Ryzom

I have received the following message from Senator Dios:

To all brave and honorable Homin Guilds and their Representatives, Kamists and Karavaners alike, I propose to you all a Grand Conference to discuss the problems facing our homin peoples as a whole. Some of you may know of my stance on warmongering from the recent Senatorial election in Fyros, My tenets hold that War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable surely the most vicious.

Can we continue with the strife between our factions? After all, we are all on Atys for a purpose, War is fear cloaked in courage and we seem unable to pull ourselves out of it. What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. Why fight amongst ourselves when the Kitin are clearly a greater menace than your fellow Homins?

The opinion of 10,000 Homins is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Thus I ask you to all come to Fairhaven On Saturday December 2nd at 8pm GMT/3pm EST on Cho and Sunday December 3rd at 8pm GMT/3pm EST on Arispotle. We will hold the conference in front of the Fairhaven stables. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern Atysian era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

I recognize that many of you may hold different beliefs and values and I stress that this will be an open debate.

Come in peace, come in hope of a bright and shining future, free of the Kitin menace, a future where your offspring will not learn of the word “WAR”.

Prior to the conference would be a good time for the older wiser Homins to help any that needed aid to trek across Atys to the conference area.

I remember another message from Senator Dios.

"Our future lies with the Kami, living in harmony with our land as the Zorai do. Theirs is a way of peace and preservation,....Others must also be brought to the light and truth of this path.... Together, as one, freed from the watchful eye of the Karavan we can explore our past and our history."

I also remember that the investigation into the assignation of Trykoths, Karavan supporting Governor, Still Wyler stalled once the inquiry became chairedby Senator Dios.

Amazingly enough there was a tie in the election to replace Wyler between the highest military leader of the lake lands and an old overshadowed and forgotten house that supports the Fyros and garners very little support from the Karavan.

Now Dios proposes a "grand conference" hosted not upon Fyrosian soil but one held here in Fairhaven. Why?

I have spoken of my concerns that the our Government has become to entangled with the Fyrosian empire. Now I see things a bit differently. Old families shut out from political power are usurping their respective governments.

There is no war between Homins. We are already united as a people in defense of our homelands. However, we do compete and argue on how best to advance. Yet everyone is working with the goal of rebuilding Atys and no one has died in this supposed homin war. No one.

The Kitin threat is real. It is one best left to the guilds and warriors not the power hungry politicians.

Pero

Homins here are the Speeches from Senator Dios's conference, there was some disruption to the event from Wormbreath which is not recorded here.

Ailan's opening speech

Welcome Homins, to my friend, Senator Dios’s Grand Conference. Senator Dios as you may remember is an elected member of the Fyros senate and came here as part of her election campaign some while ago.

I am gratified to see you from both the Kami and Karavan factions here and hope we can have a calm and open discussion about our differences and where we all stand today. We may not agree with everything the Senator says here in Fairhaven, but we surely appreciate her coming here to host this forum.

I, for one believe that there is some sense in the Senator's belief that the Kitin are our real enemies, not each other!


For those of you who may not follow our Tryker politics let me mention that after the assassination of our beloved Governor Still Wyler, Rehn and myself were elected by all the Tryker people to fill Still’s position.

My platform was, and still is, one of sanity and compromise as may be necessary. I am of course a Karavan supporter, but I have always believed that we can still have good relations with the Fyros, and it seemed that a majority of the electorate agreed.

I believe fiercely in the future of the New Treaty, which I helped to draft, and have sworn to continue the work of Still Wyler to ensure the peace and prosperity of the Tryker Federation and of all Homin races.


Senator Dios will now open these proceedings.


Dios's speech


Thank you Lady Ailan. Thank you Guild leaders and their representatives, It is good to hear your words about the Treaty, it has been said before that, The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

It is a truism that almost any Sect, Cult, or Faction will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so... As long as we can talk with Homins, as long as one can keep the swords and range weapons quiet, one has a chance.

The first casualty when Faction war comes is the truth, with this Grand Conference I intend to attempt to see all sides of the issues and maybe we will all come away from it with some small understanding of what truth is!

As I mentioned in my invitation to you all, we must recognize the chief characteristic of this modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

"My Faction right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober."

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a Homin has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, or mountains and because his Faction has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?

Have you ever thought that Faction war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

A war against the Kitin! Not ourselves is what we should be focusing our attention on.


As for being a brave Faction Warrior, well, at the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords, we're all Warriors. Only some of us never grow out of it. Why do Factions kill Homins who kill Homins to show that killing Homins is wrong? When the things that deserve killing, The Kitin Menace, are seemingly left to reproduce in their hundreds and thousands to pray upon all races?

Of course Death is no threat to the suicidal.

The time has come for each and every one of you to decide… are you the problem or are you the solution to this endless bloodshed!

I ask those of you that want to state their feelings, ideas or beliefs, or to simply comment on the current state of Hominkind to “Tell” my friend, The Scribe, your name and you will be called on in the order that he receives them.

Please try to limit yourselves to a 5 minute or less statement, as there are many Homins that are anxious to have their voices heard.



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Thank you my friends, you have given us all much to think about, I will soon be announcing another conference in the Fyros lands where I will invite all Homins to bring their problems and concerns to me so that I can raise them to the Emperor.

I bid you farewell and good hunting…. Of the Kitin… Not each other!

Ailan concludes

Thank you Dios and all Homins for attending here today. I am sure we all leave with many opposing viewpoints to consider and new perspectives on our world.