Intergalactic Summit

Mr.Momaki, I applaud your efforts in this cruel universe and wish to extend an offer of help to you and your cherished followers, on this day i find myself looking at my newly created food recycling facility's production report and note a large surplus of nutrient paste, rather than simply putting this into storage for the forseeable future only to have it thrown out at a later date, I would like to contract it to you and your precious freed slaves as a gesture of kindness from myself and my crew.

I have issued a contract to you personally, Mr. Momaki.

Should the nutrient paste be adequate to your needs I shall endevour to contract any extra surplus I have to you or your group.

Truly one of the darkest lies that we tell ourselves is, "It is someone else's fault." "If so and so would just..." We cloak the responsibility that we have for the troubles we cause for ourselves in blame of others. Most struggle with this from time to time and some more than others. However, having a positive and good life calling that keeps you doing good things consistently through your life can help you avoid the blame trap. It can also help you tremendously when on the receiving end of blame.

Of course there is a place and a time to hold others responsible and sometimes blame needs to be assigned. But, as individuals we need to exercise a good measure of self-examination before blaming others for our own mistakes.

The Disciples of Ston wish a peaceful resolution to the current turmoil within the Caldari Sate. Our hearts ache at the prospect of many people being killed; not just soldiers but innocent citizens just trying to live and go about their business. We hope that the leadership among the both the Provists and those in opposition will be wise and restrained in reactions and actions.

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115.02.04 Oneill HGM 2 slavers, 3 hounds, 31 former slaves
115.02.05 14:38 Gregor Ardishapur 10 people

Hmm? Well, we will check into that claim. The contract was for biomass and has yet to be picked up from the contracted station in Badivefi in Khanid space. We shall have our med labs conduct tests to determine if the biomass is derived from any source other than the standard planktonic colonies. If it is non-standard biomass it will not be used for livestock production. However, innocent until proven guilty.

Perhaps we could also just ask Mr. Areth. What is the derivation of this biomass, sir?

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115.02.05 18:46 Korwini 1 freedom fighter, 5 slavers, 5 hounds, 10 freed slaves, 10 former slaves

The recycled remains of deceased enemy crew, capsuleers, bled captures and those deemed too weak for the holy bleeding racks.

I fail to see how this should be an issue seeing as the paste has already entered the markets in and around Khanid space with very profitable results, something about better texture and richer flavour than the standard bland paste or so ive heard.

Mr. Momaki,

While many of your other views expressed in your ongoing diary on the IGS are misguided and based on cultural chauvism, I have in the past considered your activities of saving helpless individuals cast away before dying lonely deaths of asphyxiation without ever having had the opportunity to be Reclaimed and to find God to be at least worthy of merit.

That being said, you have allowed your pride and self-perceived rightousness to dictate your decision to use the abomination that is the so called "nutrient paste" donated by Khazarn Areth. As Mr. Areth so glibly admits, the paste is the result of unimaginable suffering and unspeakable and barbaric acts perpetrated by his Apostate sect upon the weak, the poor, the unwanted and the Faithful. No doubt some may even have been those who you ostensibly seek to save. The atrocities performed on those on the bleeding racks are deplored by all civilized peoples. (I care not what its apoligists might say to justify them).

One would hope that you would not ratify and compound this Sin against nature and against God by not giving the ground up and mutilated remains of the lost a respectful burial but instead using it in a narrow minded feverish effort to continue to advance the empire building mania that is so evident in your constant reminders of this expansion and that station.

Just as certain courts will exclude unlawfully obtained evidence as the "fruit of the poisonous tree" so too you are permitting your myopia allow these illicitly made goods to taint your own ostensibly humanitarian efforts.

Further, and I can't take credit for these wise words which I paraphase, the: "issue of whether to use the nutrient paste is a smokescreen from the reality of human suffering. Instead of the word "nutrient paste," I suggest that we replace it with a bar of soap. This horrible bar of soap is the remains of murdered innocents. The image sensitizes and personalizes our dilemma. Imagine the extreme feeling of discomfort, and the mortified look of horror upon discovering that one just showered with the remains of murdered innocents. The ghastly thought of the dissicated and drained remains of human beings (and perhaps even one's close relatives) being ground together together for a bar of soap precludes any consideration of its use. How could any civilized person divorce the horror from the carnage without numbing one's self to the screams of the tortured and ravaged faces of the victims of Mr. Areth and his ilk?"

I remain, the faithful servant of Empress Jamyl Sarum,

Lunarisse Aspenstar

A while back, DSTON actively operated a program we called, "clone body return service." The purpose of the service was to provide dignified final disposition for clone bodies we discovered drifting in space. Owners were contacted and we offered free return of the remains or cremation. We researched disposition rites and would do our best to accomodate the wishes of the owners. After a time, this work was displaced by a more more pressing need. In times of war, natural disaster, etc, there is a great need for the services of well trained "service dogs." Search and rescue cadaver dogs are especially useful to locate remains and also the living injured. We discontinued the clone body return service and began using the bodies we found in our cadaver dog training program. Hundreds of former slaver hounds have now been trained to function as service dogs.

Some recoil at this use of clone corpses. I understand this and sympathize with the view. However, we weighed the issues and made a decision to do this. We feel that it lends a weight of dignity in the long haul to the life that once occupied the body. For centuries, men and women have donated their deceased bodies for scientific and medical use and countless lives have been saved as a result. From organ donations to cadaver research, the list is long for the use of our expired bodies.

We weep at the suffering described by Ms. Aspenstar in her post. We see the suffering of war and the needless violence perpetrated in the name of religion, ideology, nationalism, etc every day. It does not pass over us and leave us unmoved. Quite to the contrary, we are greatly moved and grieved. Right now there are 760 m3 of homogenious biomass from an untold number of human bodies by all accounts. We could provide a solemn final disposition rite and cremate the mass or we can use the mass to generate much needed vaccines. We are choosing to do the latter and believe that it dignifies those who suffered and died.

Do we have moral certainty in this decision? No. I am learning as time goes on that moral certainty is seldom achieved. Yes, this might be a wrong decision. We don't think so now. Sure, our actions are open to criticism as they should be but we will honor the lives of those who once occupied these bodies when others are given life-saving vaccines. Is there potential for a slippery slope here? Yes there is and we feel a gravity in this. This is the one and only such donation we will accept. Our planktonic biomass production will be our sole source here on out.

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115.02.06 18:36 Ramona Ghost 2 slavers, 3 hounds, 18 former slaves
115.02.06 22:13 Boshimanu 8 people
magic preacher 10 people

For the State... Our rescue work continues but I have an ongoing anxiety in my mind for the nation. There is so much that is just not known about what is at the core of all the happenings. Perhaps now is the time for leaders of all the sovereignties to consider new approaches other than war for achieving good for their citizens. May the best of those in the military on all sides let their diplomatic side hold sway. Now is the time to commit to seeking until we find the common ground that we need to end war and benefit all our cultures.

If there were one sentence that should be eliminated from our languages it would be that ever over used excuse for war, "We've tried everything else." Cool heads are needed from the State, the Federation, the Empire, and the Republic to say, "how can we bring peace out of this chaos?"

Six people, rescued, safe, sound and settling in at the center.

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115.02.08 21:21 Skirtos Gengod 6 people

I'm not so naive to hold my breath over this, but just the talk of peace spurred on by one of the threads on this forum does lift the spirits a bit. Deep seated bitterness and anger must die if peace is to live. Let us hunger for peace more than we hunger for war. Let brotherhood displace vengeance. I hope the talk of peace and ideas for peace continues. Imagine if all the ingenuity, energy and intelligence devoted to war were given over to the quest for peace. Imagine...

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115.02.11 13:39 POHERU 20 former Elite slaves
115.02.11 17:33 Lumpi86 49 people

We hope that the meeting of the Tribal Council will lead to greater efforts toward peace. While seeing to the needs of the Republic we hope that peace is a priority. We wish for the very best for the Minmatar people. I hope that what might arise out of this new birth is not so much a sense of "fear the tribes," as "respect the tribes."

The Disciples of Ston hold that a priority of the Council should be to do all in their power to prepare the Republic for a return among slaves scattered in the Cluster of all who long to be repatriated. We stand ready to assist in this endeavor in any peaceful way we can.

We were able to rescue ten yesterday.

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115.02.14 15:59 Markaurel 10 former Elite Slaves