Posted - 2009.11.25 20:16:00 - [1]

 

Today we mark a unique milestone. We look back upon so much that now lies behind us, for surely today is a day for remembering.

Let us share this moment to look back upon all we have done and contemplate so much history in its entirety. On this day we of the Ushra'Khan mark the fifth anniversary since our founding. And
there is so much for us to remember. The places we have been, the people we have known, the battles we have fought and the friends who have fallen along the way.

As I look back I see so much to remember. So much has changed since our work began and yet, so little. We have changed, and yet we remain the same. Names and faces change, but we persist.

We are the Ushra'Khan, we come for our people.

For five years now that has been the cornerstone for all that our movement has done. It is is our purpose, our motivation. It is our compulsion, our definition. Despite all that has transpired in this half-decade of strife, we remain the Ushra'Khan. And all that we have done, we have done for them.

We are a movement founded with one goal; to break the chains of slavery that bind our kin. No matter the world of your birth, it is your right to live free. No matter the passage of time nor the light years that divide us, we shall see you freed. That was our promise then, and it remains our promise even today. You shall be free.

When the first of us took up the cause and raised their fists high in defiance, the world was a different place. The Republic did not look beyond its own borders, so many of our Matari kin languished forgotten under Amarrian rule. So few thought of them, fewer still were prepared to fight for them. But those few who were, chose to stand. They came together and stood tall, together. And so the first steps were taken.

It began with the 'uniting of the tribes', when the disparate freedom fighting groups amongst the Minmatar Capsuleers came together under one banner, in name as well as deed. They became the third Capsuleer Alliance ever to be granted formal recognition by CONCORD. These were still very much the early days of the Capsuleer age. We were fewer then, a rarer breed.

In those days Molden Heath was our home, a wild back yard of the Republic. From there we did our part in bringing order and a measure of safety to the space lanes. And from there we would strike at Amarr through Yulai, at the heart of Slavery through the seat of a law that even now permits its abuses.

It was in this time that we came into possession of the prototype Insorum, the Vitoc cure. We called upon Midular's Republic to help us realise the greatest hope of our time, but the politicians paid us no heed. They would not act. And so in time we continued on from there into Providence, where began our greatest undertaking.

In Providence we saw the expansionist dreams of the Slaver taking root, the CVA's “Operation Deliverance” had begun. We saw the threat, even then when Providence possessed not a single station in the entire region. And there, in the south, the Slaver began to lay the foundations for a new empire. We crossed the border and, through the Mandate, we arrived in the desolate northern arm. From then the battle lines began to take form. And it was there we once hoped to finish the work a Caldari scientist began. Out there, far beyond the Republic.

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