No. If I wanted any kind of power, this is not the path I would have chosen.
But I will do my duty, no matter what happens.
Tibus Heth was the leader of a worker protest and riot that eventually lead into a firefight with Caldari armed forces. His start was fighting against the lawful authorities in support of the common people, and it triggered further revolts across the Caldari State. Tibus Heth fought against legitimate State authorities in the hope of achieving better conditions for the workers. He was put into power, instead of executed for rebellion, because he found wide support for his ideals. He even broadcast a manifesto of his own, where he admits to participating in a coup and committing crimes against State law, in the name of doing what he felt was right.
I did not “side with those who came into the Empire with war, to murder, kidnap, torture, rob”. I sided with those looking to protect the common people from the cruelty of the people in power, who were murdering them by the millions. I sided with the common people against lords whose response to chemical attacks was to slaughter the victims. I supplied the common people with food, water, fuel, refuge, and yes, weapons with which to fight back against those who had abused them. I flew a relief transport for the victims on Kahah, a transport that was destroyed by CONCORD under Khanid orders. I tried to fight back against mass murderers sacrificing millions of slaves, only to again be destroyed by CONCORD, who protected the monsters. I made one of the most difficult decisions of my life and defended a relief transport in defense of the millions of people on Kahah who were being butchered by Khanid lords, because I knew that doing what was right mattered more than what Amarrian capsuleers and lords might think of me. And I fought for those people who rebelled on Thebeka in the hope of giving them a better future.
And before that, I have provided care for millions of innocent victims of Nauplius. I have defended Amarr on numerous occasions, against the Republic militia, blood raiders, Sansha’s Nation, the drifters, and the triglavians. I have provided humanitarian aid for victims on Caldari Prime, Anath, Rens, Tsurama, and others. I have worked for, administered, helped administer, and provided charity to multiple refugees and hospitals, both in space and planetside. I represented PIE and Amarr at the Pakshi Peace Conference. I called on empresses Jamyl and Catiz to uphold Scriptural laws on proper slave ownership to keep slaves out of the hands of capsuleer murderers, and I brought attention to the sin of House Khanid and Cardinal Sourem Itharen naming a Sani Sabik champion-candidate in the Succession Trials. And I have done my utmost to defend the faith from its detractors.
I have no shame in my record.
My fight is against corrupt lords and flawed systems. What I have done has been to help the common people from the injustices of those whose duty was supposed to be to guide and protect them. If any feel I have done wrong, that I have made mistakes, then so be it. Perhaps I have. But I can only do what my heart and my faith tell me is right.
I’ve nothing more to say on this.