In the event there are parties in possession of intelligence and evidence vital to the security and peace of the New Eden cluster, and having some reason for declining co-operation with particular core empire authorities, I am authorized to act as capsuleer liaison to the DED investigation into the crimes perpetrated in Tanoo and Girani-Fa systems.
Please co-operate with the DED and legally authorized Special Affairs for Regulations and Order investigators and counter-subversion units at all times. Evidence and intelligence may be transferred to SARO custody by secured SCC-standard contract to Colonel Oveg Drust.
I am certain all citizens of New Eden will see the sense of trusting the guardians of interstellar peace, order, and law with the the duty of determining the truth and punishing those responsible.
So much fuss for these useless boring comms boxes. I told my technicians to check if there was anything about me in those logs but they told me it was impossible to tell and that it was unlikely those “great empires” had any interest in my tournament career. They’re not so great then are they!
Well I had already planned this road trip to Pator, which I hear is a quaint and adorable travel destination if you want a rustic kind of charm. And I had already scheduled a meet and greet with a few millions members of my local fan-club there. Since I don’t really care who gets those things I might as well continue with the original plan.
I don’t know when exactly I’ll be there, but my staff member Planet 6 will depart from Tanoo at 23:00 standard to transport those things to Pator where I’ll hand over the toys personally to whomever it was that wanted them.
Since no one bothered to play war with his alliance for tonight, I’m not exactly sure what we can do to make it the spectacle we wanted it to be, and it seems the Electus Matari escort is insisting on a safe route too… if my fans don’t have any special requests we’ll just go straight to this Filmir “very important person” through high sec to meet with him. Big wig or no, there’s no way he won’t beg me for an autograph.
I know! Couldn’t they have had someone from the SoCT take the role of talking to “everybody else”? That’s someone we all at least kinda plainly owe something to even if we’re not completely united in liking them.
Instead of someone who, you know, transparently hates us?
I don’t think he had much choice. With the Inner Circle meeting (and down a member, with the Caldari representative in Amarr mediating between the Privy and Tribal Councils), if he oversteps in matters of direct interest to two different signatories, he might get handed his balls.
What if I said we could assist with the security and peace of the New Eden cluster, if we could come to a small trade agreement. One of my pilots recovered an Encrypted Ship Log from one of the Moros wrecks.
Currently the Encrypted Ship Log remains safe in a secure lab in our Fort Umbra. I’ve learned my lesson moving assets which CONCORD, and more specifically you want. In case you forgot about our little bit of history together which left my little sister traumatized to fly Haulers.
So for our deal, how about you pull some strings, get a favor from EDENCOM to have a Federal Stellar Observatory deployed in a specified system. Which helps serve your goal of increasing the Security and peace of New Eden. And, In return I will personally deliver you the Encrypted Ship logs and a completely and properly fit Marshal, which I suspect you are in need of one.
Till then the Data shall remain in a secure lab under examination.
After transfer to Pator escorted by EM and NADSC the evidence should now have been placed by the owner on a secure contract, available to Hetman General Kanth Filmir, on the structure ‘Interstellar House of Pancakes’ and the necessary docking and access rights granted. The station is looking forward to a visit by Command.
The escort was mostly uneventful. Our hearts are warmed and hope given new life by the courteous lack of CONCORD-sanctioned wardecs; maybe cooler heads will prevail if even the capsuleer community can hold back at a time like this. A slight misunderstanding between our forces and that of the AmmatarAmarr Navy, as well as some quick trigger fingers, lead to destruction of a small amount of Navy ships and one Tornado-class battlecruiser of Electus Matari.
We remain loyal;
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Head Diplomat
Electus Matari
Ships undock in Pator. There are other beautiful images from the route by Clementine Lafleur here.
For the benefit of anyone too simple to understand the concept of sovereignty, the Imperial Navy have every business operating in the Ardishapur military circuit; there was no need to kill their personnel, no need to obstruct an investigation into major terrorist activities.
Electus Matari made a choice, the same choice they invariably do–to court escalation with their criminal adventurism, murder in service to that task does not diminish their crime, it worsens it.
The Ammatar Fleet did not attack us and I did not claim as such. The Imperial Navy attacked us. In the fight with the Imperial Navy (which was wiped out), one pilot took a shot at one of the Ammatar customs officials, but didn’t destroy its ship. His error was pointed out and we all just aligned and warped.
The Imperial Navy initially aggressed on one of the Gallente pilots, actually. We expected them to shoot, but the fact that we expected them to be overly-aggressive idiots when they knew that we’d be moving through that gate at the time we did due to these forums does not excuse the fact that they were over-aggressive idiots.
I hope this eliminates further attempts to spew propaganda.
The failure to do this by far the smaller of that evening’s provocations, Electus Matari made an armed incursion into the Mandate to remove evidence pertinent to an investigation sanctioned by Her Most Sublime and Imperial Majesty.
This was not gross negligence, nor can their actions be reasonably considered defensive; it was by obstruction of the Throne’s justice an attack on Imperial sovereignty.
You’ll have to expand on how you reached that conclusion, because ‘make an incursion into Tanoo and assault a naval squadron enroute’ seems a pretty radical interpretation of anything he said.
We are independent capsuleers, and our movement is not restricted by CONCORD. The Tanoo station is a freeport we have frequented before. You can have opinions about us being in Tanoo by all means, but claiming it is illegal in the eyes of CONCORD is nonsensical.
No such claim was made, CONCORD’s permissiveness with respect to capsuleers has no bearing on whether effecting entry by force, to a nation you are unwelcome in constitutes an incursion; claiming such action to be sanctioned by CONCORD is dubious at best.