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A summary of the events of today with regards to Prophet's case, and clarification for those confused

When the Kaiserinreich secession was announced officially, Prophet_The_Hero, who was an old personal friend and old business partner of many ISIS officials, contacted me to speak about the events in Kaiserin. After discussing it a bit, I decided not to have ISIS take an official stance, as it would have ran contrary to Orion's diplomatic efforts in the region, as well as it being too early to predict the future of the secession.

Prophet, however, grew increasingly agitated, telling us of massacres happening against unarmed Kaiserinreich civilians in response to the secession, and told me he was huddled in a mineshaft, deep below ground. Fearing his inevitable pearling for his political association, he asked for my help.

After pondering the question for a while, I decided that while I would not attempt to take position on the issue of Kaiserinreich independence, there was a credible threat to Prophet's life and wealth (that he also mentioned might be seized) for crimes that could have been interpreted as arbitrary and controversial (i.e "treason to state") and that were disputed between the two parties, one claiming that the crimes were void as Kaiserinreich was an independent state, and the other claiming that the parties involved were SPQR citizens.

Deeming the possibility of Prophet getting permapearled and his wealth seized high, I elected to grant him the asylum he was seeking in ISIS, and go through a transparent process of looking at his crimes with Kaiserinreich and SPQR representatives as well as all others involved in the matter. He would remain in possession of his diamonds, something he was worried about. In essence, a massacre would be avoided, and time would be given for the situation to cool so that we could look into his involvement and SPQR claims against him.

In Kaiserinreich

I arrived at Kaiserin to find him naked and holed up in a mineshaft at bedrock. I coaxed him out, and we walked together, through the city (occupied by SPQR and Orion forces) to his house, where I asked him to take his wealth and his important objects with him. Throughout this, he was extremely worried about being pearled, and I reassured him that he was being brought to safety.

As we were making our way back towards the rail station, a diamond-clad SPQR official by the name of HerbieVerSmells ran to him and quickly pearled him, also grabbing stacks of diamond ore and diamonds that his body dropped. We were surrounded by Orionite militias and observers, so I called into the mumble to see if he was there. After seeing that he wasn't in the mumble, and not answering, I typed "stop", "Give him to me" and "release him" multiple times, but I had to give chase as he was running away actively and I couldn't let him get away. Observers joined in as they heard the situation, we chased after Herbie and eventually pearled him, Xavter (an observer) picking up Prophet's diamonds.

At this point I had to deal with a lot of questions. There was a small amount of blue-on-blue when seldom began to attack us, but quickly stopped. Prophet was sending me messages of profuse thanks, and many onlookers had no clue what just happened. Quick talks with Orion were had where I explained the situation and told them that we weren't there to take a part in the independence, but simply to assure naked people wouldn't be permapearled for political affiliations and their wealth seized. Tensions were high, but the situation thankfully didn't escalate, and for that I have to thank our allies in Orion who held back on attacking us after what they must have seen as unprovoked aggression on an SPQR official in SPQR territory.

Extraction

Xavter and I made our way out of SPQR and towards Orion as we started mumble talks with SPQR about Herbie's pearling and our extraction of Prophet. At this point, we communicated our desire to assure a fair, non-heated trial and the fact that we were going to release Herbie as soon as we could (Xavter, who had Herbie's pearl, had gotten lost along the way and wandered to Haven).

Once in Orion we met up with Impulca and Xavter, and released Herbie, giving him back reps he requested and pointing him in the direction of farms and the SPQR rail. I told him who I believed had dropchested the junk prot and inventory he had on him at the time. I eventually returned to Istanbul, capital of ISIS, where I was able to chest the pearl of Prophet as well as storing his diamonds.

Prophet's Future

Now that we've assured the immediate safety of Prophet_the_Hero and his diamonds as an asylum seeker in Istanbul, we're beginning to go through the process of getting together all evidence against him to see if he has legitimate claims on him by SPQR and, if so, we'll transfer the pearl back to SPQR authorities.

Again, we're re-itirating our desire to ＮＯＴ take an official stance in the independence of Kaiserinreich. ISIS took part in the situation to save refugees, and we managed to save one. If Prophet is truly guilty and deserves to spend end time or pay reps to others, he will be returned to SPQR. Our objective- to assure his immediate safety and a clear-minded investigation of his case- has already succeeded.

We will be in close discussions with SPQR and other affiliated parties to look at Prophet's case.