"The Cartel's got guards patrolling the streets," noted one resident, 23-year old Jakis Tarell, speaking of the armed soldiers the Angel Cartel landed on the planet as part of the takeover. "They're keeping the peace. And they're already offering people chances to work for them. I never thought I'd get off the planet. Maybe now I can."

1) Your idea of brief is vastly different to the actual definition.
2) Will there be Booze?

2) Will there be Booze?

...Coreli Corporaton will be honored in aiding the citizens of Skarkon II claim their democratic right and see to the wishes of the people gets for-filled...

I bet the people of Skarkon are rejoicing that their supposed saviors are semi-literate louts who can't even use language properly. The correct word is 'fulfilled', by the way.

Have fun with your celebration.

I bet the people of Skarkon are rejoicing that their supposed saviors are semi-literate louts who can't even use language properly. The correct word is 'fulfilled', by the way.

Have fun with your celebration.

As long as we're being pedantic, Starkon's supposed saviors* are the Angel Cartel, while Coreli is a Serpentis corporation.

*Say that three times fast...

Petty. "Petty" seems to be the only way I could describe you, considering any communique of yours I have had the displeasure of reading recently.

Lord Caine, I would be delighted to attend if I may.

Oh my gods, I'm soooo upset that you don't approve of my posts! Whatever shall I do to get back into your good graces?

The fact that some random EoM cultist doesn't care for my opinion tells me that I must be doing something right. Thanks for your vote of confidence!

Wait, what is Shakor forcing the Skarkonites to do?

Not allow them to express their right to self-determination?

It is a bit strange, is it not, to say "You are living in the Free Republic! You must stay in the Free Republic!"

The Minmatar Republic is a failing state. It cannot provide its inhabitants with basic requirements, like law and order, like decent facilities.

We can. We will.

People of Skarkon II.

It has been precisely five years since you made a wise and brave decision. A cry for help. A cry for liberty.

Five years ago, you voted to leave the crippled, dying, discredited Republic and join the Angel Cartel.

However, the fascist Shakorite regime in Pator and its sycophants decided to deny your choice, decided to give you five more years, decided that their territory was more important than your freedom.

5 more years of what? Of war with the Amarr Empire and Caldari State? Of an economy that didn't even start repairing itself? Of famine and poverty?

This is all the Republican regime stands for. Empty warmongering, playing on people's basic instincts of bloodlust to hide the fact that the Republic is dying.

You may have heard in the news that Maleatu Shakor's appetite is relentless and that he has started launching attacks against Gallente Federation space as well.

Where will your tribal pride and warrior spirit be when all of them finally come and knock at your door?

We come here again, bearing gifts, bringing aid, 5 years later to remind you. To offer our olive branch to you again, and offer you a chance to leave the sinking ship that is the Republic.

We leave the choice to you. Join us and live up to your full potential. Or stay and continue to suffer from the empty words, the broken promises, the endless failure that the Republic has given you so far.

We'll remain close. Watching and waiting. Just remember.

Angels are never far.

Five years is plenty of time to decide, even for five million people. It's hilarious that you think that you can persuade a planet to defect by dropping a bunch of supplies; planetary populaces just don't work like that.

The fact that you think otherwise speaks volumes as to your standing as a small time pirate. This is not how you make it big.

As you might have known, had you paid attention to the activities our corporations, Guardian Roseburn, a majority of the people of Skarkon II did choose to leave the Republic five years ago, but was stopped from doing so.

The Cartel did the only thing possible and retracted most visible activities on the planet to avoid a devastating war for the planet, thus saving the citizens from suffering and worse.

We went to show the population of Skarkon II that the Angel Cartel have not forgotten them, and to show the universe how much bullshit comes out of the Republic propaganda machine about their control in Molden Heath.

The fact that you think otherwise speaks volumes as to your standing as a small time pirate. This is not how you make it big.

Small time... now that's just not nice.
Perhaps Coreli should consider some organization control?
Or do you outsource that too?

Yeah, uh, thanks for sharing. Come back when your intelligence isn't something you've cooked up on a frentix rush.

well compared to you sleeping it off i was atleast in skarkon along with your corp members

You seem to have me confused for someone who disagrees with the supply drop. I don't, I just strongly question the motives of the individual who made it happen.

As for where I was, why don't you ask Joshua?

Calm down folks. Ms. Roseburn's personal issues with Mr. Caine are not something we as a corporation concern ourselves with and not agreeing with the motives of fellow loyalists certainly doesn't make you a traitor to the cause.

Say de Republic is a failure, so what are you doing to help de people?

Teevin and hustlin.

Ya bring one hauler in 5 years and make a big display of it.

If not for de "failing Republic" der be Imperial yokes round ya necks.

Even if it was 'just one hauler', that would've been more than the Republic has done for Skarkon in the last 5 years.

Except you have absolutely no proof of that.

"Fifty years ago, I wouldn't be saying this. But I'm glad the Angels are here. Look around! It can't be worse than it is now."

Skarkon was once a minorly prosperous mining system, though the rich asteroid belts dwindled in value sixty years ago. A mass of industry and Republic interest left the system, leaving behind millions of citizens at the edge of Republic space.

"The Cartel's got guards patrolling the streets. They're keeping the peace. And they're already offering people chances to work for them. I never thought I'd get off the planet. Maybe now I can."

I don't crow about improving the lives of workers in the Intaki system every time I make a hauler run to my planetary industry chain.

Need I mention the Feythabolians? No? Didn't think so....

No, but I have official testimonies from people actually living on the surface of Skarkon II.

etc.

All published in public news you can access from any CONCORD billboard's archive or your fluid router interface. If you're having issues finding it, I can just link you to the news article.

I don't see how making your own personal profit on the back of the Intaki people is considered something that should be regarded as 'humanitarian'. Then again, you're Gallente, the Federation has had that outlook for quite some time now, prohibiting Intaki people to settle planets. Some freedom and democracy.

I'll just add that Stillwater Corporation has so far shipped 1 billion isk in supplies to Intaki V, the exact number to be confirmed by Salvation Syagrius as he's overseeing that relief effort, without making any kind of a statement about it or trying to score any kind of political points regarding it.
It's still good to see there's still people like yourself, claiming to be working in the interest of the people, doing nothing and trying to discredit humanitarian actions of others; I thought we'd have run out of villains at some point.

Helps if you practice what you preach Andy. You're turning into our mutual acquaintance from a couple of years ago.

This is an article from five years ago.

That's a lot of assertions you're making about what I'm asserting, none of which happen to be accurate.

You really are hilariously bad at this - almost as bad as Coreli, but at least Coreli had the sense to stop when they realised they were making themselves look like idiots.

Well, some of them did.

Well, two of them.

... well, mostly.

If you are willing to provide me 'proof' that the Shakorite regime actually did something to help the people of Skarkon in the last 5 years, whilst a) waging a full scale war against the Amarr Empire b) randomly launching taskforces into Federation space for the sake of its own pride, and either of this with the flavour of c) which is that Skarkon is not being used merely as a political tool in the Parliament which it was, 5 years ago, to strip Karin Midular of her authority...

Well, good luck. Until then, I'll stick to believing what I'm seeing.

You can preach all you want, it won't change the fact that the fringe systems of the Republic are unsustainable with the current policy of the Republic back in Pator.

Step back, let us take them. We have a solution.

Various hurrdurr

Former citizens of the Feythabolis Empire are fully integrated into the Angel Cartel society these days and are not kept around like political toys on a rack as the Intaki are. I think your analogy is a bit flawed there.

Can you bring me any evidence that they haven't? Can you bring me a single news article about food shortages or security issues in Skarkon since the end of the Skarkon Incursion? Can you, in fact, provide testimony from a single Skarkon resident about the current state of Skarkon at the present time?

In fact, Can you bring me any evidence that your care package didn't burn up on re-entry? Can you bring me any evidence whatsoever that this isn't a completely empty guesture?

I can wait.

Quite convenient for a man who sees only what he wants to see.

If Molden Heath is anything to go by, the solution is "remove Angel from premises." It seems to be working pretty well!

I like how you whine about ad hominem literally directly after making various inferences on my statements that were patently untrue.

Since you'll probably still insist on ship logs, I've sent you a mail with the attachment of the ship's operation file, showing all goods were launched and landed as expected.

Would you care to underline those specifically?

For those of you watching at home, this did not happen.

To be forwarded to Andreus Ixiris
From: Leopold Caine
Sent: 2013.05.30 14:00
To: Toushi Kimura,

To be forwarded to Andreus Ixiris

Salvation Hope ship logs, Captain Hoshi Takasu, May 28th 115, Skarkon

[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 1[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to Skarkon II District 2[/wi]
[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 2[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to Skarkon II District 3[/wi]
[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 3[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to Skarkon II District 4[/wi]
[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 4[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to Skarkon II District 5[/wi]
[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 5[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to rendezvous point X68-93[/wi]

Would you care to underline those specifically?

Quite impossible to happen, since you have me blocked for some reason. I sent them to one of your new masters instead.

Salvation Hope ship logs, Captain Hoshi Takasu, May 28th 115, Skarkon

[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 1[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to Skarkon II District 2[/wi]
[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 2[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to Skarkon II District 3[/wi]
[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 3[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to Skarkon II District 4[/wi]
[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 4[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to Skarkon II District 5[/wi]
[wi] landed in Skarkon II, District 5[/wi]
[do] orbital launch underway [/do]
[co] orbital package landed safely [/co]
[wi] in warp to rendezvous point X68-93[/wi]

Oh, of course it's not. However, I prefer not to put words into other people's mouth.

What you've provided is a long string of (rather poorly-formatted) text that could very easily have been typed by hand - and from the looks of it, probably was.

It still amuses me that you think the Angel Cartel is a humanitarian organisation, though.

I've provided the recorded ship logs I have as a proof you asked for. If you're going to retort to any proof I provide as 'typed by hand', then we don't have much to discuss; in case you haven't noticed, the IGS is text format only. However, if that is not enough for you, we can always recreate it for you. I think that Megathron Navy Issue you keep around could use some undocking and an exercise trip down to Skarkon.

Angel Cartel Bloc

moved a Badger Mark II class transport, filled with medical supplies and food into the orbit of Skarkon II, followed by a defensive task force.
Check.
The transport, followed by the Angel

task force warped to all 5 districts above Skarkon II, and launched a supply drop above each.
Check.
There was about 20 capsuleers in local at the moment, most of them part of the defense task force for the humanitarian run, who can confirm everything that happened there.
Check.

I'd pretty much call supplying people with medical supplies and food a humanitarian effort.

Ha ha! Make an unreasonable request, then act offended and pretend to be vindicated when the unreasonable request is declared to be unreasonable.

Let's stop this right here.

...This is all fairly meaningless hypothesis anyway because you most likely didn't deliver anything to the planet.

Let's assume that I have few illusions. That I like being an Angel. That I know exactly what the people I work for are.

Where then does that leave us?

That you're a person with some degree of amorality who works for demonstrably amoral people, doesn't much care about it and doesn't lie about it?

Would you like a medal?

Ladies
Handbags
Put them away and agree to disagree.
There we go.
I am dreadfully sorry for having missed your soiree Leopold, what with my fluid routers being on the blink and various other shenanigans out here in the deep black that required my total undivided, your little get together completely slipped my mind.

That you're a person with some degree of amorality who works for demonstrably amoral people, doesn't much care about it and doesn't lie about it?

Would you like a medal?

I think I'd rather have a Cynabal. They practically give those things away if you know the right people.

Last I checked, the Theology Council would deem you as an amoral heretic as well, Msr. Ixiris.

You are entitled to your own opinion of our faction. Don't broadcast it like it's some kind of an universal, general statement however.

Membership in the Angel Cartel is considered illegal by CONCORD, all four major empires...

...you have people shooting your ships by the thousands every single day.

Pretty much everyone does think the Cartel are amoral.

You kind of missed my point.

Angel Cartel has its own set of morals which we adhere to., a strict sense of loyalty and a set of values. I can tell you we are all quite well behaved and upstanding citizens. It's just a pity your viewpoint is different than ours.

But, so far, you're still considered an amoral heretic by the Theology Council.

Funny, because that's not what the actual Angel Cartel seems to think.

Even if it was 'just one hauler', that would've been more than the Republic has done for Skarkon in the last 5 years.

It's simple really. We supplied Skarkon II with medical supplies and food. You can imagine all kind of conspiracy theories and secret agendas, but the fact is simple: We helped people of Skarkon II. The Republic hasn't. If you're going to sit in Pator with your thumb up your posterior and criticize other people's humanitarian efforts with failed attempts of smugness and cynicism, I believe that is telling more about yourself than ourselves.

Sapienti sat.