Intergalactic Summit

Following the recent leaks from the missing Operation Highlander after-action report, which logged more than three hundred Senate-authorized breaches of Caldari space, Ishukone's Executive Staff requested assistance with an investigation to determine if these border crossings were continuing and if so, were they a significant threat to the Ishukone Corporation and/or their Intaki investments.

In response, Ishukone assigned this task to their subsidiary Capsuleer alliance, the Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive <
(I-RED). It was at this time I-RED Executor, John Revenent, tasked the Nova Corps Marines [.NCM.] to deploy to the planets of the Caldari Border Zone.

After several weeks of investigation, the following were determined to be irrefutably true:

1) Despite its statements, the Federation not only continues, but is increasing its invasions of Caldari and Intaki worlds along the border, threatening Ishukone assets both directly, and indirectly.

2) All Federal soldiers and fleets involved in the original breaches have been replaced with clone mercenaries and capsuleers respectively.

As a result, I-RED has determined these movements to be a detriment to the interests of Ishukone and the Intaki Agreement. Thenceforth, by encouragement of Ishukone Corporation, the Ishukone-Raata Enforcement Directive is to coordinate with the newly established 'Kirjuun Heiian' organization both on soil and in space with full authorization to do whatever is necessary to remove these invasive Federation elements from Ishukone's interests and permanently secure any and all Ishukone assets in the area

Good luck, however I believe the incursions outlined in the Highlander document were illegal only insofar as they were a breach of interstellar treaty as specified by CEWPA through border violations by non-militia assets. The mutual violation of territorial borders within the CEWPA zones conducted by the State Protectorate, State Peacekeepers, Federal Defence Union, and Federal Marines by capsuleers and clone troopers respectively appears to be within the boundaries of interstellar law as determined by CONCORD and its signatories, one might say.

You may be right, if not this proxy war that is waged between both entities someone would consider this as a diplomatic incident.

Nemo is a member of the leadership board that coordinates and conducts ground operations under Ishukone-Raata regulations. It should also be noted that along with ensuring the stability of previously stated investments, that Ishukone-Raata interests have also been threatened with the recent evolution on the warfront.

Upon the release of this statement, Ishukone-Raata forces have started aiding the coalition forces of Kirjuun Heiian on the ground.

Ishukone and its subsidiaries continue their exemplary dedication to the Caldari people, their employees, and the State. For that you have my continued gratitude. To all pilots and ground forces of Ishukone-Raata, moitte.

How quaint. Please do not pretend the Federation is so upstanding and benevolent...especially with FDU members proudly and publicly boasting of mass executions of Mordu's Legionnaires.

I do not quite fully understand the scope of Ishukone's involvement, but from what I have learned, of all the parties involved, they appear to be the only ones who are speaking with and listening to the Intaki.

Your Federation has fallen far from its stated purpose of being a free and equal partnership between its members and the system is repeating history yet again. Instead of learning from the mistakes made when the Caldari wished to depart, your Federation is making the same mistakes with handling the Intaki.

I once saw the Federation as a shining jewel, but it is fractured and no longer shines with the soul of the principals that brought it into being. Now you have a war profiteer as president and a black ops corporation given free reign to terrorize the very people who came to the Federation for the hope of a new start at a better life. But I guess as long as the masses are kept blissfully ignorant of the truth, nothing will change...or so those at the top hope.

Change is coming and I foresee darker times ahead for the Federation as a whole.

Then again, I am but a simple artist.

Ishukone, in an agreement with the Intaki people, tasked I-RED with defending Intaki assets and maintaining safe trade routes between the Intaki solar system and Caldari space ensuring that money could flow both ways without fear of pirates. It was determined by my cousin Nemo Nauticlone, the CEO of the Nova Corps Marines, that there were Intaki holdings, assets, and investments that were either damaged or destroyed due to the chaos of combat and to his knowledge was not damaged or destroy intentionally. Therefore we moved in to secure those sites to ensure that no further harm would come to them, accidental or otherwise. We are not spying on the Intaki, merely ensuring that we do right by them as they help to fund both our organization and Ishukone as a whole.

As far as these breaches being legal or illegal is a discussion for minds more intelligent and wise than my own. All I can say is this. There are Ishukone and Intaki assets being put at risk by this push by the Federation forces. Namely being put at risk by their cloned soldiers and cloned mercenaries. This is not, in my opinion, done intentionally but due to the weaponry and zeal of many of the clones there is a large amount of collateral damage that we feel is unproductive towards our profit margins. So we are simply protecting our investments and hoping to stem the tide of clones and capsuleers before a general gets overzealous and decides he knows better than the Federal Senate in matters of war.

That kind of information is definitely above my pay grade. But it wouldn't surprise me if the Megacorporations did spy on the Federation, just like it definitely wouldn't surprise me if the Federation was spying on the State. That's just politics, part of the existence of government.

Intaki is part of the Federation, thus the Federation invading Intaki is a ludicrous concept.

However, FDU elements or federal covert ops doing harm to the Intaki system - highly subjective concept subject to interpretation - remains a possibility, since the Security license for the Intaki system has been auctioned to Mordu.

Somewhat off topic now - and for that I apologise - but there are other options beyond simple incompetence and breach of OPSEC. You may have noticed that the real winner from all of the recent Senate changes and stage-managed "fallout" from the Highlander leaks was the President. In the new Senate leader, he has an ally that will help consolidate support for his expansionist policies from the legislative branch of the Federation government. This will in turn fortify the support he already receives from the Federation military-industrial complex, which was largely responsible for his election and the downfall of his predecessor in the first place.

YC115 has proven to be one of the best years on record for the Roden administration. The destruction of the Shigeru and the 'liberation' of Luminaire alone will see him remembered by most in the future as hero rather than tyrant. The 'soft' diplomacy with Ishukone and the Legion which saw both Caldari and Federal citizens return to the planet under equal status. Then the fortuitous turn of events that saw the Republic commit a string of gross strategic errors all to take a madman they would have been freely given anyway was utilised to both capitalise on this image and add justification to illegal security measures such as Highlander when they later came to light.

And when Highlander did come to light? Those that might have raised objections to his vision have been systematically removed in the name of 'ethics', 'law' and 'transparency' and replaced by those more welcoming of it.

Few of these things can be trusted to have resulted from the chance outcome of incompetent governance. Rather, this is looking more like a masterclass in Gallente power politics with each new revelation.