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Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
226
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Posted - 2014.08.12 23:11:00 -
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I am less alone in the mass killing of filthy Minmatar subhuman slaves than I was yesterday.
On 2014.08.12 at 21:55 in the Mehatoor system a small fleet belonging to the Stormcrows corporation destroyed an unarmed, harmless Bestower piloted by myself and carrying 4,034 Slaves. 2,034 Slaves perished.
When I reported this shocking event to the Summit channel, I was met with not only indifference but vigorous defense of the Stormcrows' actions. To those of you who consider me a monster I offer this quote of unknown origin: "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you." |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
711
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Posted - 2014.08.12 23:21:00 -
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Op succe.... wait, woops.
Too early to say "Called it!" yet? Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
113
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Posted - 2014.08.12 23:23:00 -
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How predictable. Mr. Nauplius, I suppose you were just taking them all out for a joy ride and then tea and scones at the Station?
What a HobsonGÇÖs choice. While it is tragic that 2,034 perished, the full story appears to be that another 2,000 survived and were recovered- not to be "splattered" or 'blooded" - but to live another day. Without timely intervention, there is little doubt that the 2,000 would have joined the ranks of the hundreds of thousands who have met their untimely end at your hands.
Perhaps you can avoid further tragic, but necessary choices, by ceasing your heretical and in-humane activities?
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Wendrika Hydreiga
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
15
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Posted - 2014.08.13 00:21:00 -
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I must mirror Frau Aspenstar's stance on this matter. Clearly this valiant corporation suceeded in sabotaging your efforts of mass genocide at a steep price. Steep, but well payed, for a monster such as you, Herr Nauplius, with a body count that dwarfs the Federation's stock clone reserve for a year's worth of planetside combat, it would take a thousand Bestowers to match to the horrors you inflict to the Minmatar
I was debriefed to full extent of your misatropic malice and it saddens me that the only tragedy about this chain of events was the fact that fate wouldn't allow more lives to be saved from your clutches. |

Dagur Brynj'ar
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
1
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Posted - 2014.08.13 00:35:00 -
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They say you have to crack the shell of an egg to get to the yolk.... |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3937
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Posted - 2014.08.13 00:47:00 -
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So what you're saying is that Stormcrows saved 2,000 slaves? Maybe they can get titles from the Republic too. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Katrina Oniseki
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
3298
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Posted - 2014.08.13 01:03:00 -
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Considering you would have killed them all anyways, I have to see this as glass-half-full. Ch+½j+ì Katrina Oniseki ~ (RDC) Chief Operations Officer ~ [I-RED] Director of Public Relations |

Desiderya
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
794
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Posted - 2014.08.13 01:15:00 -
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Heh. Good attempt at making it seem very grey. The world's a ****** place to be an unempowered person, eh?
The price of war. Best get drunk while paying it. Sober there's no solid chance you'dbe ablte to stomach it. Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise. |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
50
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Posted - 2014.08.13 01:21:00 -
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During combat, a few had to be sacrificed for the benefit of many. I know that, the Republic knows that (refer to The Elder War) and I am sure I am not alone to come up with this grim assessment. It is dirty business but the alternative is far worse.
This is par on course for those who are in the business of roving around in heavily armed vessels. We only really start staring at the abyss, as you put it, when we, like you, start *enjoying* killing slaves.
Now shut up and undock more slave-bearing Bestowers for liberation. |

Claudia Osyn
Mythic Security Service
870
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Posted - 2014.08.13 02:43:00 -
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Purple! The lack of money is the root of all evil. |
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Kayagainen Iwalula
Etsala Trading Company
112
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Posted - 2014.08.13 03:04:00 -
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I'm sure there are many capsuleers that would love to destroy you regardless of what's in your cargo bay. |

Anabella Rella
Gradient
1741
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Posted - 2014.08.13 05:03:00 -
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If you were truly so concerned Nauplius you'd stop undocking carrying innocents to be used as human shields. Coward.
Sorry but, your thinly veiled attempt to paint Stormcrows as the bad guys here fools no one. When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around. |

Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
593
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Posted - 2014.08.13 05:40:00 -
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This reminds me of the time one of our ships, coincidentally, also a Bestower, was engaged in Entirely Peaceful search and rescue operations near the Amarr-Caldari border, when we were set upon by unbeliever heretics of the Theology Council, who destroyed the Bestower and killed most of the passengers, before abducting the few survivors and escaping before help arrived. |

Aelisha
Achura-Waschi Exchange Monyusaiya Industry Trade Group
401
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Posted - 2014.08.13 08:35:00 -
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Seems to me like the 'crows gave freedom to 2000 and mercy to the rest. Being subject to your idea of 'care' is not something I can imagine compares well even with death by explosive decompression or void exposure.
It also isn't news that mercenaries cause casualties.
Hire a better spin doctor, if you can afford the fee they're likely to charge to tolerate your odious presence. CEO of the Achura-Waschi Exchange: Adaptable Industry for an Unpredictable Cluster
Intaki Reborn. Independent Capsuleer. |

Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
770
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Posted - 2014.08.13 09:06:00 -
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I support miss Aspenstar stance on this.
You have no moral high ground to stand on Mr Nauplius, time over time, people pleaded you to revise your ways or just condemn your actions, even extremists have denounced you.
The moral high ground belongs to Stormcrows in this case. They spared 4034 slaves from a horrific end. 2000 of them are now free from your horrors and can now begin to lead a new life, with professional counceling of course, as they must be horribly scarred by what you did to them. Remember, Stormcrow are mercenaries, they weren't obliged to save them, but they did it nontheless, an action I praise them for!
It's tragic that 2034 died, but the fate that undoubtedly awaited them at your hands makes their quick deaths in space more acceptable. -áThe Empire Titans, when big isn't big enough!-á -á-áUshra'Khan liberates slaves in Amarr! |

Odelya d'Hanguest
ZERO HEAVY INDUSTRIES 24eme Legion Etrangere
396
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Posted - 2014.08.13 09:54:00 -
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This is a preposterous grotesqueness. I congratulate the Stormcrows. Not only for saving the lives of two thousand slaves, but also for driving the heretic into deep despair. There are certain individuals who have claimed in the past that the more we talk about NaupliusGÇÖ the more he will enjoy the spotlight. The opposite is true. It is clearly observable, and I couldnGÇÖt agree more with Ms Aspenstar and Ms Rella on this matter, that the hereticGÇÖs cowardice, the signs of gloom and mirthlessness are on the rise the more public pressure is put upon him. What was already a shadow of his former self, now degrades into a caricature of a shadow and will slowly eat up the rotten remnants of his soul.
Furthermore I offer refuge to the survivors. The Duchy of Palas will happily provide means of labour in the fishing industry to the slaves and the necessary training for doing so. I will also ask our priests to give special care to the spiritual needs of the traumatised and provide them with an environment of tenderness and affection. Book of Prayers GÇö GalNet Profile GÇö Viva la Legion! GÇö Laudetur Khanid! |

Mizhir
Mind Games. Suddenly Spaceships.
66539
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Posted - 2014.08.13 09:56:00 -
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Only twisted lunatics like you use the death of people, you would have killed otherwise, to push your own agenda.
4000 humans are free from your demonic sadism. 2000 of them will be free to begin a new life and the remaining half will now wander among their ancestors in the lands beyond - away from any suffering you otherwise claims they would be inflicted. One Man Crew - Collective solo pvp |

Mizhir
Mind Games. Suddenly Spaceships.
66539
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Posted - 2014.08.13 10:04:00 -
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Odelya d'Hanguest wrote: Furthermore I offer refuge to the survivors. The Duchy of Palas will happily provide means of labour in the fishing industry to the slaves and the necessary training for doing so. I will also ask our priests to give special care to the spiritual needs of the traumatised and provide them with an environment of tenderness and affection.
Why would the Stormcrows want to send the human beings right back to the misery they came from?
I would suggest you to send them to Mrs. Ymladris' colony. It is an ideal place for them to start a new life. Away from lunatic zealots and two-faced duchess. One Man Crew - Collective solo pvp |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
51
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Posted - 2014.08.13 10:31:00 -
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Mizhir wrote:Odelya d'Hanguest wrote: Furthermore I offer refuge to the survivors. The Duchy of Palas will happily provide means of labour in the fishing industry to the slaves and the necessary training for doing so. I will also ask our priests to give special care to the spiritual needs of the traumatised and provide them with an environment of tenderness and affection. Why would the Stormcrows want to send the human beings right back to the misery they came from? I would suggest you to send them to Mrs. Ymladris' colony. It is an ideal place for them to start a new life. Away from lunatic zealots and two-faced duchess.
Depends on who has a fatter purse, and whether the Stormcrows' conscience can be bought. |

Hoshi Karasawa
Karasawa Heavy Engineering
2
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Posted - 2014.08.13 10:38:00 -
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This would be where I make it known that the slaves are at this time not in the care of Stormcrows.
They are in the care of myself and the medical staff aboard my Orca class vessel Venix
I am looking to repatriate the slaves to the Republic for proper care once the wounded have been treated enough for transport.
Ms Rella, would Gradient be able to help with this?
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Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
686
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Posted - 2014.08.13 10:59:00 -
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"Repatriate" implies that they are sent back to their home, rather than a completely new nation. While some of the slaves in the butcher's possession might be former Republic nationals, most were probably born and raised in the Empire.
Still, the Republic is a better place for them than in his hands. Keep in mind, however, that the slave butcher uses vitoc on all of his slaves. I don't know how things are today, but I recall Republic healthcare services having issue meeting vitoc demand after Her Imperial Majesty's Emancipation Decree.
Curse those degenerates who in their greed would put slaves up on public markets where vile commoners like the slave butcher can purchase them. They deserved a home under a proper Holder.
I would also lament the deaths of the 2000 that didn't survive. There is nothing merciful about their deaths, and it is disappointing to hear people rationalize it like that. It might be necessary, but it is a tragedy; those 2000 were not saved or given a mercy. |

Katrina Oniseki
Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
3299
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Posted - 2014.08.13 11:07:00 -
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Samira Kernher wrote: I would also lament the deaths of the 2000 that didn't survive. There is nothing merciful about their deaths, and it is disappointing to hear people rationalize it like that. It might be necessary, but it is a tragedy; those 2000 were not saved or given a mercy.
Why exactly was it necessary for them to die?
Ch+½j+ì Katrina Oniseki ~ (RDC) Chief Operations Officer ~ [I-RED] Director of Public Relations |

Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
686
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Posted - 2014.08.13 11:11:00 -
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The key word was 'might'. And the issue being that, short of getting the slave butcher to voluntarily release them from his custody, there is no other way to retrieve the slaves from his vessels without destroying them.
And 2000 saved is still better than 0.
Or do you have a better idea? |

Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3939
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Posted - 2014.08.13 11:31:00 -
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Ever heard of a boarding action? I appreciate that they're practically nonexistent in modern space combat, but... An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
686
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Posted - 2014.08.13 11:36:00 -
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A boarding action would likely make him self-destruct the vessel. |

Anslo
Scope Works
6299
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Posted - 2014.08.13 12:12:00 -
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You know, this was pathetically funny at first. Now you're just annoying me. I suggest you cut this **** out quick.
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
712
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Posted - 2014.08.13 12:22:00 -
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On the subject of moving the survivors, OTSI could certainly provide transportation to a Republic facility capable of handling such an influx. Running a Marmite blockade isn't exactly too taxing and the Penumbra has yet to be caught by anyone. We'll even waive the usual transportation fees in the name of humanitarian support. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Hoshi Karasawa
Karasawa Heavy Engineering
51
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Posted - 2014.08.13 12:26:00 -
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I'll keep that in mind, Ms Otsito, thank you.
I may be in touch soon. |

Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
227
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Posted - 2014.08.13 12:28:00 -
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Such a finely tuned moral calculus we have here on the IGS. Plug the following into your equations and see what happens:
- While it was my intent to eventually kill all 4,034 Slaves on this Industrial, their deaths were not imminent and some of the Slaves would have lived months, even years had the Stormcrows not murdered them. That lifespan, however short or valueless some of you may consider it to be, was taken from these Slaves and they did not have any choice in the matter.
- Some of the Slaves would have survived despite my intent to kill them eventually. People such as Ayallah and Ava Starfire have taken Slaves from me in the past and they took them from my armed combat ships, not unarmed Bestowers. Furthermore, there is always the possibility that I will take a temporary retirement from piloting GÇö as I have done several times in the past, most recently for a two and one half year period GÇö and leave my slaves either to languish peacefully in a hanger or be sold back on the SCC markets into "normal" Amarrian slavery.
- My slave pool is not finite but instead I replenish it from the SCC markets as Slaves are lost in combat, sacrificed, decimated, or worked to death. I prefer to keep a working stock of around 20,000 Slaves (I purchase and prepare Slaves intended for the rare mass-sacrifices separately, as these receive no crew or planetary colony training). Therefore, the ledger here is not, "2,034 killed, 2,000 saved", but:
2,034 Nauplius-slaves killed 2,000 Nauplius-slaves get "freedom" About 4,000 Slaves move from "regular" Amarrian slavery to Nauplius-slavery Put that way, it doesn't look so good now, does it?
Finally, let me make the following adjustment to the Nauplius-shooting moral calculus going forward:
- Henceforth, the cargo holds of all my combat ships will be stuffed with extra slaves who serve no purpose but to bloody the hands of all who would shoot at me.
- Henceforth, whenever I am podded for any reason, I shall kill 1,000 of my Slaves. This rule is retroactive to my last podding, so let all who would attend Lady Odelya d'Hanguest's Nauplius corpse viewing party mediate upon the 1,000 Slaves who at this very moment are being prepared for their deaths with maximum psychological torture.
Amen. Amarr Victor. |

Anslo
Scope Works
6299
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Posted - 2014.08.13 12:33:00 -
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Oh well, no one say I didn't warn him.
Time to do a thing.
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Mizhir
Mind Games. Suddenly Spaceships.
66542
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Posted - 2014.08.13 12:47:00 -
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So your evilness suddenly become our fault? That you blame us for your actions. One Man Crew - Collective solo pvp |

Caroline Grace
Grace Stellar Conveyance Inc.
546
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Posted - 2014.08.13 12:52:00 -
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Capsuleer Nauplius, for your crimes against humanity, I have put another 666 666 ISK bounty on your head, directly insulting you, your God and condemning any and all of your past and present actions involving such crimes. Please refrain from such activities in the future or I will be forced to take more serious actions against you, up to and including a permanent annihilation of your capsuleer status through violent buttslapping leading to your clone death. |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
51
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Posted - 2014.08.13 13:42:00 -
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Nauplius wrote:Such a finely tuned moral calculus we have here on the IGS. Plug the following into your equations and see what happens:
- While it was my intent to eventually kill all 4,034 Slaves on this Industrial, their deaths were not imminent and some of the Slaves would have lived months, even years had the Stormcrows not murdered them. That lifespan, however short or valueless some of you may consider it to be, was taken from these Slaves and they did not have any choice in the matter.
- Some of the Slaves would have survived despite my intent to kill them eventually. People such as Ayallah and Ava Starfire have taken Slaves from me in the past and they took them from my armed combat ships, not unarmed Bestowers. Furthermore, there is always the possibility that I will take a temporary retirement from piloting GÇö as I have done several times in the past, most recently for a two and one half year period GÇö and leave my slaves either to languish peacefully in a hanger or be sold back on the SCC markets into "normal" Amarrian slavery.
- My slave pool is not finite but instead I replenish it from the SCC markets as Slaves are lost in combat, sacrificed, decimated, or worked to death. I prefer to keep a working stock of around 20,000 Slaves (I purchase and prepare Slaves intended for the rare mass-sacrifices separately, as these receive no crew or planetary colony training). Therefore, the ledger here is not, "2,034 killed, 2,000 saved", but:
2,034 Nauplius-slaves killed 2,000 Nauplius-slaves get "freedom" About 4,000 Slaves move from "regular" Amarrian slavery to Nauplius-slavery Put that way, it doesn't look so good now, does it?
Finally, let me make the following adjustment to the Nauplius-shooting moral calculus going forward:
- Henceforth, the cargo holds of all my combat ships will be stuffed with extra slaves who serve no purpose but to bloody the hands of all who would shoot at me.
- Henceforth, whenever I am podded for any reason, I shall kill 1,000 of my Slaves. This rule is retroactive to my last podding, so let all who would attend Lady Odelya d'Hanguest's Nauplius corpse viewing party mediate upon the 1,000 Slaves who at this very moment are being prepared for their deaths with maximum psychological torture.
Amen. Amarr Victor.
Calculus eh? I still consider all 4034 slaves liberated, 2034 without their lives and 2000 more with their lives.
Moreover, you are the 'Enemy'. Anyone who has labelled you as 'The Enemy' is no longer considering sportsmanship when they see you. You are beneath sportsmanship. This is about hurting you. Relieving you of your assets. Haranguing you until you lose your hair. Denying you any form of satisfaction. This will continue until you are run out of town, preferably while you are still in your small clothes. However, since you are a capsuleer and mortality means differently for the likes of us, this is going to go on for a very long time.
So enjoy. Keep 'stuffing' slaves into your ships to drag into your horrific 'Nauplius-slavery'. They will be liberated, with or without their lives. Don't expect bleeding hearts. Expect to die. |

Aelisha
Achura-Waschi Exchange Monyusaiya Industry Trade Group
404
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Posted - 2014.08.13 13:57:00 -
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Your miss-allocation of blame is not our problem, Naupilus. If you're after wailing and gnashing of teeth, you might be better off appealing to a live audience in The Summit or one of the 'Official' channels.
Should relocation services be required for liberated* slaves, and none of the individuals who have thus far offered be able to assist, AWEX- can offer a secure route to the outpost situated in the same system as the Ayem Colony and Aurora Arcology projects.
As I exclude unknowns from contacting me personally, please notify me of interest in this thread should you wish to be added to my contacts list to discuss pro-bono logistics assistance leading to that specific colony. No other relocation options are offered at this time.
*Liberated specifically from Nauplius' stock. AWEX- makes no comment on the morality, legality or ethics of slavery in the Amarr Empire. AWEX- does not employ slavery as a corporate resource. CEO of the Achura-Waschi Exchange: Adaptable Industry for an Unpredictable Cluster
Intaki Reborn. Independent Capsuleer. |

Hoshi Karasawa
Karasawa Heavy Engineering
68
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Posted - 2014.08.13 15:41:00 -
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Ms Aelisha, I would be interested to discuss such logistics assistance, should the survivors decide they wish to go to those colonies instead of the Republic. I'll allow them to decide where they want to go. |

Ashlar Vellum
24th Imperial Crusade Amarr Empire
119
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Posted - 2014.08.13 16:38:00 -
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Nauplius wrote: Some of the Slaves would have survived despite my intent to kill them eventually. People such as Ayallah and Ava Starfire have taken Slaves from me in the past and they took them from my armed combat ships, not unarmed Bestowers. Furthermore, there is always the possibility that I will take a temporary retirement from piloting GÇö as I have done several times in the past, most recently for a two and one half year period GÇö and leave my slaves either to languish peacefully in a hanger or be sold back on the SCC markets into "normal" Amarrian slavery.
Wait a minute, weren't you "liberating" them by your actions? So now after road getting a little bit bumpy you are backpedaling, you are one lousy acolyte of your cult.
Nauplius wrote:Finally, let me make the following adjustment to the Nauplius-shooting moral calculus going forward:
- Henceforth, the cargo holds of all my combat ships will be stuffed with extra slaves who serve no purpose but to bloody the hands of all who would shoot at me.
- Henceforth, whenever I am podded for any reason, I shall kill 1,000 of my Slaves. This rule is retroactive to my last podding, so let all who would attend Lady Odelya d'Hanguest's Nauplius corpse viewing party mediate upon the 1,000 Slaves who at this very moment are being prepared for their deaths with maximum psychological torture.
This just sounds desperate. You were in the warzone, so you probably know how many we kill, now stretch your thinking muscle and remember how many soulless-ones kill while they work for the empires. In the grand scheme of things your 1000 are not even a drop in the ocean. If you are breaking at least have some modicum of self-respect.
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Ragnar Severasse
Consortium of the Blue Phoenix Villore Accords
3384
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Posted - 2014.08.13 16:39:00 -
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Ms. Karasawa, If any freemen wish to immigrate to the Federation, I will be more than happy to help. As I have immigrated several years ago, I can provide council to those unfamiliar with Federation protocol. Developer of the Theories of Special and General Stupidity:-áhttp://imgur.com/zwpPmqB |

Claudia Osyn
Mythic Security Service
870
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Posted - 2014.08.13 17:28:00 -
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Hostages? Really Nauppie? You should know better then that. Capauleers only have morals when they're in the IGS fourms. You're going to get shot at regardless of what or who you have in your hold. The lack of money is the root of all evil. |

Eran Mintor
Esoteric Philosophy Imperial Outlaws.
628
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Posted - 2014.08.13 17:33:00 -
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Ashlar Vellum wrote:In the grand scheme of things your 1000 are not even a drop in the ocean.
Certainly 1000 out of several trillion seems irrelevant if you are using mathematical logic. Unfortunately, the reality is that it only takes one life to change the course of a history.
With that said, I don't see anyone killing this mans resolve by hunting him down but instead strengthening his determination. After all, with so many threads about him on the front page, he's raking in more attention than a lingerie model in a Brutor barracks. Sometimes it's best to ignore griefers, psychopaths, and step-parents. Eventually they lose their steam, unless you keep throwing wood in the fire.
-Eran
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3942
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Posted - 2014.08.13 17:45:00 -
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Ragnar Severasse wrote:Ms. Karasawa, If any freemen wish to immigrate to the Federation, I will be more than happy to help. As I have immigrated several years ago, I can provide council to those unfamiliar with Federation protocol.
Just drawl your words and keep a white flag handy. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3942
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Posted - 2014.08.13 17:46:00 -
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Claudia Osyn wrote:Hostages? Really Nauppie? You should know better then that. Capauleers only have morals when they're in the IGS fourms. You're going to get shot at regardless of what or who you have in your hold.
We do not negotiate with terrorists. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Anslo
Scope Works
6360
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Posted - 2014.08.13 18:34:00 -
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Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Claudia Osyn wrote:Hostages? Really Nauppie? You should know better then that. Capauleers only have morals when they're in the IGS fourms. You're going to get shot at regardless of what or who you have in your hold. We do not negotiate with terrorists.
....wait we negotiate at ALL?
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Claudia Osyn
Mythic Security Service
870
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Posted - 2014.08.13 18:42:00 -
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Anslo wrote:Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Claudia Osyn wrote:Hostages? Really Nauppie? You should know better then that. Capauleers only have morals when they're in the IGS fourms. You're going to get shot at regardless of what or who you have in your hold. We do not negotiate with terrorists. ....wait we negotiate at ALL? On occasion. It's normally called "ransom"... The lack of money is the root of all evil. |

Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
593
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Posted - 2014.08.13 18:59:00 -
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I had mentioned the thing earlier, where a dangerous cultist shot down one of our unarmed Bestowers.
I just a few minutes ago, checked our corporate records, only to find that there was no record of this event taking place.
Only in the involved pilot's own combat records, was this massacre recorded.
So it would seem Theology Council agents have infiltrated the corporate database, and removed the event from record.
Disturbing ! |

Ayallah
SniggWaffe WAFFLES.
295
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Posted - 2014.08.13 19:49:00 -
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All any of you is doing is making it worse.
Maybe the PLEX you get for delivering his useless corpse to a third party can go to the families of the thousand people he kills when he wakes up. (Or to whatever bullshit non-profit you donated those who lived to.) Or, just give them to the holder, the rightful owner all along! After all, hiring half-******** mercenaries to kill Matari for him sure as **** does not help.
Or, ..maybe one day his bounty will get big enough that he just gives up and goes home. Maybe one day holding a gun to the head of the slaves he pushes in front of himself and screaming at him on the forums that you swear you will do it if he does not shape up will finally get through to him. Maybe, I dunno. I guess I can hope the PLEX prize attracts someone who is not half-alpha clone ******** to come by and fix all of this.
Or maybe all of you will just **** off and maybe give us a chance to save our people from him before you kill them. -áFear The Tribes |

Arista Shahni
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
131
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Posted - 2014.08.13 20:08:00 -
[46] - Quote
So, your plan to 'help' Naupilius was to kill him in space, Ayallah?
Well, I suppose your training was rather narrow. One can't fault you for that.
Regardless, anyone who continues playing armchair psychologist to this particular Capsuleer should start practicing in a mirror first.
"I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you - so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. -áAnd as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all." |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3942
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Posted - 2014.08.13 20:37:00 -
[47] - Quote
I'm confused, Aya. You've been begging for someone else to take Naupy seriously and, now we have, you seem angry and despairing about it.
Isn't this what you wanted? Weren't his reprisals completely predictable? "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Anslo
Scope Works
6361
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Posted - 2014.08.13 20:40:00 -
[48] - Quote
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3944
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Posted - 2014.08.13 21:49:00 -
[49] - Quote
AM I NOT MERCIFUL? "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Anslo
Scope Works
6367
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Posted - 2014.08.13 21:54:00 -
[50] - Quote
IS THIS NOT WHY YOU ARE HERE?
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Soren Tyrhanos
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
11
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Posted - 2014.08.14 00:33:00 -
[51] - Quote
If the Stormcrows took the time to secure those slaves and are willing to turn over the Slaves to myself for redistribution amongst the Imperial Holders I will be happy to reward them for their efforts.
I am glad to see that justice is being visited upon this vile and corrupt individual. |

DeadRow
Nocturnal Romance Cynosural Field Theory.
272
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Posted - 2014.08.14 01:08:00 -
[52] - Quote
Such a silly noise over nothing.
~Hikari |

Claudia Osyn
Mythic Security Service
870
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Posted - 2014.08.14 01:26:00 -
[53] - Quote
DeadRow wrote:Such a silly noise over nothing.
~Hikari Welcome to the IGS? The lack of money is the root of all evil. |

Ayallah
SniggWaffe WAFFLES.
295
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Posted - 2014.08.14 01:48:00 -
[54] - Quote
Well **** me for doing what I know. It worked better, he went inactive more when I was hunting him. At least I did not get my people killed.
And yea, I thought with all the talking you people did you would be smart enough to figure out to not kill the ******* Matari.
I do not want your help anymore thank you. -áFear The Tribes |

Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
775
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Posted - 2014.08.14 05:10:00 -
[55] - Quote
Ayallah wrote:Well **** me for doing what I know. It worked better, he went inactive more when I was hunting him. At least I did not get my people killed.
And yea, I thought with all the talking you people did you would be smart enough to figure out to not kill the ******* Matari.
I do not want your help anymore thank you.
This post sounds naieve, especially for you. Look at it from another light, and it's practically a plea to leave Nauplius alone when he's transporting slaves to whatever possible end he has in mind for them.
While I find your emotional involvement commendable, you fail to offer a solution on how you would handled it in this case. If you caught Nauplius with a slave transport carrying thousands aboard, how would you minimize losses? You can point & web him, attempt to force him to eject, but why should he if he knows you're going to shoot him afterwards and in his view 'deny the slaves their glorious end to God'. So you end up with one of two situations: either he self-destructs the ship, ending the lives of many, or you blow up the ship, with the same result.
This is a tragic reality that alot of people in this thread gasp, it was a choice between two evils, there would never be a 'good' or 'right' way, but they did what they could. -áThe Empire Titans, when big isn't big enough!-á -á-áUshra'Khan liberates slaves in Amarr! |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
52
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Posted - 2014.08.14 06:19:00 -
[56] - Quote
Jandice Ymladris wrote:Ayallah wrote:Well **** me for doing what I know. It worked better, he went inactive more when I was hunting him. At least I did not get my people killed.
And yea, I thought with all the talking you people did you would be smart enough to figure out to not kill the ******* Matari.
I do not want your help anymore thank you. This post sounds naieve, especially for you. Look at it from another light, and it's practically a plea to leave Nauplius alone when he's transporting slaves to whatever possible end he has in mind for them. While I find your emotional involvement commendable, you fail to offer a solution on how you would handled it in this case. If you caught Nauplius with a slave transport carrying thousands aboard, how would you minimize losses? You can point & web him, attempt to force him to eject, but why should he if he knows you're going to shoot him afterwards and in his view 'deny the slaves their glorious end to God'. So you end up with one of two situations: either he self-destructs the ship, ending the lives of many, or you blow up the ship, with the same result. This is a tragic reality that alot of people in this thread gasp, it was a choice between two evils, there would never be a 'good' or 'right' way, but they did what they could.
Leaving them alone is also not an option. That way you more or less guarantee a drawn-out death for the slaves.
Warfare, privateering, mercenary work, any kind of task that requires violence is a practice of ruthless calculations. You may hope for the greater good, but most of the time, it's a choice of the lesser evil. |

Eran Mintor
Esoteric Philosophy Imperial Outlaws.
630
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Posted - 2014.08.14 08:51:00 -
[57] - Quote
I suggest we just get Nauplius really high. Like really really, really out of his mind....he'll never harm a soul again, let alone fly a ship. Where's the booster selling Thukker gal when you need her.....
-Eran |

Talas Dir
Super Happy Fun Corp
37
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Posted - 2014.08.14 08:57:00 -
[58] - Quote
Eran Mintor wrote:I suggest we just get Nauplius really high. Like really really, really out of his mind....he'll never harm a soul again, let alone fly a ship. Where's the booster selling Thukker gal when you need her.....
-Eran
Yes. A mindflood party for IGS has been vastly overdue. |

Christine Peeveepeeski
The Imperial Fedaykin Amarrian Commandos
659
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Posted - 2014.08.14 11:06:00 -
[59] - Quote
Nauplius, the wardec is active. I do not usually broadcast my intentions to the victim so obviously but in this case the message is more important than your inevitable, repeated destruction... of which will happen if I see you anyway. |

Anabella Rella
Gradient
1743
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Posted - 2014.08.14 14:55:00 -
[60] - Quote
Hoshi Karasawa wrote:This would be where I make it known that the slaves are at this time not in the care of Stormcrows.
They are in the care of myself and the medical staff aboard my Orca class vessel Venix
I am looking to repatriate the slaves to the Republic for proper care once the wounded have been treated enough for transport.
Ms Rella, would Gradient be able to help with this?
My facilities and resources are not enough to deal with 2000 slaves with various wounds both physical and otherwise. I've had to have the main cargo hold converted into temporary accommodations and medical centre for them, even enlisting marine medics from the onboard security regiment.
I, on behalf of Gradient, would be happy to transport the survivors to our relocation facilities in the Republic. I'll contact you via private comms so that arrangements can be made. Thank you. When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around. |
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Karynn Denton
Clan Katanga Caravan
238
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Posted - 2014.08.14 17:06:00 -
[61] - Quote
Eran Mintor wrote:I suggest we just get Nauplius really high. Like really really, really out of his mind....he'll never harm a soul again, let alone fly a ship. Where's the booster selling Thukker gal when you need her.....
-Eran
I already tried, Eran. He wasn't having it. Which was a shame, it would've been so easy to slip an extra toxin here or another tranq there into his batch...
Karynn Denton Caravan Master
Drug-dealing, frigate-fighting, Rifter-rolling Thukkervixen |

Ayallah
Sniggwaffe WAFFLES.
296
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Posted - 2014.08.14 17:28:00 -
[62] - Quote
Do not try to twist my words Jandice.
For months it has been known that Nauplius flies with slaves in his cargo hold. For months.
Avlynkaa and I have both been able to kill him without killing the people inside. Samira has done it three times Even PIE as a whole who cares for slaves only as property has rescued almost three times as many people as have died in engagements with him.
The Stormcrows are not even attempting to save people, They failed to save even a single person in any engagement. They killed five people until Nauplius intentionally threw enough of them at him that some were bound to survive.
Nauplius waited almost hours before posting here. He knew exactly how they were shooting, how loose their ROE is, and he played them.
They did not even learn their lesson as the next day they killed 11 more people. More than had been killed in every engagement with him up until the day before and the bestower.
Do not try to sell me this sad nobility or realities of hard choices. Other people have shown demonstrated restraint. One mercenary group is clearly just killing him for money and give a damn about the people. Or did everyone forget why we were killing him in the first place?
They see a hauler, in his home system and the first thing they do is open fire. No self destruct timer. Now talk about naive.
The Stormcrows, operating on contract have killed 2050 of my people. There is your tragic reality.
As far as I am concerned, they are as much the enemy as he is. -áFear The Tribes |

Anslo
Scope Works
6563
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Posted - 2014.08.14 17:31:00 -
[63] - Quote
No offense but I'm pretty sure you've killed a whole hell of a lot more of your own people on SniggWaffe ops.
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Ayallah
Sniggwaffe WAFFLES.
296
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Posted - 2014.08.14 17:32:00 -
[64] - Quote
Anslo wrote:No offense but I'm pretty sure you've killed a whole hell of a lot more of your own people on SniggWaffe ops.
Killing the combat crews of capsuleer ships is a whole entire different discussion than killing civilians Anslo. -áFear The Tribes |

Anslo
Scope Works
6563
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Posted - 2014.08.14 17:33:00 -
[65] - Quote
Hey I'm just sayin'. Civi or not, neither get resurrected.
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Ayallah
Sniggwaffe WAFFLES.
296
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Posted - 2014.08.14 17:35:00 -
[66] - Quote
Anslo wrote:Hey I'm just sayin'. Civi or not, neither get resurrected.
You are not wrong. Even in saying so. -áFear The Tribes |

Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
780
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:05:00 -
[67] - Quote
Ayallah wrote: As far as I am concerned, they are as much the enemy as he is.
You still failed to answer my question. You see a slave-transport piloted by Nauplius; carrying over 4000 slaves; what will you do. let him pass by, keeping the slaves confined to their future envisioned by Nauplius, or will you act?
That people have died is tragic, it has been mentioned before, what you fail to mention is that there's also 2000 saved, who otherwise would have been kept in slavery for longer or put to death through Nauplius' rituals. You do not mention them.
-áThe Empire Titans, when big isn't big enough!-á -á-áUshra'Khan liberates slaves in Amarr! |

Anslo
Scope Works
6567
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:13:00 -
[68] - Quote
It's not important to Aya. She doesn't see 2000 saved, but 2000 killed. It's like most bullshit on the IGS, all about view points.
Round and round the debate we go, with valid points countering each other based on the morals of the debaters in an endless cycle of showmanship, moral high ground taking, and rabble that at the end of the day, is pretty ******* pointless considering it'll just happen again, and again, and again. And be talked about again, and again, and again.
Where the endless argue-go-round stops? Nobody knows!
'But Anslo, if you dislike it so much, why stick around?'
Because I'm hoping something changes at some point and things get interesting again. Besides, some nifty stuff pops up now and then.
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Ayallah
Sniggwaffe WAFFLES.
297
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:24:00 -
[69] - Quote
Jandice Ymladris wrote: You still failed to answer my question. You see a slave-transport piloted by Nauplius; carrying over 4000 slaves; what will you do. let him pass by, keeping the slaves confined to their future envisioned by Nauplius, or will you act?
That people have died is tragic, it has been mentioned before, what you fail to mention is that there's also 2000 saved, who otherwise would have been kept in slavery for longer or put to death through Nauplius' rituals. You do not mention them.
The answer should be obvious to anyone with a brain. NOT shoot the bestower. He undocked them in Mehatoor specifically because he knew the Stormcrows would shoot them. They were never going anywhere.
And you may have missed it but I did not, the people were on their way to Gradient before I ever posted in the thread.
-áFear The Tribes |

Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
593
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:33:00 -
[70] - Quote
So, Stormcrows have fallen into Nauplius's cunningly designed trap, eh ?
Intriguing ! |
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Anslo
Scope Works
6585
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:34:00 -
[71] - Quote
See? Here's a good example (no offense Aya, this isn't personal).
So, let's say you do nothing. What happens when he self destructs and ALL the slaves dies? Isn't it your fault for not acting?
Or what happens if he flies off and sacrifices them or whatever it is he does. Isn't it your fault for not acting?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Endless argue-go-round. But there's ways to cope with this! Do what I did!
Stop giving a **** about debates and loud mouths trying to look better than everyone else. Interact with people who build you up, not bring you down or infuriate you.
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Ayallah
Sniggwaffe WAFFLES.
297
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:37:00 -
[72] - Quote
Anslo wrote:It's not important to Aya. She doesn't see 2000 saved, but 2000 killed. It's like most bullshit on the IGS, all about view points.
You have absolutely no idea what is or is not important to me.
And yes, it is a matter of viewpoints.
I wonder if people would be talking about noble hard choices if it was 4034 Gallentean Students held hostage and instead of negotiating or attempting to rescue them the FIO just bombed the place.
They did all they could, they really did.
Good thing he is dead though huh? Makes these sort of all-or-nothing tactics worthwhile. At least they stopped him so he cannot hurt more people. -áFear The Tribes |

Anslo
Scope Works
6596
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:40:00 -
[73] - Quote
Ayallah wrote:You have absolutely no idea what is or is not important to me.. Well it could be inferred it's important to you since you've gone on about it for a while in this thread now so uh...
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Ayallah
SniggWaffe WAFFLES.
298
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:54:00 -
[74] - Quote
I cannot think of a single reason I would want to keep quiet publicly about what the stormcrows are doing.
I cannot think of a single benefit to drawing attention to the fate of those lucky enough to survive. Them going to Gradient as quickly and quietly as possible is the best thing that could have happened. Why me pointing out the bullshit going on with the stormcrows is put in jeopardy by the fact I did not mention that before, I will never understand.
I get the reasoning behind your defense. I really really do. But the distinction between a pilot or group that had been trying to rescue people saving only half from the self-destructed wreck after negotiations break down and mercenaries who have been playing the 'there are no civilians' game since day one of their contract blowing up a bait hauler full of people before a self destruct timer is even started, ...should be obvious. -áFear The Tribes |

Anslo
Scope Works
6615
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:55:00 -
[75] - Quote
Meh whatever floats your boat Aya. But like so many people told me in the past, do something about it. Use the energy you got for posting about it to go and act without a second thought.
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Ayallah
SniggWaffe WAFFLES.
298
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:59:00 -
[76] - Quote
Anslo wrote:Meh whatever floats your boat Aya. But like so many people told me in the past, do something about it. Use the energy you got for posting about it to go and act without a second thought.
You are not wrong. But I am ahead of you on it this time. -áFear The Tribes |

Anslo
Scope Works
6615
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Posted - 2014.08.14 18:59:00 -
[77] - Quote
Ayallah wrote:Anslo wrote:Meh whatever floats your boat Aya. But like so many people told me in the past, do something about it. Use the energy you got for posting about it to go and act without a second thought. You are not wrong. But I am ahead of you on it this time.
Look at you all on the ball and **** and what not!
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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
781
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Posted - 2014.08.14 19:19:00 -
[78] - Quote
Ayallah wrote:Anslo wrote:It's not important to Aya. She doesn't see 2000 saved, but 2000 killed. It's like most bullshit on the IGS, all about view points.
You have absolutely no idea what is or is not important to me. And yes, it is a matter of viewpoints. I wonder if people would be talking about noble hard choices if it was 4034 Gallentean Students held hostage and instead of negotiating or attempting to rescue them the FIO just bombed the place. They did all they could, they really did. Good thing he is dead though huh? Makes these sort of all-or-nothing tactics worthwhile. At least they stopped him so he cannot hurt more people.
This is indeed a good example you give Ayallah, as we know a person who holds a viewpoint as extremist as Nauplius has towards minmatar (*They must be given over to destruction*) This person is Diana Kim, who has been frequently seen quoted *The Gallente federation must be destroyed* She has extended this to the civilian population on several occasions.
In your example, the 4034 Gallente students are held hostage by Diana Kim aboard her ship. Negotiations by FIO fail, as they are gallente themselves.
So now there's two options left. Either follow your Rule of Engagement : 'do nothing' and as result, 4034 Gallente students will die.
Or act: FIO engages Diana Kim's ship, 2034 students die, 2000 are rescued.
Both are terrible choices, as people die, but of the two, the second option: 'to act' is the better choice, as at least half of them survive instead of none. If there's an option to save them all, it would be the best choice, but alas, it is not there. You could of course wait, hoping for such opportunity to appear, but knowing Nauplius modus operandi (and Diana Kim's) chances are the 4034 would all die before this opportunity arises.
-áThe Empire Titans, when big isn't big enough!-á -á-áUshra'Khan liberates slaves in Amarr! |

Anslo
Scope Works
6639
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Posted - 2014.08.14 19:27:00 -
[79] - Quote
Here's another thought; they all just want attention. If you need to act, act in space, and post or say nothing. Make it seem like standard pest control. Demean them and their acts by simply not acknowledging them as anything new or worth mentioning.
Pest control op underway, nothing to see here, move along.
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Jude Kopenhagen
Stormcrows
29
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Posted - 2014.08.14 19:30:00 -
[80] - Quote
Evening Pilots,
I rarely reply here, simply because I try to let me actions speak louder than my words. However, it seems while some have had certain wisdom and insight, others have not.
Ayallah,
up to now not a single Stormcrow has responded in this thread, yet you claim to know our hearts and minds? Based on what exactly? Your own assumptions?
Do you know the terms of our contract? Were you there when we made the choices we made? Were you there when we let a Bestower past, only to have the report delivered a few minutes later that all the slaves have been executed?
How would you have handled it?
We have to live with our actions, not you.
Just to be clear, I do not care half an isk what you think, because it seems you are here only to draw attention to yourself. But if you were really so concerned, you would have come to discuss this with me, find out the full story instead of forming your own half-truths.
So, go ahead and talk here, but if you really take exception with us, like you seem to, come take it up with us at any time.
PS. Thank you for all the pilots who have shown willingness to help those rescued go where they would feel most at home. And thank you to Hoshi Karasawa who was so willing to provide the logistical means that we lacked in the war zone, and at such short notice. |
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Anslo
Scope Works
6647
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Posted - 2014.08.14 19:32:00 -
[81] - Quote
and THIS is why I stay on IGS. It's about to get good.
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Claudia Osyn
Mythic Security Service
871
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Posted - 2014.08.14 19:46:00 -
[82] - Quote
Anslo wrote:and THIS is why I stay on IGS. It's about to get good. *passes the popcorn* The lack of money is the root of all evil. |

Kohiko Sun
Stormcrows
30
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Posted - 2014.08.14 19:46:00 -
[83] - Quote
Quote:Be sure to sell any slaves you rescue from my wrecks back into slavery. Or join with me in the Faith...and sacrifice them. Requests denied. |

Anslo
Scope Works
6647
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Posted - 2014.08.14 19:47:00 -
[84] - Quote
Kohiko Sun wrote:Quote:Be sure to sell any slaves you rescue from my wrecks back into slavery. Or join with me in the Faith...and sacrifice them. Requests denied.
EEEEEEEE IT'S KOHIKO SUN!!! PLEASE SIGN MY HULL!!!
EDIT: OH GODS SHE LIKED MY POST SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Ayallah
SniggWaffe WAFFLES.
298
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Posted - 2014.08.14 20:09:00 -
[85] - Quote
Jude Kopenhagen wrote: Actions speak louder than my words.
Jude Kopenhagen wrote: Ayallah,
up to now not a single Stormcrow has responded in this thread, yet you claim to know our hearts and minds? Based on what exactly? Your own assumptions?
Do you know the terms of our contract? Were you there when we made the choices we made? Were you there when we let a Bestower past, only to have the report delivered a few minutes later that all the slaves have been executed?
You have gotten slaves killed, every slave killed in fact, in every single one of your engagements with Nauplius so far save the bestower. Given the size of the ship and number of people who died it is obvious that your pilots skipped right past everything and just shot it without any attempt of boarding action, no activation of self-destruct timer and no attempt at negotiation whatsoever. Exactly like your people have handled every other fight which is exactly why there are so many dead slaves on your killboard.
Your actions and the actions of your pilots has spoken. All you are doing is defending the fact your contractor may not have directed you to act as you obviously did.
Jude Kopenhagen wrote: How would you have handled it?
I would have not shot the unarmed transport full of people.
Jude Kopenhagen wrote: We have to live with our actions, not you.
2050 innocent people do not get to live because of your actions.
Others have already tried to spin this as 'I do not care enough about the people rescued' so your 'I do not care really, I am just doing it for attention.' line falls far short.
Tell the rest of your excuses to the dead. -áFear The Tribes |

Anslo
Scope Works
6647
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Posted - 2014.08.14 20:15:00 -
[86] - Quote
Aaaand back to the argue-go-round...
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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
782
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Posted - 2014.08.14 20:28:00 -
[87] - Quote
Ayallah wrote:Jude Kopenhagen wrote: How would you have handled it?
I would have not shot the unarmed transport full of people.
Causing the death of 4034 people in the near future, following Nauplius Modus Operandi (*all minmatar must be given over to destruction*)
Ayallah wrote:Jude Kopenhagen wrote: We have to live with our actions, not you.
2050 innocent people do not get to live because of your actions.
And 2000 people get to live, which is still more then if they did not shoot.
Ayallah wrote: Others have already tried to spin this as 'I do not care enough about the people rescued' so your 'I do not care really, I am just doing it for attention.' line falls far short.
Tell the rest of your excuses to the dead.
The problem many have with your comments is, you claim you care about the survivors, yet propose a course of action that will lead to the death of 4034 people rather then 2034 people.
If you would only explain the best course of action that will not lead to the death of these slaves, you would do everyone a great help. I'm aware you said 'don't shoot' , but you must have some plan to save them all? From your comments, I can't fanthom your advice would be *Don't shoot, let them live in slavery under Nauplius hands and die* concerning your stance on slavery and how deeply you care about the survival of these slaves.
Following from that, the advice must be something different, 'Don't shoot , -Unknown-' It would be good to know what this full advice would be. -áThe Empire Titans, when big isn't big enough!-á -á-áUshra'Khan liberates slaves in Amarr! |

Claudia Osyn
Mythic Security Service
872
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Posted - 2014.08.14 20:30:00 -
[88] - Quote
I hereby declare this thread is renamed as follows: Thread of moral self pleasuring #1220984576.
That is all. The lack of money is the root of all evil. |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3948
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Posted - 2014.08.14 20:33:00 -
[89] - Quote
A multi-race Private Military Contractor is hired by Amarrians to kill an Amarrian. The collateral lives lost are Minmatar. Is anyone surprised that the Vendor has not been told to respect the human shields of the target by the client?
Really?
I think there's some sort of war on, isn't there? "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Anslo
Scope Works
6647
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Posted - 2014.08.14 20:35:00 -
[90] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:A multi-race Private Military Contractor is hired by Amarrians to kill an Amarrian. The collateral lives lost are Minmatar. Is anyone surprised that the Vendor has not been told to respect the human shields of the target by the client?
Really?
I think there's some sort of war on, isn't there?
Don't bother dude, trust me. Just don't.
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Eran Mintor
Esoteric Philosophy Imperial Outlaws.
634
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Posted - 2014.08.14 20:45:00 -
[91] - Quote
Jandice Ymladris wrote:The problem many have with your comments is, you claim you care about the survivors, yet propose a course of action that will lead to the death of 4034 people rather then 2034 people.
Well see that's the trick; If there's no survivors then you don't have to care about them. Problem solved.
-Eran
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Odelya d'Hanguest
ZERO HEAVY INDUSTRIES 24eme Legion Etrangere
402
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Posted - 2014.08.14 21:28:00 -
[92] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:A multi-race Private Military Contractor is hired by Amarrians to kill an Amarrian. The collateral lives lost are Minmatar. Is anyone surprised that the Vendor has not been told to respect the human shields of the target by the client? With all due respect, the notion that all slaves are Minmatar is racist. The notion that Nauplius is Amarr is abhorrent. Book of Prayers GÇö GalNet Profile GÇö Viva la Legion! GÇö Laudetur Khanid! |

Desiderya
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
794
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Posted - 2014.08.14 22:14:00 -
[93] - Quote
Hopefully she's learnt a bit more about boarding than half a year ago. Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise. |

Ashlar Vellum
24th Imperial Crusade Amarr Empire
119
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Posted - 2014.08.15 00:32:00 -
[94] - Quote
Eran Mintor wrote:Ashlar Vellum wrote:In the grand scheme of things your 1000 are not even a drop in the ocean. Certainly 1000 out of several trillion seems irrelevant if you are using mathematical logic. Unfortunately, the reality is that it only takes one life to change the course of a history. With that said, I don't see anyone killing this mans resolve by hunting him down but instead strengthening his determination. After all, with so many threads about him on the front page, he's raking in more attention than a lingerie model in a Brutor barracks. Sometimes it's best to ignore griefers, psychopaths, and step-parents. Eventually they lose their steam, unless you keep throwing wood in the fire. -Eran Absolutely true. My point was mostly about using human life as a leverage of any sort against capsuleers, it's like saying to a hungry slaver-hound you will pet it backwards if it won't stop biting you. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1219
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Posted - 2014.08.15 07:42:00 -
[95] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:I am less alone in the mass killing of filthy Minmatar subhuman slaves than I was yesterday.
On 2014.08.12 at 21:55 in the Mehatoor system a small fleet belonging to the Stormcrows corporation destroyed an unarmed, harmless Bestower piloted by myself and carrying 4,034 Slaves. 2,034 Slaves perished.
When I reported this shocking event to the Summit channel, I was met with not only indifference but vigorous defense of the Stormcrows' actions. To those of you who consider me a monster I offer this quote of unknown origin: "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you."
In the State, we call it just "collateral damage". Nothing to see here. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1219
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Posted - 2014.08.15 07:45:00 -
[96] - Quote
Elmund Egivand wrote:During combat, a few had to be sacrificed for the benefit of many. If you weren't a minmatar, I could have said that you might even understand Caldari someday. Unfortunately, just a coincidence.
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Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
317
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Posted - 2014.08.15 11:07:00 -
[97] - Quote
If you allow terrorists to have free reign because they endanger innocents, you're simply encouraging them to do more of the same. This is why all governments refuse to negotiate with terrorists; you cannot give them any leeway. It sucks.
Sometimes, you grit your teeth and pull the ******* trigger. It's an awful decision to have to make, but what are the options? Killing some of them quickly, in a flash, painlessly, in an attempt to save some? Or doing nothing, and sentence the lot of them to whatever warped torment Nauplius and others of his ilk can conceive? We cannot forcefully board a vessel. We cannot force it to jettison its cargo, nor dock, nor capitulate in any other way to our demands. HE INTENDED TO KILL ALL OF THEM ANYWAY.
I agree with those who have said this was 2000 lives saved, not 2034 lost.
On behalf of my Clan, Tribe, Nation, and corporation, I have one thing to say to Stormcrows:
Thank you.
We stand ready to receive any and all survivors, who will be given housing, medical care, transport to wherever they wish, and work for those who seek it.
Should you require any assistance, you need but ask.
Chief Kyllsa Siikanen Late-Rise Clan Mikramurka, Matar GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 11:46:00 -
[98] - Quote
Painlessly? Have you ever seen the corpses left behind by explosive decompression? There's no flash. There's no painless death. Unless they take a blaster charge directly, it's one of the worst conceivable ways to die, with several dozen horrible things happening to you all at once. If you are really lucky, you get knocked out during the event. If you're not...
Well.
What you can do is give them a chance. You can scramble and web the target at the undock, if that's where you catch them. You can give them the option of redocking, dropping the cargo or simply be forced to sit there. Until the self-destruct is triggered, you aren't forced to do anything but deny him the option of going anywhere.
By simply venting his hulls at the undock, all that's achieved is him popping out of the clone bay nice and refreshed and with the market interface for another batch of slaves waiting for him.
You can't force him to hand over the slaves or redock without self-destructing but not even making the attempt shows exactly how much disregard there is for his cargo. What matters to these people is the kill and the ISK. Everything else is quite demonstrably not a priority. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
318
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Posted - 2014.08.15 11:57:00 -
[99] - Quote
Because Nauplius has such a history of rational behavior and taking care of those within his holds. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 12:02:00 -
[100] - Quote
It's not a question of rationality. It's a simple matter of reducing his number of options to the point where there are only three possible outcomes. Redock, hand over the cargo or destruction of his ship. Jumping straight to the last option without attempting the first two is not "saving" anyone. If the last option becomes all that remains, exhausting all others, then there is a case to be made for it being less than murder.
Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
322
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Posted - 2014.08.15 12:25:00 -
[101] - Quote
You seem to be a person to whom the last word is important.
You shall have it.
Stormcrows, feel free to contact me. You know how. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1254
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Posted - 2014.08.15 12:57:00 -
[102] - Quote
If he docks up, they are effectively lost until he undocks with them in his hold again. Unless you have some manner by which interested parties might breach his personal stationside hangars and facilities, places that are effectively considered sacrosanct by CONCORD and the Empires except in the most extreme of circumstances, which, if you might have guessed, this situation does not fall under.
Which means that the only thing being done, is delaying the time until they are used in one of his sick sacrifices. By doing so you save none of them, but just delay the inevitable. The only time any of them can be saved from him is when he is in space with them in his cargo. Unfortunately, Nauplius will not be reasoned with - he has made his decision already and by all appearances has full intention of sticking to it - so attempts to push him away from the station and get him to give up his cargo will simply be met with a self-destruct sequence on the vessel, as others have stated. Not making the attempt is a cold understanding of this situation: you will save none of them with words, because he will not negotiate with anyone he views as beneath him.
But you might save some of them with weapons fire.
Everyone else here, the Matari included, seems to grasp that it is better to take a chance to save some of them than to guarantee the deaths of all of them. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 13:09:00 -
[103] - Quote
Unless you think he's doing ritual sacrifice in the station run hangars, it's not like they're in any more danger in there than when treated to explosive decompression courtesy of bloodthirst and greed. I know Scotty has enough of a bloody fit under the best of circumstances, without having to clear dead bodies out of his hangars.
What scares me is that everyone's just ignoring that the only thing achieved is Nappy buying new stock every time you destroy his current hoard. And is it really too much to ask to try going the path of least horrible murder rather than just opening fire without any attempt at doing something else?
It costs nothing to try getting his cargo unscathed. Not a thing. Not even trying is not a matter of cold understanding. It's a matter of not giving a crap about the cargo in the first place. Trying to justify it after the fact with "cold understanding" is a pitiful statement of just how little they mattered when put up against blood thirst and greed. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1255
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Posted - 2014.08.15 13:12:00 -
[104] - Quote
I think you are missing that people have tried in the past and are not trying it anymore because it's been made clear any and all such attempts will be ignored.
Feel free to go out there and try it yourself, though. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Anslo
Scope Works
6817
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Posted - 2014.08.15 13:23:00 -
[105] - Quote
Morwen Lagann wrote:I think you are missing that people have tried in the past and are not trying it anymore because it's been made clear any and all such attempts will be ignored.
Feel free to go out there and try it yourself, though.
That would involve Jinari taking risk though.
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Kohiko Sun
Stormcrows
42
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Posted - 2014.08.15 13:26:00 -
[106] - Quote
Pilot Otsito,
It seems your information about our stance, contingencies, and open offers to Hoi Andrapodistai are mistaken. While we have a practice of not discussing a war on IGS, our stance now is the same as it was when some of us were pilots as part of Electus Matari who had to do the exact same thing many times: do what you must; save who you are able. Should you have further questions about our corporation, you may feel welcome to contact us in the future.
Also, there are at least three ways your 'safe' suggestions could end in catastrophe, but I trust you will forgive me if I do not say them in the hopes of avoiding that. |

Anslo
Scope Works
6841
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Posted - 2014.08.15 13:34:00 -
[107] - Quote
YOU TELL EM KOHIKO! WOOO!
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 13:58:00 -
[108] - Quote
The only risks I take are carefully calculated. Going into combat as an unarmed non-combat pilot would be utterly ridiculous by any measure, but I suppose if you can't argue the points you argue the person making them. It doesn't really matter whether or not it has been attempted in the past. It costs absolutely nothing to make the attempts and there is much to gain if it succeeds.
Skipping it because it's not as fun as simply jumping straight to the killing part has yet to be even remotely justified. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3951
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:11:00 -
[109] - Quote
The problem is, the guy genuinely believes in his heart of hearts that the only reason why the Minmatar ethnic group even exists is because God created them specifically to be "vile subhuman sacrifices". He is not a reasonable man, he's a fanatic, and you don't allow fanatics to stall you.
If you're going to save any lives in that kind of situation, you have to strike hard and fast and save those you can. If you've got hostages with guns to their head and the hostage-takers are preparing to execute the lot and martyr themselves, then you storm the place and accept that not all of those hostages are getting out of there alive. Their deaths are not on your hands.
The same goes for Stormcrows. They didn't kill those people - Nappy did. By putting them in that situation, and by being the man he is, their blood remains on his hands alone. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Kohiko Sun
Stormcrows
45
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:12:00 -
[110] - Quote
I have now thought of five ways to ensure your suggestions would end with everyone dying, and I am not the one wanting to kill them. I am not willing to gamble on all or nothing with that, only my frigates. That is my calculation. |
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Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1261
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:29:00 -
[111] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Skipping it because it's not as fun And here is where you clearly and openly demonstrate you have no idea what you are talking about with regards to the situation. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Steffanie Saissore
Stormcrows
335
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:40:00 -
[112] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Unless you think he's doing ritual sacrifice in the station run hangars, it's not like they're in any more danger in there than when treated to explosive decompression courtesy of bloodthirst and greed. I know Scotty has enough of a bloody fit under the best of circumstances, without having to clear dead bodies out of his hangars.
What scares me is that everyone's just ignoring that the only thing achieved is Nappy buying new stock every time you destroy his current hoard. And is it really too much to ask to try going the path of least horrible murder rather than just opening fire without any attempt at doing something else?
It costs nothing to try getting his cargo unscathed. Not a thing. Not even trying is not a matter of cold understanding. It's a matter of not giving a crap about the cargo in the first place. Trying to justify it after the fact with "cold understanding" is a pitiful statement of just how little they mattered when put up against blood thirst and greed.
Perhaps, you might want to first consider saving your anger to those who have put slaves up on the market for sale in the first place? As that appears to be where a good number of Nauplius's slaves are coming from.
I would also suggest that you step out of your armchair and step into the reality of the situation. CONCORD prevents pilots from going into other pilots' hangars. As long as there is a caspuleer within a ship, we cannot board the ship. And as it has already been pointed out, were we capable of boarding his ships, there is nothing to stop him from self-destructing the ship and killing all involved.
The 'uproar' over this incident is...peculiar to say the least when one considers the fact that Nauplius has stated elsewhere that he makes extensive use of slaves as part of his ships' crew. Steffanie Saissore, Knight Stormcrows
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Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
594
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:45:00 -
[113] - Quote
So.
Did Stormcrows cargoscan the Bestower first ? Or did they engage without the information that there were a number of slaves on board ? |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:50:00 -
[114] - Quote
Once more, a lot of talk in favor of the killings but no reasons given not to spend that little extra time on the preceding options when they could save more of the lives in question. You lose nothing by holding him a bit. If he docks, the slaves live. If he jettisons them, they live. If he tries to self-destruct, option three comes into play and you save what you can.
This is not your normal hostage situation. There are no guns to their heads and no time pressures involved. From the moment he's pointed and webbed, time is on your side. I repeat, you lose nothing but stand to gain much. Absolute worst case scenario, you're forced to do exactly what you're already doing. Killing indiscriminately. Best case scenario, a full cargohold of live rescuees.
Quote: And here is where you clearly and openly demonstrate you have no idea what you are talking about with regards to the situation.
And here is where you've run out of arguments and try to deflect the issue. As always. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3952
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:50:00 -
[115] - Quote
It wouldn't make a blind bit of difference whether they had or hadn't.
If there are no slaves on board then, great: the kill contract can be fulfilled without collateral bloodshed.
If there are slaves on board, then they're doomed anyway and their only hope of freedom and a full life is to shoot the ship out around them and rescue the survivors.
The blame for there not being a better option rests squarely on Nauplius.
Quote:You lose nothing by holding him a bit
Sorry Jinari, but you're completely wrong there. You lose a LOT by holding him a bit, while he gains. He gains time to stall, to plan, to act. Hesitation is an opportunity for the target to come up with wiggle room, vent atmo from the hold, call in third party remote-rep, you name it. What happens if he starts fitting guns on his ship and, once webbed and scrambled, ejects the slaves and then blows up the jetcan? What happens if he pays a bystander to shoot his wreck the second his ship pops?
Hesitation is a loss all by itself. Pressure and seconds are valuable resources, to be spent as efficiently as possible. You DON'T allow fanatics to stall you. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Anslo
Scope Works
6857
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:52:00 -
[116] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Once more, a lot of talk in favor of the killings but no reasons given not to spend that little extra time on the preceding options when they could save more of the lives in question. You lose nothing by holding him a bit. If he docks, the slaves live. If he jettisons them, they live. If he tries to self-destruct, option three comes into play and you save what you can. This is not your normal hostage situation. There are no guns to their heads and no time pressures involved. From the moment he's pointed and webbed, time is on your side. I repeat, you lose nothing but stand to gain much. Absolute worst case scenario, you're forced to do exactly what you're already doing. Killing indiscriminately. Best case scenario, a full cargohold of live rescuees. Quote: And here is where you clearly and openly demonstrate you have no idea what you are talking about with regards to the situation.
And here is where you've run out of arguments and try to deflect the issue. As always.
So...quick question. Why does your opinion on this situation have any merit worth considering since you, stated yourself, aren't a combat pilot? You have no experience in combat or any similar situation. Why should your criticism be worth two tugs?
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:55:00 -
[117] - Quote
No one's forcing anyone to take my views on board, but neither am I going to refrain from giving them in a public forum as long as no one can refute them. It should be simple enough, if I'm wrong. So far, it seems to not quite be the case. Feel free to argue the points rather than the person, if you wish. It might prove illuminating for everyone involved. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Anslo
Scope Works
6869
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:57:00 -
[118] - Quote
I don't see the point. You're set in your opinion and just keep adding fuel to a stubborn fire. Personally, I think you just want to argue for the sake of arguing and a side of ego boosting. But whatever, just callin' 'em as I see 'em.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3954
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Posted - 2014.08.15 14:58:00 -
[119] - Quote
Okay, well, quit arguing with the people who are insulting you and start engaging with the points then. They're here, in this thread. I've made them, Morwen's made them, Kohiko's made them... even Anslo's made them, in his inimitable jerkass fashion. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Anslo
Scope Works
6869
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:00:00 -
[120] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:Okay, well, quit arguing with the people who are insulting you and start engaging with the points then. They're here, in this thread. I've made them, Morwen's made them, Kohiko's made them... even Anslo's made them, in his inimitable jerkass fashion.
Flattery will get you everywhere Stitch!
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3957
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:00:00 -
[121] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Painlessly? Have you ever seen the corpses left behind by explosive decompression? There's no flash. There's no painless death. Unless they take a blaster charge directly, it's one of the worst conceivable ways to die, with several dozen horrible things happening to you all at once. If you are really lucky, you get knocked out during the event. If you're not..
I was once trapped in a Caracal class vessel that suffered an engineering casualty mid-warp and became part of the Oort cloud in one of the Caldari low-sec systems. As part of the incident there was a considerable loss of structural integrity in the hull and several compartments were opened to vacuum. The rest of us lived on in a ship with barely any functioning systems. For a month. Some compartments lost their emergency supplies and I'm sorry to say that some members of the crew were unable to face their fate with Caldari stoicism. Violence. Madness. Cannibalism.
So, yes, there are worse things that can happen to you than explosive decompression. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:03:00 -
[122] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:Quote:You lose nothing by holding him a bit Sorry Jinari, but you're completely wrong there. You lose a LOT by holding him a bit, while he gains. He gains time to stall, to plan, to act. Hesitation is an opportunity for the target to come up with wiggle room, vent atmo from the hold, call in third party remote-rep, you name it. What happens if he starts fitting guns on his ship and, once webbed and scrambled, ejects the slaves and then blows up the jetcan? What happens if he pays a bystander to shoot his wreck the second his ship pops? Hesitation is a loss all by itself. Pressure and seconds are valuable resources, to be spent as efficiently as possible. You DON'T allow fanatics to stall you.
"Stall and plan"? The man is floating in space in a transport vessel. If you know how to circumvent the capsule interface protocols to vent the hold, I'd love to see it. If you can't identify weapons on the hull of his ship, you're too terrible to be allowed out of dock to begin with. You don't allow fanatics to stall you, but you don't slaughter a hold full of slaves when there's nothing to be lost by holding off a while first.
Really, are you people so removed from your humanity that it's acceptable to trade thousands of lives just to stave off a few minutes of having to watch d-scan or watch out for potentially dangerous neuts? Thousands. Of. Lives. What conceivable risk do you consider so great that you can't make that little extra effort? Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Anslo
Scope Works
6869
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:05:00 -
[123] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Stitcher wrote:Quote:You lose nothing by holding him a bit Sorry Jinari, but you're completely wrong there. You lose a LOT by holding him a bit, while he gains. He gains time to stall, to plan, to act. Hesitation is an opportunity for the target to come up with wiggle room, vent atmo from the hold, call in third party remote-rep, you name it. What happens if he starts fitting guns on his ship and, once webbed and scrambled, ejects the slaves and then blows up the jetcan? What happens if he pays a bystander to shoot his wreck the second his ship pops? Hesitation is a loss all by itself. Pressure and seconds are valuable resources, to be spent as efficiently as possible. You DON'T allow fanatics to stall you. "Stall and plan"? The man is floating in space in a transport vessel. If you know how to circumvent the capsule interface protocols to vent the hold, I'd love to see it. If you can't identify weapons on the hull of his ship, you're too terrible to be allowed out of dock to begin with. You don't allow fanatics to stall you, but you don't slaughter a hold full of slaves when there's nothing to be lost by holding off a while first. Really, are you people so removed from your humanity that it's acceptable to trade thousands of lives just to stave off a few minutes of having to watch d-scan or watch out for potentially dangerous neuts? Thousands. Of. Lives. What conceivable risk do you consider so great that you can't make that little extra effort?
Why should we care about your morals?
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3956
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:07:00 -
[124] - Quote
Watch SWAT training included unprotected hard vacuum training. That was NOT fun. You can augment human skin and tissues with all the cunning biotechnology you want, but the void still hurts, even if you're twice as able to survive it as an ordinary man. It's not the way I'd choose to go, Jinari's got that right.
But certain death is still worse than possible death, however relatively nasty thse deaths might be. We've all got to go sometime, so any opportunity you can claw back to feel Dark Wind blow past you rather than through you is worth taking. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:07:00 -
[125] - Quote
Verin, what points have Morwen or Kohiko made? One says "trying doesn't work because we think it doesn't work" and the other just says "Oh, because reasons. Nope, not going to say what reasons, but reasons.". Your arguments actually had a little weight to them but I really disagree with your assessment that there's any kind of time pressure involved here.
The potential problems arising from holding him a bit are so miniscule compared to the potentially thousands of lives that can be saved that it's staggering to see those lives being dismissed out of hand. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3956
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:09:00 -
[126] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:[quote=Stitcher]Really, are you people so removed from your humanity that it's acceptable to trade thousands of lives just to stave off a few minutes of having to watch d-scan or watch out for potentially dangerous neuts? Thousands. Of. Lives. What conceivable risk do you consider so great that you can't make that little extra effort?
The loss of thousands more.
Look, this is an argument that's been bashed out time and again. Weighing the risk of action versus the risk of inaction is an equation that untold... millions, probably, of field officers have had to make throughout history. The consensus, that I happen to agree with for the reasons I've already given, is that it's better to save the ones you KNOW you can save, than gamble them all on all-or-nothing.
In the end, the blood is on the hostage-taker's hands, not on the SWAT team's. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:13:00 -
[127] - Quote
And what added danger are they in that they're not already in danger of with your guns trained on the hull separating them from space? Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Anslo
Scope Works
6882
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:14:00 -
[128] - Quote
The guns aren't assured death for all the hostages. Nauplius taking them away IS assured death for all the hostages.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3956
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:15:00 -
[129] - Quote
Never, EVER underestimate a cornered fanatic's capacity to out-think you in their desperation. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Kohiko Sun
Stormcrows
48
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:16:00 -
[130] - Quote
I would ask very humbly beg you to stop asking for a an explanation of the nine methods I have thought of now. One does not give a murderer an instruction manual. |
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3959
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:16:00 -
[131] - Quote
You could always privately mail it to her? An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:19:00 -
[132] - Quote
What I question is the actual existence of your "nine methods". If you actually have any, feel free to send them privately and I'll take them into account. If not, I'll just have to conclude you don't actually have any.
Verin, I usually would agree but not when there's thousands of lives at stake. You can't guarantee a single rescued slave if you start by opening fire. The option to open fire remains for however long you hold him but the possibility of getting them all without gunfire disappears the second you open fire. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Anslo
Scope Works
6883
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:21:00 -
[133] - Quote
I like the part where she ignores my point that shooting the ship offers some chance of some survivors when letting Nauppy take them is assured death for all of them.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3959
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:25:00 -
[134] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Verin, I usually would agree but not when there's thousands of lives at stake. You can't guarantee a single rescued slave if you start by opening fire.
You can, actually. Those ships are well engineered: you're looking at, statistically speaking, about a fifty percent survival rate. Those internal bulkheads, forcefields and emergency enclosure systems mean that having some survivors is all but a certainty.
Quote:The option to open fire remains for however long you hold him but the possibility of getting them all without gunfire disappears the second you open fire.
With some people, the possibility of rescuing them all without gunfire simply does not exist in the first place. Nauplius is one such person. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:25:00 -
[135] - Quote
Anslo wrote:I like the part where she ignores my point that shooting the ship offers some chance of some survivors when letting Nauppy take them is assured death for all of them.
No one would let him take them anywhere. If you'd followed the discussion you should by now have noticed this is a discussion about when he's immobilized and his options are limited to giving up his goods, redocking (if at station) or self-destruct. This is a situation where the option used so far - indiscriminate gunfire - is permanently available and less than a thought away. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3961
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:37:00 -
[136] - Quote
Option 1 - Giving up his goods: NOT going to happen. It never has before and his personality profile renders such a scenario impossibly remote. This option would only be considered by a sane individual, which Nauplius demonstrably is not.
Option 2 - Redocking: constitutes mission failure for the rescue party. The hostages remain held and at Nauplius' "mercy" and are removed completely from any possibility of rescue. Their murder has at best only been delayed, not prevented.
Option 3 - Self-destruct: effectively the same as being shot up, with the added downside from the rescue party's perspective that it buys time for third-party interference or some last "frak you" contingency.
The attempt you're talking about WON'T succeed in rescuing anybody, and COULD result in mission failure. You never underestimate the competence that can be born from desperation or defiance.
It's cold, yes. It's sickeningly cold. But cold saves lives. "A bird in the hand", you know? An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:43:00 -
[137] - Quote
While in some ways I can see where you're coming from, I simply can't agree. Option 1 may be highly unlikely but as you say he is a madman and can't be perfectly predictable. This means his refusal to give them over is not a certainty. Unlikely, but even the smallest chance here makes the attempt worth it. Option 2 constitutes a failure to kill him. It certainly ensures those people aren't killed yet. Delaying their murder allows for rescuing them later. Killing them removes that possibility entirely.
Option 3, well. It's the same as just opening fire. The result is the same, with the difference of having tried.
Perhaps I simply am not capable of getting into the mindset that thousands of dead are acceptable simply to avoid a negligible risk of Nappy pulling a miracle out of his exhaust port. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
594
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:47:00 -
[138] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:Valerie Valate wrote:So.
Did Stormcrows cargoscan the Bestower first ? Or did they engage without the information that there were a number of slaves on board ? It wouldn't make a blind bit of difference whether they had or hadn't.
Actually, it would.
You see, and this is something not mentioned thus far, do you know why it is, that 2000 individuals survived this incident, while 2034 did not ?
It is because they were in separate compartments. A cargoscanner would have revealed this.
If the individuals were in one compartment, there is a good chance that Stormcrows attack would have pierced that compartment, and killed all of them, and we'd be arguing about the morality of 4034 dead individuals vs letting Nauplius's Bestower go unmolested and thus, probably, kill all 4034 eventually.
But, since they were in separate compartments, some survived, some did not. The more compartments that the people are in, the greater the chance of some of them surviving.
That comes at a price, which is, that the more compartments are inhabited, the smaller the chance of all of the people surviving.
So, it does make a difference. |

Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
691
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:57:00 -
[139] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:And what added danger are they in that they're not already in danger of with your guns trained on the hull separating them from space?
They are in danger for as long as they are in his possession. This is what you do not ******* get. Their lives are not spared if he docks. He is planning on killing them all. Each and every Minmatar that he has dies. If their lives are in his hands he will ruin them, period.
Yeah. You should try to scram and web him and bump him off station and all of that. It won't do a lot of good since it relies on him actually caring about losing the ship, but that was the plan if he tried that again. I know because I was sitting there in a cruiser with a microwarpdrive ready to smash him away from the station while the Stormcrows were waiting outside with scrams and webs to hold him down. But we didn't get the chance since the next time he undocked one he just warped it off with instant undock coordinates and blew it up himself a minute later. And before you try more accusations of how people don't care, we immediately tried to scan it down before he could do it, even though we would have been too late anyway, because unlike you in your armchair some of us actually care so much about those lives that we are actually putting ourselves out there and trying even if there's really nothing we can do.
Even if we'd gotten him and he was out of docking range and everything had gone perfectly, all we could do would have been to pray to God that he would jettison the slaves. Which he won't, because he doesn't care. He's got so much ******* money that he destroys his own freighters as part of his sacrifices, what do you ******* think a bestower is worth to him? He's going to blow it up anyway. He won't jettison them because he has no desire for that ******* ship to survive in the first place, he just wants the sick ******* glee in watching other people do the killing for him while they're trying to stop him. He'll self-destruct it if he can't dock, he'll dock it if he can and then blow it up an hour or a day or a week or a month later. The people in it will die, period, because he's a ******* monster.
The one thing that could stop him, is the thing that no one will ever admit to, because all of you love your cloning so damn much. His pod was destroyed. His pod was destroyed but it doesn't matter. He is still out there, still killing slaves, because a new copy of him came off the assembly line. He'll go on and on and keep killing and it doesn't matter if you rescue some or none because he'll just get more and he'll keep killing more until there aren't any left. |

Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1266
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:58:00 -
[140] - Quote
And what we've been trying to tell you is that that so-called "possibility" of getting all of them without gunfire is in reality not just close to zero, but actually zero. Those people cannot be saved as long as they are in his possession, and he will not give them up willingly. Either you leave them to die at his leisure, or you attempt to forcibly pry them from his grasp. It is that simple, no matter how loudly or how frequently you protest that it is not the case.
There is a chance to save some or all of them, by opening fire. There is a guarantee to save none by not opening fire.
As a self-professed non-combat pilot who is unwilling to do anything but play at armchair analyst - and poorly, at that - you have no business telling people who are actually putting their crews and ships on the line that they are doing it wrong when they are the ones who are in possession of the facts and reality of the situation, and you are consistently refusing to accept that you are wrong.
I might not be involved in this mess because I am personally too busy with other matters, but at least I'm able to see the situation for what it is: a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't scenario where people are going to die no matter what you do. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3963
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Posted - 2014.08.15 15:59:00 -
[141] - Quote
Madmen can be extremely predictable in some narrow ways.
Back in the hangar could equally mean "okay, let's murder them THIS way instead". Not like CONCORD or the station authorities would stop it, and there's the added bonus of the biomass reprocessing system being right there, handy and available. Heck, maybe the clone companies would be interested in buying those cadavers. So, you've NOT purchased a guaranteed shot at their later freedom. It's equally possible that you've condemned them to die now rather than tomorrow.
So, two out of three options are "you screwed up" and the third option is "you didn't succeed". But, we're going in circles, so I'm going to bow out after making this final comment:
Jinari, I think you're making a basic failure of empathy here. In fact, if I were a Stormcrow right now, I'd be rather upset at you. You seem to think that it's all about gung-ho violence lust, yeehawing into battle, firing wildly and creaming their pants. Take it from me as somebody who went through similar situations in his first life - that's not how it goes. You don't go in guns blazing because it makes your little soldier stand to attention. you don't do it because it's fun. People's lives are on the line here, and professionals only act in such situations if they are thoroughly and completely convinced that their selected course of action is the best one.
You're not only insulting the Stormcrows' professionalism and empathy by accusing them of preferring violence, you're betraying a lack of empathy on your own part. You're failing to see things from their perspective.
Put yourself there. You have a life-and-death choice to make with thousands of people in the balance. You know from experience, training, and the received experience from others that the death of ALL those people is one frak-up away, and the frak-up is yours to make.
Do you REALLY think that the ethical thing to do in that situation is to let sentiment get in the way and persuade you to "make the attempt"? Or do you think maybe the ethical thing to do is to do the math and save who you KNOW you can save?
Whether or not you agree with them, whether or not you accept the logic, I think that you've owed the Stormcrows an apology for this entire thread. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 16:12:00 -
[142] - Quote
If they feel insulted by it, they could simply respond to my concerns with something other than "Well... because reasons. We do have them! Really!". I also think you're seeing this from a strange perspective when you say "do the math". It's exactly what I've been doing. I've listed the options, the possible results and asked repeatedly for examples of variables that'd make the attempts not worth it, or too risky.
The only response have been a nebulous "but he could do something!" without any examples of what. If there is actual risk involved in making the attempt, I'd certainly accept that but no one's brought one risk to the table that can't be easily accounted for and countered.
Where the notion that he can just slaughter them in his hangar comes from, I don't know. I think the station administrators would have an issue with a few thousand dead people in the hangars they let us dispose. The worst I have been able to do is eject a pack of civilians I once picked up from my hangar. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Quin Mansa
Hedion University Amarr Empire
8
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Posted - 2014.08.15 16:13:00 -
[143] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:I am less alone in the mass killing of filthy Minmatar subhuman slaves than I was yesterday. From the Book of Trials, Chapter 2, Verse 1: "All things were created by the Divine, and so the glory of our faith is inherent to us all..."
You blaspheme when you call the Minmatar subhuman, for they are children of God, His creation by His own Word, as are all New Eden's peoples. That you have failed in your task as Chosen, opting not to open their eyes to the Holy Light of His Salvation but to instead cast their souls wholesale into Perdition, is a greater sin still.
Even in your unstinting wickedness you cannot fathom the true magnificence of God's Wrath, yet your brazen slaughter of His unclaimed children brings you ever closer to its realization.
Yet nothing is impossible for the Almighty, and even you may be saved.
Prostrate yourself before the sublime light of His Judgement! Obsecrate before the Lord that you may be redeemed! |

Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3964
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Posted - 2014.08.15 16:18:00 -
[144] - Quote
Who cares if the station admin have a problem with it? Those people would still be dead.
You seem to be saying that our "Nebulous 'he could do something'" means that we can't think of anything specific and that he therefore wouldn't in fact be able to do anything.
What we're saying is the opposite of that: that the range of possible somethings is so huge and the man's mind is so warped as to bring an unacceptably high degree of unpredictability into a scenario in which the good guys want to keep as much certainty on their side as they possibly can.
The fact that we're not willing to commit to describing any specific scenario is not evidence that no such scenario exists. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 16:38:00 -
[145] - Quote
I'm not saying such a scenario doesn't exist, I'm questioning it's likelihood. The range of possible somethings are as far as I can tell so narrow that they are practically non-existent and even if some nebulous something happens you already have him in your crosshairs and are a thought away from accomplishing the exact same thing as you would with pre-emptive fire.
And I certainly would take the station admins into account. If I were to dispose of thousands of people in my hangar I somewhat doubt I'd be allowed to use that station's services again, not to mention fill it with even more of them. Maybe things are different elsewhere, but the stations I tend to use have strict limitations on what I can do with my belongings. Storage, move to markets or trade contracts, move to vessel, move to manufactorums and eject/have escorted out of the hangar.
If there's a "biomass civilians" option anywhere I've never seen it. I'd love to be proven wrong of course, as that'd invalidate this entire discussion and give the Stormcrows perfect legitimacy in opening fire at the first opening. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3966
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Posted - 2014.08.15 16:47:00 -
[146] - Quote
Good grief, are you so addicted to your NEOCOM interface that you've forgotten how to do stuff without it? Do you have to click a button just to sit down on your couch?
So long as the paperwork reads "discarded" then the station management doesn't give two craps. And there's a LOT of possible outcomes that can lurk under that oh-so-wide umbrella. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
719
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Posted - 2014.08.15 16:54:00 -
[147] - Quote
It's the only access I have to my hangars, inside or outside my cozy little egg. Given the insanity on display from certain eggers, I'm not at all surprised the station admins limit our access like this. Of course, things might be different elsewhere but that's how the stations I've visited have done it.
It's one of the reasons I set up my own starbase, in fact. Public stations are too limited for many of my purposes. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
720
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:01:00 -
[148] - Quote
Having received a communique from Kohiko Sun giving at least one decent reason and a display of having thought the situation through, I will leave the subject be for now. I still don't agree with the risk vs the reward judgment made but the important thing is that they have gone to adequate lengths to come to their conclusions.
I and OTSI in general are satisfied with her private explanation and will keep our offer of third-party hazardous transportation services open for the time being. I also extend my gratitude to Kohiko Sun for providing the requested response, even if it was somewhat limited due to understandable need for operational security. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3962
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:06:00 -
[149] - Quote
Below is just one safe and legal way to dispose of a prisoner within a capsuleer hangar. I have never used this myself, but I understand that nobody will give you any grief if you do.
In addition, it should be noted that Naupilus has a habit of getting is slaves on Vitoc and maintaining discipline with shock collars, armed guards, beatings, slaver hounds and a system whereby slaves can inform on each other for benefits. I would, quite literally, prefer immediate and painful death to living a life like that, with the only end being my brutal and bloody sacrifice on an altar.
I respect you a great deal, Jinny, but you're just plain wrong here, girl.
Firing Squad Details.
Service personnel, five, rifle qualified. Service personnel, one, SNCO or Officer rank. Service rifle, five. Service pistol, one. Rifle Ammunition, orbital anti-personnel, four. Rifle Ammunition, orbital blank training, one. Pistol Ammunition, orbital anti-personnel, thirty. Tether field, human, one. Blindfold, black, one. Armbands, black, six.. Capshades, black, six. Defaulter Fatigue jumpsuit, black, one. Cloth patch, white, one.
Defaulter is dressed in Defaulter Fatigue Jumpsuit. White cloth patch is pinned to chest, over heart. Firing squad add black armbands to uniform. Firing squad and leader wear black capshades. Firing Squad collect pre-loaded rifles. Squad leader collects preloaded pistol.
Yellow firing squad line is painted on ground. Tether field is assembled twenty meters from firing squad line. Firing squad leader takes position by firing squad line. Prisoner is marched out to Tether field and attached. Prisoner is offered blindfold. Firing Squad march in, take position on firing squad line.
Firing squad present arms. Firing squad take aim at cloth patch. Firing squad fire.
Squad leader proceeds to Defaulter and checks for signs of life. If signs of life present, squad leader fires two rounds from pistol into defaulters head. Firing squad march off. Squad leader remains with body until body detail collect body of defaulter for disposal. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Aldrith Shutaq
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
645
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:07:00 -
[150] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:I'm not saying such a scenario doesn't exist, I'm questioning it's likelihood. The range of possible somethings are as far as I can tell so narrow that they are practically non-existent and even if some nebulous something happens you already have him in your crosshairs and are a thought away from accomplishing the exact same thing as you would with pre-emptive fire.
And I certainly would take the station admins into account. If I were to dispose of thousands of people in my hangar I somewhat doubt I'd be allowed to use that station's services again, not to mention fill it with even more of them. Maybe things are different elsewhere, but the stations I tend to use have strict limitations on what I can do with my belongings. Storage, move to markets or trade contracts, move to vessel, move to manufactorums and eject/have escorted out of the hangar.
If there's a "biomass civilians" option anywhere I've never seen it. I'd love to be proven wrong of course, as that'd invalidate this entire discussion and give the Stormcrows perfect legitimacy in opening fire at the first opening.
There is a 'trash it' signal that indicates to the station authorities that an item is no longer wanted by you and instructs them to remove it from your hangars. They do not ask questions about the state the items are in, or whether or not they are humans or former humans. I know this because I have used the command to clear the corpses of Blood Raider slavers whom I had summarily executed within my own hangars.
You are new here. You are na+»ve. CONCORD regulations prevent station authorities from barring a capsuleer access to stations for what happens within their hangars, which are treated as sovereign areas solely under the jurisdiction of the capsuleer. There are cases where entire feral societes sprout up inside of hangars when the capsuleer forgets they have a few hundred tourists they were supposed to transport for a mission. If you have not figured out that you, and all other capsuleers, are far out of the reach of the laws of baseliners, you have quite a lot to learn. |
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Anslo
Scope Works
6924
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:09:00 -
[151] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Below is just one safe and legal way to dispose of a prisoner within a capsuleer hangar. I have never used this myself, but I understand that nobody will give you any grief if you do.
In addition, it should be noted that Naupilus has a habit of getting is slaves on Vitoc and maintaining discipline with shock collars, armed guards, beatings, slaver hounds and a system whereby slaves can inform on each other for benefits. I would, quite literally, prefer immediate and painful death to living a life like that, with the only end being my brutal and bloody sacrifice on an altar.
I respect you a great deal, Jinny, but you're just plain wrong here, girl.
Firing Squad Details.
Service personnel, five, rifle qualified. Service personnel, one, SNCO or Officer rank. Service rifle, five. Service pistol, one. Rifle Ammunition, orbital anti-personnel, four. Rifle Ammunition, orbital blank training, one. Pistol Ammunition, orbital anti-personnel, thirty. Tether field, human, one. Blindfold, black, one. Armbands, black, six.. Capshades, black, six. Defaulter Fatigue jumpsuit, black, one. Cloth patch, white, one.
Defaulter is dressed in Defaulter Fatigue Jumpsuit. White cloth patch is pinned to chest, over heart. Firing squad add black armbands to uniform. Firing squad and leader wear black capshades. Firing Squad collect pre-loaded rifles. Squad leader collects preloaded pistol.
Yellow firing squad line is painted on ground. Tether field is assembled twenty meters from firing squad line. Firing squad leader takes position by firing squad line. Prisoner is marched out to Tether field and attached. Prisoner is offered blindfold. Firing Squad march in, take position on firing squad line.
Firing squad present arms. Firing squad take aim at cloth patch. Firing squad fire.
Squad leader proceeds to Defaulter and checks for signs of life. If signs of life present, squad leader fires two rounds from pistol into defaulters head. Firing squad march off. Squad leader remains with body until body detail collect body of defaulter for disposal.
Love you like a brother Tuulinen...but you're just plain scary sometimes.
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Jade Blackwind
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
151
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:14:00 -
[152] - Quote
Stitcher wrote: You seem to think that it's all about gung-ho violence lust, yeehawing into battle, firing wildly and creaming their pants. Take it from me as somebody who went through similar situations in his first life - that's not how it goes. You don't go in guns blazing because it makes your little soldier stand to attention. you don't do it because it's fun. People's lives are on the line here, and professionals only act in such situations if they are thoroughly and completely convinced that their selected course of action is the best one.
You're not only insulting the Stormcrows' professionalism and empathy by accusing them of preferring violence, you're betraying a lack of empathy on your own part. You're failing to see things from their perspective.
Put yourself there. You have a life-and-death choice to make with thousands of people in the balance. You know from experience, training, and the received experience from others that the death of ALL those people is one frak-up away, and the frak-up is yours to make. Please stop. It makes me sober for a painful while. Not that again.
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
720
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:16:00 -
[153] - Quote
I've been a capsuleer for some time now, Shutaq. I've explained how the station hangars are administrated where I hang my coat or ship respectively, and if you have different options available where you dock that's entirely up to the administration in those stations.
I've never walked in the hangars I've disposed of because they're considered out of bounds for non-station personnel and passengers under the watch of said personnel. I've never seen a CONCORD regulation that over-rules this, but there are many things I've never seen in this universe that may or may not exist.
In short, your mileage may vary but I can only take my own experiences into account in these things. My experience when telling the hangar workers to trash the contents is that the contents are removed from the hangar, not killed out of hand. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Jade Blackwind
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
151
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:21:00 -
[154] - Quote
Aldrith Shutaq wrote:There is a 'trash it' signal that indicates to the station authorities that an item is no longer wanted by you and instructs them to remove it from your hangars. They do not ask questions about the state the items are in, or whether or not they are humans or former humans. The station authorities, indeed, do not. But those who watch over the station authorities, believe me, they do, and everything is logged for possible further examination.
You may trash that bunch of hometess, or tourists, or exotic dancers recovered from a random deadspace site, and they will indeed be removed from your possession once and for all; but in reality, you never know.
Ministry of Internal Order is like that.
Or Republic Security Services, for that matter.
Believe me ;)
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Aldrith Shutaq
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
646
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:21:00 -
[155] - Quote
No, you kill them first yourself, then they come and remove it. |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
720
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:26:00 -
[156] - Quote
Your stations are scary and you are scary. I think I'll stick with the stations where I can't arbitrarily go and kill people in the hangars they provide. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Aldrith Shutaq
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
647
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:33:00 -
[157] - Quote
You live in a scary universe. Get used to it. |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
720
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:38:00 -
[158] - Quote
You might. I live in a civilized State where we can't just up and murder people without consequence. Rule of law and all that silly nonsense. You might have heard of it. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3962
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:38:00 -
[159] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Your stations are scary and you are scary. I think I'll stick with the stations where I can't arbitrarily go and kill people in the hangars they provide.
That would be NONE of the stations. Believe me. You have extraterritoriality, you are an island to yourself with powers plenipotentiary. If someone is in your hangar and you want that person dead, you have only to order it.
Do you think you'll get a knock on the door and a pair of officers will arrive to escort you to jail? Does anyone do that when you opt to destroy a jetcan full of people in space, literally right outside the same station? Why do you think that is? "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Steffanie Saissore
Stormcrows
335
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:39:00 -
[160] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Your stations are scary and you are scary. I think I'll stick with the stations where I can't arbitrarily go and kill people in the hangars they provide.
The feature Aldrith refers to is available to all capsuleers in every station. Steffanie Saissore, Knight Stormcrows
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Anslo
Scope Works
6940
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:39:00 -
[161] - Quote
Oh, so EVERYONE in the State is civilized and not a nut job murderer? Cause I'm pretty sure that's demonstratively false.
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Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
693
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:42:00 -
[162] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Do you think you'll get a knock on the door and a pair of officers will arrive to escort you to jail? Does anyone do that when you opt to destroy a jetcan full of people in space, literally right outside the same station? Why do you think that is?
Because we live in a ******* disgusting universe. |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
720
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Posted - 2014.08.15 17:45:00 -
[163] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Jinari Otsito wrote:Your stations are scary and you are scary. I think I'll stick with the stations where I can't arbitrarily go and kill people in the hangars they provide. That would be NONE of the stations. Believe me. You have extraterritoriality, you are an island to yourself with powers plenipotentiary. If someone is in your hangar and you want that person dead, you have only to order it. Do you think you'll get a knock on the door and a pair of officers will arrive to escort you to jail? Does anyone do that when you opt to destroy a jetcan full of people in space, literally right outside the same station? Why do you think that is?
Because station managers don't manage anything outside the station? You can keep claiming what you want, but I know my interaction with my hangars are limited to what I've explained. There's no way for me to do otherwise. If other people in other stations do things differently, it's no business of mine.
I can't even enter my hangar, other than administrate it remotely. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3962
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Posted - 2014.08.15 18:06:00 -
[164] - Quote
You have crews though, right? And don't get me started on all the other things I can do that don't have a button on the Neocom. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3962
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Posted - 2014.08.15 18:08:00 -
[165] - Quote
Samira Kernher wrote:Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Do you think you'll get a knock on the door and a pair of officers will arrive to escort you to jail? Does anyone do that when you opt to destroy a jetcan full of people in space, literally right outside the same station? Why do you think that is? Because we live in a ******* disgusting universe.
Not arguing against that, Sammi, just wondering why Jinari lives in the fantasy that she is bound by Baseliner law, when it is patently not the case. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1267
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Posted - 2014.08.15 18:20:00 -
[166] - Quote
Samira Kernher wrote:Because we live in a ******* disgusting universe. Agreed. Thankfully some of us make an attempt to offset it in what ways we can.
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Not arguing against that, Sammi, just wondering why Jinari lives in the fantasy that she is bound by Baseliner law, when it is patently not the case. It is a matter of location, in most cases, whether you have the choice to be bound by them or not. And many of us choose to be bound by those laws, when and where it is appropriate.
But within the confines of our own stationside facilities, no - we are not bound in any such fashion. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Celes Tenebrae
Priano Trans-Stellar State Services Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
6
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Posted - 2014.08.15 18:32:00 -
[167] - Quote
Samira Kernher wrote:
Because we live in a ******* disgusting universe.
I wonder what your basis for comparison is. |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3964
|
Posted - 2014.08.15 18:42:00 -
[168] - Quote
Morwen Lagann wrote:It is a matter of location, in most cases, whether you have the choice to be bound by them or not. And many of us choose to be bound by those laws, when and where it is appropriate.
So the question, Morwen, is whether you think Naupilus chooses to be bound by Amarrian law? "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
720
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Posted - 2014.08.15 18:43:00 -
[169] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:You have crews though, right? And don't get me started on all the other things I can do that don't have a button on the Neocom.
Next thing you'll be telling me I don't have access to the gym. Or the restaurants on the Capsuleer deck. Or my home in the Nonni system. You'll be telling me I can't hop a shuttle planetside.
There's more to the Cluster than your computer interface, Jinny.
I haven't told you that you don't have access to anything, love. Where you can and can't go is up to whoever runs wherever you are, not me. I'm just telling you what the stations I use allow me to do or in this case, don't allow me to do. I think it's rather sensible by the station managers in question, given what you people give examples of doing wherever you guys live or dock.
Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1267
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Posted - 2014.08.15 18:53:00 -
[170] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Morwen Lagann wrote:It is a matter of location, in most cases, whether you have the choice to be bound by them or not. And many of us choose to be bound by those laws, when and where it is appropriate. So the question, Morwen, is whether you think Naupilus chooses to be bound by Amarrian law? I think the answer to that question is self-evident: No.
Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Darsena Izuma
Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters Ocularis Inferno
2
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Posted - 2014.08.15 18:54:00 -
[171] - Quote
It's more than just our own hangars. I think most station managers are fairly hands-off when it comes to what goes on in corporate offices as well. I once ran a mission for a corporation (which will remain nameless) that needed a former employee returned to them (said employee had absconded with some proprietary information.) As far as the law was concerned, this man might have been liable financially for breaking a non-disclosure agreement, but certainly nothing that law enforcement would have detained him for. My detaining the man, and handing him over someone else as a prisoner was, theoretically, a violation of his rights under the law, yet not a word of protest was uttered by CONCORD or the local police when I jumped into the system, or by station management when I brought the man into my hangar and handed him over to the official representative of the corporation. I never asked what was going to become of this man now that he was in corporate custody, and neither did the station management. What happens within our hangars stays within our hangars, and you'd be safe to assume that the same holds true for any privately owned facilities inside most stations. Fedo are not what they seem to be.-á Welcome to Night Vale. |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3964
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Posted - 2014.08.15 20:14:00 -
[172] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Pieter Tuulinen wrote:You have crews though, right? And don't get me started on all the other things I can do that don't have a button on the Neocom.
Next thing you'll be telling me I don't have access to the gym. Or the restaurants on the Capsuleer deck. Or my home in the Nonni system. You'll be telling me I can't hop a shuttle planetside.
There's more to the Cluster than your computer interface, Jinny. I haven't told you that you don't have access to anything, love. Where you can and can't go is up to whoever runs wherever you are, not me. I'm just telling you what the stations I use allow me to do or in this case, don't allow me to do. I think it's rather sensible by the station managers in question, given what you people give examples of doing wherever you guys live or dock.
I think I'd prefer to live in your world, where we were bound by outside laws, customs and conventions, to be honest. It sounds like a nicer, saner and more responsible place. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Desiderya
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
798
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Posted - 2014.08.15 21:04:00 -
[173] - Quote
Anslo wrote: Love you like a brother Tuulinen...but you're just plain scary sometimes.
I'd have different words for it. Fear they're NSFIGS. Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise. |

Anslo
Scope Works
7005
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Posted - 2014.08.15 21:06:00 -
[174] - Quote
Desiderya wrote:Anslo wrote: Love you like a brother Tuulinen...but you're just plain scary sometimes.
I'd have different words for it. Fear they're NSFIGS.
...NSFIGS? After all the other **** that shows up? Come on.
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Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
227
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Posted - 2014.08.16 01:28:00 -
[175] - Quote
For the record, I do not perform slave sacrifices inside the hanger itself, but do perform small to moderately-sized sacrifices aboard my Ashummu-class flagship. Being a Blood Raider design, this Ashimmu is equipped with onboard blooding facilities, as all Blood Raider vessels down to the Hematos are equipped for the blooding of those captured on the spot. The slaves having been blooded, the blood-drained corpses are then disposed of via the Trash It interface.
For the large scale slaughter of filthy Minmatar subhumans where preservation of blood is not possible or desired and my cruiser-sized blooding facilities insufficient, I prefer to pack the slaves into freight containers, Industrials, or a Freighter and destroy them in space (the latter two containers create a permanent record of the God-glorifying event). |

Arista Shahni
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
141
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Posted - 2014.08.16 01:35:00 -
[176] - Quote
Why would the Lord need records from CONCORD?
He does not, of course.
I am curious as what it is exactly that you are trying to show, to whom, and why.
But you need not answer in public.
"I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you - so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. -áAnd as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all." |

Claudia Osyn
Mythic Security Service
874
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Posted - 2014.08.16 02:12:00 -
[177] - Quote
I think it's interesting how Nauppie's evil doings have the rest of us at each others throats. Kudos to him for that, I guess. Personally I think we need to just point and web him then sing songs about love and tolerance over every channel untill he repents his evil ways. And then do the same to all of his threads on the IGS. The lack of money is the root of all evil. |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3965
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Posted - 2014.08.16 04:21:00 -
[178] - Quote
Claudia Osyn wrote:I think it's interesting how Nauppie's evil doings have the rest of us at each others throats. Kudos to him for that, I guess. Personally I think we need to just point and web him then sing songs about love and tolerance over every channel untill he repents his evil ways. And then do the same to all of his threads on the IGS.
I favour converting him to debris. Why not? It won me a holiday skiing for a week, tonight. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
55
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Posted - 2014.08.16 04:47:00 -
[179] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Below is just one safe and legal way to dispose of a prisoner within a capsuleer hangar. I have never used this myself, but I understand that nobody will give you any grief if you do.
In addition, it should be noted that Naupilus has a habit of getting is slaves on Vitoc and maintaining discipline with shock collars, armed guards, beatings, slaver hounds and a system whereby slaves can inform on each other for benefits. I would, quite literally, prefer immediate and painful death to living a life like that, with the only end being my brutal and bloody sacrifice on an altar.
I respect you a great deal, Jinny, but you're just plain wrong here, girl.
Firing Squad Details.
Service personnel, five, rifle qualified. Service personnel, one, SNCO or Officer rank. Service rifle, five. Service pistol, one. Rifle Ammunition, orbital anti-personnel, four. Rifle Ammunition, orbital blank training, one. Pistol Ammunition, orbital anti-personnel, thirty. Tether field, human, one. Blindfold, black, one. Armbands, black, six.. Capshades, black, six. Defaulter Fatigue jumpsuit, black, one. Cloth patch, white, one.
Defaulter is dressed in Defaulter Fatigue Jumpsuit. White cloth patch is pinned to chest, over heart. Firing squad add black armbands to uniform. Firing squad and leader wear black capshades. Firing Squad collect pre-loaded rifles. Squad leader collects preloaded pistol.
Yellow firing squad line is painted on ground. Tether field is assembled twenty meters from firing squad line. Firing squad leader takes position by firing squad line. Prisoner is marched out to Tether field and attached. Prisoner is offered blindfold. Firing Squad march in, take position on firing squad line.
Firing squad present arms. Firing squad take aim at cloth patch. Firing squad fire.
Squad leader proceeds to Defaulter and checks for signs of life. If signs of life present, squad leader fires two rounds from pistol into defaulters head. Firing squad march off. Squad leader remains with body until body detail collect body of defaulter for disposal.
This is pretty elaborate. For criminals that the authorities, for some reason, do not want back and already has a history of being unrepentant, we just threw them out of the airlock. |

Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
129
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Posted - 2014.08.16 05:49:00 -
[180] - Quote
Elmund Egivand wrote:
This is pretty elaborate. For criminals that the authorities, for some reason, do not want back and already has a history of being unrepentant, we just threw them out of the airlock.
For Blood Raiders, such as the OP, I remember from my pre-capsuleer days that the authorities, after interrogating them as to other secret members of their cult, used to burn them at the stake on a bonfire. The ashes simply blew away, scattered, and dissipated to the winds. |
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Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
594
|
Posted - 2014.08.16 06:22:00 -
[181] - Quote
Lunarisse Aspenstar wrote:Elmund Egivand wrote:
This is pretty elaborate. For criminals that the authorities, for some reason, do not want back and already has a history of being unrepentant, we just threw them out of the airlock.
For Blood Raiders, such as the OP, I remember from my pre-capsuleer days that the authorities, after interrogating them as to other secret members of their cult, used to burn them at the stake on a bonfire. The ashes simply blew away, scattered, and dissipated to the winds.
How barbaric.
Personally, any and all Imperial POWs that I encounter, I arrange for a prisoner transfer for any Sani Sabik POWs, with whichever Imperial authority I can arrange a meeting with.
1LT Kernher has been most helpful in the past with that sort of thing.
Most helpful indeed. |

Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
696
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Posted - 2014.08.16 06:31:00 -
[182] - Quote
Except that I only am willing to receive people. I do not offer enemy POWs in return.
So **** off with the attempted character assassination. |

Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
594
|
Posted - 2014.08.16 07:22:00 -
[183] - Quote
Oh my, it seems I have upset you.
Clearly not my intention.
I was intending to annoy Lunarisse, not yourself. |

Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
1620
|
Posted - 2014.08.16 10:58:00 -
[184] - Quote
Tragic.
Certainly the loss of human life incurred by the actions of capsuleers should be seen as due cause for the expression of moral outrage for those unable to look in the mirror, such a unique occurrence that it no doubt is.
Truly, a tragedy I shall reflect upon, my heart overflowing with empathy and compassion at such loss of life while I watch the upcoming Alliance Tournament. |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3966
|
Posted - 2014.08.16 14:33:00 -
[185] - Quote
Elmund Egivand wrote:This is pretty elaborate. For criminals that the authorities, for some reason, do not want back and already has a history of being unrepentant, we just threw them out of the airlock.
I believe in getting the maximum amount of use from the material at hand, Edmund. Anyone can be brave when death is a button push away and over in an instant. Enduring the reading of the charges. The listing of the evidence. Seeing the hilt of the sword turned from them, the black capshades, the ruffle of drumbeats... The metronome like precision of the marching of the escort to take them 'from this place to another place, there to be executed by firing squad...
It gives a criminal time to appreciate the weight of the apparatus of state as it rolls over them. And it gives your own men the opportunity to reflect on the price of treason. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
55
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Posted - 2014.08.16 15:50:00 -
[186] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Elmund Egivand wrote:This is pretty elaborate. For criminals that the authorities, for some reason, do not want back and already has a history of being unrepentant, we just threw them out of the airlock. I believe in getting the maximum amount of use from the material at hand, Edmund. Anyone can be brave when death is a button push away and over in an instant. Enduring the reading of the charges. The listing of the evidence. Seeing the hilt of the sword turned from them, the black capshades, the ruffle of drumbeats... The metronome like precision of the marching of the escort to take them 'from this place to another place, there to be executed by firing squad... It gives a criminal time to appreciate the weight of the apparatus of state as it rolls over them. And it gives your own men the opportunity to reflect on the price of treason.
Yeah, well, it's not exactly my place to give criminals a trial. The only disciplinary hearing I attend to pertains to my crew and my support staff. Criminals and convicts we dredged out of some wreck are delivered to the agents and what happens to them is their own business. Otherwise, I will just launch them out of the airlock.
If we are discussing disciplinary problems in the crew and support staff, punishment is meted out on a case-by-case basis. If it's the case of one murdering the other over something or other I will him lynched by the rest of the staff for a day, then send him out by the airlock without protective equipment of any description.
If the issue crops up in a ship, the lynching still occurs. The execution is meted out by the way of jetcans in the middle of nowhere with disabled transponders. He can reflect on the things he did while being stoned and while waiting for the air to run out. |

Desiderya
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
799
|
Posted - 2014.08.16 22:08:00 -
[187] - Quote
I like you. You got spunk. Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise. |

Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
227
|
Posted - 2014.08.16 23:00:00 -
[188] - Quote
Arista Shahni wrote:Why would the Lord need records from CONCORD?
He does not, of course.
I am curious as what it is exactly that you are trying to show, to whom, and why.
But you need not answer in public.
Without such records, people might question whether or not I had actually killed the number of slaves I claim. |

Quin Mansa
Hedion University Amarr Empire
12
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Posted - 2014.08.16 23:30:00 -
[189] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Without such records, people might question whether or not I had actually killed the number of slaves I claim. Impressing upon we children of God the magnitude of your folly clearly serves only your own perverted sense of self-worth.
You serve yourself and not the Almighty, and there will be no Paradise for you, only Torment. |

Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
227
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Posted - 2014.08.17 00:52:00 -
[190] - Quote
Samira Kernher wrote:
Because we live in a ******* disgusting universe.
We live in a universe created by God and run according to His hidden will. To call it disgusting is an error of faith.
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Steffanie Saissore
Stormcrows
336
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Posted - 2014.08.17 02:35:00 -
[191] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Samira Kernher wrote:
Because we live in a ******* disgusting universe.
We live in a universe created by God and run according to His hidden will. To call it disgusting is an error of faith.
I cannot help but notice something. For someone claiming to be doing the work of God and such...you look very grumpy. I would imagine a prophet or someone hearing the direct word of God to be more...happy or peaceful looking. Steffanie Saissore, Knight Stormcrows
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1220
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Posted - 2014.08.17 08:10:00 -
[192] - Quote
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote: I agree with those who have said this was 2000 lives saved, not 2034 lost.
With all due respect... this is crap.
You don't save people by firing at them. And attack was to destroy the target, not save some slaves. All casualties are just collateral damage. And amount of them is random. They all 4034 could have died. Or survived. It is Maker's will it happened this way, but not another.
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1220
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Posted - 2014.08.17 08:11:00 -
[193] - Quote
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:Tragic.
Certainly the loss of human life incurred by the actions of capsuleers should be seen as due cause for the expression of moral outrage for those unable to look in the mirror, such a unique occurrence that it no doubt is.
Truly, a tragedy I shall reflect upon, my heart overflowing with empathy and compassion at such loss of life while I watch the upcoming Alliance Tournament. Pfft.
Weak gallentean sympathizer. You would never make a good Caldari anyway with such approach. |

Arista Shahni
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
141
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Posted - 2014.08.17 09:40:00 -
[194] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Arista Shahni wrote:Why would the Lord need records from CONCORD?
He does not, of course.
I am curious as what it is exactly that you are trying to show, to whom, and why.
But you need not answer in public.
Without such records, people might question whether or not I had actually killed the number of slaves I claim.
All is visible to the light of the Lord, and needs not such displays of hubris as shown in numbers.
Is it not over-stretched pride which has lain countless of the Faithful low?
These activities detract from the lesson, as the behavior of Shameful Holders can do, and does not teach of the power of the Lord. They merely show your actions in the way that eyes unseeing of the knowledge you hold would translate it.
Would you raise CONCORD statistics above Divine Message?
Who exactly are you beholden to? CONCORD, Capsuleers, or Divinity?
I'm honestly curious. "I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you - so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. -áAnd as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all." |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
326
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Posted - 2014.08.17 11:45:00 -
[195] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote: I agree with those who have said this was 2000 lives saved, not 2034 lost.
With all due respect... this is crap. You don't save people by firing at them. And attack was to destroy the target, not save some slaves. All casualties are just collateral damage. And amount of them is random. They all 4034 could have died. Or survived. It is Maker's will it happened this way, but not another.
With no respect intended or implied whatsoever, you are slow-witted. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
3968
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Posted - 2014.08.17 16:54:00 -
[196] - Quote
My guess is that Kim hasn't had to think in terms of saving people very much, usually just being focused on body count.
As far as I'm concerned, the slaves that die when you hull one of Nappy's ships are the lucky ones. The slaves he keeps/gets home safely are the ones you should be crying over. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Aldrith Shutaq
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
650
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Posted - 2014.08.17 18:12:00 -
[197] - Quote
Even the survivors you recover and a handful. My staff has been handling three I rescued from the wreck of one of his Tormentors last night and they are hardly functional considering the trauma they have suffered. I will do my best with them, but I can only imagine the problems the Stormcrows are facing with two thousand of these poor, wretched creatures. |

Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
1370
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Posted - 2014.08.17 18:56:00 -
[198] - Quote
Edit: wrong thread, sorry The Disciples of Ston bid you peace |

Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
227
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Posted - 2014.08.17 19:13:00 -
[199] - Quote
Arista Shahni wrote:
Without such records, people might question whether or not I had actually killed the number of slaves I claim.
All is visible to the light of the Lord, and needs not such displays of hubris as shown in numbers.
Is it not over-stretched pride which has lain countless of the Faithful low?
These activities detract from the lesson, as the behavior of Shameful Holders can do, and does not teach of the power of the Lord. They merely show your actions in the way that eyes unseeing of the knowledge you hold would translate it.
Would you raise CONCORD statistics above Divine Message?
Who exactly are you beholden to? CONCORD, Capsuleers, or Divinity?
I'm honestly curious.
While glorifying God in the destruction of the Wicked is of course my main concern, I also want to impress and inspire the Faithful will my great sacrifices, and therefore I need public records so that the people can know how many slaves are being destroyed. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1221
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Posted - 2014.08.17 20:49:00 -
[200] - Quote
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:Diana Kim wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote: I agree with those who have said this was 2000 lives saved, not 2034 lost.
With all due respect... this is crap. You don't save people by firing at them. And attack was to destroy the target, not save some slaves. All casualties are just collateral damage. And amount of them is random. They all 4034 could have died. Or survived. It is Maker's will it happened this way, but not another. With no respect intended or implied whatsoever, you are slow-witted. Who would say this, but not a woman, who believes that shooting at peoples is "saving" them. |
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Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
327
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Posted - 2014.08.17 21:14:00 -
[201] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:Diana Kim wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote: I agree with those who have said this was 2000 lives saved, not 2034 lost.
With all due respect... this is crap. You don't save people by firing at them. And attack was to destroy the target, not save some slaves. All casualties are just collateral damage. And amount of them is random. They all 4034 could have died. Or survived. It is Maker's will it happened this way, but not another. With no respect intended or implied whatsoever, you are slow-witted. Who would say this, but not a woman, who believes that shooting at peoples is "saving" them.
Tell us more about Tibus Heth sometime. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Soren Tyrhanos
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
11
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Posted - 2014.08.17 21:29:00 -
[202] - Quote
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:Diana Kim wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote: I agree with those who have said this was 2000 lives saved, not 2034 lost.
With all due respect... this is crap. You don't save people by firing at them. And attack was to destroy the target, not save some slaves. All casualties are just collateral damage. And amount of them is random. They all 4034 could have died. Or survived. It is Maker's will it happened this way, but not another. With no respect intended or implied whatsoever, you are slow-witted.
While I hate to share and opinion with a dissident engaged in a pointless rebellion..... I must admit I find myself thanking God that those few slaves were not subject to Nauplius' abhorrent and depraved attentions.
I lament the loss of life as well and to brush off such loss as collateral damage is more than callous, I would like to believe that no more slaves will be killed in this conflict, as they are innocent in this war, but such is not likely to be the case.
God willing we can save them all from this heretic. |

Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
227
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Posted - 2014.08.17 21:53:00 -
[203] - Quote
So many people think my slaves are better off dead. What gives you the right to make that decision for them? My slaves would rather stay alive; if you could hear them, they would beg you not to shoot at them.
(Perhaps you consider this assertion improbable, but recall that I brainwash all my slaves with the Doctrine of Hell and the place of the Minmatar within it; my slaves fear nothing more than their future damnation in Hell and so despite the torment of their daily lives would not think of trying to end them; hardly any of my slaves ever commit suicide.) |

Claudia Osyn
Mythic Security Service
895
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Posted - 2014.08.17 22:03:00 -
[204] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:So many people think my slaves are better off dead. What gives you the right to make that decision for them? My slaves would rather stay alive; if you could hear them, they would beg you not to shoot at them.
(Perhaps you consider this assertion improbable, but recall that I brainwash all my slaves with the Doctrine of Hell and the place of the Minmatar within it; my slaves fear nothing more than their future damnation in Hell and so despite the torment of their daily lives would not think of trying to end them; hardly any of my slaves ever commit suicide.) We have the same right to make that decision for them as you do. Alleged divine rights aside, what right do you have to brainwash abuse and sacrifice these people? The lack of money is the root of all evil. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1221
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Posted - 2014.08.17 22:26:00 -
[205] - Quote
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:Diana Kim wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:Diana Kim wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote: I agree with those who have said this was 2000 lives saved, not 2034 lost.
With all due respect... this is crap. You don't save people by firing at them. And attack was to destroy the target, not save some slaves. All casualties are just collateral damage. And amount of them is random. They all 4034 could have died. Or survived. It is Maker's will it happened this way, but not another. With no respect intended or implied whatsoever, you are slow-witted. Who would say this, but not a woman, who believes that shooting at peoples is "saving" them. Tell us more about Tibus Heth sometime. I think I'd prefer to come someday to Republic space to shoot at some minmatar militia fighters to "save" them. You will LOVE it. I might even send you numbers of saved survivors, whom I will transfer as POWs to Empire authorities. |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
722
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Posted - 2014.08.17 23:05:00 -
[206] - Quote
It always hurts my brain when Kimmy gets close to making a good point. It's like I'm feeling the laws of physics torn asunder. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Soren Tyrhanos
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
11
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Posted - 2014.08.18 00:04:00 -
[207] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:So many people think my slaves are better off dead. What gives you the right to make that decision for them? My slaves would rather stay alive; if you could hear them, they would beg you not to shoot at them.
(Perhaps you consider this assertion improbable, but recall that I brainwash all my slaves with the Doctrine of Hell and the place of the Minmatar within it; my slaves fear nothing more than their future damnation in Hell and so despite the torment of their daily lives would not think of trying to end them; hardly any of my slaves ever commit suicide.)
I remember my friend, Classiarii Ouryon, recounting to me about his operations against the Blood Raider scum and one particular addage he and his unit used to have.
"Better dead than bled."
I certainly agree with the sentiment. |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
327
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Posted - 2014.08.18 10:46:00 -
[208] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:It always hurts my brain when Kimmy gets close to making a good point. It's like I'm feeling the laws of physics torn asunder.
And "close" is the important bit... she's still wrong. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

TomHorn
Dragonaurs Caldari Armed Forces.
220
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Posted - 2014.08.18 14:28:00 -
[209] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Samira Kernher wrote:
Because we live in a ******* disgusting universe.
We live in a universe created by God and run according to His hidden will. To call it disgusting is an error of faith.
I remember listening to some sermons, when i was living in the Empire working for the Sarum family. This was one i remember,
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him
"...let all those rejoice, who put their trust in God; Let them ever shout for joy, because You defend them; Let those also who love Your name be joyful in You. For You, O Lord, will bless the righteous; With favor You will surround him as with a shield
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Eden Deninard
Eta Pegasi
6
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Posted - 2014.08.19 22:13:00 -
[210] - Quote
This is sickening. |
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DeadRow
Nocturnal Romance Cynosural Field Theory.
273
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Posted - 2014.08.19 23:12:00 -
[211] - Quote
Eden Deninard wrote:This is sickening.
I know, right? 11 pages of nothing!
~Hikari |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1223
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Posted - 2014.08.20 16:01:00 -
[212] - Quote
I believe that both points of view: 1) that the slaves were killed intentionally; and 2) that the slaves were saved by shooting at them, are rather stupid and this discussion is meaningless (and that's why these are 11 pages of nothing, Ms. Sato).
The said slavers just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Stormcrows are neither "Killers of Slaves", nor "Saviors of Slaves", they are just good mercenaries who successfully completed their job and destroyed the target.
For Maker's sake, think about it logically, you are just like kids playing some sort of gallentean senseless drama. "Oh no, they killed slaves!" "Oh wow they saved slaves!" This all is so insignificant, this is so stupid, this is so unprofessional, that I want to throw up just reading all that crap. |

Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3974
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Posted - 2014.08.21 03:07:00 -
[213] - Quote
Kim, you're doing that thing again where you veer dangerously close to expressing a vaguely sensible opinion. If you hadn't included that unnecessary lash-out at the Gallenteans I'd almost be worried. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Alexander Draegar
Nova Wolves Apocalypse Now.
5
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Posted - 2014.08.21 04:24:00 -
[214] - Quote
Having taken a closer look at the situation, I've formed a rather comprehensive opinion over the matter.
1. Any waste of slaves -- especially in an instance like this -- is not only unfortunate, it is shameful. Two thousand souls were lost for no apparent reason at all, other than simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
2. To deliberately kill any slave without giving them a chance to repent of their sins and find salvation in God, is a sin. Any captured slave deserves to live at least long enough to experience the same spiritual salvation that their masters already enjoy -- else why would we hold anyone we capture as prisoner?
3. To kill any slave for such petty reasons is a sin. The slave must have done something to grievously sin against their masters after their servitude begins in order to receive such a harsh sentence -- otherwise they would need to be given ample opportunity to be spiritually saved and enlightened, so that they can rejoin society as a truly worthy individual... such should be the goal of any worthy, God-fearing Holder.
Naupilus, you steer a course of self-destruction because of your actions. I urge you to think on the souls that you hold. It is God's Will that all should be saved, save when those of His children are actively engaged in fighting against the true Faith (after we take charge of them). Only in that case do they deserve to find spiritual salvation and purification by the fires of God, rather than by the light of his mercy.
As for the Stormcrows who were present at the event, may God have mercy on their souls. If they committed these actions out of ignorance, may they seek God's absolution and receive it in peace. If they did so deliberately, I can only hope they know what sort of punishment God has for them in the afterlife for having committed such heinous actions against God's other children (misguided as they are). |

Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3974
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Posted - 2014.08.21 11:27:00 -
[215] - Quote
The fact that Amarr defines something as a sin is not usually a factor in the decision-making process of us heathens.
An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jace Sarice
Sarshitra Corporation
3664
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Posted - 2014.08.21 12:56:00 -
[216] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:The fact that Amarr defines something as a sin is not usually a factor in the decision-making process of us heathens.
It is funny how that works. I do not care what you think as long as it is about me. |

Alexander Draegar
Nova Wolves Apocalypse Now.
6
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Posted - 2014.08.22 05:04:00 -
[217] - Quote
Is it not at least morally wrong to you? Do you not have a conscience?
If neither of those things are true, you're not even human. |

Ollie Rundle
186
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Posted - 2014.08.22 12:42:00 -
[218] - Quote
Alexander Draegar wrote: Two thousand souls were lost for no apparent reason at all, other than simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This quote adequately defines the human condition.
Alexander Draegar wrote:Is it not at least morally wrong to you? Do you not have a conscience?
If neither of those things are true, you're not even human. We've all died at least once and yet we live.
We're thought given artificial form. We exist only because our memories persist in shells made from plant waste and other forms of recycled biomass, shells that are faintly reminiscent of the humans we once might have been.
We make sport and entertainment of the mass death and destruction of both our own kind and their human crews.
You may be appealing to the wrong crowd if you came here selling morality and the idea that we're still even remotely human. -á |

Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3974
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Posted - 2014.08.22 13:57:00 -
[219] - Quote
I think Pilot Rundle's expressed opinion reveals more about what he thinks of himself than it does of any objective truth about the human condition.
Humanity as a whole, and Capsuleers like any other subfaction of humanity, run the gamut from the too-callous to the too-sensitive, from the morally unimpeachable to the depths of irredeemable turpitude. (And all of that is a gross oversimplification treating morality as a simple linear spectrum of wrong shading to right, rather than the vast and convoluted hyperpoly of possible positions with every person fltting around inside like the atoms of some ideal gas that it really is.)
Alexander Draegar wrote:Is it not at least morally wrong to you?
Slavery? Yes. Slavery is absolutely morally wrong, in my eyes.
"Wasting" slaves - in the sense of their dying during a rescue attempt? That's a little more situational. I accept and acknowledge that a slave's life can be a long, full, happy and fulfilling one in the right circumstances, which is why I wouldn't personally open fire on a slave transport just because it's a slave transport.
It would depend, in fact, on who was flying that transport. If the pilot was, for example, a known mass-murdering psychotic who thinks that God is the kind of axe-crazy sadist who created an entire ethnic group for the sole purpose of commanding that their lives be sacrificed to his glory in a variety of inventively cruel ways beginning with a regime of brainwashing, indoctrination and hellish subjugation? I would consider it morally indefensible NOT to open fire and rescue the survivors whenever the opportunity arose. The moral accountability for the deaths of those who were killed in the rescue attempt lies with the slaver, not with the would-be rescuer.
Being a nonbeliever, I don't believe in the existence of God, nor Sin, nor Salvation from it, nor that slavery is a means to accomplish said Salvation. Is it surprising that the conclusions I draw in the absence of those four assumptions are going to be wildly different from your own, pilot Draegar? An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Ollie Rundle
187
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Posted - 2014.08.23 03:03:00 -
[220] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:I think Pilot Rundle's expressed opinion reveals more about what he thinks of himself than it does of any objective truth about the human condition. The first part of your statement is undoubtedly true - each of us filters our motives, judgements, words and actions through the limitations of our own perspective. I'm not so sure about the second part: just because this is my view does not exclude it from being 'objective' or 'true' - although I admit it does not necessarily make it so either.
The larger point was that a great deal of human death and misery occurs without rhyme or reason and that wrong place/wrong time is a common enough occurence to be considered de rigueur for humanity rather than anything particularly unique to the topic du jour.
Stitcher wrote:Slavery? Yes. Slavery is absolutely morally wrong, in my eyes.
Quote:I accept and acknowledge that a slave's life can be a long, full, happy and fulfilling one in the right circumstances... Can you clarify this philosophy, Stitcher? It seems an interesting juxtaposition to claim that the concept of slavery is wrong in an absolute sense only to then acknowledge that it might be justified based on a sample of worthwhile outcomes obtained under specific conditions and I'm interested to try and understand your process in reaching that position.
I suspect you might be talking about foundations as compared with results - keeping a certain clinical distance between cause and effect, so to speak - but I'd rather hear it in your own words than speculate wildly.
If you'd prefer to discuss it privately I'm happy to oblige. -á |
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3982
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Posted - 2014.08.23 12:15:00 -
[221] - Quote
You're falsely equating "Not automatically terrible and potentially quite pleasant" with "Justified". An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Ollie Rundle
187
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Posted - 2014.08.23 15:06:00 -
[222] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:You're falsely equating "Not automatically terrible and potentially quite pleasant" with "Justified". Am I? Very well, what if we withdraw the word 'justified' and - for the sake of semantics - replace it with something like 'the outcomes of slavery might be regarded in a positive light within a selective cohort'?
The juxtaposition that's of interest is still there - how do you as an individual process contrasting internal opinion on something which you believe to be 'absolutely morally wrong' (and in some cases 'morally indefensible' not to act against) but which you also recognize can be worthwhile for some of those directly affected by it?
I found your example - where you talked about it depending on the pilot - to be too specific to be of much use in understanding where and how you draw a line as it was quite a black and white situation. In my experience, where decisions based on morality and value judgement become slippery are in circumstances a few shades grayer than your scenario accounts for. -á |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1226
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Posted - 2014.08.23 17:38:00 -
[223] - Quote
Stitcher wrote: Slavery? Yes. Slavery is absolutely morally wrong, in my eyes.
Words of a gallentean, not a Caldari.
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3983
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Posted - 2014.08.24 05:29:00 -
[224] - Quote
You really don't know how to open your mouth without saying something stupid, do you Kim?
In case you're not aware, so far as we can tell, the only culture in all of New Eden never to practice any kind of slavery at any time in its history would be the Caldari. The Gallente used to practice it, the Minmatar used to. The Intaki, the Jin-Mei, the Achura... The ethnic Caldari never did.
Oh, sure, people pull out this apologist explanation how that's only because we focus on the practical downsides rather than the morality of freedom, but given that greatest-common-good practicality is a Caldari moral principle, it follows that anything impractical is also immoral according to Caldari ethics. After all, we're under no obligation to agree with foreign powers that slavery is immoral for what they define as "the right reasons".
All I said was that in my opinion, slavery is immoral. I never explained WHY I think it's immoral.
Ollie Rundle wrote:The juxtaposition that's of interest is still there - how do you as an individual process contrasting internal opinion on something which you believe to be 'absolutely morally wrong' (and in some cases 'morally indefensible' not to act against) but which you also recognize can be worthwhile for some of those directly affected by it?
Now you're falsely equating "Not automatically terrible and potentially quite pleasant" with "worthwhile".
An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Ollie Rundle
187
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Posted - 2014.08.24 06:58:00 -
[225] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:Ollie Rundle wrote:The juxtaposition that's of interest is still there - how do you as an individual process contrasting internal opinion on something which you believe to be 'absolutely morally wrong' (and in some cases 'morally indefensible' not to act against) but which you also recognize can be worthwhile for some of those directly affected by it? Pay closer attention to what I DO say, please, rather than what you would prefer me to be saying. What I specifically said was that in my view it's morally indefensible not to act when the slave transport in question is being flown by Nauplius, or somebody like him. I accept that a slave's life is not automatically so terrible that death is always going to be preferable. Please also note that I didn't say "worthwhile"; I said "Not automatically terrible and potentially quite pleasant". Those are NOT the same thing. Happiness is not, all by itself, the secret to a worthwhile life. There IS no one simple glib secret to that. Emotional fulfilment is one factor in a worthwhile life, certainly. but by no means even close to being the whole thing. There's Heiian, aspiration, accomplishment, improvement, legacy, contribution and mindfulness all playing their role as well as countless others, and some of those can be quite unpleasant. Some of the most worthwhile lives have also been the most tortured. The point is, you don't know how much a person can accomplish with their life when their course has been charted by another, who'll shoot them for straying from it. Which is why I'm opposed to slavery
Stitcher, let me be clear:
I'm not attacking you. I have no preference for what I want to hear you say. I'm also not arguing semantics with you as it has no impact on or relevance to the question I've been asking you. I'm not, in fact, arguing anything with you.
I am, quite simply, asking you a question to help clarify answers to similar questions I have asked myself.
You've acknowledged that the outcomes from slavery can sometimes be positive while still admitting you regard the practice as morally wrong. It's not the two endpoints of those admissions I'm interested in - it's the process of how you rationalise the conflict they are in, how you sort out where your moral line exists in the midst of that conflict and how you maintain it when morals become slippery and the 'center does not hold', to borrow a quote.
Why am I interested in that? Let's try some plain terms and transparency.
For what it's worth you've discussed the issue we're stepping around at some length with Aria Jenneth in the past, I believe. To summarise that discussion poorly, it had to do with whether humans could survive the infomorph era and whether it might or might not be better to separate ourselves from them as a result.
The actions of pilots such as Naupilus and countless others across the cluster who cannot or have no care to restrain themselves from atrocities - and the fact they have always been far more common than those who do exhibit restraint - suggests that there is a benefit in some form of separation or perhaps an effort at creating an isolated sanctuary of sorts. However, standing in counterpoint to their actions is your ability to reason, to draw a moral line and to maintain it despite the conflict it raises with your core belief that slavery is wrong/indefensible (conditions accepted). Clearly if enough of us could do as you seem to the idea of a separate or protected society becomes irrelevant.
Understanding how you - and others of similar design - come to such a position may well influence my own thoughts on this.
As to the reason why this has become something I'm considering? Well, it's always been important enough to keep in mind. However, where before it was merely a point of speculative discussion to suggest striking out for new systems untouched by humanity it's now far more tangible in light of recent advances across certain fields of science and technology. Forewarned is forearmed and so on and so forth.
Again, acknowledging that the Summit - and this thread - might not be the most conducive of places to discuss this with any degree of objectivity, I'm happy to speak with you in private.
-á |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
338
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Posted - 2014.08.24 10:40:00 -
[226] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:You really don't know how to open your mouth without saying something stupid, do you Kim?
/thread GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3985
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Posted - 2014.08.24 15:26:00 -
[227] - Quote
Ollie Rundle wrote:You've acknowledged that the outcomes from slavery can sometimes be positive.
No, I've acknowledged that some proportion of slaves may not find the experience to be a terrible one, and may even come to enjoy their life as a slave.
There are people who enjoy being f***ed in the ass, but I don't particularly want it to happen to me. There's a market for snuff pornography and I defy anybody to claim THAT's positive, but the fact that said market exists means that there are people who enjoy it.
"Some people enjoy that" is not the same thing as "that thing is positive" and the exact same goes for slavery. Some slaves enjoy being slaves. That fact does NOT endorse or excuse slavery.
An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Arista Shahni
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
146
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Posted - 2014.08.25 01:01:00 -
[228] - Quote
As a general reminder to those who need reminders:
The Reclaimed of the Empire (and Kingdom) is in the care of their Holder and, so, it is expected -- in fact a necessity -- for them to be fed, clothed, and recieve medical care during the time of their learning. The abuse of slaves is an exception in the Empire. It is not a norm. It is not encouraged. It is not 'cool' - as they'd say in the Fed. It's abhorrent.
It is not uncommon for free citizens of Empire and Kingdom - not uncommon *at all* -- to be jobless, live homless, starve to death, suffer greatly without necessary healthcare. There is no super-special safety net in the Empire because you are, as it is Written, "Chosen", same as there is no safety nets everywhere else in the cluster as a norm. This is shown by the kingdom poor commiting crimes horrific enough to be punished by sentences of slavery - at least then they will eat. At least then they will recieve medical care. At least then they will ave a roof over their head. For the common man 'at least I am Chosen, at least I am free' will not put food on the table. Everyone in every part of the Cluster is a "slave" to something. Duty. Honor. The grumbling of their stomach.
But as usual, like hungry dogs, the contents of every smelly refuse can tastes better than the regular dog food, and so to the garbage we go, for over 10 pages. Shock and awe news with flashy holo-headlines and extremism and has more appeal, especially to this segment of the population who is, on average, barely ruffled by acts and activities what would horrify the average baseliner into a permanent case of PTSD. That would be us -- the ones who rationalize that we 'risk as few crew as possible' - but keep flying in combat-risk scenarios anyway, over and over and over. Accept the truth and let go of the security blankets of "at least I"s. Lying to yourselves until something feels like the truth does not and never has made it true. Just accept what you are and stop trying to pretend you're still a planetside baseliner horrified by the evening news.
As another reminder: Naupilius is not a Holder, nor has he been trained since birth on how to handle the weighty responsiblity of defending those under their charge from the wrath of the Lord as those of the Holder castes. Those who are not Holders are not even entrusted to care for land, much less human lives, for this is how it is Written to be - each to our place. Those who overstep their place risk the wrath of God.
Also. The Lord does not "show mercy" and it doesn't matter how "sorry" you are. How is it this that this constant misconception that the Amarr God is this benevolent father figure and we Amarrians are naughty children saying "I'm sorry" and having all "forgiven" by the Lord still managing to exist? That's near lunacy.
Mercy is by definition the responsibility of Empire - the Empress specifically - not the Lord's, and only through proper living can we be defended from His wrath. It is only us, mortals, who are capable of such a thing as "mercy". The Lord is Law and the ordering of the universe as we see it. Mercy can not be mixed in a laboratory or mined from an asteroid. Our blessing is that we have the power to create this "mercy" and exersize it through our own acts, and as it was written in the book of Reclaiming, to save the rst of humanity from the Lord's wrath we must convert them, and if they will not convert, our option for a chance to preserve their souls is the Reclaiming?
Again, the garbage can smells better - to the reader and at times to the Holders themselves, and atrocitie are committed. They shall be punished for what they have done in a way far more efficient than anything we can do here in new Eden.
And as for the Lord's wrath -- none are truly safe by blood or belief. None. Anyone and everyone from the poorest commoner to the most pious Holder-Priest can slip from the true Path and be denied paradise, and the Lord will not be handing out memos to let you know you've done it until the day of your judgement arrives. All those flashy news articles of Amarrians who use their positon -- not as a chance to show mercy and assistance, but as a chance to exersize power, sadism, and to feed their own egos -- is why these horrific misunderstandings of Imperial life exist in the first place.
If you don't like the truth because it is ugly, I could care less. Repeating lies will not change truths.
Anyway, I'm done preaching, and will have little interest in anyone's logical arguments. One can not argue with a book, and it is in the Scriptures these things are written. If you can get a Pax Amarria to get into a discource with you about this, help yourself. Simply keep in mind that if the Lord talks back to you, please seek help before you yourself end up the next one war-decced by half a dozen corporations.
"I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you - so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. -áAnd as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all." |

Ariel Marquette
University of Caille Gallente Federation
49
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Posted - 2014.08.25 01:43:00 -
[229] - Quote
This Nauplius fellow is probably upset that his attackers will soon have killed more slaves than he has. Petty jealousy. |

Lucien Rouen
2116
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Posted - 2014.08.25 02:47:00 -
[230] - Quote
Arista Shahni wrote:One can not argue with a book
I think your opposition would agree with you on this point. Beauty is in the eyeball. |
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Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
58
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Posted - 2014.08.25 05:45:00 -
[231] - Quote
Arista Shahni wrote:
But as usual, like hungry dogs, the contents of every smelly refuse can tastes better than the regular dog food, and so to the garbage we go, for over 10 pages. Shock and awe news with flashy holo-headlines and extremism and has more appeal, especially to this segment of the population who is, on average, barely ruffled by acts and activities what would horrify the average baseliner into a permanent case of PTSD. That would be us -- the ones who rationalize that we 'risk as few crew as possible' - but keep flying in combat-risk scenarios anyway, over and over and over. Accept the truth and let go of the security blankets of "at least I"s. Lying to yourselves until something feels like the truth does not and never has made it true. Just accept what you are and stop trying to pretend you're still a planetside baseliner horrified by the evening news.
On that note, I am under the opinion that it is downright criminal that we are still having baseliners die in our wars. We are expendable. They are not. And yet we extinguish the brilliant lives of trillions of baseliners during the course of our wars, because we drag them into these wars to serve as crew members.
It is unacceptable that those who do not have the privilege of immortality die in clashes between immortals. Our starship automation systems technology still hasn't caught up with our capsule technology. There is little to no will to produce exactly that technology. This is unacceptable. A solution will be derived. |

Arista Shahni
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
149
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Posted - 2014.08.25 07:22:00 -
[232] - Quote
Elmund Egivand wrote: "..." "We are expendable. They are not. And yet we extinguish the brilliant lives of trillions of baseliners during the course of our wars, because we drag them into these wars to serve as crew members.
It is unacceptable that those who do not have the privilege of immortality die in clashes between immortals. Our starship automation systems technology still hasn't caught up with our capsule technology. There is little to no will to produce exactly that technology. This is unacceptable. A solution will be derived."
Some can and will argue (rightly) that ships piloted by Capsuleers require far less crew, and therefore we are "saving lives".
Some can and will argue (rightly) that many baseliner crew are paid, and chose freely to do the work they do; that they have taken these jobs willingly, with full knowlege of the risks. Perhaps even the same for the occasional Exotic Dancer.
Some will argue (rightly) that many causes are not simply 'our wars' as private Capsuleer corporations go. We do not exist and function in a vaccuum, nor were we generated spontaneously with purpose derived later. We were and are an answer, a first step, in wars that have been raging for centuries. We were born of the baseliners - we *were them*, once, and are a product of their decisions to use a capsuleer program and our own decision to participate.
But yes. The crew die anyway. In droves. Even in a sense, 'by accident'. Nearly every Capsuleer would rather dock home in their ship than a pod, and will comfort themelves if they do dock up in a pod or wake in a tank that the numbers of baseliners required to operate their ship-now-wreck was far lower with an Infomorph Piloting the starship. They will comfort themelves with the percentage of lifepods that found their way to stations. They comfort themseves with the 'lives saved'.
Thirteen trillion (estimated) crew of capsuleer vessels alone have died over the last decade. The number of 'brilliant lives' lost in Baseliner operated ships of all factions, 'legal' and 'illegal' by CONCORD rating has not even been measured.
These numbers are the populations of entire star systems. Countless lives, stories are now silent, known only to God.
The scale of these numbers have reduced the dead to numbers, and nothing else because they are too large to encompass, even with an Infomorph brain capacity. We simply can not encapsulate the scope of the loss, truly, in our minds. We are incapable. One may as well try and comprehend the mind of God before trying to fully comprehend what we have done.
Most of us can barely look in the mirror and acknowledge the enormity our deadly truth. Some wonder why we are viewed as monsters that can cause the most hardened baseliner soldier to lose control of his or her bladder when confronted with our physical presence. We are the bogymen of nightmares so horrific that even we can't observe ourselves without using metaphors, calming truuisms, blinding ideals such as duty, faith... moral responsibility... lest we become so terrified of ourselves that we wetgrave in that unspeakable fear.
So, instead? We'll argue over 2000 versus 2034 versus 4034 instead to decide if it was murder or rescue.
It's always easier to swallow a smaller pill, a metaphor of the larger overall picture. We can comprehend 2034. Even a good baseliner school-teacher can remember 2034 names and faces and a few key aspects of each.
As for the involvement of baseliners on starships... It's a lofty dream, but wars will never be only fought with clones or drones.
Too many people (baseliner as well as Empyrean) in evey faction cry out for blood, the permanancy of the death of their enemies.
The frustration shown that Naupilius can not be killed "forever" shows this need for death all by itself. It justifies the killing of his crew, because "anything, even death, is better than being under his control". As if we, mortal and imperfect, are infallable judges and this makes us righteous.
Expand that and you have the security blanket of every Capsuleer who fires at any other ship due to differences in beliefs - though Naupilius is a carnival-mirror exmple, it is a mirror nonetheless. We shoot those who we do not agree with, or if we do not fire, we act via inaction to cause their destruction. Any more information than that is detail.
How horrible, for we, justified, to be considered murderers. How unfair, to be viewed with an objective inhuman lens of Truth.
I am a murderer.
I chose when I entered the Academy to bear this burden so others would not have to, because I am 100% assured someone would become the murderer instead of me.
If I refused, if ALL of us refused, the old baseliner wars would simply begin anew. Clusterwise peace will not be attained by Capsuleers refusing to fire a weapon ever again. Just the old 'to excintion' wars, again.
We are not as big as we think. We're expendable in our mechanized 'immortality', but not as most think. We're assets, as much as any slave on the market. We're tools to lower the numerical percentage of baseline fatalities and to leave the blood on the hands of a thing built in a laboratory for the purpose of murder.
And if a Capsuleer chooses to never fire a weapon? Then they'll simply fulfill our other purpose of interstellar trade. A miner mines tritanium which ends up in the hull of a warship. Separate yourself from the truth by as many degrees as you like. The wars will not end until they are ended -- and we have no say in when that will happen.
That so-called freedom isn't - no matter what symbol your faction gave you to tell you so. We are simply free to fulfill the purpose for which we chose to be intended.
To murder... in the name of being a savior... to the survivors. "I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you - so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. -áAnd as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all." |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
60
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Posted - 2014.08.25 09:26:00 -
[233] - Quote
Arista Shahni wrote: Truncated.
I had long since given up trying to save others. There's no way around it. The business of violence is a cruelly calculated trade; my life for yours, my crews' life for yours. What I'm more concerned about is minimising losses on the part of my crew and support staff. I do not permit crew members to operate in my frigates. It's modified enough to function with the absence of crewmembers throughout the duration of its operation. Not that I expect frigates to last more than a week. Any kind of wear and tear I can fix when I dock up.
I have cut down crew numbers required to operate my destroyer to a mere two. This is unacceptable. I will figure out how to do away with crew entirely. Cruisers will be next.
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Ollie Rundle
187
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Posted - 2014.08.25 10:47:00 -
[234] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:Ollie Rundle wrote:You've acknowledged that the outcomes from slavery can sometimes be positive. No, I've acknowledged that some proportion of slaves may not find the experience to be a terrible one, and may even come to enjoy their life as a slave. There are people who enjoy being f***ed in the ass, but I don't particularly want it to happen to me. There's a market for snuff pornography and I defy anybody to claim THAT's positive, but the fact that said market exists means that there are people who enjoy it. "Some people enjoy that" is not the same thing as "that thing is positive" and the exact same goes for slavery. Some slaves enjoy being slaves. That fact does NOT endorse or excuse slavery.
You seem to be missing the wider view of the forest for all the trees, Verin. That said, I'll leave the question posed to you unanswered and the door open to engage in dialogue should that interest you in the future.
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Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
228
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Posted - 2014.08.25 12:33:00 -
[235] - Quote
Yesterday, the Mehatoor system became an orgy of bloodlust and treason.
In an attempt to restore the lawful transit of slaves in the system, my corporation Hoi Andrapodistai began undocking Industrials filled with Slaves, despite the "flock" of Stormcrows hovering around the station. At first, they seemed a bit hesitant to open fire, preferring to neut, web, and point the unarmed Bestowers. Soon, however, they gave into their desire for blood.
The killing having begun, swarms of bloodthirsty pilots arrived from PIE and In Exile to participate in the slaughter. As more Industrials were undocked, no longer was their any hesitation before opening fire, and each unarmed slave-stuffed Bestower lasted only a second or two before being shredded. The fleet even began hunting my poor, innocent Industrial pilot and brother, Clytoneus GÇö who was only following orders GÇö gatecamping him and trying to shoot his pod.
The worst was yet to come. A representative from Gradient corporation, enemies of the Empire, arrived in system and took possession of the surviving slaves. Yes, that is right GÇö PIE and In Exile were working together to shoot lawful members of the 24th Imperial Crusade and turn any surviving slaves over to GÇö of all people GÇö Gradient. This is treason.
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
1638
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Posted - 2014.08.25 12:55:00 -
[236] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Yesterday, the Mehatoor system became an orgy of bloodlust and treason.
In an attempt to restore the lawful transit of slaves in the system, my corporation Hoi Andrapodistai began undocking Industrials filled with Slaves, despite the "flock" of Stormcrows hovering around the station. At first, they seemed a bit hesitant to open fire, preferring to neut, web, and point the unarmed Bestowers. Soon, however, they gave into their desire for blood.
The killing having begun, swarms of bloodthirsty pilots arrived from PIE and In Exile to participate in the slaughter. As more Industrials were undocked, no longer was their any hesitation before opening fire, and each unarmed slave-stuffed Bestower lasted only a second or two before being shredded. The fleet even began hunting my poor, innocent Industrial pilot and brother, Clytoneus GÇö who was only following orders GÇö gatecamping him and trying to shoot his pod.
The worst was yet to come. A representative from Gradient corporation, enemies of the Empire, arrived in system and took possession of the surviving slaves. Yes, that is right GÇö PIE and In Exile were working together to shoot lawful members of the 24th Imperial Crusade and turn any surviving slaves over to GÇö of all people GÇö Gradient. This is treason.
You doth protest too much, methinks. |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
61
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Posted - 2014.08.25 13:14:00 -
[237] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Yesterday, the Mehatoor system became an orgy of bloodlust and treason.
In an attempt to restore the lawful transit of slaves in the system, my corporation Hoi Andrapodistai began undocking Industrials filled with Slaves, despite the "flock" of Stormcrows hovering around the station. At first, they seemed a bit hesitant to open fire, preferring to neut, web, and point the unarmed Bestowers. Soon, however, they gave into their desire for blood.
The killing having begun, swarms of bloodthirsty pilots arrived from PIE and In Exile to participate in the slaughter. As more Industrials were undocked, no longer was their any hesitation before opening fire, and each unarmed slave-stuffed Bestower lasted only a second or two before being shredded. The fleet even began hunting my poor, innocent Industrial pilot and brother, Clytoneus GÇö who was only following orders GÇö gatecamping him and trying to shoot his pod.
The worst was yet to come. A representative from Gradient corporation, enemies of the Empire, arrived in system and took possession of the surviving slaves. Yes, that is right GÇö PIE and In Exile were working together to shoot lawful members of the 24th Imperial Crusade and turn any surviving slaves over to GÇö of all people GÇö Gradient. This is treason.
Truly your existence is a miracle, for the very fact that you drew breath had done what hadn't been done since Sansha: Getting Amarrian and Matari militant factions and mercenaries to work together for a common cause.
Also, no pity for your brother. He should had expected all of that by associating himself with the likes of you. |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
737
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Posted - 2014.08.25 13:21:00 -
[238] - Quote
PIE turning them over to Gradient? Voluntarily?
If you'll excuse me I seem to have dropped a jaw somewhere around here and need to find it before my surprised approval stumbles over it. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1284
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Posted - 2014.08.25 13:25:00 -
[239] - Quote
It seems like more of a backhanded gift to me than the "collaboration with the enemy" that some seem to suggest it is. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Stitcher
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
3986
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Posted - 2014.08.25 14:10:00 -
[240] - Quote
Ollie Rundle wrote:You seem to be missing the wider view of the forest for all the trees, Verin. That said, I'll leave the question posed to you unanswered and the option to engage in dialogue open should it interest you in the future.
The forest and the trees are one and the same. A logger who cut down the latter thinking no harm could come to the former, would soon run out of both.
The question you posed stems from a flawed interpretation of my meaning. Your line of questioning is derived from the mistaken conclusion that just because I readily acknowledge that individual slaves are capable of living full and happy lives in slavery, I then mean that slavery is "justified", "Worthwhile" or has "positive outcomes".
If that conclusion is flawed, then it follows that every single question you could possibly ask me based on that conclusion is also flawed. It's like asking me if I've stopped abusing children yet. I can't give an answer which directly addresses that question in either the affirmative or the negative because I have never abused a child in my life. Similarly, I can't directly address the question you're asking me because you're asking me to clarify opinions that I don't hold. An in-character blog and a video: http://verinsjournal.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1mbsgo738
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
737
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Posted - 2014.08.25 14:23:00 -
[241] - Quote
Verin, will you ever just take the bait instead of grabbing the line and pulling the fisherman down to be devoured? I mean, you make us shitposters look so very bad. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Vinh Trahn
Gradient
36
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Posted - 2014.08.25 14:29:00 -
[242] - Quote
I believe it is time for a personal tale to put things in perspective.
The number of slaves rescued and killed in this endeavor is at a point where the personal suffering of in question is overlooked with regards to the greater evil of slavery that plagues the cluster.
So I want to share something with you. As a survivor of a similar sort of situation.
Many years ago, before I was granted the option to become a capsuleer an illegal raid was carried out upon the station I was employed at. Amongst those taken in there were both my wife and my daughter at the time. And of course many of our kin.
I do not know the precise identity of these raiders, I remember the gold and beige corridors. And in between everything I remember the screams, the cries. I remember the hand of my daughter pried from my own when being split up according to gender.
We were but an hour in the flight, huddled in cargo bays. Dimly lit and scared, angry, confused. When the alarms started blaring throughout the ship. Explosions in the distance at first and then tearing through the hull of the transport. Lights failing, screams in the darkness.
Strangely it was one who currently flies with the flock that was the one intercepting the transport. One whom I have become rather close with over the years following.
Few of us survived, me being amongst them. My wife and daughter, to the extent of my knowledge, were lost. And believe me I have looked, and am still looking.
Of course I felt the anger at first, the attack on an unarmed transport, the death of my family, my friends, my kin. I understand everyone here crying out against.
But if you were to ask me, I say keep the attacks up, keep fighting. Because I would rather be dead than be in chains. While I do not rest easy at all I rest easier knowing those I love are not in imperial hands.
That those I love are not subjected to slavery, to exploitation, to torment. Fear not this night. You will not go astray. Though shadows fall still the stars find their way. |

Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
4003
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Posted - 2014.08.25 14:50:00 -
[243] - Quote
When Gradient, In Exile and PIE cooperate to frustrate your agenda - I think you can safely be called an enemy of humanity. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Aracturus
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
186
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Posted - 2014.08.25 15:01:00 -
[244] - Quote
Arista Shahni wrote:
Some can and will argue (rightly) that ships piloted by Capsuleers require far less crew, and therefore we are "saving lives".
Some can and will argue (rightly) that many baseliner crew are paid, and chose freely to do the work they do; that they have taken these jobs willingly, with full knowlege of the risks. Perhaps even the same for the occasional Exotic Dancer.
Some will argue (rightly) that many causes are not simply 'our wars' as private Capsuleer corporations go. We do not exist and function in a vaccuum, nor were we generated spontaneously with purpose derived later. We were and are an answer, a first step, in wars that have been raging for centuries. We were born of the baseliners - we *were them*, once, and are a product of their decisions to use a capsuleer program and our own decision to participate.
But yes. The crew die anyway. In droves. Even in a sense, 'by accident'. Nearly every Capsuleer would rather dock home in their ship than a pod, and will comfort themelves if they do dock up in a pod or wake in a tank that the numbers of baseliners required to operate their ship-now-wreck was far lower with an Infomorph Piloting the starship. They will comfort themelves with the percentage of lifepods that found their way to stations. They comfort themseves with the 'lives saved'.
Fourteen trillion (estimated) crew of capsuleer vessels alone have died over the last decade. The number of 'brilliant lives' lost in Baseliner operated ships of all factions, 'legal' and 'illegal' by CONCORD rating has not even been measured.
These numbers are the populations of entire star systems. Countless lives, stories are now silent, known only to God.
The scale of these numbers have reduced the dead to numbers, and nothing else because they are too large to encompass, even with an Infomorph brain capacity. We simply can not encapsulate the scope of the loss, truly, in our minds. We are incapable. One may as well try and comprehend the mind of God before trying to fully comprehend what we have done. .
5edgy3me.
Seriously ari, did we run out of coffee at the Noir? You could have just said so instead of going on warpath. This is now a WIDOT thread! |

Jace Sarice
Sarshitra Corporation
4508
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Posted - 2014.08.25 15:08:00 -
[245] - Quote
The difficulty with all of this the publicity. Surely everyone is aware that Naupilus orchestrates his actions based upon the reaction they will get and the amount of people that will notice him. This is not unique to the Intergalactic Summit by any means, but why should it be encouraged?
If pilots and organizations feel the need to seek him out, by all means continue to do so - but why encourage the public posturing by continual responses to his rantings and ravings? It would be far more effective to let him be destroyed in relative silence by not supporting his advertising campaigns. Unless, of course, his publicity also serves the narcissism of others. I do not care what you think as long as it is about me. |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
338
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Posted - 2014.08.25 15:14:00 -
[246] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:When Gradient, In Exile and PIE cooperate to frustrate your agenda - I think you can safely be called an enemy of humanity.
Getting Gradient and PIE to agree on something (Given our what, six year long mutual war?) should be noted in history books. The fact In Exile (And by extension, PYRE) and Stormcrows also are in agreement proves that, yes, Nauplius sucks just THAT much.
PS. Thank you to those mentioned above. Yesterday, 4500 people were freed from this madman. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1284
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Posted - 2014.08.25 16:00:00 -
[247] - Quote
Aracturus wrote:Seriously ari, did we run out of coffee at the Noir? You could have just said so instead of going on warpath. That some may already know, understand and accept the message does not mean it should not be stated anyway.
All of what she said, needed to be said, and bears repeating on a regular basis. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
61
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Posted - 2014.08.25 16:00:00 -
[248] - Quote
Jace Sarice wrote:The difficulty with all of this is the publicity. Surely everyone is aware that Naupilus orchestrates his actions based upon the reaction they will get and the amount of people that will notice him. This is not unique to the Intergalactic Summit by any means, but why should it be encouraged?
If pilots and organizations feel the need to seek him out, by all means continue to do so - but why encourage the public posturing by continual responses to his rantings and ravings? It would be far more effective to let him be destroyed in relative silence by not supporting his advertising campaigns. Unless, of course, his publicity also serves the narcissism of others.
On the upside, if Nauplius kept doing what he's doing we might see an era of peace and prosperity...in any place that doesn't have Nauplius in it. |

Jace Sarice
Sarshitra Corporation
4542
|
Posted - 2014.08.25 16:13:00 -
[249] - Quote
Elmund Egivand wrote: On the upside, if Nauplius kept doing what he's doing we might see an era of peace and prosperity...in any place that doesn't have Nauplius in it.
I was not commenting on the actual conflict, merely the publicity generated by it. |

Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
1639
|
Posted - 2014.08.25 17:22:00 -
[250] - Quote
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:The fact In Exile (And by extension, PYRE) and Stormcrows also are in agreement proves that, yes, Nauplius sucks just THAT much.
Ms. Starfire,
I would say for the record that there exists no official agreement on anything at all beyond the prosecution of a contractual obligation on the part of PYRE.
Personally, I do not share any moral or ethical outrage as regards events and matters in question. For if I were to express them, I feel it would be nothing more than an affectation of hypocrisy on my part. I am comfortable with the blood on my own hands, as such I can prefer to be honest with myself and say I fail to care overmuch emotionally for bodycount statistics.
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
4007
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Posted - 2014.08.25 17:31:00 -
[251] - Quote
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:The fact In Exile (And by extension, PYRE) and Stormcrows also are in agreement proves that, yes, Nauplius sucks just THAT much.
Ms. Starfire, I would say for the record that there exists no official agreement on anything at all beyond the prosecution of a contractual obligation on the part of PYRE. Personally, I do not share any moral or ethical outrage as regards events and matters in question. For if I were to express them, I feel it would be nothing more than an affectation of hypocrisy on my part. I am comfortable with the blood on my own hands, as such I can prefer to be honest with myself and say I fail to care overmuch emotionally for bodycount statistics.
You're just bitter because you didn't get the skiing holiday, right? "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
716
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Posted - 2014.08.25 17:36:00 -
[252] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:The fleet even began hunting my poor, innocent Industrial pilot and brother, Clytoneus GÇö who was only following orders GÇö gatecamping him and trying to shoot his pod.
He's your brother?
Good to know.
Quote:The worst was yet to come. A representative from Gradient corporation, enemies of the Empire, arrived in system and took possession of the surviving slaves. Yes, that is right GÇö PIE and In Exile were working together to shoot lawful members of the 24th Imperial Crusade and turn any surviving slaves over to GÇö of all people GÇö Gradient. This is treason.
Repeating this doesn't make it any more true. Stormcrows offered their recoveries to Gradient. PIE has not.
But it wouldn't matter whether the recovered slaves stay in the Empire or go to the Republic, they are better off anywhere that is away from you. |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
737
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Posted - 2014.08.25 18:17:00 -
[253] - Quote
... ah, pity. Ah well, PIE staying true to form is to be expected. I'll just go drag that pleasant surprise behind the shed and have it shot, shall I? Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
1639
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Posted - 2014.08.25 18:31:00 -
[254] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:The fact In Exile (And by extension, PYRE) and Stormcrows also are in agreement proves that, yes, Nauplius sucks just THAT much.
Ms. Starfire, I would say for the record that there exists no official agreement on anything at all beyond the prosecution of a contractual obligation on the part of PYRE. Personally, I do not share any moral or ethical outrage as regards events and matters in question. For if I were to express them, I feel it would be nothing more than an affectation of hypocrisy on my part. I am comfortable with the blood on my own hands, as such I can prefer to be honest with myself and say I fail to care overmuch emotionally for bodycount statistics. You're just bitter because you didn't get the skiing holiday, right?
Bitterness often presupposes regrets of which I have none, and that aside I have felt no current need for a recreational hiatus from my present work.
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Pieter Tuulinen
In Exile. Imperial Outlaws.
4008
|
Posted - 2014.08.25 21:47:00 -
[255] - Quote
Veikitamo Gesakaarin, Ladies and Gentlemen. Available for work functions, wedding functions and children's parties.
Well, okay, not wedding functions. "You let one of them go, but that's nothing new is it? Every now and then a little victim is allowed to escape; because she smiled, because he's got freckles, because they begged. And that's how you live with yourself. That's how you slaughter millions." "Only a killer would know that..." |

Shiori Shaishi
Terpalen Trading Corporation
89
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Posted - 2014.08.25 21:59:00 -
[256] - Quote
The small gods governing structural collapse do seem to favor the Stormcrows. Maybe it's a sign? |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
342
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Posted - 2014.08.25 22:59:00 -
[257] - Quote
Veikitamo Gesakaarin wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:The fact In Exile (And by extension, PYRE) and Stormcrows also are in agreement proves that, yes, Nauplius sucks just THAT much.
Ms. Starfire, I would say for the record that there exists no official agreement on anything at all beyond the prosecution of a contractual obligation on the part of PYRE. Personally, I do not share any moral or ethical outrage as regards events and matters in question. For if I were to express them, I feel it would be nothing more than an affectation of hypocrisy on my part. I am comfortable with the blood on my own hands, as such I can prefer to be honest with myself and say I fail to care overmuch emotionally for bodycount statistics.
I am not Ava Starfire. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Veikitamo Gesakaarin
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
1639
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Posted - 2014.08.25 23:36:00 -
[258] - Quote
Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Veikitamo Gesakaarin, Ladies and Gentlemen. Available for work functions, wedding functions and children's parties.
Well, okay, not wedding functions.
Only when the service fee is paid up front and the contracting party is aware of the use and function of ground beacons in a Tactical Orbital Strike.
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:I am not Ava Starfire.
My apologies, Sebiestor can all look the same for me at times. |

Naraish Adarn
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
100
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Posted - 2014.08.26 01:09:00 -
[259] - Quote
More i hear of Nauplius' foolishness more im tempted join the hunt if not only briefly, unfortunately my duties seem to work against me being able to venture into known space for extended periods of time. |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
61
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Posted - 2014.08.26 04:14:00 -
[260] - Quote
Naraish Adarn wrote:More i hear of Nauplius' foolishness more im tempted join the hunt if not only briefly, unfortunately my duties seem to work against me being able to venture into known space for extended periods of time.
If you are doing that, do me a favour and send my regards to him in the form of live ammunition. I'm stuck doing planetside duties as of late. Testing new automation algorithm on the extractor heads and container-tram system. |
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Arista Shahni
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
160
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Posted - 2014.08.27 00:29:00 -
[261] - Quote
Aracturus wrote: 5edgy3me.
Seriously ari, did we run out of coffee at the Noir? You could have just said so instead of going on warpath.
I'm actually home in the Kingdom at the moment.
"I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you - so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. -áAnd as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all." |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1226
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Posted - 2014.08.28 13:24:00 -
[262] - Quote
Stitcher wrote:You really don't know how to open your mouth without saying something stupid, do you Kim? Why all forum loudmouths try to insult me with their own flaws, and then grunt when I just come back at them with what they brought?... Really, Stitcher. Did I tell you already that Im tired of your ignorance? Okay, I will tell it again.
Stitcher wrote: In case you're not aware, so far as we can tell, the only culture in all of New Eden never to practice any kind of slavery at any time in its history would be the Caldari.
In case you're not aware, that's the point that I was bringing almost in majority of slavery discussions. But yes, Mr. Stitcher can write, Mr. Stitcher can't read. Or maybe can, but contents of his head looks like not clinging enough to information, if it won't allow him to insult other party.
Stitcher wrote: Oh, sure, people pull out this apologist explanation how that's only because we focus on the practical downsides rather than the morality of freedom, but given that greatest-common-good practicality is a Caldari moral principle, it follows that anything impractical is also immoral according to Caldari ethics. After all, we're under no obligation to agree with foreign powers that slavery is immoral for what they define as "the right reasons".
All I said was that in my opinion, slavery is immoral. I never explained WHY I think it's immoral.
At first, I thought you would say something really not stupid, but then it came down to "impractical is immoral". I really don't feel I want to start to discuss this sentence and find examples where it would be true (yes! but only in some cases) and false, I will just add, that your attempt to understand Caldari mindset is very shallow and pathetic. |

Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
847
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Posted - 2014.09.18 21:36:00 -
[263] - Quote
For the people that wondered, thanks to miss Hoshi Karasawa, the rescued slaves have recovered from their worst injuries and have been given a new start in their lives!
Rescued slaves given the chance for a better life!
In short, these rescued slaves now have found safety in either the Republic, through Anabella Rella, member of Gradient or the Aurora Arcology Project. Both organisations will do their best to assist these people in a life where they can make decisions of their own, leading a life of their own choosing. Rescued slaves given the chance for a better life! -áClassified Republic Security Services Document surfaced, contents unknown! |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1253
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Posted - 2014.09.19 01:26:00 -
[264] - Quote
Jandice Ymladris wrote:For the people that wondered, thanks to miss Hoshi Karasawa, the rescued slaves have recovered from their worst injuries and have been given a new start in their lives! Rescued slaves given the chance for a better life!In short, these rescued slaves now have found safety in either the Republic, through Anabella Rella, member of Gradient or the Aurora Arcology Project. Both organisations will do their best to assist these people in a life where they can make decisions of their own, leading a life of their own choosing. They should have been returned to the Empire. Ms. Ymladris, you have been committed a grave mistake, giving them into hands of a half-wit person. I would avoid transfer of any slaves or other property towards Republic, since the Republic is currently hostile to the State. Giving them anything can be considered as support of an enemy, and such action can be interpreted as a treason. At least, if there is an undeniable need to transfer something to the Republic, please consult the Empire officials first (since said slaves could be property or citizens of the Empire), and... well, please work with Republic officials as well, not a random criminal, who, taking in account her history, could easily turn these slaves into terrorists to attack the State or the Empire.
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Deitra Vess
Dead Men Rising Circle-Of-Two
42
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Posted - 2014.09.19 01:58:00 -
[265] - Quote
Don't return them to their own people, that's wrong in so many ways....... Yep. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1253
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Posted - 2014.09.19 03:28:00 -
[266] - Quote
Deitra Vess wrote:Don't return them to their own people, that's wrong in so many ways....... Yep. Why do you think they all are Republic people? Maybe they were born and live all their lives in the Empire, which is more likely. And that's why it's better to consult first with Amarr representative than just give peoples into hands of known terrorist, just because they are of the same... race. As far as I understand, there are no slaves in the Republic, while it is only in the Empire slavery is legally allowed. This means, if you got a slave in your posession (which is, I have to say, is illegal in most territories), you should first contact the Amarr Empire. |

Deitra Vess
Dead Men Rising Circle-Of-Two
42
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 04:16:00 -
[267] - Quote
Never known anyone who volunteered to be a slave, nor have I known anyone who wished they were born one. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1253
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 04:43:00 -
[268] - Quote
Deitra Vess wrote:Never known anyone who volunteered to be a slave, nor have I known anyone who wished they were born one. I have met a slave only once. She was very polite person, who was defending honor of her holder in her absence. Of course, I mean proper Amarr slave, not some sort of Sansha flesh drone. |

Deitra Vess
Dead Men Rising Circle-Of-Two
42
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 04:58:00 -
[269] - Quote
I think we can agree sansha is a totally different thing, but what was that about gallante people being brainwashed in their ways? You met one slave who really could be considered brainwashed under your own logic. They grew up a slave, that's all they know. Much like the Gallante you despise. What makes them different? Gallante Citizens can leave their realm of influence freely. If they feel the ways forced down their throats is wrong they can simply leave. Ask that slave you met to do the same, oh yeah,..... They can't. I'm sure given freedom, some would go back (why I don't know), but by their own choice, not because they can't. So why force subjugation on them? Why not let them think for themselves? |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1253
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 07:05:00 -
[270] - Quote
What makes you think they can't think for themselves? As far as I remember, this slave was actually managing affairs of her holder, and that requires quite a lot of thinking. I bet way more thinking that her holder.
As for brainwashing. You see, that slave was polite, loyal, respectful and dutiful. I would call it proper upbringing. But if it is brainwashing, it is the best damn brainwashing you can find in our cluster, because qualities that this slave was "brainwashed" to are the best qualities of a human being. When I was looking at this slave, I was questioning myself, why we all can't be like her?..
And take these gallenteans on other hand. What are they brainwashed to? That hedonism, freedom, democracy, individualism are good?.. Anyone with just a bit of brains and thinking abilities can easily show that any and all of these concepts are evil, destructive and anti-humane. And what we get as a result? Gallentean kids, who can do terrible things, justifying themselves with "I am free derp-derp gallentean derp-derp, i can do whatever I want !" |
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Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
739
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Posted - 2014.09.19 08:10:00 -
[271] - Quote
We really don't need another slavery conversation here. This **** hasn't been about slavery, it's been about one awful monster doing horrible things to people. No matter where those slaves eventually go, anywhere is better than in the Slave Butcher's hands. Some of them remain with the Empire, some have gone to Gradient and the Republic, and some to Aurora. All of those are better than where they just were. What matters in this situation is that they be given the comfort and care needed in consideration of the trauma they've been through. Their legal status is probably the last thing on their minds right now. |

Mizhir
Mind Games. Suddenly Spaceships.
68924
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Posted - 2014.09.19 08:53:00 -
[272] - Quote
Is it just me or is Kimmy starting to sound more like Nauplius? One Man Crew - Collective solo pvp |

JP Eulienne
University of Caille Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2014.09.19 10:01:00 -
[273] - Quote
Confirming that Gallentean kids do 'terrible things' like making their own choices. |

Hoshi Karasawa
Karasawa Heavy Engineering
156
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Posted - 2014.09.19 10:19:00 -
[274] - Quote
Thank you for your report, Ms Ymladris.
I'm glad the former slaves who were in my care are on their way to new, better homes. |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
359
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Posted - 2014.09.19 10:54:00 -
[275] - Quote
Wait, so now I'm a known terrorist?
When was someone going to tell me?? GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
359
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 10:55:00 -
[276] - Quote
Samira Kernher wrote:We really don't need another slavery conversation here. This **** hasn't been about slavery, it's been about one awful monster doing horrible things to people. No matter where those slaves eventually go, anywhere is better than in the Slave Butcher's hands. Some of them remain with the Empire, some have gone to Gradient and the Republic, and some to Aurora. All of those are better than where they just were. What matters in this situation is that they be given the comfort and care needed in consideration of the trauma they've been through. Their legal status is probably the last thing on their minds right now.
Stop it. Stop saying things which make me like you. Stop. That! GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1255
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Posted - 2014.09.19 12:21:00 -
[277] - Quote
Samira Kernher wrote:We really don't need another slavery conversation here. This **** hasn't been about slavery, it's been about one awful monster doing horrible things to people. No matter where those slaves eventually go, anywhere is better than in the Slave Butcher's hands. Some of them remain with the Empire, some have gone to Gradient and the Republic, and some to Aurora. All of those are better than where they just were. What matters in this situation is that they be given the comfort and care needed in consideration of the trauma they've been through. Their legal status is probably the last thing on their minds right now. Please excuse me, Ms. Kernher, but I can't agree with everything you have said. Of course, removing peoples from the reach of Mr. Nauplius was indeed good for them (if we forget about those, who have died, of course). But we were discussing what happened with them after this. And I cannot agree that anywhere they will end would be actually be better than just leaving them to be tortured by Mr. Nauplius or killed in a shipwreck by someone, who fights against Mr. Nauplius. For example, this transaction of them into Republic looks for me as putting them out of the frying pan into the fire.
My idea, that I was defending, was that they all should have been transferred to Amarr Empire authorities for them to decide their fate. |

Hoshi Karasawa
Karasawa Heavy Engineering
163
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 12:27:00 -
[278] - Quote
I can assure people who may be concerned about where the former slaves have gone, that they decided for themselves where they wanted to go.
Some wanted to go with Ms Ymladris, some wanted to go to the Republic, and so I contacted Ms Rella about that.
I did not, and do not believe that I should decide their fates. I simply told them their options, and let them choose.
People should be able to decide their own fates. These people have this freedom, among others.
Thank you. |

Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
238
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 12:30:00 -
[279] - Quote
Perhaps there is a silver lining to this affair in that horror and terror regarding my deeds has been spread far and wide along with the surviving slaves.
Somewhere, a filthy Minmatar subhuman child sees a mutilated slave and hears this was done by a man who believes God has given the Minmatar over to destruction. Now she is scared, wondering whether she is going to end up like that mutilated slave. God is glorified in her fear, and I take pleasure in it. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1255
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 12:35:00 -
[280] - Quote
Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:Wait, so now I'm a known terrorist?
When was someone going to tell me?? Ms. Siikanen... There wasn't YOUR name mentioned in the report, neither I called out you in particular. And your sudden outburst out of blue with your association with terrorists is quite alarming.
However, whether you yourself are a terrorist or not, the Winds will reveal to us only in the Future. |
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Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
82
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 12:45:00 -
[281] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Perhaps there is a silver lining to this affair in that horror and terror regarding my deeds has been spread far and wide along with the surviving slaves.
Somewhere, a filthy Minmatar subhuman child sees a mutilated slave and hears this was done by a man who believes God has given the Minmatar over to destruction. Now she is scared, wondering whether she is going to end up like that mutilated slave. God is glorified in her fear, and I take pleasure in it.
You don't really know us Matari well. That kid? She's going to do a few things. She's going to enlist, arm herself and fight to prevent others from suffering as she did. She's going to learn to command a ship. Perchance she might even become a capsuleer with a grudge against you. Or she might work in the foundries, to build weapons and other hardware which will be used against you.
I suggest you remember their names. One day you might see them again, this time out for your blood. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1255
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 12:54:00 -
[282] - Quote
Hoshi Karasawa wrote:I can assure people who may be concerned about where the former slaves have gone, that they decided for themselves where they wanted to go.
Some wanted to go with Ms Ymladris, some wanted to go to the Republic, and so I contacted Ms Rella about that.
I did not, and do not believe that I should decide their fates. I simply told them their options, and let them choose.
People should be able to decide their own fates. These people have this freedom, among others.
Thank you. Well, I guess your reply solves the question I have raised up about what they did want themselves, Ms. Karasawa. Thank you. However, there are still two points, causing concern. First: is your contact in the Republic. And second: that we are still at the war with the Republic.
Do you think they will distinguish between Mr. Nauplius and other holders? Can you imagine, how the Republic will use their experience? Or what they can be convinced into...
And then they will return with eyes, filled with anger, and with bombs strapped to their chests. |

Hoshi Karasawa
Karasawa Heavy Engineering
168
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 13:02:00 -
[283] - Quote
Do you remember, Ms Kim, why our honoured ancestors had to leave Caldari Prime?
Why the honoured Admiral Yakiya Tovil-Toba made his heroic sacrifice?
Because we were not allowed the freedom to choose our own fates.
I will not dishonour the sacrifices of our ancestors by denying someone else the freedom to choose. |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
361
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 13:14:00 -
[284] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:Kyllsa Siikanen wrote:Wait, so now I'm a known terrorist?
When was someone going to tell me?? Ms. Siikanen... There wasn't YOUR name mentioned in the report, neither I called out you in particular. And your sudden outburst out of blue with your association with terrorists is quite alarming. However, whether you yourself are a terrorist or not, the Winds will reveal to us only in the Future.
The first lot of rescued were turned over to me, Diana.
It was a reasonable conclusion for me to draw. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
745
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Posted - 2014.09.19 18:29:00 -
[285] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:Samira Kernher wrote:We really don't need another slavery conversation here. This **** hasn't been about slavery, it's been about one awful monster doing horrible things to people. No matter where those slaves eventually go, anywhere is better than in the Slave Butcher's hands. Some of them remain with the Empire, some have gone to Gradient and the Republic, and some to Aurora. All of those are better than where they just were. What matters in this situation is that they be given the comfort and care needed in consideration of the trauma they've been through. Their legal status is probably the last thing on their minds right now. Please excuse me, Ms. Kernher, but I can't agree with everything you have said. Of course, removing peoples from the reach of Mr. Nauplius was indeed good for them (if we forget about those, who have died, of course). But we were discussing what happened with them after this. And I cannot agree that anywhere they will end would be actually be better than just leaving them to be tortured by Mr. Nauplius or killed in a shipwreck by someone, who fights against Mr. Nauplius. For example, this transaction of them into Republic looks for me as putting them out of the frying pan into the fire.My idea, that I was defending, was that they all should have been transferred to Amarr Empire authorities for them to decide their fate.
It looks like that, to you. You have neither been a slave, nor lived in the Republic. I can tell you exactly what the lives of those slaves who get sent to the Republic is, since I have experience with it: They're going to cluster around other former slave communities in rust districts while waiting for social services to give them work. They'll have free access to residence, food, and healthcare, including the psychiatric support a lot of them are going to need. In effect they'll be living exactly like the ones who are staying in the Empire: waiting to be told what to do while their needs are provided for by the government.
So no, it really doesn't matter where they get sent. Both will be infinitely better than where they've just been.
And they were transferred out of Amarr authorities the moment they were put up for sale on the SCC. Frankly, if any Holder is so faithless to put their slaves on that market, where they can fall into the hands of monsters like the Butcher, then those slaves should be filed as emancipated. It's clear that those Holders think their slaves' service to God and Empire is complete or they wouldn't be ignoring Scripture to sell them to commoners and foreigners in public open markets.
That's the fact of the matter: None of those slaves are legally owned by anyone anymore. You can't take them to the authorities and get them sorted, because there is no one to sort them to.
You know what the authorites actually need to do? What they need to do is get this kind of behavior stopped in the first place. The MIO and the TC need to audit the Civic Court and the Kingdom should be Reclaimed, by word or sword or whatever it takes. And any Holder who sells their slaves into the hands of non-Holders should have their titles stripped and their own lines enslaved, just like the Refusards. Every one who has ever done that has blasphemed against the sacred responsibilities they were supposed to uphold.
There's so many blatant heresies going on; that's what the authorities need to be focusing on. The Civic Court, the Kingdom, the 24IC, they all need to have their corruptions purged so that **** like this stops happening. |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
768
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 18:40:00 -
[286] - Quote
Good grief, that post started so well and I was practically clapping before it turned into authoritarian warmongering zealotry. This right here is what makes the Empire and their loyalists bloody scary, even to allies. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
852
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 18:52:00 -
[287] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote: They should have been returned to the Empire. Ms. Ymladris, you have been committed a grave mistake, giving them into hands of a half-wit person. I would avoid transfer of any slaves or other property towards Republic, since the Republic is currently hostile to the State. Giving them anything can be considered as support of an enemy, and such action can be interpreted as a treason. At least, if there is an undeniable need to transfer something to the Republic, please consult the Empire officials first (since said slaves could be property or citizens of the Empire), and... well, please work with Republic officials as well, not a random criminal, who, taking in account her history, could easily turn these slaves into terrorists to attack the State or the Empire.
The rescued slaves that choose the Aurora Arcology project as their new home will live in the State. Once recovered, they'll be offered a job within the Arcology project. Acceptance of this employee cotnracts makes them eligible to become State Citizens should they choose to pursue this venue.
On consulting the empire officals, this is already happened & is the base of the Aurora Arcology slave policy: Any slave found to be property of a legitimate Holder or higher ranking offical will be returned to it's master. All other slaves will recieve guidance and, if needed, transported to more suitable organisations. Legitimate Holders & higher officals are those Holders & officals who live in Ammar, Ammatar & Khanid space & are registrated as such by the authorities.
Nauplius, being capsuleer & 'Red God' - worshipper fails to qualify in this, hence his slaves are eligible for freedom & stay at the Arcology without repercussions from the Empire. Rescued slaves given the chance for a better life! -áClassified Republic Security Services Document surfaced, contents unknown! |

Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
748
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 19:18:00 -
[288] - Quote
Jandice Ymladris wrote:...
On consulting the empire officals, this is already happened & is the base of the Aurora Arcology slave policy: Any slave found to be property of a legitimate Holder or higher ranking offical will be returned to its master. All other slaves will recieve guidance and, if needed, transported to more suitable organisations.
....
Their.
Their master. His or her master.
Slaves are not a ******* it. |

Lunarisse Aspenstar
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
165
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 19:21:00 -
[289] - Quote
Jinari Otsito wrote:Good grief, that post started so well and I was practically clapping before it turned into authoritarian warmongering zealotry. This right here is what makes the Empire and their loyalists bloody scary, even to allies.
I am confused. Would you rather the Amarr authorities turn a blind eye to law-breaking and allow it to continue rather than apply the laws in place, as prescribed by Scripture, and the appropriate penalties prescribed? Please note it is Amarr law and scripture that governs First Lieutenant Samira Kernher's comments.
If not, how would you persuade the law breakers to cease their illegal practices? A post on the IGS denouncing them? |

Samira Kernher
Praetorian Auxiliary Force Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
748
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 19:22:00 -
[290] - Quote
That's the problem, Ms. Aspenstar. It's not law-breaking. It's perfectly ******* legal even though it shouldn't be.
That's the problem. |
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Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
768
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 19:30:00 -
[291] - Quote
Lunarisse Aspenstar wrote:Jinari Otsito wrote:Good grief, that post started so well and I was practically clapping before it turned into authoritarian warmongering zealotry. This right here is what makes the Empire and their loyalists bloody scary, even to allies. I am confused. Would you rather the Amarr authorities turn a blind eye to law-breaking and allow it to continue rather than apply the laws in place, as prescribed by Scripture, and the appropriate penalties prescribed? Please note it is Amarr law and scripture that governs First Lieutenant Samira Kernher's comments. If not, how would you persuade the law breakers to cease their illegal practices? A post on the IGS denouncing them?
I don't know the laws in question, on either the Empire or Kingdom side of things, but enforcing the laws and morality of the Empire on the Kingdom by means of war if necessary? That's a scary step to take. Who will be next then? The Republic? The Federation? Your allies?
@Sam
Pretty sure any owned commodity or property can quite justifiably be called an it. I'd take a look at the issues with ownership of other human beings before I'd start getting angry about the grammar applied. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Anslo
Scope Works
13056
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 19:46:00 -
[292] - Quote
The more Jinari talks, the more I start to warm up to Amarr.
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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
853
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 20:36:00 -
[293] - Quote
Samira Kernher wrote: [ Their.
Their master. His or her master.
Slaves are not a ******* it.
Thank you for pointing out this shameful error on my part.... Corrected it at once! And indeed, slaves are people! Not things! Rescued slaves given the chance for a better life! -áClassified Republic Security Services Document surfaced, contents unknown! |

Jinari Otsito
Otsito Mining and Manufacture
768
|
Posted - 2014.09.19 21:04:00 -
[294] - Quote
Anslo wrote:The more Jinari talks, the more I start to warm up to Amarr.
And that's why the Scope must be de..aahahahahaah... oh I couldn't even get that far with a straight face. Prime Node. Ask me about augmentation.
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Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
239
|
Posted - 2014.09.20 00:09:00 -
[295] - Quote
Jandice Ymladris wrote:Samira Kernher wrote: [ Their.
Their master. His or her master.
Slaves are not a ******* it. Thank you for pointing out this shameful error on my part.... Corrected it at once! And indeed, slaves are people! Not things!
You were right the first time. |

Ottom Ephesianos
Mirkur Draug'Tyr
31
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Posted - 2014.09.20 05:21:00 -
[296] - Quote
Question: If I were to walk to the orchard on a clear morning to pick fruit and I returned to my kitchen with 4 pieces of delicious ripe fruit? ... how then do I devour 5?
To speak to the slaver is to banter like this. I pray for the dead.
otto out |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1257
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Posted - 2014.09.20 10:54:00 -
[297] - Quote
Hoshi Karasawa wrote:Do you remember, Ms Kim, why our honoured ancestors had to leave Caldari Prime?
Why the honoured Admiral Yakiya Tovil-Toba made his heroic sacrifice?
Because we were not allowed the freedom to choose our own fates.
I will not dishonour the sacrifices of our ancestors by denying someone else the freedom to choose. Ms. Karasawa, with all due respect, I would like to remind you, that they were fighting for what is ours. They were fighting for their homes, their corprations and their colonies, for their families and their assets. They were fighting for our culture and our independence, for preservance of our ideals and bloodlines.
The word you have used, the freedom, is dishonor. The freedom, is what gallenteans teach us, as "good" side. If you will fight against gallenteans for "freedom", they have already won. The freedom is this chaos, that destroys societies, corporations and human lives. It is a reign of corruption, degradation, chaos and criminality.
Caldari people don't choose freedom. Caldari people choose loyalty and devotion.
We fight to not "have freedom to choose", we fight to stand firm on what we have chosen.
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1257
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Posted - 2014.09.20 11:24:00 -
[298] - Quote
Liutenant Samira Kernher,
I, indeed, never been a slave, nor lived in the Republic, and what I have thought would be better for these peoples are just my feels and thoughts, taken from my point of view, which is foreign both to you and them. It was my mistake to try to speak for these peoples, to understand them, so please accept my apologies.
For now, I will speak instead for myself, as a Strike Commander of Caldari State.
First, I would like to clarify, that from my point of view, your conflict with Mr. Nauplius is blue-on-blue, so, please excuse me, but I won't stand on either of sides in this conflict. But if you, or Mr. Nauplius, would need my help to fight against the Republic, you can count on me.
Then, what the Amarr Empire authorities need to do, is not for me to decide. I don't like slavery myself, and in the State it is prohibited at all. Thus question of treatment of slaves by Mr. Nauplius, Holders and non-Holders is not for me. I do not serve Theology Counsel, never read scriptures, and won't distinguish heresy from real faith, and it is simply not my business. The slavery is problem of the Empire, not the State. And all related questions I will leave for you to solve with the Empire, and not myself. What the Empire Authorities or Mr. Nauplius, or you will do with these slaves is not my concern...
But what does concern me, is transfer or resources (in this scenario, human resources, as a work power or potential military power) to hostile to both of us and you, and even Mr. Nauplius side - the Republic. |

Steffanie Saissore
Stormcrows
357
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Posted - 2014.09.20 17:32:00 -
[299] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:Hoshi Karasawa wrote:Do you remember, Ms Kim, why our honoured ancestors had to leave Caldari Prime?
Why the honoured Admiral Yakiya Tovil-Toba made his heroic sacrifice?
Because we were not allowed the freedom to choose our own fates.
I will not dishonour the sacrifices of our ancestors by denying someone else the freedom to choose. Ms. Karasawa, with all due respect, I would like to remind you, that they were fighting for what is ours. They were fighting for their homes, their corprations and their colonies, for their families and their assets. They were fighting for our culture and our independence, for preservance of our ideals and bloodlines. The word you have used, the freedom, is dishonor. The freedom, is what gallenteans teach us, as "good" side. If you will fight against gallenteans for "freedom", they have already won. The freedom is this chaos, that destroys societies, corporations and human lives. It is a reign of corruption, degradation, chaos and criminality. Caldari people don't choose freedom. Caldari people choose loyalty and devotion. We fight to not "have freedom to choose", we fight to stand firm on what we have chosen.
You delusional little whelp.
You would disparage the sacrifice of one of your greatest war heroes? The Admiral flew out, against orders, to buy time for the evacuation. There was no plan to retake Caldari Prime with his actions. He knew what would be the outcome. His sacrifice allowed so many to escape. By your own words and tone you would label him and all those you fled Caldari Prime as traitors and cowards.
And freedom is not a Gallente word, you trollish little imp. Freedom is an ideal, which has various meanings to everyone throughout the sector. Yes, the Federation uses 'Freedom' as a rallying point to why they are so great...yet the concept of freedom is not foreign to the Caldari...the freedom to not be enslaved...the freedom to not bow knee to another empire.
Perhaps you ought to do a little more thinking before firing half-cocked all the time? But that would be too much to hope for. Steffanie Saissore, Knight Stormcrows
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Nauplius
Hoi Andrapodistai
240
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Posted - 2014.09.20 18:27:00 -
[300] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote: But what does concern me, is transfer or resources (in this scenario, human resources, as a work power or potential military power) to hostile to both of us and you, and even Mr. Nauplius side - the Republic.
I agree. PIE and In Exile are traitors for helping to transfer manpower to the Republic. They consider the soft, gentile treatment of slaves so important that they are willing to strengthen the Empire's enemies to advance it. |
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Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1385
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Posted - 2014.09.20 19:02:00 -
[301] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Diana Kim wrote: But what does concern me, is transfer or resources (in this scenario, human resources, as a work power or potential military power) to hostile to both of us and you, and even Mr. Nauplius side - the Republic.
I agree. PIE and In Exile are traitors for helping to transfer manpower to the Republic. They consider the soft, gentile treatment of slaves so important that they are willing to strengthen the Empire's enemies to advance it. After what you put these people through, I will be amazed if any notable fraction of them ever cease being a significant financial and medical burden to whomever is tasked with their care to become productive members of society again, let alone capable of military service.
Regardless of where they ended up or with whom. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1257
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Posted - 2014.09.20 21:30:00 -
[302] - Quote
Steffanie Saissore wrote: You delusional little whelp. ... you trollish little imp. ... Perhaps you ought to do a little more thinking before firing half-cocked all the time?
And you are just another loud irrelevant gallentean. Your words are simple lie and nothing, but insults.
To make the space cleaner and healthy for everyone to live in, you and peoples like you must cease to exist. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1257
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Posted - 2014.09.20 21:40:00 -
[303] - Quote
Nauplius wrote:Diana Kim wrote: But what does concern me, is transfer or resources (in this scenario, human resources, as a work power or potential military power) to hostile to both of us and you, and even Mr. Nauplius side - the Republic.
I agree. PIE and In Exile are traitors for helping to transfer manpower to the Republic. They consider the soft, gentile treatment of slaves so important that they are willing to strengthen the Empire's enemies to advance it. Mr. Nauplius, I am not going to intervene in your conflict with Exile and PIE, and you consider them traitors just as they consider you one. I won't help neither you, nor them in solving this conflict between you, and I won't raise my gun neither against you, nor against them.
However, if you will need help blowing up space scum like this Saissore, you can always ask for reinforcements. |

Kohiko Sun
Stormcrows
60
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Posted - 2014.09.21 02:15:00 -
[304] - Quote
I welcome you to our very small list of reds for your threat against us and bad posting. I have thought from time to time of offering to hire you as a chance for you to see new things, but I must admit the many offers we have had against you became more interesting to me after seeing this.
If you feel you have been made neg-ten by mistake, you are welcome to contact us through your NEOCOM or in person at the LSB as long as you act properly. You should wear comfortable shoes and loose clothing, because there will be many hoops to jump through - including giving Pilot Saissore a compliment. |

Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1386
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Posted - 2014.09.21 02:30:00 -
[305] - Quote
Kohiko Sun wrote:a compliment. Just one hardly seems sufficient.
If I were in Steff's place I'd be demanding an hour-long video of compliments and good words and apologies.
Additional videos for each individual person she's ever talked **** about, for bonus credit. Morwen Lagann CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar Owner, The Golden Masque
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Jared Haywire
Stormcrows
6961
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Posted - 2014.09.21 12:04:00 -
[306] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:
However, if you will need help blowing up space scum like this Saissore, you can always ask*** for reinforcements.
You know we make our home in the same station right? Remember that next time you think about stepping out of your quarters you loud mouthed piece of space waste. Watch your back. |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1257
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Posted - 2014.09.21 12:08:00 -
[307] - Quote
Jared Haywire wrote:Diana Kim wrote:
However, if you will need help blowing up space scum like this Saissore, you can always ask*** for reinforcements.
You know we make our home in the same station right? Remember that next time you think about stepping out of your quarters you loud mouthed piece of space waste. Watch your back. Speaking about loud mouthed piece of space waste, that would be a perfect definition of your actions right now. I would be happy to see you near my quarters in that station though to push your words back into your throat as far as they would go. The question is only would you dare to appear there, or would just hide like all other loudmouths from this media. |

Steffanie Saissore
Stormcrows
361
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Posted - 2014.09.21 15:25:00 -
[308] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:Steffanie Saissore wrote: You delusional little whelp. ... you trollish little imp. ... Perhaps you ought to do a little more thinking before firing half-cocked all the time?
And you are just another loud irrelevant gallentean. Your words are simple lie* and nothing, but insults. To make the space cleaner and healthy for everyone to live in, you and peoples like you must cease to exist. * Steffanie Saissore is a well-known honorless liar. Not long ago, she was even claiming that I was flying a dominix (I could send logs of this to anyone interested, who might consider doing any business with this person).
I am not the one spewing vitriol all over the sector. Most would say that I am rather soft spoken and quiet...this is of course anyone is able to get a word in edgewise, what with the screaming and barking that comes from you.
The fact that you would rather physically assault anyone for simply disagreeing with or disapproving of you speaks volumes to how sad things really are. I would hope you find a cure for what ails you...but I am not going to hold my breath. Steffanie Saissore, Knight Stormcrows
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Jace Sarice
11823
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Posted - 2014.09.21 15:43:00 -
[309] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote: Speaking about loud mouthed piece of space waste, that would be a perfect definition of your actions right now. I would be happy to see you near my quarters in that station though to push your words back into your throat as far as they would go. The question is only would you dare to appear there, or would just hide like all other loudmouths from this media.
Diana, it should be telling to you that not a single IGS participating Caldari capsuleer will support you, befriend you, or fly with you any longer. Even the Caldari that you claim to support, though you are not Caldari in any meaningful sense, will have nothing to do with you. While it is obvious that the cluster would be better off without you, it is also obvious that you are not planning to do the universe a favor by disappearing anytime soon. With that in mind, I am considering beginning an investment plan whereby I pay capsuleers to block your transmissions from their sight and to not respond to you. It is an investment in a future, an inarguably better future where you are not heard.
Unlike some above that hope you will change, that hope you will stop being a waste of carrbon - I do not. I wish you nothing but the torment, sadness, and depression that I know you already suffer.
I wish you all the worst, - Sarice |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1257
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Posted - 2014.09.21 18:30:00 -
[310] - Quote
Steffanie Saissore wrote: I am not the one spewing vitriol all over the sector. Most would say that I am rather soft spoken and quiet...
You what?
Steffanie Saissore wrote: You delusional little whelp. ... you trollish little imp. ... Perhaps you ought to do a little more thinking before firing half-cocked all the time?
As I said:
Diana Kim wrote: * Steffanie Saissore is a well-known honorless liar. Not long ago, she was even claiming that I was flying a dominix (I could send logs of this to anyone interested, who might consider doing any business with this person).
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1257
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Posted - 2014.09.21 18:39:00 -
[311] - Quote
Jace Sarice wrote: Diana, it should be telling to you that not a single IGS participating Caldari capsuleer will support you, befriend you, or fly with you any longer. Even the Caldari that you claim to support, though you are not Caldari in any meaningful sense, will have nothing to do with you. While it is obvious that the cluster would be better off without you, it is also obvious that you are not planning to do the universe a favor by disappearing anytime soon. With that in mind, I am considering beginning an investment plan whereby I pay capsuleers to block your transmissions from their sight and to not respond to you. It is an investment in a future, an inarguably better future where you are not heard.
Unlike some above that hope you will change, that hope you will stop being a waste of carbon - I do not. I wish you nothing but the torment, sadness, and depression that I know you already suffer.
I wish you all the worst, - Sarice
At first I'd like to add, that peoples like YOU in the first place have no right to speak about Caldari. While we, Caldari, were fighting for the State, cowards and loudmouths like you were hiding only Maker knows where.
Would be funny if you tried to say it into my face, or into my ship, but knowing your ilk, I assume you would just hide in another hiding hole, where you were sitting while Caldari were fighting, just to spew out some insults and hatred.
Well, have fun with it, but remember one thing: when you live as nothing, you will die as nothing as well.
P.S. You can't imagine how many real Caldari friends I have. You, outcasts and traitors, who have betrayed the State, you will never know it, what does it mean to fight together with friends. |

Steffanie Saissore
Stormcrows
361
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Posted - 2014.09.21 20:09:00 -
[312] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:Jace Sarice wrote: Diana, it should be telling to you that not a single IGS participating Caldari capsuleer will support you, befriend you, or fly with you any longer. Even the Caldari that you claim to support, though you are not Caldari in any meaningful sense, will have nothing to do with you. While it is obvious that the cluster would be better off without you, it is also obvious that you are not planning to do the universe a favor by disappearing anytime soon. With that in mind, I am considering beginning an investment plan whereby I pay capsuleers to block your transmissions from their sight and to not respond to you. It is an investment in a future, an inarguably better future where you are not heard.
Unlike some above that hope you will change, that hope you will stop being a waste of carbon - I do not. I wish you nothing but the torment, sadness, and depression that I know you already suffer.
I wish you all the worst, - Sarice
At first I'd like to add, that peoples like YOU in the first place have no right to speak about Caldari. While we, Caldari, were fighting for the State, cowards and loudmouths like you were hiding only Maker knows where. Would be funny if you tried to say it into my face, or into my ship, but knowing your ilk, I assume you would just hide in another hiding hole, where you were sitting while Caldari were fighting, just to spew out some insults and hatred. Well, have fun with it, but remember one thing: when you live as nothing, you will die as nothing as well. P.S. You can't imagine how many real Caldari friends I have. You, outcasts and traitors, who have betrayed the State, you will never know it, what does it mean to fight together with friends.
Two things...
First, stop yapping and step up. All you do is talk and whine and complain. And hide behind the safety of an organization that cannot be threatened with a war dec. For as much as I dislike the man, at least Naupilus had the balls to step out from the safety net of an Empire run corporation.
Second, when are you going to realize that you are wrong? Heth is dead, or plugged into a Sansha network. He's not coming back. The Provist lost and have been purged; at least those that fought to the end did so with style and conviction. You on the other hand? Well, I guess you can claim the ability to subvert every thread on this forum to dealing with your hate and your shortcomings.
As for your offer to Naupilus to come hunt me...well, you've shown your colours by allying yourself with a known killer of children and the helpless. Good job. I have on more than one occasion offered you the chance to come face me in space, yet you constantly refuse. Now, you know where I live. Please, by all means come calling. Steffanie Saissore, Knight Stormcrows
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Anslo
Scope Works
13274
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Posted - 2014.09.22 02:17:00 -
[313] - Quote
Steffanie Saissore wrote:Diana Kim wrote:Jace Sarice wrote: Diana, it should be telling to you that not a single IGS participating Caldari capsuleer will support you, befriend you, or fly with you any longer. Even the Caldari that you claim to support, though you are not Caldari in any meaningful sense, will have nothing to do with you. While it is obvious that the cluster would be better off without you, it is also obvious that you are not planning to do the universe a favor by disappearing anytime soon. With that in mind, I am considering beginning an investment plan whereby I pay capsuleers to block your transmissions from their sight and to not respond to you. It is an investment in a future, an inarguably better future where you are not heard.
Unlike some above that hope you will change, that hope you will stop being a waste of carbon - I do not. I wish you nothing but the torment, sadness, and depression that I know you already suffer.
I wish you all the worst, - Sarice
At first I'd like to add, that peoples like YOU in the first place have no right to speak about Caldari. While we, Caldari, were fighting for the State, cowards and loudmouths like you were hiding only Maker knows where. Would be funny if you tried to say it into my face, or into my ship, but knowing your ilk, I assume you would just hide in another hiding hole, where you were sitting while Caldari were fighting, just to spew out some insults and hatred. Well, have fun with it, but remember one thing: when you live as nothing, you will die as nothing as well. P.S. You can't imagine how many real Caldari friends I have. You, outcasts and traitors, who have betrayed the State, you will never know it, what does it mean to fight together with friends. Two things... First, stop yapping and step up. All you do is talk and whine and complain. And hide behind the safety of an organization that cannot be threatened with a war dec. For as much as I dislike the man, at least Naupilus had the balls to step out from the safety net of an Empire run corporation. Second, when are you going to realize that you are wrong? Heth is dead, or plugged into a Sansha network. He's not coming back. The Provist lost and have been purged; at least those that fought to the end did so with style and conviction. You on the other hand? Well, I guess you can claim the ability to subvert every thread on this forum to dealing with your hate and your shortcomings. As for your offer to Naupilus to come hunt me...well, you've shown your colours by allying yourself with a known killer of children and the helpless. Good job. I have on more than one occasion offered you the chance to come face me in space, yet you constantly refuse. Now, you know where I live. Please, by all means come calling. ...marry me
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Indira Harashani
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
64
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Posted - 2014.09.22 03:34:00 -
[314] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:Mr. Nauplius, I am not going to intervene* in your conflict with Exile** and PIE, and you consider them traitors just as they consider you one. I won't help neither you, nor them in solving this conflict between you, and I won't raise my gun neither against you, nor against them.
However, if you will need help blowing up space scum like this Saissore, you can always ask*** for reinforcements.
* Note: this will remain in effect while you are officially on the service to 24th crusade. If by any scenario you will decide to leave the service, most likely, I would offer my help to Exile and PIE to fight against you.
** Note: with exclusion of certain individuals, who have committed treason against the State
*** Note: this will remain in effect even if you would become neutral to me For all of your talk over the last several days about having to defend your honor against those who would attack it on these forums and elsewhere, this post of yours, the underlined statements in particular, very clearly suggests that there's nothing to defend in the first place.
There is no honor in fighting alongside or offering support to the enemy of your supposed ally, against those who would support that ally by fighting against that enemy. Your preceding statements of otherwise supposed neutrality do not change this. No, child; you have just thrown away what shreds of honor you could possibly have claimed to possess, with this declaration that you would assist him against those that would fight him and his evil ways out of some personal vendetta.
A pity. But unfortunately, I suppose it is not an unexpected one, even though I had hoped for better than that from you. Lady Indira Harashani Holder of the Kheryskova Archipelago, Kihtaled IV |

Kyllsa Siikanen
Gradient
361
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Posted - 2014.09.22 10:15:00 -
[315] - Quote
Sometimes, one's zeal can override one's good sense.
The thing to do in those times is to quietly step away. GÇ£Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.GÇ¥-á
GÇò C.S. Lewis-á |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1258
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Posted - 2014.09.22 12:30:00 -
[316] - Quote
Steffanie Saissore wrote: First, stop yapping and step up. All you do is talk and whine and complain. And hide behind the safety of an organization that cannot be threatened with a war dec. For as much as I dislike the man, at least Naupilus had the balls to step out from the safety net of an Empire run corporation.
Step up to, excuse me, what?! You do realize, that you are talking to active State pilot, who is at war for over five years already. Unlike you, I do fight at the war, and even accept duels from people, who don't like what I say. I can put as example Ms. Aphoxema G, who, unlike you, weren't afraid to challenge me to a ship combat, and, being dissatisfied with that, even to hand to hand combat after. And I respect her for her bravery.
But you... and loudmouths like you. And moreover, LIARS, like you, telling that "all I can to is just talk", I despise you for your cowardice. You see, sad fact is that it was you, who came here just to talk, whine and complain.
Of course, don't have any illusions. I will say you it beforehand: I won't accept duel invites from you, because you lack honor to be respected as an opponent. However, here I will notify you, that in a space outside of CONCORD control, you ship will be eliminated on contact. If you would need reasons, I could send you them in private mail after your elimination. If you will have objections - you can direct them to Protectorate command.
Steffanie Saissore wrote: Second, when are you going to realize that you are wrong? Heth is dead, or plugged into a Sansha network. He's not coming back. The Provist lost and have been purged; at least those that fought to the end did so with style and conviction. You on the other hand? Well, I guess you can claim the ability to subvert every thread on this forum to dealing with your hate and your shortcomings.
I don't really want to answer on that rant and continue to derail the thread. It was about Mr. Nauplius and his slaves, and not Mr. Heth. Another sad fact, is that you are again doing exactly what are you blaming me in: subverting this thread with your hate and shortcomings.
Steffanie Saissore wrote: well, you've shown your colours by allying yourself with a known killer of children and the helpless.
Started with spreading lies about me, and now twisting interpretation like that. You are pathetic, Saissore. I will be happy to clean space from your presence, if I will see a chance, just like from many other gallentean occupants, who are spreading their useless propaganda.
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1258
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Posted - 2014.09.22 12:43:00 -
[317] - Quote
Indira Harashani wrote:Diana Kim wrote:Mr. Nauplius, I am not going to intervene* in your conflict with Exile** and PIE, and you consider them traitors just as they consider you one. I won't help neither you, nor them in solving this conflict between you, and I won't raise my gun neither against you, nor against them.
However, if you will need help blowing up space scum like this Saissore, you can always ask*** for reinforcements.
* Note: this will remain in effect while you are officially on the service to 24th crusade. If by any scenario you will decide to leave the service, most likely, I would offer my help to Exile and PIE to fight against you.
** Note: with exclusion of certain individuals, who have committed treason against the State
*** Note: this will remain in effect even if you would become neutral to me For all of your talk over the last several days about having to defend your honor against those who would attack it on these forums and elsewhere, this post of yours, the underlined statements in particular, very clearly suggests that there's nothing to defend in the first place. There is no honor in fighting alongside or offering support to the enemy of your supposed ally, against those who would support that ally by fighting against that enemy. Your preceding statements of otherwise supposed neutrality do not change this. No, child; you have just thrown away what shreds of honor you could possibly have claimed to possess, with this declaration that you would assist him against those that would fight him and his evil ways out of some personal vendetta. A pity. But unfortunately, I suppose it is not an unexpected one, even though I had hoped for better than that from you. As I have said in another thread, where you have popped out of blue just like here only to derail and insult me, obviously you don't even understand what does honor means.
The situation is very simple: blue pilot helps blue to eliminate red. And the note signifies, that a neutral pilot would help a neutral pilot to eliminate red, even if blue or neutral pilots don't like each other of whatever they are doing.
And I leave a right to myself to defend my, our State and our heroes honor against liars and loudmouths, who appear just to insult me, our State or our heroes. As being a State pilot and defending interests of the State in the first place, from now on I will consider your attacks and disrespect to me as well as attack and disrespect to the State, which uniform I wear. Your behavior is unacceptable and promotes interests of Gallente Federation.
In short: I am tired of this, and if I will meet you in space, I will simply eliminate you as an enemy for spreading pro-gallentean propaganda. Have a nice day. |

Luna Hanaya
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
1
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Posted - 2014.09.22 13:03:00 -
[318] - Quote
Diana Kim wrote:In short: I am tired of this, and if I will meet you in space, I will simply eliminate you as an enemy for spreading pro-gallentean propaganda. Have a nice day. Commander! I beg you, please don't kill her! Lady Indira Harashani doesn't represent the whole kingdom, and your with her feud shouldn't be a reason to ruin years of successful cooperation in both military and economic programs between your State and our Kingdom. I understand your frustration, but I beg you to forgive her. Someone of you should be smarter and stop this madness already! |

Anslo
Scope Works
13323
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Posted - 2014.09.22 13:48:00 -
[319] - Quote
Luna Hanaya wrote:Diana Kim wrote:In short: I am tired of this, and if I will meet you in space, I will simply eliminate you as an enemy for spreading pro-gallentean propaganda. Have a nice day. Commander! I beg you, please don't kill her! Lady Indira Harashani doesn't represent the whole kingdom, and your with her feud shouldn't be a reason to ruin years of successful cooperation in both military and economic programs between your State and our Kingdom. I understand your frustration, but I beg you to forgive her. Someone of you should be smarter and stop this madness already!
You're over estimating her threat level kid...
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Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1258
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Posted - 2014.09.22 14:30:00 -
[320] - Quote
Luna Hanaya wrote:Diana Kim wrote:In short: I am tired of this, and if I will meet you in space, I will simply eliminate you as an enemy for spreading pro-gallentean propaganda. Have a nice day. Commander! I beg you, please don't kill her! Lady Indira Harashani doesn't represent the whole kingdom, and your with her feud shouldn't be a reason to ruin years of successful cooperation in both military and economic programs between your State and our Kingdom. I understand your frustration, but I beg you to forgive her. Someone of you should be smarter and stop this madness already! Hmm... very well, Ms. Hanaya. Let it be so, and I will forgive her. However, it doesn't mean I will let her tell any crap about me again uncontested. |
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Desiderya
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Imperial Outlaws.
829
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Posted - 2014.09.22 20:46:00 -
[321] - Quote
Anslo wrote: You're over estimating her threat level kid...
How dare you make jokes about this. Don't you see how narrowly a world-shattering international crisis between the Khanid and the Caldari State has just been averted? Show some respect, man.
Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise. |

Anslo
Scope Works
13418
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Posted - 2014.09.22 20:48:00 -
[322] - Quote
Desiderya wrote:Anslo wrote: You're over estimating her threat level kid...
How dare you make jokes about this. Don't you see how narrowly a world-shattering international crisis between the Khanid and the Caldari State has just been averted? Show some respect, man. Me showing respect?
You what mate?
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Havohej
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
39
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Posted - 2014.10.05 19:33:00 -
[323] - Quote
Elmund Egivand wrote:Calculus eh? I still consider all 4034 slaves liberated, 2034 without their lives and 2000 more with their lives. And bloody our hands? Unless you had been living under a cave, you know that our hands are long bloodied. What's a few pints more? Where was this correct and forward-thinking point of view when I was actively trying to free our people from the Empire and protect those in the Republic from the Empire's treacherous indoctrinations?
Strike us like matches, 'cause everyone deserves the flames. OOC Forums at Backstage |

Diana Kim
State Protectorate Caldari State
1293
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Posted - 2014.10.05 23:34:00 -
[324] - Quote
Havohej wrote:Elmund Egivand wrote:Calculus eh? I still consider all 4034 slaves liberated, 2034 without their lives and 2000 more with their lives. And bloody our hands? Unless you had been living under a cave, you know that our hands are long bloodied. What's a few pints more? Where was this correct and forward-thinking point of view when I was actively trying to free our people from the Empire and protect those in the Republic from the Empire's treacherous indoctrinations? I'd say, where was this correct we should just get together and liberate Mr. Egivand. I hope he will like it... being liberated. |

Elmund Egivand
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
100
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Posted - 2014.10.06 01:24:00 -
[325] - Quote
Havohej wrote:Elmund Egivand wrote:Calculus eh? I still consider all 4034 slaves liberated, 2034 without their lives and 2000 more with their lives. And bloody our hands? Unless you had been living under a cave, you know that our hands are long bloodied. What's a few pints more? Where was this correct and forward-thinking point of view when I was actively trying to free our people from the Empire and protect those in the Republic from the Empire's treacherous indoctrinations?
The two years spent privateering comes with harsh lessons. Whether the lessons are understood and internalised is another matter. |
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