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Drethon
Gallente
Mixed Metaphor
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Posted - 2008.09.10 13:34:00 -
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Since the outbreak of this conflict I remained neutral and preached understanding. I have tried to help people realize we are all the same and that war accomplishes nothing but destruction on all sides. This all ended in the flash of a cruise missile.
Earlier this week I was flying an unarmed shuttle through concord protected Federation space when a small fleet of State Militia ships jumped in to engage Federation Militia ships massing at this location. The battle was very evenly balanced with ships falling on both sides when a state ship targeted my shuttle. Before I had a chance to consider escape, a cruise missile obliterated my shuttle, killing my sister.
In the confusion of the battle, Concord sensor recordings could not determine which ship fired the missile but I will never erase the memory of the target lock I saw just before my sister was killed in cold blood.
I once thought that I could help people find their way to peace but I now know see this is impossible and there are those who must be stopped by any means possible. Yesterday I joined Andreus Ixiris and Mixed Metaphor and will not stop until no State pilot ever has the capability to kill an innocent civilian again.
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"Some times peace must be purchased at the tip of a sword and some cannot be reasoned with but must be stopped by any and all means necessary." |
Drethon
Gallente
Mixed Metaphor
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Posted - 2008.09.10 14:45:00 -
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Edited by: Drethon on 10/09/2008 14:49:23
 Originally by: Nakatre Read
Edited by: Nakatre Read on 10/09/2008 14:17:55
So if I get this straight, you carried your sister aboard your shuttle through a warzone and actually stayed to watch the fight? With your sister aboard?
My family has lived in the Federation for as long as we can remember. We did not ask for you to bring war to our home and we do not fleet our home in the face of threats.
Camille was a scientist in our family's corporation that produces propulsion equipment for frigates. She had retrofitted this shuttle with sensors to analyze the performance of microwarp drives. I was holding station over 70 kilometers from the battle and she convinced me that they would not attack a neutral ship. My family's corporation sold as much equipment to Caldari buyers as they did Gallente buyers.
We likely would have had enough advanced warning at that range but even though previous tests and simulations showed the new sensors integrated seamlessly with ship systems, the extra sensors and the confusion of battle interfered with the lock warning sensors in such a way the shuttle could not enter in time between the warning and the impact of the cruise missile.
Perhaps we were too naive to believe that Caldari were only fighting military targets. Camille paid for this with here life, a lot more Caldari will pay the same price.
Originally by: Diego Hernandez
Looks like this will be a long war for you then...
It matters not how long the war lasts, I will see it end or die trying.
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"Some times peace must be purchased at the tip of a sword and some cannot be reasoned with but must be stopped by any and all means necessary." |
Drethon
Gallente
Mixed Metaphor
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Posted - 2008.09.10 14:47:00 -
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Edited by: Drethon on 10/09/2008 14:48:48
((ACK! Mispost...))
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"Some times peace must be purchased at the tip of a sword and some cannot be reasoned with but must be stopped by any and all means necessary." |
Drethon
Gallente
Mixed Metaphor
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Posted - 2008.09.10 15:11:00 -
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Originally by: Scagga Laebetrovo
Oh, and furthermore: why didn't you provide an escape module for your sister in case of emergency?
If I did not even have time to enter war in a shuttle do you think she had enough time to enter an escape pod which did not have the capacity to hold the equipment Camille was using for analysis?
Yes we took a great risk but this does not excuse a Caldari Militia pilot's attack on a ship owned by a corporation that works with all four empires.
"Some times peace must be purchased at the tip of a sword and some cannot be reasoned with but must be stopped by any and all |
Drethon
Gallente
Mixed Metaphor
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Posted - 2008.09.10 19:01:00 -
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Edited by: Drethon on 10/09/2008 19:13:15
Edited by: Drethon on 10/09/2008 19:05:58
Originally by: Vaden Khale
So no other Gallente will needlessly die because you'll be...what? Needlessly killing Caldari? Did you perhaps think that you would be mistaken as a scout for a larger force, or a simple reconnaissance of Caldari fleet structure and coherency? I am not surprised you were attacked. If you truly wished to harmlessly observe, might I suggest a covert ops ship. They can cloak. Maybe you've heard of it? It prevents ships from targeting you and destroying the idiot family members you keep on board.
Using that logic, how many Sisters of Eve ships have you destroyed traveling through a war zone claiming to help the injured? They may be scouts too. Not to mention I don't know many scouts for a larger fleet that observer a battle in an unarmed ship when the ships engaged in combat are perfectly capable of this?
If you are saying you would engage any neutral ships in high security space in the vicinity of a battle, you sound little better than a pirate yourself.
Originally by: Darina Rea
Edited by: Darina Rea on 10/09/2008 18:34:27
Distance is also a funny thing, but 70 km far away? No, that's the optimal range of most battleships and well inside the range of most cruisers. A distance that can be called far away would be 300 km, or better yet 400 km.
Indeed, assuming the scanners she was operating could operate at distances greater than 75 km.
Originally by: Veron Daerth
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I would agree if this was true war. This is a concord sponsored corporate war. I was not the only neutral pilot flying through this space at the time as it is a heavily traveled route.
It is not only the loss of my sister that drives me but the fact that no one considers the loss of a civilian to be important. Neither Concord or the State have put any effort into determining who murdered her. In military school I was taught that targeting and killing a civilian, as opposed to a civilian killed in a military building, was a war crime, not simply collateral damage.
"Some times peace must be purchased at the tip of a sword and some must be stopped by any and all means necessary" |
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