Intergalactic Summit

Funny, there's an ancient children's fairytail (a cautionary one) about a really angry man who leads his country to ruin with promises of total victory. It took place in the mythical country of Jermani on a continent called Yourup, I think. Well, it doesn't matter any way since it's completely fictional but I digress.

Point is, people who ride on extreme and jingoistic concepts of victory don't usually achieve said victory. Look at all of the events regarding Caldari Prime this past decade.

There is no such thing as too big to fail. If KK dies, I am sure the remaining megacorporations will use every part of the animal, so to speak. There may be pain for KK employees and shareholders, but that is the price they pay for poor leadership.

Nationalization in the State requires that there be a central government; in all truth, there isn't one in a sense the Matari or Gallente would understand. The CEP operates as an oversight and governmental organization, surely, but has only so much power as the megacorporations allow it. That our belief in duty and responsibility maintain its power is natural, but it stands as an example of how much power Heth has: as much as the State allows him.

Given that Ishukone and other megacorporations have rejected Heth's assertion of a desire to nationalize the megacorporations, I doubt he'll have the ability to enforce his will.

Eight-in-one and One-in-eight
will never see the winds abate;
One-for-all and All-for-one
will set the fair Caldari sun.

Indeed, Mme. Akamitsu. One might even believe that the exclusion of Caldari workers from this decision and the ill-defined nature of the process were not accidental - a person inclined to seizing power would do well to have the support of the most numerous polity without actually giving them any input into the decision, and would naturally seek to be given powers as broad as they could get, an aim to which giving a specific description of one's plans would be antithetical.

But that's only if he were cynically seeking to seize power, of course.

Purely hypothetical.

Say the word statesman.

The stars cry in pain, and it is our duty to soothe them.
I may only be a simple capsuleer against what might be the new vision of the state. But so are we all.
And our fellow statesmen will fight besides us.

My allegiance lies with the state, with Lai Dai, and with my monastery.
So that is how I will live. If you can find use for my wings, let me know.

Heiian unto death.

Say what you will about every other aspect of Heth's reign, but we have factual evidence that he is at least unfit to be a CEO when his lack of financial prowess broke one entity and then a second as he rushed to buoy up the first. Under the meritocracy Heth goes on so much about, he should be shifted to somewhere that actually fits his talents.


Unfortunately, as the CEO of Kaalakiota and the man responsible for their financial situation, he has also made KK vulnerable to the wolves as well. I was previously fearful that he would drag them down with him and lead to their dissolution much the same way the corporations opposed to the Caldari Gallente war were dissolved by those who supported it, but I now see a much less political method of KK's destruction. When They can't pay their debts in money, their debtors will come to collect in property, that means the other corporations will be taking goods, infrastructure, and even workers away from Kaalakiota. It will at the very least be reduced in size, but if the financial burden of this is too much, I see the possibility of them being forced to choose going out of business (and the other megas will rush to scoop up what they can in the resulting firesale), or having one (or more) of the megas offer to buy KK and bring them on as a subsidiary.

I definitely agree Heth needs to go right now, but I am fearful of what it might mean for Kaalakiota if THEY don't remove Heth themselves very very soon. better the KK wolves eat Heth alive than the wolves in the other corporations eat KK alive to get to Heth.


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Also a note to everyone accusing people who previously supported Heth of changing their stance and supposedly betraying their ideals: First of all, if leaders were perfect, they would never be removed from office, but they are just as fallible as any other person; if they make a mistake they deserve to be called on it, and Heth has made some mistakes as of recently. Most of us are loyal to the State and the leadership POSITIONS in the State rather than the leaders themselves, so calling a leader out for acting against the State is not a change of stance at all. Lastly, many of us who are calling Heth out on his recent blunders have been opposed to him from the start, but his recent actions have served to add weight to our arguments.

Little late to the party in a few ways, aren't you?

As if he was ever anything else.

What is it with pallid, hooded men and raising things from the dead?