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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#861 - 2013-05-19 12:45:29 UTC
I seldom "see" pilots I know while I am out on patrol. This morning, I noted Gaufres passing through our patrol area. The area was clean of death cans, so he kept going. I don't know, for just a moment, things felt slightly less lonely. My crew is great and they try hard to fold me in to their lives and conversations. But that's just it, they try hard. I am different as a capsuleer and they know it.

Reported below are 37 people we rescued yesterday.

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115.05.18 21:01 Judgeme 27 people
115.05.18 23:08 Nougat San 10 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#862 - 2013-05-20 12:39:03 UTC
I have to chuckle... The low brow eating establishment that I frequent caters mostly to blue collar workers here at the station where we host the people we rescue. I am a regular there now and it is part of my routine to catch up on record keeping and administration between patrols over a cup of their famous/infamous coffee. It is one of the few old fashioned establishments left in this particular station in that it is not automated. At the payment kiosk one can purchase elixirs or restoratives for one's digestive system. This isn't the best advertisement for the quality of the food here.

What gives me a stomach ache is hate. What gives me a stomach ache is spite. The presence of these powerfully negative feelings that people have for each other has a physical impact on my stomach and intestines. One could say that a secondary reason I work hard for peace is for my own stomach's sake. I don't how some in our Galaxy live with the stress of hating and being hated, blaming ad being blamed.

The collective stomach of our Cluster is in a knot. Peace is the only restorative medicine to set it right.

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115.05.19 19:34 Gesine Right54 12 Slavers, 124 Former Slaves
115.05.20 11:55 Miitri 60 people (10 Former Elite)

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#863 - 2013-05-21 12:35:55 UTC
Just under 200 people were rescued in the later hours of yesterday.

I have been monitoring a few discussions on these forums and have confirmed the observation that there is much insecurity among us as capsuleers. Insecurity is not unusual. Those we rescue feel intense insecurity in their crisis. When first rescued, these former slaves have no idea what is happening to them or where they might be going. Our staff has increasingly worked on ways to help these men, women, boys and girls to quickly feel more secure.

Diversifying our staff has been a great help. Most of those in supervisory positions are of Matar descent and were themselves rescued. We broadly define "need to know" in our work and our staff is instructed to be interuptable in every reasonable extent by questions from those we rescue. The sooner people are at ease with what is happening, the healthier they will be. It seems to be working.

Capsuleers are another issue. Many deal with their insecurity through verbal attack, insult, and endless argument. Perhaps the best antidote to insecurity is to find something good to do and do it.

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115.05.20 20:26 Uz Bada 192 people
115.05.20 22:33 Graf vonMoltke 4 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#864 - 2013-05-21 22:07:38 UTC
If it were just in our power to preserve that one life that we so valued. There is a lot of that kind of thought right now with the news of Admiral Yanala. We feel frustration because this life was lost just as we have with the passing of the Ray of Matar. These single lives that we all valued passed and we were powerless to intervene in the final analysis. But wait... Every day we have the power to take steps to prevent the death of single lives. Most of the time we are to busy or too selfish or too greedy to care, but let us never excuse ourselves by say that we are powerless to intervene. Instead, let each of us intervene when we can. Maybe the life we save will go on for another day, maybe for a long lifespan; we know not. Only, let us do what we can.

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115.05.21 21:54 (name withheld) 1 person (blue can)

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#865 - 2013-05-22 15:22:03 UTC
There are times when even a majority of society may believe that it is OK for certain individuals to suffer an agonizing death. Because of horrible crimes or deeds thought worthy of painful punishments, people make judgments upon others and even act on those judgments. The process of death in a deathcan is unpleasant, painful and terrifying. DSTON believes that no person should die that way. We abhor what Slavers do. But, we won't leave them to die in deathcans and we will offer them asylum from the death penalty for their crimes.

The rescue below was of five slavers, alone in a deathcan. We have not yet determined if they we dumped alone or if they were dumped with slaves and then left when the the slaves were rescued by someone else. Since slavers are legal passengers in all sovereigties, there is no automatic customs warning when activating border gates. It likely they were not originally dumped alone. Ultimately, we may never know the whole circumstance. They will be brought to our detention facility in Yulai and there spend the remainder of their days unless the system changes and alternatives are found.

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115.05.22 14:44 Oleg Kalioniv 5 slavers

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#866 - 2013-05-22 20:55:54 UTC
"Go get a coffee, rest, get your thoughts togerher, let us do our work." This is what my crisis staff superviser told me a few moments ago. They know how I'm wired and that I'm less help and more hindrance when I'm upset. I respect their ability to stay cool and so I left them to their work.

On the way to the cafe, I saw a holoreel advert for a new movie coming out. In the clip it showed people killing each other in very graphic ways. A young man in the corridor commented to me, "I gotta see that." "Why," I asked. "Action," was his reply. I said no more, but I felt a sickness in my gut. I hate violence. The thought that it is entertaining to so many is just beyond my understanding. While I know that many seem to be wired to enjoy violence as entertainment, I see too much of it for real to be entertained even by its portrayal.

Today, we rescued more than usual. The last patrol on the list includes the 690 from an abandoned can. How can anyone just leave to chance that someone will come by and rescue these people. We saw the blue can while rescuing the 228 listed above it. The blue can was out of normal position for slave drops, so we thought it might have been a Concord interdiction wreck. Fifteen minutes later we returned and were shocked to find 690 people on that can. We were still a bit shaken by the previous rescue since there had been some seriously injured on board. Besides that, while in the midst of the transfer, another can was dropped near the gate.

My crew is exhausted. The staff is impossibly busy right now. Movies are being made that entertain people with violence. Each day it starts all over.

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115.05.22 17:58 Xelanton 7 people
115.05.22 18:16 Belgar Stone 11 people
115.05.22 20:13 Azu Rhin 21 injured slaves, 217 former Slaves (228 total people)
115.05.22 20:31 (name withheld) 690 people (blue container)
115.05.22 20:35 reznak3 32 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#867 - 2013-05-23 12:30:30 UTC
Five days out of Republic University with her pilot's license hot off the press, what does a young Brutor capsuleer do with hernew found power? First, she agrees to transport 32 slaves illegally across Empire borders; her own people; her own tribe. Then she dumps them in a deathcan to die a horrible death in the cold vacuum of space.

This is what the wrong-headed demi-god indoctrination of our capsuleer schools produces. The brain of a capsuleer is capable of such good, yet we are taught rather to exercise arrogance and disregard of lives we should be helping. Oh mercy!

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115.05.22 21:02 Aldon Sun 7 people
115.05.23 12:12 deduganka 32 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#868 - 2013-05-24 12:28:58 UTC
Preparation is the same for each can we discover. Little time is given to have everything ready before we are in scan range. Sometimes there is one to rescue, sometimes there are hundreds. We never know until were are there and ready to transport. I usually record the pilot's name in the log during this time. Today, we approached a can the scanned as full of mostly worthless slavaged materials. There were no people on board. I erased the pilot's name from the log and we went on to the next patrol.


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115.05.23 18:14 I-RON zeus 5 Slavers, 3 hounds, 13 former Slaves, Nero de'Medici 3 people
115.05.24 00:14 Chroinc Budlust 72 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#869 - 2013-05-24 20:42:28 UTC
Notoriously inefficient! Governments are nororiously inefficient at accomplishing good. That isn't to say that they don't manage to accomplish great amounts of good at the expense of enormous cost in labor, materials and monetary means. However, the capsuleer is very efficient. Even one like me who is not the best at being a capsuleer. Much of what we do is wired into our thinking. The automated systems we run can be activated by mere thinking. Even when we are working with crews and staffs, it is our minds linked to the machinery of systems that initiates.

Capsuleers can be very efficient at doing good. It is amazing how quickly we can mobilize resources to help masses of people. If only we would choose to do this more often than mobilizing our resources to destroy. Efficient at doing good... Let's focus on that.

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115.05.24 20:29 Aurimas Saras 10 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#870 - 2013-05-26 12:27:52 UTC
When it is relatively safe to do so we confiscate weapons and ammunition during our rescue runs. In particular, when command crew and myself are in agreement and we are not risking passengers, we will from time to time confiscate these items. What happens to them? They will enter perpetual storage. The latest such confiscation was 1.6 million in projectile ammo and a few ewar modules.

In the egress area yesterday, you could smell something very good coming from the nutrition center. While our staff there uses many systhesizing technologies, they still do a great deal of old fashioned cooking. Whatever it was, it smelled quite good. Unfortunately, time did not permit my partaking of it. I must see to it that I ask what was being prepared. I hope those smells helped welcome those we rescued.

The turn of events in the State is sad. The good admiral could have been a positive force for peace. I hope that her passing will not be in vain and that those committed to peace will push forward that agenda until it is reality.

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115.05.25 12:44 1.6mil ammo and EWar
115.05.25 23:49 Maks Demon 10 People (Former Elite Slaves)
115.05.26 12:11 (name withheld) (blue can) 86 people, L0kkin Khamsi 18 people

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Kim Ji-Young
Ji Young Kim Bap
#871 - 2013-05-26 13:12:02 UTC
Ston Momaki wrote:

In the egress area yesterday, you could smell something very good coming from the nutrition center. While our staff there uses many systhesizing technologies, they still do a great deal of old fashioned cooking. Whatever it was, it smelled quite good.


Wait till you try my Kim Bap.

Also, just want to say that I totally approve of what your organisation is doing. If people are going to carelessly go around dumping their unwanted property like it means nothing to them then I think that's very shameful and it should be highlighted.
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#872 - 2013-05-27 13:18:16 UTC
There is now violence erupting within our State at recent vigils to honor Admiral Yanala. I had hoped that such things would not happen. There is always enough on the outside to tear at the fibers holding a people together without internal strife to add to the destructive forces. There are ways to grieve without striking out. There are ways to protest without violence. We all have to work hard to make peace the norm and not the exception.

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115.05.26 20:55 Annia Aurel 15 people
115.05.27 12:45 Salatar Minax 63 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#873 - 2013-05-27 22:46:29 UTC
There is nothing that makes sanity more tenuous than power. Power, being a narcotic of the soul creates a dependency tolerance like no other drug. If one continues to take in more of it, less of it will never suffice. This lesson is seldom learned by leaders. One reason for this is the almost universal acceptance of a deception. The deception? That leadership requires power. History shows us that the very best leaders of all time were those who gave up power; the power of wealth, the power of violence, etc.

Look at our "empires." Look at the leaders. There isn't enough of the narcotic to keep them satisfied. So where does that leave them?

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115.05.27 19:00 OKCAHA Avatar 10 people
115.05.27 22:34 Frankie Hollister 6, Mare Flint 5 Slavers, 8 former slaves

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#874 - 2013-05-28 13:47:09 UTC
I hope beyond hope to see a day where there are no slaves. I hope beyond hope to see a day when humanity evolves beyond hate and that corrupt vestige is gone and forgotten. But we are far from that. Ten more people were rescued today. May these ten live on and may their lives be lives of good character that grace everyone around them.

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115.05.28 13:23 Aluvia Longtime 10 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#875 - 2013-05-28 21:17:19 UTC
Violence is wholesale for the capsuleer. It takes the least thought, is the easiest choice, is supported and celebrated by the majority, is falsely lauded as noble by those who by their nature, suffer little enduring impact from it. It is just too easy. The educational ssytems are all aimed toward it. (Or toward greed as the case my be). Prove your strength of will and the constitution of spirit by choosing something else. Men and women alike rub their chins is this false acted resignation to the inevitability of their violence. Then all gather about and pat your back saying, "Its OK, we've all been through it."

Is this the best we have to offer our universe?

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115.05.28 19:37 Telonicas 47 people
115.05.28 21:05 Deron Loknos 3 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#876 - 2013-05-29 14:22:05 UTC
Faceless entities... That is what many capsuleers remain to all but a few other capsuleers. To the masses of men, women, and children in our Cluster, capsuleer clones remain detatched. Very seldom do the people we rescue ever see or hear the voice of the pilot responsible for dumping them into space. They do, however, interact with the brutes and sadists that these pilots hire as crew. These faces and voices become the representation of the unknown pilot. It reminds me of a very important fact. My crew is an extension of me. While I try to meet most of the people we rescue, my crews and staff are far more connected.

I feel very humbled to say that my crew and staff are some of the most highly principled and compassionate people. Dealing with people in crisis day in and day out is hard work and exhausting. These people do it without fail.

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115.05.29 13:19 eWIS 50 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#877 - 2013-05-29 22:01:29 UTC
You have to find the things that you can smile about. The rescue reported below generated many smiles from my crew. Five deathcans were discovered in one area. This many almost always involves more than one trip and chance that we will lose some to time. We were able to bring the Mayflower into transport range of all four of the yellow cans at the same time. So after picking up 93 from the blue can, we moved into position and activated transport 1,2,3,4 and then activated the gate, quickly escaping before targeted.

The sound in the assembly area afterwards were those of involved conversation among crew members and staff. They were sounds of satisfaction that all the survivors made it.

Earlier in the day, we picked up a strange device in a wreck. Our technicians are examining it now. We would have left it, but scans showed a profile consistent with weapon components. Not knowing what it was and not wanting to risk it being weaponized, we confiscated it. It will undergo further examination and study.

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115.05.29 19.05 (Name Withheld) 93 people (blue can), Nataha Frost, Astar Dragon, Darcminion, Maxx Ibanez (8 people, 11 people, 14 people, 69 people)

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#878 - 2013-05-30 12:44:51 UTC
Don't lick your lips for war, for the wholesale death that it generates, for the many children, women and men who will suffer unspeakable things. Oh yes, I know that you do not lick your lips for these things but you do for the chance to fight and kill. Don't pretend to be so noble, so loyal, so honorable. You like to fight and kill without having to think about the fuller consequences. So next time you lick your lips for these things, may you taste the tears and blood of those who will suffer in this war you crave.

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115.05.29 23:10 BLAC sitxh 46 people
115.05.30 00:58 Magixx LW 32 people
115.05.30 12:13 CrysisRising Sarain 26 people

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Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#879 - 2013-05-31 13:31:43 UTC
Self-Righteous. I've been accused of it and I've heard the accusation thrown around quite a bit about others as well. But, I don't think people are using the term correctly. Here's how it is being used: "self-righteous" = "anyone who disagrees or questions what I do or why I do it." To throw out the term self-righteous is one of the most common self-defensive measures. Along with other pejoratives it usually fits with what we do when we feel attacked.

All this aside, am I self-righteous sometimes? Yes, I'm sure I am. I am prone to "righteous indignation." And just the time, I think I am being humble in my opinion, by definition I have lost humility. Slippery thing, humility is. So every now an then, it is good for me to bear up under the accusation of being self-righteous. If it sparks some self-examination of the judgments I make and the reasons for them; good.

Ultimately I know that I am not righteous in and of myself. In fact, part of my personal pacifism is an accute awareness that I am not in the place of judgment to take another man's life. Who am I that I should kill another?

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115.05.30 18:57 Space Revenger 10 former Elite Slaves
115.05.30 22:42 Xay Tatsu-Nayomi , Malachi (5 people, 20 people)

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Kim Ji-Young
Ji Young Kim Bap
#880 - 2013-05-31 13:43:11 UTC
Ston Momaki wrote:
Self-Righteous. I've been accused of it


I wouldn't call you self-righteous. I'd certainly call you passive-aggressive though.

If you spent as much time rescuing slaves stranded in cargo containers as you do passive-aggressively sniping at people via this thread, I reckon you could solve the slave-dumping problem overnight. The Amarr Empire would have to jettison a bunch of extra cans just to give you something to do.