man of faith, taught us much about crossing spiritual thresholds. In his own spiritual journey he crossed monumental thresholds as he lived and served alongside the Starkmanir. Some of these thresholds being...

From Holder over the Starkmanir community to Fellow citizen within the Starkmanir community
From Teacher of the Starkmanir to learner together with the Starkmanir
From a sharer of his spirituality and faith to a receiver also of their spirituality and faith
From ruler over the Starkmanir to Servant of the Starkmanir
Ultimately...
From a slave holder to one who rejected slavery and called upon the faith to win the freedom of the Starkmanir people and all people.

Arzad Hamri found no threat in joining himself to the richness of another people, not by enslaving them but by accepting the gift of their uniqueness, their spirituality, their culture. He modeled what all Amarrians should be doing and what would make our people truly great as we find greatness in growing together in acceptance with other cultures, religions, and ways of life. But, with each threshold, he became a greater threat to the Amarrian religious establishment, so they killed him and tried to wipe out his legacy in the Starkmanir. But his spirit lived and lives on today continuing to teach us.

This kind of brave growth always involves crossing thresholds. Some of these I have crossed and there are many more to go.

Today I crossed a threshold in the patient journey of restitution. It was one I have been watching for a long time. It is the threshold of when a positive standing is no longer positive because of the skill of diplomacy but because of crossing from actual negative into actual positive. I feel just a small part of the liberty and release that Pastor Hamri must have felt in his many thresholds, for I have now crossed into a real positive standing with the peoples I once horribly wronged.

Now the road continues ahead to thresholds yet to be crossed.

I find that janitors are very useful in collecting garbage.

Although apparently not the garbage you spout on the IGS.

I have recently pondered talking a bit more about Arzad Hamri's way of enlightenment and the Theology Council's rejection of that way. I have put it off until today, when monitoring a conversation on the Summit, I was moved to say something here. The conversation had to do with the Khu-maak or "hand of Maak." This relic and its copies are illegal to possess in Amarr space. Some think it is because it is simply a weapon that was used by Drupar Maak to kill Arkon Ardishapur years after Arzad Hamri was executed by the Theology Council. There is more to it, and it goes to the heart of why the Theology Council has abdicated its credibility as a religious authority.

The original sceptor was a simple sign of authority given to those who had achieved a level of spiritual understanding in Amarr society. Arzad Hamri, in his spiritual enlightenment, took the scepter and encrusted it with the beautiful blood-obsidian orb native to Starkman Prime. Now called the Wildfire Scepter, it was shared with the Starkmanir as a symbol of shared authority, autonomy and spiritual unity that came with a shared spirituality. This could have been the turning point for the Amarr Empire as a people of goodness, compassion, liberation, and spiritual enlightenment. Had the ways of Arzad Hamri been followed to their full realization, the people of Amarr and the Minmatar would today be at peace and slavery would be no more. We would be communities of mutual respect and acceptance.

Because the Theology Council, in jealousy and fear of Arzad Hamri's power and influence, put him to death, the spirit of Arzad Hamri instructed Drupar Maak to take courage to free the Starkmanir. Alas, it was the Wildfire Sceptor, now devoid of its blood obsidian, that now was used to slay the wicked Arkon.

Why is this "hand of Maak" and its replicas illegal in Amarr space? It is because it is a symbol of the failure of slavery, the failure of the Theology Council's ways of violence and force, the moral bankruptcy of Amarrian religious hypocrisy. Religion cannot be spread by force or by slavery. Everyone must be free to accept or not accept shared religious or spiritual ideas. Arzad Hamri learned and then taught, that growth in religious truth comes with a humble sharing of faith and spirituality that eventually leads to an enrichment of diverse cultures. For that, he was killed. For that, the Starkmanir were almost wiped out.

The Wildfire Scepter is the true relic with the true meaning. The staff of "shared spiritual enlightenment and shared authority." The Wildfire Scepter is not a weapon, but a symbol of how God, or the Spirits, want diverse peoples to live in respect of one another and in humble acceptance of our differences.