Such a gross misinterpretation of Arkady's statement implies truly unimaginable capacity for logical contortionism. I imagine I shouldn't be surprised.

Great. Have your Empress negotiate a sensible transfer of all Minmatar captives back to the Republic, or at least the permanent option for all of them to leave if they so desire, and we will stop our "methods" immediately.

You won't? Pity. Stop living a millennium in the past and turn your eyes to the future for once.

Ok kiddo. We'll do it your way.
But first, you must end the Reclaiming.

what? no dice? pity.

Do you even believe your own excuses, Kithus of the defenders of faith?

Edit: Quick link for the readers who have missed the post I was referring to when I responded to Merdaneth, because Mr. Kithrus seems to think that "sensible transfer" means "immediate transfer".

A treaty the Amarr Empire was consistently, flagrantly and openly violating by launching slave raids in Minmatar, Gallente and even Caldari space - yes, that's right, they launched slaver raids into the territory of their supposed allies - every day. I used to deal with about three of those a week when I was working for level II agents. Now I generally get called in about once a week by level IV agents who ask me to run cleanup after one of the less experienced capsuleers successfully locates one.

Except it's perfectly true. It's happening - right now. I could go to any level II agent in Gallente or Minmatar space and get a good chance of being put onto one of these aforementioned raids occurring literally as we speak. Denying it not only makes you look like a complete idiot (not, Kithrus, that you - even among other Amarrians - needed any help with that) but actually goes against the official Amarrian position that these raids do, in fact, happen.

Yes, you heard what I said. The Amarr Empire has implicitly acknowledged through various means that these raids are, in fact, of their design.

As previously demonstrated - and as flagrantly and desperately ignored by you - what we see are not rogue naval units, but fully-sanctioned taskforces.

As previously demonstrated - and as flagrantly and desperately ignored by you - what we see are not rogue naval units, but fully-sanctioned taskforces.

"We screwed your people over, and since you're left with a comparitively tiny section of space we'll continue to laugh at you and screw you over until you somehow magically fix things for yourselves (in spite of our continuing to screw you over). While we're at it, we'll also claim to be superior in every way just to rub salt in the wound; have fun."



"We're the best at stealing everyone else's stuff [notably, labor force], thus we have it all. Until you too have it all, although our stealing your stuff may hinder that, I will ignore your arguments no matter how valid they may be".


Did I do it right?

I think that's what everyone's been wanting to hear out of you. So essentially you're fine with the Empire giving capital to the Republic, so long as it's not used to build warships?

Whilst I understand that you may have the best of intentions, experience has taught us that when you try to appease terrorist regimes by buying them off you simply embolden them.

At the same time as this move, you also called for a new Reclaiming of the remaining Minmatar. I'm very happy you freed these people,[1] but I wouldn't quite call that a move towards peace.

My 'duty' in your world was to work unpaid in an uncomfortably hot factory, doing work nobody else wanted to handle, and stumble into an barely-insulated shack with no bed after two days with less than an hour's sleep.

My 'place', it seems, was under the heel of your boot.

Whereas your culture has done immeasureably worse. You stand redeemed of being the most morally bankrupt entity in the whole of New Eden only by dint of Sansha's Nation - an entity that, incidentally, you were directly and willingly complicit in the creation of - being even worse.



There is, from a purely objective perspective, aboslutely nothing fortunate about becoming like the Amarr. In part due to your barbaric religion's fear of progress, you possess technological superiority in only two fields out of several thousand, and are inferior in all other respects. In social respects, your religion causes irreperable moral and psychological degeneracy in all who practice it, without exception. When acts like slavery, the genocide of (at least) two entire races and the deliberate, systematic poisoning of ship crews with a biological weapon custom-tailored to cause excrutiating pain and death to those who are not given an antidote also custom-tailored to cause crippling psychological dependency can all be justified "in the name of God", there really is no saving your society.

The rest of your statement was delusional, self-congratulatory piffle, and not worth the false legitimacy addressing it would afford.

No, standards means I have criteria by which the Amarrians could perform an act that would be worthy of my respect. Given your past track record they're pretty damn high, but you could meet them. I'll openly admit I don't think the Empire has the courage, humility or self-respect to perform such an act, but there's still an outside chance it could perform an act worthy of my respect. Sansha's Nation, in contrast, could not, short of self-termination.