Intergalactic Summit

Recent news reports and Caldari Navy messages indicated that there was a significant engagement inside the Akidagi system, near the stargate leading to the Enaluri system, in the Ishaga constellation of Black Rise.

The Caldari Navy incorrectly identified this system as Caldari territory. Most recent strategic maps indicate quite the opposite is true, and the Gallente Federation has firm control over this and all adjacent low security space. This is an escalation that goes against the spirit of the Caldari State's participation in the EMERGENCY MILITIA WAR POWERS ACT, and will generate great concern amoung the Federal Defense Union private military contractors. We will take all necessary means to defend Federation territory from unwanted Caldari intrusions of this kind in the future.

As loyal supporters and defenders of the Federation, the Villore Accords and her allies request a formal explanation from the Federation Navy why it was a Caldari task force, not a Federal one, that intercepted this convoy, and why the Federation allows the Caldari State to police territory that has been won through rights of liberation and conquest.

The Caldari State has seen fit to release an unclassified press release regarding the subject. I see utterly no reason why the Gallente Federation, the greatest democracy in New Eden, must remain silent on this issue.

Regards,

Julianus Soter
Executor, Villore Accords
CEO, Moira corporation.

No doubt your strategic assessment is somewhat hampered by your... questionable combat experience and participation in the broader Gallente/Caldari warzone. I encourage you to step one jump into Ishaga constellation this week and witness for yourself the 'jurisdiction' the Caldari State holds in Black Rise.

Unfortunately, you will no doubt end up in a cloning bay before you return to highsec. I hope the experience will not be overly traumatic for you. I hear that meditation at one of those Caldari "zen gardens" can help with the inevitable post-cloning PTSD.

Regardless, if the Federal Defense Union desired, the nominal Caldari control over the remaining 27 systems in Black Rise would be rapidly corrected and the inhabitants of the many colonies there liberated. In the past six months there has been no State Protectorate organization capable of presenting significant military resistance. Our pilots are in fact very dissapointed with this turn of affairs, as it robs of us of regular combat training opportunities.

All of this of course is a side issue to the matter at hand: Federation Navy assets needless had important information about the conflict in Akidagi, and we request the release of this information for the benefit of the defenders of Federation border territories.

Let me expound upon my views.

You're a petty warlord.

Even that term is giving you more credit than you deserve. I suppose I should say you're merely petty.

The warzone has shifted only marginally, slowly, back-and-forth, over the course of the past several years, even since that brief period where I was a participant. You posture endlessly about your dominance over the warzone, but what can you point to as your personal achievement? You claim you're master of this domain. Prove it. Prove you're in fact not a flaccid facsimile of a leader and take it. Prove you're in fact not a jumped-up, puffed-up, self-important, self-declared figurehead and do the thing you declare you're capable of.

In the meantime, evidently the Caldari Navy engaged in a newsworthy engagement in territory you claim as rightfully yours.

Truly, you are a master of your domain.

It is deeply disappointing for such a popular figure in the realm of wormhole space science and archaeology to have a clearly short sighted view of this situation.

Does your curiosity cease simply because my name is seen on the forums? Or are you simply bigoted against Federation loyalists, in general?

The Caldari State will not release the needed information, as it is highly classified and critical to their war effort in the militia war zone. The Federation can, because it was lilkely there and no doubt observing with Helios-class covert reconnaissance vessels and taking detailed recordings of the engagement. Furthermore, it provides the Federation an easy opportunity to highlight Caldari State Navy duplicity and score public relations points.

My attempt here is an 'easy win' in other words, for the Federal Navy to kill two birds with one stone.

Now, why would I bother with such a thing? Primarily: A 'third party' that was not capsuleer in origin operated a squadron of technologically advanced fighter craft in open space with no known faction allegiance. This new faction destabilizes the entire astropolitical scene at a very inopportune time, given the recent death of the Amarr empress, and other catastrophic events inside the Cluster.

But please, Makoto, tell me how "I never do anything productive".

For readers that aren't familiar, Makoto used to belong to an alliance, Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive, that declared war on Moira. several years ago. The conflict was short and inconsequential, but needless to say, I-RED today no longer exists as an active capsuleer entity due to ineffectual leadership and malpractice. Any words she speaks against me today are no doubt tainted from this history.

The Big Four don't really much care it seems when it comes to whom's flag is planted on a system by Capsuleers. Welcome to the real world.

The Caldari State auctioned off entire star systems seven years ago when the State Protectorate took the warzone. Territorial control in under the Emergency Militia War Powers Act is real and substantive. It applies to both the 'baseliner' citizen on a temperate planet, and to the Capsuleers that get locked out of stations when systems change sovereignty.

Tell that to the Empire, Soter, who dutifully beat back Blooder raids on its citizens and holdings despite several of those systems being under the "rightful sovereignty" of the Republic at the time.

Do you honestly think all four signatories would totally, and completely, allow for full sovereignty of all assets in a system to be under the whims of Capsuleers? You think the system allows Baseliner populations to have innumerable changes of citizenship and which authority is taxing them this week? Get real.

source: Offical response to FOI request from Soter himself

Tell me again about how you are a loyal representative of the Gallente Federation, in fact the last public communication from the Federal government was to call you out as exhibiting as quoted above 'astonishing level of incompetence and unprofessionalism

Ms Priano is correct in her observations that you are nothing more then a pandering warlord, and given you clearly failed to prevent some freighters crossing your territory nor the Caldari response, coupled with your failed 'Blockade' also rather evidently not a very good one it seems. I suggest you take yourself somewhere more suited to your obvious lack of talent, backbone or professionalism. May I suggest Callie's infamous Red Light district I hear you heathens pay a pretty penny for 'war heroes'

Akidagi system belongs to Caldari State.

Any FDU member trespassing is considered as a bandit and occupant, it should be eliminated on contact. Support of neutral vessels in destroying gallentean threat is encouraged.

Death to gallentean occupants! Clean the space from presence of these criminals.

To explain, Soter, there are two reasons I take such an intense dislike to you.

In the first place, your statements are at times hilariously myopic. You cite the rogue fleet being at the doorstep of the Federation as reason for the interest, as demonstration of a threat to the Federation, while blithely ignoring that Ichoriya, a Caldari high-sec system that is untouchable to you, is immediately adjacent, as if the temporary control of a relatively minor, station-less system in Black Rise, relatively far from Federal sovereignty, is a thing that actually matters in the halls of power. In doing so, you inflate your own importance and the regard you assume you're held in.

In the second place, you participate in the dialectic here only briefly, irregularly, and with a particular penchant for self-promotion that is grating. What's more, you do it in a way that I suspect is specifically intended to inflame a response, and then act shocked, shocked when so many of the pilots here treat you with disdain at the very least. Maker, even the FIO has had issues with your posturing, as Lord Lucas Raholan pointed out earlier.

Yes, we're all very curious about what's going on. Indeed, some of us were engaging in public discussion of the report not fifteen minutes after the Scope broadcast. We're simply not petitioning the Federation for information on an engagement that occurred between the Caldari Navy and the Guristas, when we could instead inquire directly with those groups.

Mr. Kinnison;

Soter provokes those responses, and very much by design. In brief, the list of pilots I take a dislike to is a very short one. It is, at present, composed of only those few whose nationalistic bend renders them seemingly unaware of the greater world, or those few whose willful cruelty marks them as a danger to those who would do well by others. Soter is the former.

While you and I are of clearly different political views, you penetrated immediately to the heart of the matter: the Federation has not intervened or made a declaration because the situation suits its interests. Your politics have not blinded you to reality. Soter, instead, makes a self-aggrandizing statement.

Please do understand that it is a rare case where I engage in such vitriol in a public.