Intergalactic Summit

A reasonable first-order analysis.

I may recommend a deeper analysis if you're looking to garner interest from investors or intelligence communities.

For instance, you'll notice that Eifyr & Co. and ChemalTech have both been involved in a joint project before, though with the Sisters of EVE.

The Intaki Bank involvement is curious, also, as you note that it is a black bank, unassociated with the major powers. However, the Intaki Syndicate's de facto leader, Silphy en Diabel, has former ties with the Sisters of EVE and rumored ties with the Serpentis. What's more, the Syndicate is the only faction purchasing Covert Research Tools that isn't explicitly branded as pirates by CONCORD. You'll also perhaps recall that the Syndicate region was the origin of a blast indicating research into wormhole generation.

Also of interest is ORE releasing the Endurance schematics immediately after being retaken by Arkombine and Mordu's Legion, while developing ties with Ducia Foundry. Ducia Foundry, notably, has experience with wormhole operations, while the Endurance happens to be a remarkably effective ship for use in exploiting ice fields in certain newly-opened wormhole systems.

There's more that can be unearthed, I'm sure, but I do strongly advise deeper analysis and attention paid to the objectives of the Upwell Consortium.

Is the Mordu's Legion not an honored friend of the State, Kim?

No comment on the extraordinary level of inter-empire cooperation, or the interesting mix of shareholders in the various components of the Consortium, then?

That's-- that's some impressive tinfoil right there, pilot.

So! Tell me. What happened in Amamake that alienated the State from the Legion? Because while there are some old news reports of a capital ship engagement, as you'd understand capital ship engagements in a warzone aren't exactly a rare occurrance. Do you have any references or news articles about this 'Pike's Landing' thing?

And what indicators do we have that Mordu's Legion attempted an assassination? Was it Mordu's Legion operating independently, or under contract from another party? And do you have references for that? Maker, that mess of the assassination-- are you referring to the shooting at the New Caldari Prime rally in YC114? Or was there another attempt in YC115 I missed, aside from his whole 'flight into criminality'?

As for Operation Highlander--

Yeah. I'll be perfectly frank. You, sir, come across as delusional.

It seems a few baseliner corporations want to play with the big boys now. Surely making a power block coalition is going to work out for them just fine. Surely provoking the Serpentis by taking their very profitable ORE toys was in hindsight a great idea. Right?

If the Upwell Consortium didn't stank of Gallente influence, they would almost be respectable.

You can't seriously tell me that you haven't heard of this conflict. Even if it's never been outwardly identified by CONCORD (likely because it was a massive failure on their part) you can't deny that when a major conflict erupts between all four empires alongside the forces of Mordu's Legion information tends to travel pretty quickly by word of mouth among those in the military. I will admit that rumors spread by grunts and starship operators may not be the most reliable, but there is enough reason to believe that Pike's Landing was tied closely with the emergence of immortal infantry. Maybe I can't say for certain what happened on the planet itself, but it's enough to question the man's ulterior motives. That's not being paranoid, that's making the rational and informed choice to ere on the side of caution when dealing with the Legion.




It's very obvious that an assassination plot was attempted at least once, and if Haatakan Oiritsuu is to be believed she had a large part to play in the mission. Now that she's back in power, I'm sure you'll find that she'll take any moment she can to claim credit for any sort of action put in place to subvert the Provists and remove Heth from power. In that regard, Mordu was arguably merely fulfilling a contract for a State corporation. Fair enough, I understand this. However, given the initial failed assassination attempt on Matais followed by the attempt on his life by a cloned soldier in YC114 (thank you for correcting me ma'am) it's not that far of a stretch when joint with the rumors of what happened in Amamake to say that he was likely involved in that attempt as well. Possibly independent from any orders. Ancestors choke, what's to say that he didn't somehow play a part with the '514' massacres across the Caldari State too?

I'm not rolling around in the fettle position somehow claiming that Mordu is the bane of the State and responsible for all of our hardships. But he certainly has an agenda of his own that we should be cautious of. I think from the above statements, I've proven that we can't just easily write him off as an "honored friend" of the State. As I said, it's more complicated than that.



Oh how quaint, it can do the strawman trick.

I don't disagree. All the more reason to distrust them, right?

Additionally, I do believe it was the Golden Fleet. Or at least a contingent from it. No one really knows for sure, but they deployed troops into the area just before going to extreme lengths to attempt to glass it from orbit. But this is a whole other conversation.

1. There were collisions and fights between Mordu's Legion and Caldari Navy during the current war.
2. As Mr. Wulver has been noted, they were fighting in Amamake against our ally.
3. They support gallente occupation regime of about half of Caldari Prime.

I can't tell about their intentions for or against operation Highlander, I am not a telepath, and consider this branch of talk as... superfluous. (I prefer to judge others on facts, not rumors or implicit intentions, Mr. Wulver...) But their support of the ongoing occupation of half of our homeworld by gallentean swines neither makes them allies nor friends.


I won't defend Mr. Wulver's position about Legion's role in the atrocity named Operation Highlander itself, however I would like to state clearly that a well known dishonored liar like you, Makoto Priano has no say in deciding who is delusional and who is not.

What you did right now was an outright hypocrisy, since you in first hand was delusional, publically claiming you saw me flying something I hasn't, naming me being part of organization I never got an honor to be invited into and even attempted to putting a mental diagnosis on a completely mental healthy Caldari Officer, without having neither medical analyses nor medical license.

I know swines love to live in dirt. Do you love it too, Makoto?

Pilots, on the matter of Kim's logical capability, I present this exchange:

My discussing Heth's failings.

Her tired rebuttal.

My systematic proof of my discussion of Heth's failings.

Her complete dismissal of historical fact.

Her willingness to denounce even the most honorable among us is further proof of how little value her word holds here.

And yet, for not wanting to waste your time, you've sought out exchanges I'm involved in a total of twenty times with that tired argument.

That said, back to the matter at hand, pilots.

Pilots Ruil and Wulver, on the matter of the Upwell Consortium, I'd offer this very simple statistical measure of the State's view of the Upwell Consortium. By associating the aforementioned corporations with their parent states, we can derive a CONCORD-standardized diplomatic value for the organization. We can, of course, debate the efficacy of this system, but it should serve in a pinch. Using a value for ORE of -2.0, the Intaki Syndicate of -2.0 for the Intaki Bank, the Gallente Federation a value of -5.0 for ChemalTech, the Minmatar Republic of -2.0 for Eifyr & Co., the Amarr Empire of +7.0 for Zoar and Sons, and the Mordu's Legion of +9.0, the average value of standings comes to 0.71. While obviously not a very brilliant standing, this does cross the technical threshold CONCORD uses for interstellar standings to qualify as 'good,' if not especially so. This of course completely ignores the presence of Ytiri, a Caldari corporation in good standing. If we assume a conservative value of 5.0 for Ytiri, the average is pushed to 1.42, or at 10.0 an average of 2.14.

Obviously, this value isn't terribly impressive, but it is positive. At its various stages, it is roughly comparable to our relations with the Society of Conscious Thought, with InterBus, or with the now-defunct Jove Directorate. While we are not closely aligned with these organizations, we hold them in cordial regard.

Clearly, these standings generally account for our historical relation with the power in question.

In the case of ORE, while of Gallente origin, the corporation fled Federation space when the Federation attempted to extort wealth from the corporation. While of Gallente origin, is that not the sort of resistance to Federation hegemony a State citizen can support? And so their standing, while not positive, is better than the Federation.

Similarly, in the case of the Intaki Syndicate, we have a people who fled the Federation during the Gallente-Caldari War in a quest for independence. While they exist in a legal gray area and aren't considered a CONCORD signatory, they are nonetheless not considered a pirate power, but instead an outer region economic base. Again, the Intaki are a people who the Caldari should feel a kinship to. And so their standing, while not positive, is better than the Federation.

In the case of the Legion, we have a group who fought on behalf of the Caldari during the war, and who remain in very good standing with the State. After all, while the Legion is mercenary, business is business. We can trust them to follow through with their contracts, and to always honorably and dutifully go about their business. We regard them even more highly than we do the Amarr, after all, and have provided them technical assistance to develop their own ships, via Ishukone's Kiiragustektaa.

In brief, what I say is this: do the various players in the Upwell Consortium have historical ties to the Federation? Sure. However, the majority of them are not friendly to the Federation, and indeed each CONCORD signatory has exactly one representative in Upwell. That's an adroit political move that should put them above reproach.