Intergalactic Summit

I may be old fashioned, but I've always thought that unruly slaves deserve a slave collar, simply because it's quicker to disable someone with one than with Vitoc. I can't say I have much experience there, though. Slaves working in our church settings aren't exactly pressed to be unruly, considering the comparatively high standard of living. Most are only afraid they won't be eventually released into the House of Baracca and instead sold elsewhere, so they stay in line.

Like being a good employer, the best way to control a slave population is by making your house and your care a place they want to be.

There is some updated information that we were seeking regarding the possibility of opening a special residential center for disaffected Kameiras. I had asked the representative who first approached us for some kind of documentation as to reasons behind the disaffection and so forth. Today I received a communication along permission to share its contents here. The text is given below.



I asked some of our medical staff about standard debridement protocol and he confirmed what was indicated above. When I am able, I will plan to travel to one of the locations where Kameiras are currently being housed. We will try to get as much detail as possible before making a decision on opening a center.

This is both true and casts a somewhat distressing light on the situation. Kameiras are part of a close and secretive brotherhood within the Empire. They aren't hired out as security guards, or for anything. They either exit service as freedmen or as corpses. It's part of their innate culture.

Which does beg the question of what they're doing being held somewhere apparently against their will.

Rescue Report:

116.01.20 19:11 Gustobuniculicertus 10
116.01.20 22:57 Neo Starscream Kaldorei 10
116.01.22 14:43 7 slaves, 4 slavers
116.01.23 16:04 Amirana Tohiro 6,

Sorry I got behind on my reports. THe third one has no pilot listed because the pilot was parked on the deathcan when I made the rescue. It looked like a trap so we were tense when we made the rescue and I didn't take the time to record the pilot name. We made the rescue without any problems anyway.

I'm always a bit amused when an Amarrian loyalist suddenly becomes concerned that people might be held against their will. Hmm. DSTON is not in the practice of holding anyone against his will. The exception might be those residing in our Yulai detention center. Known criminals, prisoners and slavers are held there. The main reason for this is our opposition to the death penalty and generational slavery. No one would be handed over to any other entity unless those punishments were off the table.

The DSS Committere is moored in the Further Foodstuffs Food Packaging plant in Vashkah and my contact there has arranged a meeting between 70 representatives from the Kameiras and myself. I can confirm that there is a group of Kameiras on board the Committere right now. What I cannot yet confirm is the account of what happened with the agent here on Vashkah. I can count on one hand the number of mission agents I have spoken to; its just not something I do. My contact assured me that agents are quite corrupt and will exploit anyone, not just Kameiras. I have been invited to stay a while and find out first hand. There are many active agents here, but I don't have access to them all. However, I may stay a while and see what I can find out myself.

I have also found out that the agents here are also exploiting large numbers of homeless people. We are arranging the possibility of helping some of these people.

Rescue Report:

116.01.22 20:38 HYTTI Aurilen 20 rescued
116.01.23 17:18 Alexander Yavanni 10 rescued
116.01.23 21:26 Xafanar Anthar 13 rescued

I'm tired and in the mood for chocolate.

Re-Enslavement Report:
2014.1.22 03:09 1 Slave

I have hit a dry spell. Perhaps the Disciples of Ston have out maneuvered me.

But perhaps I have found something in common with the Disciples, sort of. The other day, I assisted another pilot with a mission for the Caldari Navy to take down a Minmatar-run Pirate Radio station playing anti-megacorp propaganda. Among the wreckage I took POW two Freedom Fighters and ten Freed Slaves. Naturally, I want to tag all twelve as Slaves for SCC purposes and sell the criminals into slavery. Sadly, this is not possible, just as the Disciples of Ston want to (sinfully) untag Slaves and make them Freed Slaves.

Since I have little desire to take these twelve as my own slaves, summary execution may be the only option.

I think she's more concerned that Kameiras would be held unlawfully, where transporting them against their will and their mandate would be every bit as illegal as if I'd flown to Hek, held a few people against their will, and flown them back to my space. Especially if I'd picked up those people to essentially transport them to a job.

This may all be nothing. I ended up with a few Republican troops that were in a cargo container after their troop ship was destroyed. I had them essentially living in my hanger for a few days until I could figure out what to do with them. Eventually, law enforcement officials came to remove them, but I had quite a few marines essentially in my care in the meantime. There wasn't much I could do save to provide them food and wait, I couldn't repatriate soldiers that had penetrated that far into our space for malicious purposes and I couldn't very well blow them through the lock.

One of those strange quirks of being a capsuleer, I suppose.

In any case, I'm not sure that's likely to happen to Kameiras; the Empire doesn't exactly loan them out. They're rather expensive to train and outfit, if nothing else. Some are freed and do become mercenaries, in which case they are free to travel wherever they'd like, though most stay until they die fighting. I've met a bare few in my lifetime (our paths don't often cross), and they are precisely what you would expect someone with Matari ferocity and a paladin's zeal would be like. Let's just say that if an agent decided to double-cross them for some reason, you wouldn't find them lounging on a ship waiting for help. You'd find pieces of the agent and his handwritten confession exonerating his soldiery.

I know I would certainly be forthright with them. One of those few occasions I met them, ten had been inserted onto a planet and essentially wiped out an entire Sansha barracks. If you think they were abandoned by an agent, turn them loose in the station and point them in the right direction. You'll have your answers within an hour.

Ah. I appreciate the clarification. If they are outside of his CONCORD recognized boundaries, then yes, they are. As for transport against their will, i couldn't begin to surmise weather they were or not. That's a matter for consideration well above my pay grade... Though the suggestion regarding the agent might prove useful.

Imperial law views slaves as the property of their masters regardless of the location, until legally freed by their holder. So, if DSTON picks up a slave in Imperial space and keeps it at one of their centers, that is violating civic law, conversion of chattels and criminal law: grand theft.
Otherwise, it might fall under illegal slaving.