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Nauplius
Amarr 1st Praetorian Guard
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Posted - 2010.03.17 01:55:00 -
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Perhaps I don't see what all the fuss is about. Because this freespace utopia said to be under construction in Providence is neither new nor uncommon. It exists in Insmother. And Wicked Creek. All five of Atlas's regions actually. Don't believe me?
But they pay rent, you say! I quote the Scope, if you must believe that the so-called New Providence will be somehow rent-free and thus special for that:
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Tzuko1 of ATLAS commented on the capture of 9-F0B2, ôwe have not decided yet what to do with that system, but we will surely not keep it û I think some renters will be interested in it.ö
Although I know of no public statement on the matter yet, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that similar terms will apply to whatever Atlas has been allotted out of the recently reinforced Cold Steel and -7- systems. Thus, I conclude rent does not disqualify a territory from being a freespace utopia.
But they might have slaves, you say![1] Having conquered all of the notoriously slave-holding Angel Cartel's territory (outside Curse itself), I'm sure that some individual Atlas pilots have accumulated slaves as a side-effect of operations against the Cartel. And the same number of rules and regulations govern those slaves as now govern slave-holding in this New Providence ù that is, no laws at all. No laws against slaves in the cargo hold. No laws against selling slaves at a station. No laws against keeping slaves in a POS.
But they have ù horror of horrors ù mandatory standings, you say! Well, not really. Atlas renters do not have mandatory reds. And the few mandatory blues do not include the rest of the Southern Coalition, only Atlas and the other renters, which means it is legal for an Atlas renter to gank an Ushra'khan freedom fighter, and vice versa. Really. Some of you might be surprised at this with all the blather from some quarters about how special the New Providence is going to be, but its true.
But what about NRDS, you say? Residents of Insmother may blow away any neutral that wanders in without censure from Atlas. Residents of the New Providence may blow away any neutral that wanders in without censure from -A- or Atlas or Sys-K or whomever. Now, I am just a humble Khanid Commoner, and so I sometimes miss subtleties that are apparent to my betters ù but I ain't seeing any difference here.
None of this is meant to cast aspersion on Atlas; they are a fine Alliance, a fine Dominion (if not a friend of the Amarr), and had I not felt pangs of guilt about abandoning the Amarr Empire in its time of trial I might still live in Insmother now.
I just never realized that I was living in a freespace utopia when I did.
[1] Not that there is actually anything wrong with the Enlightenment of lawfully acquired slaves, of course.
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