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New Caldari – State Executor Tibus Heth has released a statement calling the Federation “callous imperialists” and once again offering the State's condolences for the death of Karin Midular.

The statement reads, “It is with my deepest regret that I learned of the passing of Karin Midular. Though my offer of State aide was rebuffed, I still dearly wished for her to survive. While I never had the chance to meet her, her reputation stood on its own. She was a peacemaker and a proponent for change. She fought for what she believed in, but never put the good of the few above the good of the many. I believe, had I the chance, we would have been fast friends. I, too, shall mourn her passing and mourn the passing of a person who could have been a great ambassador between the Republic and State.

“I say to the Minmatar people, I stand with you. I understand the pain you feel at your Ray's death. I understand the anger you hold toward the Federation, which continues to withhold justice from you. They are callous imperialists who cannot understand any way but their own. To them, the Ray of Matar is a bunch of meaningless squiggles. They cannot comprehend the deep, spiritual meaning it holds to you, much as they do not understand what the Cold Wind of the Kaalakiota Peaks means to the Caldari. They hold both the murderer of your Ray and the homeworld of my people.

“We are both wounded by them. The Federation Navy and the Senate are both tools of denial and oppression. They seek to stamp out any sort of diversity that does not fit their narrow mindset. So I offer my hand to you in peace; let us stand together against the hatred the Federation engenders.”

The Minmatar Republic has not commented on Heth's statement.

Well.... Now any gesture of condolence to the Republic by ANY Caldari will look self-serving and trite.

Thank you SO much, Executor Heth...

While it may be unpopular to say, I personally hope that the Minmatar accept the condolences of the Executor and the State. While it would be better had the whole affair never happened, perhaps new friendships can be salvaged from the misfortune. I think that the dissolution of old grudges and the hope of a brighter day would be a better outcome than what we currently witness. I also feel that this would, in the long run, be helpful in forming a more durable, lasting peace in the Cluster.

Your optimism and lack of cynicsim is admirable, Scherezad.

I wish Heth shared it.

Predictable. Like the turning of the seasons.

I wish he would stop being this childish - could he not have offered his condolences for Chief Midular without dragging the Fed into this again? If only something he had to say did not involve us and we got an idea that his world does not spin around the Federal Eagle.



Not absolutely. If you wish to offer your condolences to the Matari for anything, feel free to do so.

Just don't drag any obvious personal bias into it and you will be fine.

This just in: Tibus Heth struggles to remain relevent.

He is comparing there loss of A Ray with the Caldari loss of our Homeworld.Sentiments seems genuine enough to me. You being little bit harsh there Priano.

My real concerns are what our allies will think of the statement.

Horn; the issue isn't that he's making the comparison between the loss of Caldari Prime and the Ray of Matar. Rather, it's that his effort to isolate the Gallente dovetails entirely too well with his long-running and well-established hatred of the Federation, and his desire to destroy it. While I have no doubt that in this moment he understands the Matari discontent at continued Gallente resistance to extradition, he turns this sentiment into his standard tirade against the Federation. This tirade is such a common sight that we all know it by now, and so it cheapens the sentiment given before.

He would do better to seek to build bridges between the Matari and Caldari, rather than burning them between the Matari and Gallente.

And let me state, for the record, that my view here is that the bloodshed we've recently witnessed is due to a singular failure of diplomacy between the Federation and Republic, and could easily have been averted had either side taken the barest effort to extend a hand in friendship. This does a disservice to the people of both these nations.

How is Midular dead, but this disgusting piece of human slime still breathes?

By god I hope I'll be reading about his 'tragic' demise sooner rather the later.

I'm no Minmatar shaman, but it seems to me like some time away from the IGS and public spotlight would do you some good.