What? What do you mean? You're siding with extremists like Crow now, Farel?

This is the beginning of the same song dance again.

The heathens either understand what they have done and lie of it or are in need of a lesson. I believe the end result should be quite similar on Imperial policies.

Let us hope Ammatar mandate and Khanid Kingdom will now offcially join the militias conflict.

This is the beginning of the same song dance again.

The heathens either understand what they have done and lie of it or are in need of a lesson. I believe the end result should be quite similar on Imperial policies.

Let us hope Ammatar mandate and Khanid Kingdom will now offcially join the militias conflict.

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?

I wasn't even a slave. There are plenty of people with Matar blood and features living free as Amarr citizens, thanks to the wisdom of the Reclamation, and terrorists on a smash and grab invasion aren't always careful.

Myself and my family was kidnapped in such a raid. The refugee camps are little better than a prison without bars and a re-education camp. Shows of religious faith in God was harshly punished as a sign of some "invasion", but it was the Matar who were the invaders. There was no shortage of the faithful there, though. The experience is a gift of burden and a test of faith, and a lot of my fellow prisoners just couldn't pass that test. That doesn't mean that they were happy and anxious to be kidnapped, it just means that they were human, and would rather praise whatever rude god is put in front of them in return for safety. I consider myself blessed to have found my way back to civilization from there.

What is to become of these million freed slaves? Are you providing job placement and integration service?

I can only wonder how many people like Lyrah and myself these fools have created in their latest raid. How surprised they will be when those guns that they're handing out get turned back upon them? They're think they're strengthening their little junta, but all they're really doing is setting themselves up for a revolution of the Faithful within their own borders.

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.

Freedom Extension, not the Republic government, along with EM are the parties involved, I think, and have the necessary power and resources to facilitate this. The welfare and eventual resettlement of these people must be very high on their agenda. An operation like this, along with the raid itself, for a small city-sized population must have taken a great deal of thought and planning.

And yet the Shakorite government and their EM minions have decided that they know what's best for them.

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

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

I was being conservative with my estimate and had originally wanted to make an even bigger assumption. Maybe some details will emerge in the near future.

Freedom Extension, not the Republic government, along with EM are the parties involved, I think, and have the necessary power and resources to facilitate this. The welfare and eventual resettlement of these people must be very high on their agenda. An operation like this, along with the raid itself, for a small city-sized population must have taken a great deal of thought and planning.

The difference is that the Empire (and by extension the Mandate) does know what's best for them.

Freedom Extension, not the Republic government, along with EM are the parties involved, I think, and have the necessary power and resources to facilitate this. The welfare and eventual resettlement of these people must be very high on their agenda. An operation like this, along with the raid itself, for a small city-sized population must have taken a great deal of thought and planning.

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.

I wont take sides in how this was done, and if it were the right or wrong way

But as iwe been studying human history... i think some underestimate the power of the human imagination and mind, it might been nine generations, but what is said in whispers, becomes a tale, and will linger on through generations, it might be in the end far from the truth and reality, but considering how this was done, it only feels logical that many of those freed were part in organicing this from their side, you cant just gather up that many people on such short time unless there is atleast some organising factor...

The first sign of corruption in a society is that the end justifies the means, and this is a fine example.

I wish to pledge my support to all the victims of this crime. From wherever refugee camp they get dumped into, I will offer safe passage to rejoin their loved ones back home.

I will surely second this. The rash actions have been carried out with no consideration to those being kidnapped *erhem* "liberated". These men and women you've freed will end up in a refugee camp, in squalid conditions, and with little to no resources. I will gladly assist in returning these kidnapped individuals to their homes to be reunited with their loved ones.

There are at least three schemes which take rescued, freed, liberated, or stolen slaves and provide welfare, shelter, reintegration, repatriation, etc. I have seen one and it did not look like a refugee camp. It was not squalid and had plenty of resources. It used the very latest Smartfab technology to provide accommodation. There were herds of livestock; a well-stocked medical centre; food and water. All of which is provided by capsuleer donations. The people did not look lost, like children. Instead they looked intent, purposeful, and keen to be independent. They looked hopeful.

The idea that these people cannot cope without you is almost laughable. That is what must really scare slavers. Discovering that those children you love so much - who can't possibly survive without your grace and guidance, actually can. It must be crushing to realise that your love simply wasn't enough, or that it is unwanted. There's a hole, in your life.

There are at least three schemes which take rescued, freed, liberated, or stolen slaves and provide welfare, shelter, reintegration, repatriation, etc. I have seen one and it did not look like a refugee camp. It was not squalid and had plenty of resources. It used the very latest Smartfab technology to provide accommodation. There were herds of livestock; a well-stocked medical centre; food and water. All of which is provided by capsuleer donations. The people did not look lost, like children. Instead they looked intent, purposeful, and keen to be independent. They looked hopeful.

There are at least three schemes which take rescued, freed, liberated, or stolen slaves and provide welfare, shelter, reintegration, repatriation, etc.

I have seen one and it did not look like a refugee camp. It was not squalid and had plenty of resources.

It used the very latest Smartfab technology to provide accommodation.

There were herds of livestock;

a well-stocked medical centre; food and water. All of which is provided by capsuleer donations.

The people did not look lost, like children. Instead they looked intent, purposeful, and keen to be independent. They looked hopeful.

The idea that these people cannot cope without you is almost laughable. That is what must really scare slavers. Discovering that those children you love so much - who can't possibly survive without your grace and guidance, actually can. It must be crushing to realise that your love simply wasn't enough, or that it is unwanted. There's a hole, in your life.