Intergalactic Summit

It kinda depends on who you ask. We don't even know for sure what the true objective was, we might find out soon if those documents are leaked though.

Judging from the fact that the Gallente Navy achieved orbital supremacy, which would allow for a full scale invasion of the planet if need be, the Federation could of easily seized your home if they wanted to. However because that never occurred, it's safe to say that the primary goal was simply to remove the Shiigeru fleet.

Seizing the planet could of been a secondary objective, though considering how the Senate allowed the CEP to negotiate the future of a neutral Caldari Prime when they could of easily claimed the planet again demonstrates that conquest was not on our agenda.

So to sum things up. The primary objective was to remove the Shiigeru fleet from Luminaire, and the secondary objective was to support Gallente insurrections fighting against the Provist.

Yes it was a phyrric victory. Practically a draw considering that only one Federation dreadnought was left standing, and badly damaged at that. However it was still a victory, the field belonged to us. If it was truly the our goal to retake the planet, wouldn't we have sent reinforcements to secure our extremely loose grip on the space above the planet? We easily could as well, especially considering that as far as CONCORD was concerned, Luminaire was a Federation system making it perfectly legal for us to reinforce it. If the Caldari were to try to counter attack they would have to invade Luminaire once more, and in turn breach CONCORD mandates.

The troops sent in were not an invasion force. The boots we put on the ground were DUST clones to put down the remaining Provist forces. Unfortunately, the Provist had DUST clones as well. Thankfully, both sides did not want to draw out the conflict any longer. However, if the Provist were willing to fight to the death or our goal was truly to seize the planet then you would see regular infantry coming in as well as more ships to reinforce the system. Which again, could easily be done now that the Caldari had no ships in the system and no way of sending more in. We could of layed siege to the planet...again...if we had to. However, considering there are far more Gallenteans living on Caldari Prime now than over 100 years ago, a full proper invasion would of been the best bet if need be.

However as high up as my connections in the Navy go, I don't know the true nature of Operation Highlander and all of this is pure speculation based on the information we have at hand. Maybe if the documents are leaked we can confirm the nature of the mission.

You're changing the topic Mr. Tuulinen. All I'm saying is that if our goal was truly to conquer Caldari Prime, we would of been able to accomplish it as soon as the Shiigeru went down. You are correct, if we did try to conquer it then history would repeat itself. However we didn't when we could have, and unless the State did something similar to what Shakor's Elder fleet did, seizing the planet would of been a struggle, but completely within the realm of possibility.

Heth was using the Shiigeru to hold us hostage. One move against him, and Gallente Prime falls and possibly even other systems. Our goal was to get rid of the Shiigeru. Please do try forgive the expression, but Caldari Prime was collateral damage.

But again, we didn't steal your home from you once more, and we didn't even plan on doing it. Unless there is evidence that proves otherwise that's the conclusion we have to draw.

Caldari Prime is in a state that both our nations find satisfactory. Neutral and demilitarized with both Gallente and Caldari coexisting on the planet, perhaps unwillingly, but at the very least, peacefully. Neither the Federation nor the State would have anything to gain by starting up the fighting again.

It was their primary objective now, if you get my meaning.

All those troops landed on the planet? All those "resistance fighters" and weapons smuggled in? All those campaign promises?

Yeah, those were to get the Shiigeru out of orbit. Totally. Why else? We totally had no objectives otherwise, really. Even if we said so. Big bluff. Yup.

A week of fighting on the planet? Yeah, that was...uh, because we didn't want to reinforce things. Didn't want to use our firepower to, you know, win. Ignore those news reports. They have nothing to do with the things. Uh, gotta go.

...The report should be interesting.

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Clearly, Fred has received these documents as he didn't know the answer himself when he started talking, but chanced upon the answers by the time he finished.

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-Eran

These documents are important evidence against Federation, not some reading for entertainment. They will be used in a trial against federal top management.

By whom, you idiot child?

One reason I'm against all but the barest amount of state secrecy (small s-state) is that people begin to fetishize secret documentation, imputing all kinds of near-mythological significance to it. Bureaucrats say a lot of stuff; they come up with a lot of different scenarios -- some of them downright wacky -- and give decision-makers a lot of advice, some of it downright vile.

It's their job. Even in the Federation it's possible to read too much into paperwork...

In fact, it is only you, who here is an idiot child, since you can't understand even by whom these documents will be used.

With a little luck and hard work, it might even be the foundation of some sort of solution to our current war.