Second speaker, Ms. Remilia Malitia, Captain.
As Strike Commander Kim highlighted, the subject I will be covering today will be the brief rise and fall of Sansha Kuvakei, progeny of an once respectable and influential family corrupted by foreign ideals.
Spent as its master may be, the corrupted remnants of his work linger on to this very day, threatening the lives of countless people within our borders and beyond.
This plague still afflicting our cluster emerged during the latter parts of the war against the Gallente federation, borne of the mind of the young Sansha Kuvakei, recently ascended to the head of his influential family. Kuvakei, his ideals of meritocracy and his loyalty to the nascent State skewed and warped, set off on an independant colonization effort, establishing multiple independant colonies and begining to preach his dogma towards all of New Eden, offering false promises of a utopian society ruled by the ‘intellectual elite’, which all those that answered his call falsely thought themselves part of. This imaginatively christened ‘Sansha’s Nation’, with its megalomaniacal leader at the top, was formally established in YC 5, delcaring itself sovereign and establishing an independant military and government. It did not take long for Sansha’s madness to only intensify, seeking further avenues through which he could reinforce his grip over his subjects.
Turning to the revolutionary technology our State had procured from the Jove, he set off to develop a series of invasive implants that would overwhelm and subjugate the minds of their host, slaving their will to Kuvakei and his Nation. Countless innocents perished during the development of this technology, forced into human experimentation projects. Soon, his facilities were outfitting his closest followers and workers alike with the implants, creating a mindless legion that could never question his command.
Many of those initially fooled by his lies soon came to realize the state of things and quickly fled back to their home nations, while investigator after investigator sent by the empires either went missing or was eliminated with no subtlety whatsoever, it quickly became aparent that something was very wrong with the Nation. After a while, naturally, the truth of what atrocities he had committed came into light. In YC 37 CONCORD demanded that Kuvakei surrender himself, backed by all 5 signatories. Sansha, in his delusion, thought himself superior not only to his enslaved subjects, but to all of known humanity, defying CONCORD’s command and setting himself against the civilized world, hellbent on subsuming all. His retribution was swift and unrelenting, with the 5 signatories coming together in a manner never seen before or since that time to eliminate the virulent technological plague and its master.
The operation was, predominantly, a success, with Sansha’s Nation shattered and devastated, only tiny fragments remaining, cowering in the darkest corners of their old territories.
Unfortunately, as all of you are undoubtedly aware of, Sansha’s Legions persist to this day, in some capacity, led by an entity declaring itself to be Sansha Kuvakei himself, despite his confirmed death at the hand of CONCORD almost a century ago. Let me take this oportunity to remind you all of the urgency with which we must finally sterilize our cluster of both Sansha’s influence and technology, for even as they hide themselves in Stain and their artificial wormholes, still they emerge time and time again, claiming more people to swell their corrupted ranks, condemning them to a fate worse than death.
Thankfully, our loyal allies in the Amarr Empire seem to be finally mobilizing to create a beachhead into Stain, let us all hope that in due time, we can all rid ourselves of this scourge once and for all, for The State and for all of New Eden.
Questions:
Chiyoki Xih Zhaikawi:
Miss Malitia, As euhmm… Probably the most experty expert on the topic of the Triglavians I will talk to… May I ask for your assessment of the similarities of the Sancha assimilation and the Triglavian bioado…thingy, as well the differences, please?
Remilia Malitia:
An excellent question. They are, as far as I have observed, as different as two things can be beyond the fact that they are both artificial ‘enhancements’ that occupy one’s body. While the implants developed by Sansha rely on invasive cranial hardware that subvert one’s will and connect True Slaves to a unified gestalt under the command of Sansha and his organized hierarchy, bio-adaptation relies on quasi-organic nanotechnology intended to harden one’s organism to inhospitable conditions. In all my time both studying the Collective and working besides them, I have seen no evidence that it subverts one’s will in any shape or form, in fact the Collective is diametrically opposed to the practice, seeing Sansha as a corruption to be eliminated.
Chiyoki Xih Zhaikawi:
Miss Malitia, you spoke of the concept of free will, may I ask to which extent that is taken in to consideration in the selection of who is being… euhmm… given? offered? Made… euhmm… bioadapted?
Remilia Malitia:
This differs depending on a series of variables, however I would kindly ask you to stay on subject, rather than have this derail into a discussion about the Triglavians. If you would like, I would be more than happy to discuss things after all presentations are over.