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skye orionis
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Posted - 2009.08.07 16:57:00 -
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Since you don't control any space except a solitary system in Catch gifted to you by -A- the policy of 'NRDS everywhere except Providence and Catch' has almost no practical meaning.
If you truly believed in your cause you would be expending more effort creating your own stretch of 0.0 which was neutral friendly and slaver free. You brand every neutral pilot using Providence and Catch as a 'friend of slavers' and yet make no alternative available to them.
Many of the traders were simply concerned with making money with no realisation that they were supporting slavers. And now they are aware they are asking 'where else can I go'? If you fail to offer an alternative to them then you will never win, the power of economics will drown your principles and rhetoric. If you make no attempt to offer safe space in 0.0 for neutral traders then you will simply be considered terrorists, and history will not be kind to you.
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skye orionis
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Posted - 2009.08.07 17:46:00 -
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Then your efforts are for naught, the neutral pilots will continue to fill the coffers of the 'slavers' because there is no alternative but the ever tedious expanse of concord policed space.
Economics will ultimately be a more powerful force than your band of nomads.
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skye orionis
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Posted - 2009.08.07 19:12:00 -
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So, can we expect more direct action against those alliances who support the slave trade?
Looking at the market in the Catch region the only stations buying and selling slaves belong to Against All Authorities, I look forward to your attempts to eradicate them. And we should remember that unlike Sylph only friends of -A- can dock at these stations, so pilots who are members of -A- or their allies are more directly connected to the slave trade than any member of Sylph.
And yet, you not only tolerate this open market in your kinsmen, but you fly side by side with these pilots. What would make your pilots abandon this basic principle? Fear of -A- is surely a powerful factor, they could take your space from you without a thought. I think your acceptance of the slave trade within -A- is a sign that you do value your space after all, having a home base at the cost of a handful of slaves is an easy deal to rationalize. But it is a compromise, and shows your principles will be abandoned when it suits you.
I'm sure the slaves forced to work for -A- still support your cause, even though you refuse to suit theirs.
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skye orionis
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Posted - 2009.08.07 19:48:00 -
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Anyone could place the buy or sell order without docking, but those slaves had to get to that -A- station by being carried by a -A- pilot or one of their allies.
You don't see any slaves for sale or orders to buy them in any station in Catch which has an NRDS policy.
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skye orionis
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Posted - 2009.08.07 20:49:00 -
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Edited by: skye orionis on 07/08/2009 20:51:27
I was merely passing through while looking to buy some materials which I can get at a lower price out here. I have no interest in slaves. I only chose to check the regional market out of curiosity while I was here, based on your organization's statments I expected to find a thriving 0.0 market for slaves, slavers, vitoc and other paraphenalia. Instead I found the only people dealing in these are your allies who clearly have no respect for your anti-slavery ideals.
To be honest with all the bluster I thought it might be an interesting experience to fly my transport ship through this 'warzone', I was expecting gatecamps, and wrecks on every gate. Instead I sailed plainly through, completely uncontested.
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skye orionis
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Posted - 2009.08.07 21:36:00 -
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I believe the greatest mobility and fluidity comes from the asymmetric application of your guiding principles so that they can accommodate your current position.
I'm largely trying to play devils advocate here, it is a complex set of issues.
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