The news article says EM simply provided an escort out. The actual logistic operation was by a different corporation. However, this raises an interesting question. What laws governs such things? Amarrian laws? Republic laws? When the people are liberated, which law holds sway?

For every two who think they were wronged and would desperately want to return to the bosom of the Empire there must be hundreds of thousands who would embrace freedom and the new possibilities ahead.

And that's no different to the Empire or Mandate knowing what's best for them?

Well when one side was asking for something the other consistently refused to give despite it being a perfectly reasonable request for over eight hundred years...

What the hell is a shakorite?

Mr. Khan,

Your religion is one of millions other religions in the universe. There are as many gods as there are stars in New Eden. Every single religion believes their path is the right one, that their god is the one true god or gods. I apologize but your god to me is the same as all the other gods.

In fact your god is even worse. Because while you speak of love, I only see hate from those that preach its words. While you speak of peace, I only see violence. And while you speak of enlightnement I can only see bigotry.

Mankind will only be truly free when the shackles of superstition are broken.

You basically repeated what I said.

Of all the different shades of blue in the universe why is yours more blue than the others? Your conviction does not make it real. All religions are equally figments of human imagination.

Oh yeah? Prove it, then.

I know you exist Blake because I have one of your former bodies.

No, see we don't "believe" in you. We know you exist because you annoy, preach and leave bodies all over the place. If your God were to do the same I don't think anyone here would even bat an eyelash at someone saying he existed. There being not a single hint of his existence anywhere in the known universe makes the difference between you and that figment of imagination rather significant. Tangible evidence, independently verifiable at that, is going to tilt the balance and I'm sure you'll agree.

Your existence is even predictable in our verified model of the universe. We have verified humans all over the cluster. We have various nations, one of them the Amarr Empire. Said Empire is known for their rather silly superstitions and it would be rather strange not to find someone exactly like you around. You conform perfectly with reality, leave tangible evidence of your existence (bodies, amongst other things), communicate with independent entities across the entire cluster and can even be tracked down at will.

No. I don't believe in you. I know for a fact you exist. God on the other hand quite evidently does not.

Solipsism is beneath you, sir, as it ought be for every member of the noble Praetoria

But if we discard the absurdly reductionist philosophy you're using as a smokescreen and begin again from basic first principles - and thus accepting that things external to myself probably exist - your existence as an entity external to my imagination can be demonstrated! We've interacted on multiple occasions.

The existence of God as an entity external to my imagination can be proved as - again, accepting that other people actually exist - other people can imagine it, but the existence of God as an entity external to everyone's imaginations cannot.