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SCC issues galaxy-wide ban on Pax Amarria
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Merdaneth
Angel Wing.
Khimi Harar
#1 - 2012-04-01 15:50:05 UTC
Dear brothers and sisters,

Today, in a stunning and unannounced move the Secure Commerce Commission banned any new prints of the well known Pax Amarria penned by our late Emperor Heideran.

I consider this kind of rash repressive action a direct attack on Amarrian interests and call upon the SCC to lift the ban on printing of new Paxes immediately.

I have always found great comfort in bringing a Pax with me on my journeys across the cold dark void and consider it part of my standard equipment. To deny new capsuleers from buying such an item is simply intolerable. I know the Pax encourages conflict resolution by peaceful means, and that continual war drives SCC profits from trade orders, but they have gone to far this time.

Bring back the Pax!
Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#2 - 2012-04-01 16:04:27 UTC
Down with this sort of thing.

Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.
Danny John-Peter
The Congregation
RAPID HEAVY ROPERS
#3 - 2012-04-01 16:06:52 UTC
As a loyal servant of the Amarrian empire I support this thread, it is an infringement of the Amarrian right to free religious belief.
Arkady Sadik
Gradient
Electus Matari
#4 - 2012-04-01 16:43:36 UTC
Merdaneth wrote:
Today, in a stunning and unannounced move the Secure Commerce Commission banned any new prints of the well known Pax Amarria penned by our late Emperor Heideran.
Well, since the inauguration of Ms. Sarum, the contents of the book are outdated, so I can see why they'd phase it out.

Do expect a successor soon, though.

I hear the first proposed title "The Prophecy of Patriarchs, the Harbinger of Hope, and the Oracle of Order: Jamyl Sarum Does Onto You as You Did Onto the Empire as the Empire Did Onto You. The official biography of Jamyl Sarum: How to progress from Heresy to Heirdom." was turned down by the SCC as it did overflow their database column widths.
Merdaneth
Angel Wing.
Khimi Harar
#5 - 2012-04-01 16:46:38 UTC
The following scans are meant to provide proof that non-capsuleers are still shipping the Pax Amarria, but that the SCC has just banned it from entering the capsuleer market:

http://www.amarrvictor.com/images/pax_banned.jpg

In other words, if capsuleers want to procure Paxes they have to turn to the secondary capsuleer market or attack innocent civilian convoys. That is simply intolerable.
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-04-01 17:01:00 UTC
Danny John-Peter wrote:
As a loyal servant of the Amarrian empire I support this thread, it is an infringement of the Amarrian right to free religious belief.



it's also nonsense.

the SCC are an administrative branch of CONCORD, not legislative. Their job is to enforce the rules, not dictate what those rules are. As such, they have no authority to ban any item from their database.

If they could, the narcotics that are illegal in all the empires, the slaves that are illegal everywhere outside the Empire, the unregulated firearms that are illegal in the State, all of those things would be banned. The book that's been in the interstellar best-sellers list from the day of its release doesn't belong alongside those items.

No, what's happened is that the publishers have pulled them off the capsuleer market because it's hellishly expensive to pay the SCC's sale order taxes and they don't ship enough copies to the capsuleers, even at the massively inflated prices they charge us, to justify it.

Not enough demand, too expensive to supply - the business decided to stop selling via that avenue. Oh well.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders
Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-04-01 17:44:56 UTC
Perhaps the Empire shouldn't have chosen a printing company that uses nocxium-based ink.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#8 - 2012-04-01 18:09:29 UTC
I think the Empire would be particularly upset to find out what the capsuleers are using those copies of the Pax for.
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#9 - 2012-04-01 18:10:30 UTC
Hint: not enlightenment.
Jev North
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-04-01 18:13:33 UTC
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Perhaps the Empire shouldn't have chosen a printing company that uses nocxium-based ink.

Damn it, so that's why they keep exploding whenever I snap them shut too forcefully.

Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.
Khazarn Areth
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2012-04-01 18:14:25 UTC
Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
I think the Empire would be particularly upset to find out what the capsuleers are using those copies of the Pax for.


It is a most absorbing bit of literature.

Bloody Omir's coming back Monsters from the endless black Wading through a crimson flood Omir's come to drink your blood

Merdaneth
Angel Wing.
Khimi Harar
#12 - 2012-04-01 18:23:41 UTC
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Perhaps the Empire shouldn't have chosen a printing company that uses nocxium-based ink.


The Empire builds thing to last mr. Ixiris
Arkady Sadik
Gradient
Electus Matari
#13 - 2012-04-01 18:30:23 UTC
Merdaneth wrote:
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Perhaps the Empire shouldn't have chosen a printing company that uses nocxium-based ink.
The Empire builds thing to last mr. Ixiris
Nocxium (n.): A highly volatile mineral [...]
Aphoxema G
Khushakor Clan
#14 - 2012-04-01 18:47:43 UTC
I don't actually believe this issue is as serious as it's made out to be, but even being in opposition to the Empire and it's cultural predispositions I am still devoutly against censorship.

However, having read Pax Amarria, I really don't understand why it's so damned popular or used at all to signify what it is to be Amarr.
Merdaneth
Angel Wing.
Khimi Harar
#15 - 2012-04-01 18:55:34 UTC
Aphoxema G wrote:
However, having read Pax Amarria, I really don't understand why it's so damned popular or used at all to signify what it is to be Amarr.


The Pax Amarria is a great example of the duality of the Amarr culture. Stern but forgiving, extending the hand of peace while wielding a sword in the other. It is a symbol of what other cultures "don't get" about Amarr culture. They think one cannot be a slaver and a kind person at once. Or the Emperor of a militaristic theocratic society and peacebroker at the same time.
Gosakumori Noh
Coven of One
#16 - 2012-04-01 19:20:33 UTC
I suspect the contamination was industrial sabotage by clever laborers with some grievance against the Empire. Credit where due. Of course, Mummy's little boys would never do something so naughty, would they? No, of course not. Walkies!
Thgil Goldcore
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#17 - 2012-04-01 19:23:23 UTC
If it was a matter of value, the price would have simply been raised and that would have been that, as opposed to simply making it illegal to trade all together.
Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2012-04-01 20:15:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Andreus Ixiris
Merdaneth wrote:
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Perhaps the Empire shouldn't have chosen a printing company that uses nocxium-based ink.


The Empire builds thing to last mr. Ixiris


Which is precisely why the Empire shouldn't have chosen a printing company that uses nocxium-based ink.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
Silas Vitalia
Doomheim
#19 - 2012-04-01 22:29:54 UTC
Good riddance to Hiederaan's drivel.


Sabik now, Sabik forever
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#20 - 2012-04-01 23:47:51 UTC
Aphoxema G wrote:
However, having read Pax Amarria, I really don't understand why it's so damned popular or used at all to signify what it is to be Amarr.


Well, it's recent spike in popularity is largely tied to the fact that chucking copies of Pax Amarria into an ore reprocessor will yield a small quantity of nocxium and isogen.
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